Importers intend to appeal CIT’s Section 301 ruling in USTR’s favor

Importers will appeal a recent Court of International Trade ruling that sustained the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s newly added reasoning for imposing the third and fourth lists of Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods. The ruling, released late last week , found that USTR provided adequate additional explanation and addressed comments related to two lists of tariffs imposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, after CIT had remanded the issue back to the agency to...