Court of International Trade

The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled that the retaliatory duties imposed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for the European Union's ban on U.S. beef treated with artificial growth hormones expired in July 2007, because USTR failed to apply a larger law governing modifications and terminations of customs duties. In the June 16 decision, CIT Senior Judge Kenton Musgrave ruled that USTR's authority to impose the particular retaliatory duties under section 301 expired on July 29,...