Tag: Trade Litigation


  • 338 Under Fire

    Two Georgetown scholars who helped dismantle the IEEPA tariffs published a detailed roadmap this week for challenging Trump’s Section 338 duties on Canada, arguing the measures fail the statute’s own offset requirement by a factor of nearly two WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 – The legal case against the tariffs that hit Canadian exporters on Aug. 19 was…

  • Refund Standoff

    Customs’ Phase 3 refund machinery for the invalidated IEEPA tariffs came due at the end of July, but a government appeal has frozen billions owed to importers who never filed suit, and the fight over who gets paid is intensifying. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The largest tariff refund operation in American history reached its most…

  • Lumber Test OK

    The Court of International Trade has sustained Commerce’s replacement for the discredited Cohen’s d test, leaving Canadian softwood margins essentially unchanged and validating a methodology that now reaches every antidumping case in the American system NEW YORK / OTTAWA, July 30, 2026 – The United States Court of International Trade has upheld the Commerce Department’s…

  • Brazil Hits WTO

    Brasilia formally requests dispute consultations in Geneva over Washington’s twin Section 301 tariff actions, opening a legal front even as both governments insist the door to negotiation remains open WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 Brazil has taken its escalating tariff fight with the United States to the World Trade Organization, filing a formal request for dispute…