Chinese steel rack exporter Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing Co. failed to exhaust its administrative remedies and waived its argument that the Commerce Department unlawfully denied the exporter a scrap offset in the agency's remand redetermination for the 2021-22 antidumping duty administrative review on certain steel racks from China, Court of International Trade Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ruled on June 23.
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The statutory language of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn’t allow for the president to suspend de minimis, and President Donald Trump should have followed the notice and comment process to suspend the exemption, importer Detroit Axle argued before Court of International Trade Judges Gary Katzmann, Timothy Reif and Jane Restani during June 23 oral argument (Axle of Dearborn v. Department of Commerce, CIT # 25-00091).
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Stephen Little, a former U.S. Agency for International Development attorney, joined the Commerce Department as an attorney adviser for the Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce, where he'll support the mission of the International Trade Administration, he said June 25 on LinkedIn. Little spent almost 15 years at USAID, most recently serving as a senior economic adviser for the agency’s bureau for Europe and Eurasia.
Daniel Valencia, an intellectual property attorney, joined Winston Taylor on June 23 as the chair of the firm’s International Trade Commission practice. He previously served as an ITC lawyer for over four years before working at DLA Piper and Covington & Burling.
Darshak Dholakia joined Winston Taylor on June 22 as the chair of the firm’s international trade practice and partner in its investigations and white-collar defense practice. Dholakia left Dechert in March 2025 after 11 years with the firm, where he was a partner and associate specializing in international trade and government regulation. Prior to Dechert, he was an associate with Hogan Lovells’ international trade and investment group.
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