Partner Andrew Schutz spoke with Law360 about international trade cases to watch in 2024, specifically the implications of the DOC’s antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions. In the article, Andrew notes a major concern for imports that contain extrusions is whether the aluminum part is imported as a sub-assembly of a larger product, which can be levied separately.

He compared the investigations to extrusion probes focused on China from the early 2010s, which “wound up sucking in all of these products that were not necessarily originally intended to be part of that case,” and resulted in years of litigation as importers argued with Commerce and the petitioners over what the duty orders rightfully covered.

Read the full article on Law360.