United States Import Relief Laws: Current Developments in Law and Policy

Expansion of the availability of judicial review of agency actions has had a marked effect on the nature of trade proceedings, particularly in the antidumping and countervailing duty areas. Since the emergence of the Court of International Trade (CIT) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC or Federal Circuit), a number of major substantive decisions involving the antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as a few other import relief laws, have been issued. The following discussion highlights CIT and CAFC accomplishments in these areas.