Judge terminates U.S. Steel's trans-shipment claim, cancels upcoming trial

Administrative Law Judge Dee Lord this week terminated U.S. Steel's trans-shipment claim accusing Chinese steel manufacturers of misrepresenting country of origin and canceled an upcoming trial, leaving just one of the company's three claims active in a U.S. International Trade Commission Section 337 investigation. In its false designation of origination claim, U.S. Steel alleged that the Chinese respondents misrepresented their country of origin on paperwork for products originating in China to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties imposed on certain carbon...