Section 232, AD/CVD, Customs, and Trade Policy - Provide comprehensive, strategic trade representation for the world’s second-largest stainless-steel producer. Successfully assisted client Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC in blocking competitor ATI’s requests for exclusion from Section 232 duties for its imports of Indonesian stainless steel made by Chinese steel titan Tsingshan. Also supports the client’s enforcement of antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders imposing duties on certain stainless-steel imports. Read more here.

AD/CVD - Successfully defended Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. (KPIC) against imposition of an antidumping duty order in the investigation of imports of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene from Korea, convincing a unanimous ITC that KPIC’s imports were not causing injury to U.S. producers of the identified product.

AD/CVD and Customs – Advise and represent a U.S. manufacturer and importer of industrial chemicals regarding ongoing AD/CVD proceedings and related Customs issues, allowing the company to support domestic production while mitigating duty impacts. 

Customs - Represents a foreign manufacturer and U.S. importer of manufacturing equipment regarding Customs issues including Section 301 and AD/CVD applicability and supply chain advice.  Successfully advocated for several country of origin rulings from U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the context of the client’s supply chain reconfiguration and establishment of new production facilities.  

AD/CVD and Section 232 - Successfully persuaded the Department of Commerce that section 232 tariffs on titanium sponge would harm titanium mill product producers and would not benefit the domestic industry, in accord with the ITC’s determination of the same.  In the ITC case, on behalf of client Perryman and other domestic titanium mill product manufacturers, blocked the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of Titanium Sponge from Japan and Kazakhstan, securing first negative preliminary AD/CVD vote at the ITC in a decade. Following Commerce’s recommendation that the President not impose section 232 tariffs on titanium sponge, the President directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Defense to form a Titanium Sponge Working Group.

Additional information:
https://www.perrymanco.com/files/content/inthenews/perryman-adds-forging-capabilities-f-060722.pdf?d=2022614143618 and

https://www.perrymanco.com/files/content/inthenews/perryman-addsmelting-f--061522.pdf?d=2022615142247

Customs and Export Control, Economic Sanctions and Compliance - Advise a global cargo carrier on matters impacting the shipment of U.S. commodities globally and the importation of products into the United States.