Opinion ID: 209941
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Shinyei Files Suit in the Court of International Trade

Text: On March 23, 2000, Shinyei filed suit against the United States in the Court of International Trade in case no. 1:00-cv-00130 (the '130 case), asserting two claims in the alternative. In one claim, Shinyei challenged Commerce's 1998 Liquidation Instructions under the APA, alleging that by failing to include all of Shinyei's entries in those instructions, Commerce had acted contrary to the requirement of 19 U.S.C. § 1675(a)(2)(C) that Commerce's antidumping duty determination shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the determination. In the alternative claim, Shinyei challenged Customs' failure to actually liquidate, alleging that Commerce's 1998 Liquidation Instructions had indeed covered all of Shinyei's entries from the 1990-1991 period, and seeking a writ of mandamus to direct Customs to actually liquidate the disputed entries at the relatively low final antidumping rates. On August 1, 2000, while Shinyei's '130 case was pending, Commerce issued clean up liquidation instructions to Customs, directing Customs to liquidate any remaining unliquidated entries of ball bearings from the 1990-1991 review period at the deposit rate. Customs then actually liquidated Shinyei's remaining entries from that period, at the 45.83% deposit rate, per the clean up instructions. In response, Shinyei filed an amended complaint in the '130 case, withdrawing its now-moot request for a writ of mandamus to force liquidation, but maintaining its claim that Commerce had erred, and seeking reliquidation at the final antidumping rates. Shinyei also filed protests of the actual liquidations with Customs under 19 U.S.C. § 1514(a). [1] Customs later denied many of those protests, and Shinyei sought judicial review in the Court of International Trade in case nos. 1-01-cv-00707, 1:03-cv-00688, and 1:04-cv-00252 (collectively, the Customs-Error cases).