AMERICAN BAYRIDGE CORP. v. U.S.

Slip Op. 98-166. Court No. 98-08-02682.

35 F.Supp.2d 922 (1998)

AMERICAN BAYRIDGE CORP., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States Court of International Trade.

December 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirkland & Ellis (Kenneth G. Weigel, Paul F. Brinkman), for Plaintiff.

Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Joseph I. Liebman, Attorney-in-Charge International Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice (Barbara S. Williams, Aimee Lee), Allan Martin, Office of Associate Chief Counsel, United States Customs Service (Louis Brenner Jr.), of counsel, for Defendant.

Dewey Ballantine, L.L.P. (Myles V. Lynk, John A. Ragosta, Frank J. Schweitzer, Timothy E. Punke, Dominick L. Bianchi, David A. Bentley), for amicus curiae, Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P. (M. Jean Anderson), for amicus curiae, The Government of Canada.

Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P. (Elliot J. Feldman, Gregory C. Dorris), for amicus curiae, The Gouvernement du Québec.


OPINION

BARZILAY, Judge.

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Following several countervailing duty investigations involving softwood lumber imports from Canada into the United States, see Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, 57 Fed.Reg. 22,570 (Dept. Commerce 1992), the governments of Canada and the United States signed an agreement in 1996 providing for a ceiling on the number of board feet of such lumber permitted to be imported from Canada...

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