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    July 8, 2017

    U.S. Steel’s Section 337 Case Delayed

    Written by Tim Triplett

    The administrative law judge presiding over U.S. Steel’s Section 337 case against Chinese steelmakers has extended the deadline for fact discovery by three weeks. The close of discovery is now set for July 15, pushing back the evidentiary hearing from September to mid-October.

    In the International Trade Commission case it filed in April 2016, U.S. Steel accuses Chinese steel companies of false designation of origin, alleging that they routinely misrepresent country of origin paperwork for products originating in China to avoid paying antidumping and countervailing duties on certain carbon and alloy steel products.

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