AIIS Challenge to Steel Tariffs Will Follow Normal Appeal Route

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The U.S. Supreme Court in June declined AIIS’s extraordinary request for a direct appeal from the judgment of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) in AIIS’s challenge to the Trump Administration’s steel tariffs. This means that the appeal of the CIT’s March 2019 ruling by AIIS and two member companies, Sim-Tex and Kurt Orban Partners, will follow the normal course and be heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).

“It is very rare for the Supreme Court to agree to hear a case before a ruling by the Court of Appeals,” AIIS President Richard Chriss said. “We continue to believe that we have a strong legal case that Section 232 is unconstitutional.”

AIIS is arguing that the administration’s implementation of the steel tariffs on national security grounds under Section 232 is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.

With the appeal to the CAFC underway, the parties in the case are preparing for the appeal process to accelerate shortly. After the CAFC review, the case could wind up back at the Supreme Court, with, perhaps, a better chance of being accepted by the justices.

Courtesy: AIIS