US Steel Presents Arguments Against China in Section 337 Suit

US Steel presented its arguments to the US International Trade Commission on why its Section 337 price fixing claim should not be terminated. Counsel for US Steel told Administrative Law Judge Dee Lord that the Respondents from China have presented a “flawed misapplication of law governing pricing fixing and Section 337 investigations.”

“Accepting Respondents’ erroneous legal arguments would effectively curtail any Section 337 actions to remedy price fixing conspiracies and give foreign companies free license to fix prices and output, then import and sell their products in the United States, all to injure the domestic industry. Such a result would be inconsistent with the Commission’s decision to institute this investigation and would directly contradict the unambiguous direction Congress gave when it adopted Section 337—that the statute was intended to reach all forms of unfair competition and unfair acts related to imported goods.”