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SURAMERICANA de ALEACIONES LAMINADAS, C.A. v. U.S.

Court No. 88-09-00726.

746 F.Supp. 139 (1990)

SURAMERICANA de ALEACIONES LAMINADAS, C.A., Conductores de Alumino del Caroni, C.A., Industria de Conductores Electricos, C.A., and Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, U.S. International Trade Commission, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Defendants, and Southwire Company, Defendant-Intervenor.

United States Court of International Trade.

August 22, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold & Porter (Patrick F.J. Macrory, Nancy C. Loeb, Michael Faber); of counsel, Shelley R. Slade; Shearman & Sterling (Thomas B. Wilner, Jeffrey M. Winton), Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen.; David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice (M. Martha Ries); Joseph I. Liebman, Atty. in Charge, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice; Lynn M. Schlitt, Gen. Counsel, U.S. International Trade Com'n; Robert H. Brumley, Gen. Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Wigman & Cohen (Victor M. Wigman, Ralph C. Patrick, Dorothy H. Patterson, Arlington, Va.); McKenna, Conner & Cuneo (Peter Buck Feller, Lawrence J. Bogard), Washington, D.C., for defendant-intervenor.

Baker & McKenzie (William D. Outman II, Arthur L. George), Washington, D.C., for Gen. Elec. Co. amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs.

OPINION

MUSGRAVE, Judge.

This case is a clear example of misapplication, indeed misuse, of the Trade Agreements Act by a single litigant that has sought, and here seeks, to obtain relief solely for its own benefit. The statutes involved do not contemplate such private litigation; in fact, they prohibit such actions. The statutes provide for relief to a domestic industry, not a lone member of that industry. Notwithstanding the defendants' strained interpretations...

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