Background
Catfish Farmers of America and other plaintiffs challenged the United States in an action in which Can Tho Import Export Seafood Joint Stock Company intervened as a defendant. The Court of International Trade previously remanded the matter in Catfish Farmers of America v. United States, directing further proceedings.
Final Results of Redetermination pursuant to Court Remand were filed on April 15, 2026. No party opposed the redetermination as it pertained to this case, and the United States requested that the court sustain it.
The Court’s Holding
Judge Timothy C. Stanceu concluded that the remand redetermination complied with the court’s prior remand order. In particular, the redetermination agreed that the allegation at issue identified an error that was ministerial in nature.
The court sustained the remand redetermination as it pertained to this action. It also ordered that entries affected by the action be liquidated in accordance with the final court decision in the litigation.
Key Takeaways
- The court found that the remand redetermination complied with its prior order.
- No party opposed sustaining the redetermination as it applied to this case.
- Affected entries must be liquidated in accordance with the litigation’s final court decision.
Why It Matters
The judgment confirms the treatment of the identified error as ministerial and brings the remand proceedings in this action to a court-approved conclusion.
The liquidation instruction gives operative effect to the final court decision for entries affected by the case.