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Hartford Challenges Bond Obligations in Light of Byrd Amendment
TweetJan. 26, 2007
On December 21, 2006, Barnes/Richardson filed the lead case on behalf of Hartford Fire Insurance Company, a surety, challenging the enforceability of certain bond contracts in light of changes made to U.S. antidumping law by the Continuing Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (19 USC 1675c) —better known as the Byrd Amendment. Throughout the long history of antidumping law in the
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First, in light of the decision in Huaiyin Foreign Trade Corp. v. Worldwide Line, Inc., 322 F.3d 1369, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2003),
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