US Court sustains Chinese firm's aluminium foil duty escapade verdict: a precedent for global commodity exporters
On July 21, 2025, the US Court of International Trade delivered a decisive ruling in Hanon Systems Alabama Corp. versus United States, rejecting the plaintiff’s challenge and sustaining the US Department of Commerce’s final affirmative determination in its anticircumvention inquiry on aluminium foil imports from South Korea. For India and other major aluminium foil exporters navigating an increasingly enforcement-heavy global trade environment, this ruling is a signal flare of the future, wherein circumvention scrutiny is beyond intent, and about consequence.
The crux of the case
At the heart of the case was the US Commerce Department’s 2023 determination that certain aluminium foil completed in South Korea using Chinese-origin inputs was circumventing existing antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on Chinese aluminium foil issued in April 2018. The original orders had already imposed strict tariffs on Chinese foil to address issues of unfair subsidisation and below-cost dumping.
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