Buchanan Announces New Trade Remedy Investigation into Imports of Unfairly Priced Shopping Carts from China

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 28, 2026, the U.S. domestic industry filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to counter unfairly low-priced and subsidized imports of shopping cart imports from China. The petition alleges that the Chinese industry is dumping shopping carts in the United States, distorting the U.S. market and injuring the American industry and its workers.

"China's use of unfair pricing is significantly harming the domestic industry," said Daniel Pickard, International Trade and National Security practice group leader at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney and lead counsel to the largest shopping cart manufacturer in the United States. "U.S. trade remedy laws were designed to protect American companies and workers from injury caused by unfairly priced imports, and it is crucial that domestic manufacturers receive the relief to which they are entitled."

Antidumping duties aim to offset the amount a product is sold at less than fair value, or "dumped," in the United States. The dumping margin is calculated by the Department of Commerce. Countervailing duties are intended to offset unfair subsidies that a foreign government provides in the production of a particular good. The ITC, an independent agency, determines whether the domestic industry is materially injured, or threatened with injury, as a result of the unfairly traded imports.

The Department of Commerce will determine whether to initiate the investigations within 20 days of the filing (unless extended by an additional 20 days), and the ITC will reach a preliminary determination of material injury or threat of material injury, within 45 days. The investigations are expected to proceed over approximately one year, with final determinations of dumping, subsidization, and injury likely occurring near the end of 2027. Duties can, however, attach to imports of the subject shopping carts as of the time of the preliminary determinations in the case.

Led by Pickard, the Buchanan team also includes Milton Koch, Claire Webster, Grace Dobbs, Brandon Custard, Joseph Pickard, Christopher Hargett, Carson Easterling, Thomas Dougherty, Mark Beatty, Miriam Taylor and Theodora Mattei.

Buchanan has a team of international trade and national security attorneys ready to help U.S. companies with U.S. trade remedy laws and trade policy. U.S. AD/CVD tariff laws are one of the only available tools to reestablish a fair market for American companies and avoid lost sales and profits. Our eBook, Trade Remedy Investigations Handbook, shares details on how diverse domestic industries can take advantage of these laws – antidumping and countervailing duty investigations – to combat unfair foreign competition and ensure that the U.S. market is operating under fair and equal conditions.

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