The United Steel Workers (USW) has filed a brief the U.S. Court of International Trade, challenging the negative final injury determination by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in the ongoing case against truck and bus tires imported from China.

USW will be filing a motion for oral argument and a joint appendix in December. It is expected that the oral arguments will take place in early 2018, and that the court could reach a decision in the summer.

In February, the ITC determined by a 3 to 2 vote that that the U.S. tire industry was not “not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of truck and bus tires from China that the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has determined are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value,” and that anti-dumping and countervailing duties would not be imposed on Chinese tire imports.