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title: Is Trade Special? Trade Law and Deference After Loper Bright
date: 2025-12-23T12:57:00-05:00
author: Mary Katherine (MK) Terrell
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# Is Trade Special? Trade Law and Deference After *Loper Bright*

  December 23, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partner [Brooke Ringel](https://www.kelleydrye.com/people/brooke-m-ringel) published ​“Is Trade Special? Trade Law and Deference After *Loper Bright*” for the Winter 2025 edition of *Rutgers University Law Review*. The article covers how the Supreme Court’s decision in *Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo*, which overturned *Chevron*, will affect judicial review in international trade and customs litigation.

The article begins with a summary of *Chevron*​’s two-step framework for a court to determine the validity of an agency’s interpretation of statutory text, and the framework’s role in trade law. The authors then situate the *Loper Bright* decision within the statutory framework governing the Court of International Trade. The authors find that most antidumping and countervailing dumping cases will be largely unaffected by the *Loper Bright* decision.

Read the full article [here](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.kelleydrye.com/content/uploads/Beline_Ellis_Kendler_Ringel.pdf).

 

 

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