Friedman v. Daley

Abraham Friedman seeks review of the August 11,1997, final judgment of the United States Court of International Trade, Friedman v. Kantor, 977 F.Supp. 1242 (CIT 1997), granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and denying Friedman’s request to transfer the case to a federal district court. We affirm.

Friedman is a minority shareholder and General Manager of a Mexican company, which was set up as a maquiladora. Under Mexican law, maquiladoras do not pay tariffs on imports that are incorporated into products exported from Mexico. Friedman is also an investor in a United…