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Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial ProcedureRelease 119-73not60

§2633 Procedure and Fees

Title 28 › Part VI— PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS › Chapter 169— COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE PROCEDURE › § 2633

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

You must pay a filing fee when you start a civil case in the Court of International Trade. The court’s rules set the amount, but it cannot be less than $5 or more than the fee to start a civil case in a U.S. district court. The court can also set other clerk fees and must make rules for summons, pleadings, service, filing, and other procedures. All papers filed must be served on every party under those rules. If the United States, a federal agency, or a federal officer is a defendant, you must serve the Attorney General and the head of the agency involved. If you ask the court for an injunction, you must also serve the officials you want the court to stop.

Full Legal Text

Title 28, §2633

Judiciary and Judicial Procedure — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)A filing fee shall be payable to the clerk of the Court of International Trade upon the commencement of a civil action in such court. The amount of the fee shall be prescribed by the rules of the court, but shall be not less than $5 nor more than the filing fee for commencing a civil action in a district court of the United States. The court may fix all other fees to be charged by the clerk of the court.
(b)The Court of International Trade shall prescribe rules governing the summons, pleadings, and other papers, for their amendment, service, and filing, for consolidations, severances, suspensions of cases, and for other procedural matters.
(c)All summons, pleadings, and other papers filed in the Court of International Trade shall be served on all parties in accordance with rules prescribed by the court. When the United States, its agencies, or its officers are adverse parties, service of the summons shall be made upon the Attorney General and the head of the Government agency whose action is being contested. When injunctive relief is sought, the summons, pleadings, and other papers shall also be served upon the named officials sought to be enjoined.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 2633, acts
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 980;
June 2, 1970, Pub. L. 91–271, title I, § 114, 84 Stat. 279;
July 26, 1979, Pub. L. 96–39, title X, § 1001(b)(4)(D), 93 Stat. 306, related to precedence of cases, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 96–417. See section 2647 of this title.

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Citation

28 U.S.C. § 2633

Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60