The court decision issued Thursday requires Customs within 60 days to cancel all outstanding bonds it’s been holding since an earlier ruling by the court and a judgement by the World Trade Organization for the termination of such bonds, with which the United States agreed to comply.

While the U.S. government may have terminated those bonds, that did not result in the money being returned to the companies that paid it, still keeping it as security, Walter Spak, an attorney for Washington, D.C.