ITA Begins Individual Review of Vietnam Fish Fillet Exporter Grobest on CIT Remand

The International Trade Administration will do an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802) for Grobest & I Mei Industrial (Vietnam) Co. for the period Feb. 1, 2008 -- Jan. 31, 2009, in response to an order from the Court of International Trade. CIT twice remanded the ITA’s refusal to individually review the company, most recently on July 31. In its July 31 opinion, CIT rejected the ITA’s argument that individually reviewing the company would be too burdensome. The ITA failed to provide evidence that such a review would be more burdensome than in any other case, said CIT, so the ITA’s interpretation of “unduly burdensome” would have set too low of a bar for future decisions on whether to individually review companies.