China Wood Flooring: ITA Amends CV Rates for 2 Cos. After CIT Remand

Pursuant a Court of International Trade remand in September, the International Trade Administration is amending the rates assigned to two companies in the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). The court had ruled that the ITA improperly assigned Eswell Enterprise and Elegant Living CV rates of 26.73 percent based on adverse facts available after the agency found the companies to be uncooperative in the CV duty investigation. The ITA should have considered evidence that it had identified the two companies by the wrong names, CIT said. The two companies were actually named Shanghai Eswell Timber and Baroque Timber Industries, respectively. After reconsideration, the ITA is assigning each company the 1.5 percent all others rate.