Japanese Exporter to Appeal Decision Finding Branch Outlets Included in Pipe Fittings AD Order
Plaintiff-intervenor Sigma will appeal a September Court of International Trade ruling finding that the Commerce Department properly included Vandewater International's steel branch outlets in the scope of the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China. In…
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an Oct. 21 notice of appeal, Sigma said it would take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In the opinion, Judge Leo Gordon said that while the plaintiffs, led by Vandewater, showed information on the record could back a finding that their outlets could be excluded from the scope of the order, he could not agree that Commerce acted unreasonably in reaching the opposing conclusion using each of the (k)(2) factors (see 2209080056) (Vandewater International Inc. v. United States, CIT #18-00199).