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CIT Upholds CVD Review of Wind Towers From Vietnam in Confidential Opinion

The Court of International Trade upheld the Commerce Department's remand results in a case on the 2018 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on utility scale wind towers from Vietnam, in a confidential opinion. In a letter to the…

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litigants, Judge Timothy Reif gave the parties until May 4 to review the confidential information in the opinion. The trade court previously remanded the case so that Commerce could address evidence in the alleged manipulation of the denominators used in the benefit calculation and to substantiate its conclusion that respondent CS Wind Vietnam didn't import its steel plate, thereby neglecting an import duty exemption subsidy. On remand, the agency said CS Wind Vietnam did not manipulate its margin (see 2210210040) (Wind Tower Trade Coalition v. United States, CIT # 20-03692).