Garlic importer Green Garden Produce said in a reply brief Sept. 10 that the Commerce Department never determined its garlic chunks in citric acid were expressly excluded by the scope of an antidumping duty order, instead moving straight on to a circumvention inquiry under the assumption the chunks were implicitly out-of-scope (Green Garden Produce v. United States, CIT # 24-00114).
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The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Whole garlic cloves in brine imported by International Golden Foods aren't subject to an antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from China, the Commerce Department said in an Aug. 29 scope ruling.
The Court of International Trade on Sept. 15 sustained the Commerce Department's decision on remand to replace existing Brazilian surrogate value information for antidumping duty respondent Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry's plywood input with Malaysian import data. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves upheld the move, which led to a slight drop in Senmao's AD rate to 14.35% from 16.17%, after no challenges to the remand results were received.
The Commerce Department properly decided not to collapse an Italian antidumping duty respondent with its Romanian input supplier on the grounds that the input supplier isn't a "producer" of subject merchandise as defined by the AD statute, the Court of International Trade held on Sept. 15. Judge M. Miller Baker said Commerce's justification isn't impermissibly post hoc, despite the fact that it wasn't established during the challenged AD review, since the issue is "one of statutory construction."
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 15 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Exporters Agro Sevilla Aceitunas S. Coop. and Angel Camacho Alimentacion on Sept. 12 dropped their case at the Court of International Trade against the Commerce Department's 2022-23 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on ripe olives from Spain. Counsel for the companies didn't respond to a request for comment (Agro Sevilla Aceitunas S. Coop. v. United States, CIT # 25-00153).