Importer Riverside Plywood and exporter Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) will appeal a Court of International Trade case on the 2017 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, joining importer Galleher in appealing the case (see 2510090007) (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 20-03885).
Riverside Plywood and Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) will appeal a Court of International Trade case on the 2018 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China (Evolutions Flooring v. United States, CIT Consol. #21-00591).
The Commerce Department reasonably found that antidumping duty petitioner Habich GmbH isn't affiliated with its North American sales agent and calculated normal value based on Habich's Mexican sales in the 2021-22 administrative review of the AD order on Austrian strontium chromate, the Court of International Trade held on Oct. 29.
China requested dispute consultations at the World Trade Organization last week with India, regarding the latter's incentives in the automotive and renewable energy sectors, the WTO announced.
The following lawsuit has been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Solar cell exporter Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co. said neither the Court of International Trade nor the Commerce Department addressed the exporter's claim that the nature of the production compelled a negative determination in the antidumping and countervailing duties anti-circumvention inquiry on solar cells from Vietnam. Filing comments on Commerce's remand results in a case on the circumvention proceedings, Trina Solar said the court can now address whether the significance of the statutory "nature and production process" factor "can be reconciled with" Commerce's affirmative circumvention finding "when the circumvention provisions were enacted to address 'screwdriver' operations" (Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00228).
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The Commerce Department improperly found that antidumping duty respondent Galvasid received but didn't report additional revenues for freight and insurance for its U.S. sales in the AD investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products from Mexico, Galvasid argued in an Oct. 27 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Galvasid said the agency's application of partial adverse facts available to the company's "reported U.S. gross unit prices to account for the allegedly unreported revenues" was arbitrary and capricious (Galvasid v. United States, CIT # 25-00234).
The Court of International Trade on Oct. 29 sustained the Commerce Department's 2021-22 review of the antidumping duty order on strontium chromate from Austria. Judge Joseph Laroski rejected petitioner Lumimove's claims against Commerce's findings that respondent Habich wasn't affiliated with its North American sales agent and that normal value should be calculated using Habich's slaves to Mexico. Regarding the agency's affiliation finding, Laroski said that Lumimove's claims boiled down to: "Commerce should have asked Habich different questions." The judge rejected this assertion, finding that the agency "acted reasonably by consulting the relevant legal framework in structuring its inquiry into affiliation," adapting its questions to Lumimove's concerns, conducting a "robust verification" and "distilling the law and facts that informed its conclusion."
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel found last week that Colombia has failed to comply with the findings of an arbitration panel regarding the nation's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.