The International Trade Commission erred in finding that the U.S. industry wasn't materially injured by solar cell imports from Thailand and Cambodia, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee argued in an Aug. 22 complaint at the Court of International Trade (American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee v. United States, CIT # 25-00163).
In response to U.S. opposition (see 2507180057) to its motion for judgment (see 2501270012), exporter Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. said again that the Commerce Department’s use of Thailand as a surrogate for its countervailing duty review’s land rental prices calculation wasn’t relying on the best available evidence (Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00030).
The Commerce Department on remand at the Court of International Trade deselected exporter Shandong Linglong Tyre as a mandatory respondent in the 2016-17 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China. The agency then granted Linglong separate rate status in the review, assigning the company a 41.36% AD rate (YC Rubber Co. (North America) v. United States, CIT Consol. # 19-00069).
Exporters brought a number complaints Aug. 22 and Aug. 25 challenging the Commerce Department’s decision to countervail transnational subsidies in its investigations on solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam (Boviet Solar Technology v. United States, CIT #s 25-00160 and 25-00162; JA Solar Vietnam Co. v. United States, CIT #s 25-00157 and 25-00158; Trina Solar Science & Technology (Thailand) v. United States, CIT # 25-00166 and 25-00169; Canadian Solar International v. United States, CIT #s 25-00159 and 25-00161; Jinko Solar (Vietnam) Industries Company v. United States, CIT #s 25-00171 and 25-00172).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 25 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Court of International Trade Judge M. Miller Baker remanded Aug. 22 the Commerce Department’s decision to combine Belgian citric acid review respondent Citribel’s quarterly raw material costs with its annualized conversion costs.
The Court of International Trade sustained Aug. 22 the Commerce Department’s finding that a Vietnamese currency undervaluation program was specific to the traded goods sector, and thus countervailable in a countervailing duty investigation on passenger vehicle and light truck tires. The court said Commerce’s analysis was properly based on predominant use, distinguishing it from a disproportionality analysis.
In a confidential opinion released Aug. 22, Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Reif vacated the Commerce Department’s pause on antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia -- in place until June 6, 2024 -- after a finding that the countries' exporters were circumventing an antidumping duty on solar cells from China (Auxin Solar v. United States, CIT # 23-00274).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 22 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: