Two importers took to the Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's final determination that Chinese-origin unfinished pipe fittings that undergo final processing in Vietnam are under the scope of the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China. The companies, International Piping & Procurement Group and Norca Industrial Co., said in a pair of complaints that Commerce's analysis, which found that the goods were not substantially transformed in Vietnam, was "flawed" and ignored key evidence (International Piping & Procurement Group v. United States, CIT # 23-00232) (Norca Industrial Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00231).
World Trade Organization members' compliance rates with notification requirements for subsidies and countervailing duties remain "concerningly low," according to the chair of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. Compliance is crucial to the function of that committee, its chair, New Zealand's James Lester, said Oct. 27.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 2 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Exporters Guangzhou Jangho Curtain Wall System Engineering Co. and Jangho Curtain Wall Hong Kong Ltd. filed a stipulation of dismissal in the companies' case on the 2014 review of the countervailing duty order on aluminum extrusions from China. The exporters argued against the Commerce Department's decision to treat Jangho's curtain wall and window wall units as subject merchandise and the claim that Jangho received countervailable subsidies pertaining to the provision of glass (Guangzhou Jangho Curtain Wall System Engineering Co. v. United States, CIT # 17-00017).
The U.S. asked the Court of International Trade for a voluntary remand in an Enforce and Protect Act case to consider the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's key decision in Royal Brush Manufacturing v. U.S. In that decision, the appellate court said that CBP violated an EAPA respondent's due process rights by not providing it access to the confidential business information in the case (see 2307270038) (Phoenix Metal Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00048).
The Commerce Department correctly stuck by its benchmark picks for the land program and the aluminum plate, sheet and strip program in a lawsuit on the 2016-17 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on aluminum foil from China, DOJ said in its Oct. 31 remand comments at the Court of International Trade (Jiangsu Zhongji Lamination Materials Co. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00133).
The Commerce Department's use of the differential pricing methodology, including the Cohen's d test, failed to adhere to basic statistical assumptions, Canadian lumber exporter Resolute FP Canada said in its Oct. 30 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Resolute asked the court to remand Commerce's calculation of a 6.26% rate for non-selected companies in its 2021 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain softwood lumber products from Canada to the agency for reconsideration (Resolute FP Canada v. U.S., CIT # 23-00206)
The Commerce Department flipped its position in an antidumping duty case, finding that a constructed export price offset was not warranted for AD respondents Husteel and Hyundai in the 2019-20 AD review of circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from South Korea. Issuing its remand results Oct. 31 at the Court of International Trade, the agency said its per unit analysis showed the home market level of trade is "not at a more advanced stage of distribution than the" level of trade of the constructed export price level of either respondent (Wheatland Tube v. U.S., CIT # 22-00160).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 1 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: