The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Certain wooden cabinets imported by RST Brands are subject to antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on wooden cabinets and vanities and components thereof from China, the Commerce Department said in an Aug. 25 scope ruling.
Large diameter welded pipe of Grade L450 steel imported by Shawcor Pipe Protection Acquisition Corp. are covered by antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on large diameter welded pipe from India, the Commerce Department said in a Sept. 8 scope ruling.
In oral arguments Sept. 5, steel rebar petitioner Rebar Trade Action Coalition and Turkish exporter Kaptan Demir attempted to define whether a Turkish shipbuilding company, which sold scrap to Kaptan during the review period, was the exporter’s cross-owned input supplier (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1431).
The Court of International Trade on Sept. 8 dismissed exporter Pipe & Piling Supplies' case against the 2022-23 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on large diameter welded pipe from Canada, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Judge Jane Restani said the company failed to notify the other interested parties of its lawsuit as required by the USMCA, as required by 19 U.S.C. 1516a(g)(3)(B), adding that this requirement is a jurisdictional one.
The Commerce Department reasonably used adverse facts available against antidumping duty respondent Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry for failing to remedy deficiencies in its cost reconciliation submission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on Sept. 8. Judges Jimmie Reyna, Richard Taranto and Leonard Stark also said Commerce wasn't required to provide Corinth with an opportunity to comment on the agency's analysis that led to the conclusion that the company's reported costs didn't reconcile with its financial accounting system.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 8 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following lawsuit was filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Commerce Department lacked authority under its regulations to rescind the administrative reviews of two Chinese wood moulding exporters "solely due to a lack of suspended entries," the Court of International Trade held on Sept. 5. Judge Jane Restani said Commerce's regulation, 19 C.F.R. Section 351.213(d)(3), only allows for rescission if there were no entries of the subject merchandise, adding that the regulation doesn't "include or imply a requirement that these entries be suspended."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Sept. 8 upheld the Commerce Department's decision to use adverse facts available against respondent Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry in the 2019-20 review of the antidumping duty order on large diameter welded pipe from Greece. Judges Jimmie Reyna, Richard Taranto and Leonard Stark held that Commerce reasonably found that Corinth failed to cooperate to the best of its ability in the review by not remedying deficiencies in its submitted cost reconciliation. The court added that the agency wasn't required to provide the respondent with an opportunity to comment on Commerce's analysis that led to the conclusion that Corinth's reported costs didn't reconcile with its financial accounting system. The opportunity to comment only applies to information submitted by interested parties, not Commerce's internal findings.