An assessment of domestic interested party willingness to participate in five-year reviews of antidumping duty orders on stilbenic optical brightening agents from China and Taiwan doesn't itself constitute a "review," the International Trade Commission said in a Sept. 1 motion at the Court of International Trade. The ITC asked the court to affirm the termination of the five-year review of the AD orders at issue (Archroma U.S., Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00354).
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On remand, CBP reaffirmed its determination that Fedmet Resources Corporation evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on certain magnesia carbon bricks (MCBs) from China, it said in its Sept. 1 remand redetermination to the Court of International Trade. The agency had sought and was granted a voluntary remand to consider several issues raised in Fedmet’s motion for judgment (see 2306290022) (Fedmet Resources v. U.S., CIT # 21-00248).
The Commerce Department must reconsider its decision not to investigate the alleged off-peak sale of electricity for less than adequate remuneration to countervailing respondent POSCO, the Court of International Trade ruled in an Aug. 21 opinion made public Sept. 4. Judge Mark Barnett again remanded the issue after finding that Commerce failed to clearly articulate a standard and apply that standard regarding petitioner Nucor Corp.'s allegation as part of the 2018 review of the CVD order on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea.
Canada is choosing to call for a binational panel to determine whether the countervailing duty order on its softwood lumber exports is fair, but is challenging the antidumping order at the Court of International Trade.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 5 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department released the results of its fourth remand redetermination in an antidumping duty investigation on steel nails from Taiwan, sticking with its use of a simple average to calculate the denominator of the Cohen’s d test coefficient. The department said it complied with the remand order by providing reasonable justification for its methodology in its test to identify "masked dumping" (Mid Continent Steel & Wire v. U.S., CIT # 15-00213).
A complaint by Turkish exporter Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari (Erdemir) that challenged the International Trade Commission's decision not to institute a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Turkey should be dismissed because Erdemir's claim was rendered moot when the ITC conducted a full sunset review, the ITC said in an Aug. 31 brief at the Court of International Trade (Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikalari v. U.S. International Trade Commission, CIT # 22-00350).
The Court of International Trade on Sept. 1 upheld the final determination in an antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from India, siding with the Commerce Department on the agency's decision to have respondents report their acquisition costs and to verify that information from a subset of their suppliers due top a lack of data from hundreds of individual honey producers.
The Court of International Trade in an Aug. 21 opinion made public Sept. 4 again sent back the Commerce Department's 2018 review of the countervailing duty order on carbon and alloy steel-cut-length plate from South Korea. Judge Mark Barnett said the agency must revisit for the second time its decisions not to investigate the alleged off-peak sale of electricity for less than adequate remuneration and to not treat POSCO Plantec, an affiliate of respondent POSCO, as a cross-owned input supplier for the provision of scrap and the converter vessel.