Exporter Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Co. petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month to hear its antidumping duty scope case. The petition cast the lower court's decision sustaining the inclusion of its production in the scope of the AD order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand as a failure to apply the high court's recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which eliminated the principle of deferring to agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutes (Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Co. v. Wheatland Tube Co., Sup. Ct. 24-696).
The Court of International Trade sent back the Commerce Department's determination in a covered merchandise referral to exclude certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings made from Chinese fittings that underwent production in Vietnam from the scope of the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves remanded Commerce's consideration of various (k)(1) sources, including a circumvention finding that took a contrary position.
The Commerce Department has terminated its antidumping duty investigation on glass wine bottles from Chile based on the petitioner's withdrawal of its petition.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 2 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The parties in a pair of countervailing duty suits asked the Court of International Trade to continue a stay in the cases pending the result of a separate action involving the same parties on whether the Commerce Department can countervail exporter KG Dongbu Steel Co.'s debt-to-equity restructurings. KG Dongbu, the U.S., petitioner Nucor Corp. and the South Korean government asked Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves to continue the stay pending the result of the lead action (KG Dongbu Steel Co. v. United States, CIT #s 23-00055, 24-00056).
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The Court of International Trade on Jan. 2 remanded the Commerce Department's finding in a covered merchandise referral excluding from the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings made using fittings from China that underwent subsequent production in Vietnam. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves sent back Commerce's consideration of various (k)(1) sources, including the petition, declarations from domestic industry executives and a prior circumvention in which Commerce came to a contrary conclusion.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 31 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Commerce Department erred in finding that respondents Heze Huayi Chemical Co. and Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. cooperated to the best of their ability despite a failure to produce land-use purchase contracts in the 2021 review of the countervailing duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China, petitioners led by Bio-Lab argued (Bio-Lab v. U.S., CIT # 24-00118).