The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 27 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Greek exporter Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry and importer CPW America Co. will appeal a Court of International Trade opinion upholding the use of total adverse facts available due to Corinth's reported costs not being reconciled to its normal books and records. Per the notice of appeal, the exporter will take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. At the trade court, Judge Leo Gordon said the law does not require Commerce to respond to Corinth's claims on its use of total AFA, which the agency used in the first instance in the final results of the AD review on large diameter welded pipe from Greece (see 2305010054). The result was a 41.04% margin for Corinth (Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry v. United States, CIT # 22-00063).
Separate rate antidumping duty respondent Dalian Hualing Wood moved for judgment, arguing that the Commerce Department violated the law when it carried out a bona fide analysis of Dalian, the company said in its June 22 motion. Commerce compounded the error by treating Hualing's sale as non-bona fide in the AD review while treating it as bona fide in the CVD review, Hualing said. "The same sale cannot be bona fide in one proceeding and not the other -- statutory criteria apply to both ADD and CVD proceedings" (Dalian Hualing Wood Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00334).
The Court of International Trade on June 23 upheld the Commerce Department's decision not to collapse exporter Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co. with the already-collapsed entity of Yieh Phui Enterprise Co. and Synn Industrial Co. as part of the antidumping duty investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products from Taiwan.
The U.S. and India announced a deal June 22 that will end India’s retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. goods while leaving in place the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs that prompted them, and also end six World Trade Organization disputes brought by both the U.S. and India.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 26 on AD/CVD proceedings:
No lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade.
It was "not appropriate" for the Commerce Department to conclude that price differences between an Emirati exporter's sales across four quarters were due to differential pricing, several Emirati producers and exporters of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe said in a June 22 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Universal Tube and Plastic Industries v. U.S., CIT # 23-00113).
DOJ on June 21 urged the Court of International Trade to uphold the Commerce Department's calculations of benchmark prices for plywood and veneer, as well as its use of adverse inferences on the use of the Chinese Export Buyer's Credit Program, in a countervailing duty review on multilayered wood flooring from China (Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00210).
The Court of International Trade in a June 23 order denied antidumping duty petitioners' bid for an oral argument in a suit on whether to collapse mandatory respondents Yieh Phui Enterprise Co. and Synn Industrial Co. with one of their affiliates, Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co. Judge Timothy Stanceu rejected the oral argument request following opposition from Prosperity and Yieh Phui, finding that "oral argument would not assist in the resolution of the issues remaining in this litigation" (Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 16-00138).