A recent antidumping petition on fresh winter strawberries from Mexico highlights a rarely used provision of the antidumping statute that allows the International Trade Commission to narrow the injury analysis to only a particular region in the U.S. Trade lawyers told us that there's clear statutory authority for a regional injury petition, but that the analysis may require a more pervasive showing of injury throughout the affected industry than an ordinary, nationwide injury analysis.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Eighty-three models of passenger vehicle and light truck wheels imported by Vision Wheel are outside the scope of antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on steel trailer wheels 12- to 16.5-inch in diameter from China, the Commerce Department found in a Dec. 29 scope ruling. Though they appear to meet the definition of subject merchandise in the plain language of the scope, Vision’s products aren’t trailer wheels, the department decided.
Plywood importer InterGlobal Forest, which is seeking a rehearing of its case challenging CBP’s finding that it evaded antidumping and countervailing duties on plywood from China, said Jan. 2 that the government’s response to its motion for reconsideration (see 2512150042) “ignores” its “substantive arguments that the Government is required to complete the administrative record” and “fails to refute IGF’s argument that there has been a manifest injustice in this case” (American Pacific Plywood v. United States, CIT Consol. # 20-03914).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 5 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department continues to conflate "disproportionality" with "disparity" in its de facto specificity finding regarding a Korean electricity subsidy, the South Korean government told the Court of International Trade earlier this month. The trade court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have routinely found that these two concepts are distinct, yet Commerce ignores the courts' instruction when finding that the Korean steel industry, when paired with two unrelated industries, consumes a disproportionate amount of an electricity subsidy, the brief said (Hyundai Steel v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00190).
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Exporter Sonha SSP Vietnam Sole Member Company partially joined exporter Vinlong Stainless Steel (Vietnam) Company's motion for judgment in a case on the 2022-23 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Vietnam. Sonha said the "unfair 114.59% margin" the Commerce Department calculated for the company "is the direct result of Commerce's erroneous decision to use Morocco instead of Indonesia as the primary surrogate country" (Norca Industrial Company v. United States, CIT # 25-00132).
The Commerce Department properly used the financial statements of manufacturer PT Suparma to calculate respondent Go-Pak Vietnam's surrogate values and used a simple average of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 4810.32.90 and 4810.92.90, the US argued in a reply to Go-Pak's motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Go-Pak Paper Products Vietnam v. United States, CIT # 25-00070).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 2 on AD/CVD proceedings: