The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. Dec. 1 on AD/CV duty proceedings:
Mechanical tubing base shells imported by Mando America are not subject to antidumping duties on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Mexico and South Korea (A-201-805/A-580-809), the Commerce Department said in a scope ruling issued Nov. 22.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its mandate on Nov. 29 in a case in which it found it lacked jurisdiction over a tapered roller bearing importer's challenge to guidance issued from the Commerce Department to CBP on the assessment of antidumping duties. In the Sept. 2 decision, the appellate court upheld the Court of International Trade decision denying Wanxing America Corporation's bid to challenge the guidance under the trade court's residual jurisdiction, Section 1581(i). The Federal Circuit said the action could've been properly filed under Sections 1581(a) or 1581(c). WAC argued it should have been subject to its parent company's zero percent dumping rate (see 2109020039) (Wanxiang America Corporation v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 20-1044).
The Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Australia covering entries in 2016-2017, in a Nov. 30 confidential opinion. The case, filed by mandatory respondent BlueScope Steel Ltd., challenged the final results for hitting BlueScope with adverse facts available. The seven-count action alleged, among other things, that Commerce's decision to apply AFA based on the fact that BlueScope withheld requested information is contradicted by record evidence. In a letter submitted to the litigants, Judge Richard Eaton said he wants bracketed information reviewed by Dec. 7 (BlueScope Steel Ltd., et al. v. United States, CIT #19-00057).
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The Commerce Department must reconsider its use of an adverse inference in an antidumping review on Italian pasta since it failed to find out whether a respondent did not to cooperate to the best of its ability, the Court of International Trade said in a Nov. 30 opinion. However, the court upheld the remaining elements of the decision, including Commerce's use of facts available and the agency's rejection of the respondent's post-verification arguments for different classification systems for the pasta's protein content and shape.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 29-30 on AD/CV duty proceedings:
The Commerce Department is beginning an investigation based on a petition that initially redacted the name of one of the companies that filed it, though the petitioners have since publicly disclosed the company’s name in an amended petition. The identities of several employees of the petitioners in the complaint, however, remain confidential.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade: