Court of International Trade Judge M. Miller Baker affirmed March 7 the Commerce Department’s decision on remand not to grant respondent Gujarat Fluorochemicals a constructed export price offset as part of an antidumping duty investigation into granular polytetrafluorethylene resin from India. The offset was originally intended to make up for the lack of data Commerce needed to adjust Gujarat’s home-market price for different levels of trade. Baker also affirmed Commerce’s choice to rely on Gujarat’s allocated movement expenses, agreeing it wasn’t feasible for the exporter to provide transaction-specific expenses.
The term “butt-weld” is ambiguous, and the Commerce Department was right to find steel branch outlets are covered by an antidumping duty order on butt-weld pipe fittings from China, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled March 6.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
In a March 4 complaint before the Court of International Trade, petitioner Bio-Lab again took issue with the Commerce Department’s surrogate selection in its antidumping duty review of chlorinated isocyanurates, or pool chlorine, from China (see 2407190046) (Bio-Lab, Inc. v. United States, CIT # 25-00054).
In remand results released March 4, the Commerce Department rescinded a 2019 administrative review of a countervailing duty order with regard to Dominican aluminum extrusion exporter Kingtom Aluminio (Kingtom Aluminio v. United States, CIT # 22-00079)
Commerce should show broad deference to the "intent of the petitioner" when assessing scope rulings, a domestic petitioner argued to the Court of International Trade on March 3. The petitioner was supporting the U.S. in cases involving antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on freight rail couplers, saying that the case’s plaintiff, an exporter, had incorrectly argued that its goods were beyond the scope of the investigation due to a substantial transformation (Wabtec Corporation v. U.S., CIT #s 23-00160, -00161).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled March 6 that an importer’s steel branch outlets are covered by antidumping duties on butt-weld pipe fittings from China. Judge Timothy Dyk dissented. The case considered whether the Commerce Department had properly determined that the term “butt-weld” was ambiguous (Vandewater International v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 23-1093).
In Feb. 27 oral arguments, Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Reif grappled with whether the Commerce Department reasonably selected a broader, less-specific plywood price dataset over a smaller, more specific one. He also dealt with the department’s application of adverse facts available to multilayered wood flooring review respondents after a finding of government control based on the Chinese government’s “deficient” questionnaire responses (Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00136).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 5 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The date range proposed in a consent motion enjoining liquidation of Thai-origin truck and bus tires extends into November 2025 because that will be the end of the first administrative review period under an antidumping duty order, the U.S. explained in response to a court query (United Steel, Paper and Forestry International Union v. United States, CIT # 25-00004).