CIT Issue Partial Judgment in AD Case, Upholds Commerce's Surrogate Pick
The Court of International Trade entered partial judgment in a case over the antidumping duty investigation into Chinese quartz surface product in an Oct. 8 order. Having issued a partial decision in September, Judge Leo Gordon said that the remaining issue under litigation is separate from the already-ruled aspects of the case. In September, Gordon upheld the Commerce Department's decision to pick Mexico over Malaysia as a surrogate country for the purposes of calculating normal value in the AD case (see 2109270059). The remaining issue, brought by M S International, concerns whether Commerce had the requisite industry support to initiate the investigation -- an issue for which the court just sided with Commerce in a separate antidumping case (see 2110080035).
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(M S International, Inc., et al. v. United States, Slip Op. 21-140, CIT Consol. #19-00140, dated 09/24/21, Judge Leo Gordon. Attorneys: Jonathan Stoel of Hogan Lovells for plaintiff MSI; Joshua Kurland for defendant U.S. government)