CIT Consolidates Respondent's and Petitioner's Challenges to AD Review on Aussie Steel
The Court of International Trade consolidated two cases challenging the Commerce Department's final results in the third administrative review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Australia, in a Dec. 9 order. One case was brought…
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by U.S. Steel Corp. and the other by Australian company BlueScope Steel Ltd., a mandatory respondent in the review. BlueScope challenged Commerce's decision not to deduct discounts and rebates from BlueScope's normal value when setting its dumping rate, arguing that this decision went against the agency's past regulations and was based on an inaccurate understanding of BlueScope's data (see 2109280038). U.S. Steel, though, said that Commerce violated the law when it found that BlueScope did not reimburse its U.S. affiliate for antidumping duties (see 2109210081). The cases were consolidated under U.S. Steel's action (United States Steel Corporation v. United States, CIT #21-00528).