CIT Finds Korean Company Didn't Get Countervailable Benefit from Electricity Pricing
The Court of International Trade on Jan .13 sustained the Commerce Department's remand results in a case on a countervailing duty investigation into carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea. On remand from the Court of Appeals for…
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the Federal Circuit, Commerce held that the Korean Electricity Corp. didn't provide electricity for less than adequate remuneration and that prices on the Korean Power Exchange are not a countervailable benefit. The CVD petitioner, Nucor, questioned the use of a preferential-rate standard in the case, but the trade court held that Commerce also considered whether KEPCO recouped its costs in finding that electricity was not sold for LTAR.