Trade Court Sustains Wood Flooring AD Case Dropping Separate Rate Respondent From Review
The Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department's remand results in an antidumping duty case after AD separate rate respondent Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited said that it received full relief resulting from the liquidation of its entries and a…
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refund of excess duties paid. The case stems from an antidumping duty administrative review of orders on multilayered wood flooring from China. Following multiple court decisions and remand results (see 2107130080), Fine Furniture's case was stayed pending a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision, which eventually found that Fine Furniture is not subject to the antidumping duty order. Since the mandatory respondents in the underlying antidumping duty order received de minimis rates in Commerce's final determination, Fine Furniture was removed from the review. This led to the AD duty rate for all separate rate respondents falling to zero percent. No parties opposed the remand results. (Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited, et al. v. United States, Slip Op. 22-9, CIT Consol. #14-00135, dated 02/07/22, Judge Timothy Stanceu)