CIT Remands Parts of Commerce's Final Results in Vietnamese Fish Filets AD Review
The Court of International Trade in an April 25 order made public May 3 remanded parts and sustained parts of the Commerce Department's administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish filets from Vietnam. Writing the opinion for…
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two separate cases -- one brought by the mandatory respondent NTSF Seafoods Joint Stock Co. and the other brought by the Catfish Farmers of America -- Judge M. Miller Baker upheld Commerce's positions in the face of NTSF's challenges but remanded elements of the agency's review in the Catfish Farmers' case. The remanded elements include Commerce's conclusion over whether Indonesia has a comparable level of economic development to Vietnam, whether the Indian factors of production data are the best available as compared to Indonesia, Commerce's failure to engage with contracting evidence over NTSF's ration of whole live fish to filets and the moisture content of NTSF's filets.