CIT Upholds Commerce's Surrogate Data Selection, Steel Plate Cost Adjustments in AD Investigation
The Court of International Trade in a Nov. 17 opinion upheld the Commerce Department's surrogate data selection in the antidumping duty investigation on utility scale wind towers from South Korea. Judge Leo Gordon also upheld Commerce's remand results relating to…
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steel plate cost smoothing. Previously, the court ruled that the agency must either further explain or reconsider its decision to adjust the steel plate costs for all reported control numbers. Gordon said that on remand, Commerce gave a "more thorough explanation as to how and why its cost analysis and the record" backed its decision to reject respondent Dongkuk S&C Co.'s reported steel plate costs.