CIT Upholds Fabricated Structural Steel AD Investigation in Confidential Opinion
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 13 confidential opinion sustained the Commerce Department's remand results in a case concerning the antidumping duty investigation on fabricated structural steel from Mexico. After Judge Claire Kelly remanded the case, Commerce stuck…
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by its methodology used to calculate profit for the constructed value of respondent Building Systems de Mexico, also dropping the use of adverse facts available for one unreportable sale (see 2207210034). The agency further used the date of substantial completion of a fabricated structural steel project as the date of sale rather than using the purchase order date or sales order acknowledgment date, and didn't exclude the operating results of the business unit in question from the calculation of the constructed export price profit rate. Kelly gave the parties until Dec. 20 to review the confidential information in the opinion with the hopes of releasing the public version of the opinion Dec. 21 (Building Systems de Mexico v. United States, CIT #20-00069).