CIT Sustains Use of Brazilian Wage Surrogate Data in AD Investigation on Beer Kegs
The Court of International Trade on Nov. 25 sustained the Commerce Department's third remand in a case on the antidumping duty investigation on beer kegs from China. Judge M. Miller Baker upheld Commerce's decisions not to reopen the record to…
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use a Mexican consumer price index inflator to adjust Mexican surrogate wage information and to use Brazilian surrogate wage data. Baker said Commerce reasonably explained that it wasn't necessary to reopen the record to inflate the Mexican data when existing data from Brazil "suited the agency's purposes."