US Seeks to Consolidate Two Thai Bus, Truck Tire Cases
The U.S. filed a March 4 motion to consolidate cases brought by exporter Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (see 2412240029) and petitioner United Steel, Paper and Forestry labor group (see 2502070071). Both cases concern the final determination in an antidumping duty investigation on truck and bus tires from Thailand (Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations v. United States, CIT # 24-00263; United Steel, Paper and Forestry International Union v. United States, CIT # 25-00004).
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Bridgestone opposes the motion, the U.S. said, while United Steel consents to it.
The exporter alleged in its 10-count complaint that the Commerce Department was wrongly accusing it of withholding information. It was hit with adverse facts available regarding an affiliated tire reseller in the U.S. after Commerce requested information about the reseller, but refused to accept it because, during verification, it couldn’t speak with the person who prepared the information at the time it requested -- around 3:30 p.m. on the last day of the review.
The domestic steel trade group’s complaint claimed that the review’s other mandatory respondent, Prinx Chengshan Tire, which is only one subsidiary within a group of consolidated companies, had attempted “to pass off [a non-market-economy] entity as a market-economy entity” when reporting its financial expense ratio.