CIT Sends Back Use of One Respondent in CVD Review in Confidential Decision
The Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department's 2017 review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China. In a March 24 confidential decision, Judge Timothy Reif gave the parties until March 31 to review the…
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confidential information in the decision. Parties in the case sparred on Commerce's use of only one mandatory respondent in the review (see 2403110048). After a previous remand requested by Commerce to consider a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision requiring the use of more than one respondent where multiple companies request a review, the agency said it could use only one respondent here, given the "case-specific circumstances" (see 2304030049) (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 20-03885).