CIT Upholds Parts, Remands Parts of CVD Review of Russian Phosphate Fertilizers
The Court of International Trade on May 6 upheld parts and sent back parts of the Commerce Department's 2020-21 review of the countervailing duty order on phosphate fertilizer from Russia. Judge Jane Restani remanded Commerce's benchmark calculations for the provision…
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of phosphate rock mining rights for less than adequate remuneration and natural gas for LTAR programs. The judge said Commerce improperly excluded data on phosphate rock taken from sedimentary reserves and erred in using sales of natural gas from Kazakhstan to Russia. However, Restani sustained the use of data only from 2021 to calculate the mining rights subsidy, calculation of respondent JSC Apatit's phosphate rock cost of sales plus profit, and use of adverse facts available to find that Apatit's natural gas suppliers were government authorities.