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CIT Upholds Forged Steel Fittings Exporter's Reported Costs in AD Case

The Court of International Trade on May 6 sustained the Commerce Department's antidumping duty investigation on forged steel fittings from India. After two remands for Commerce's decision to use a questionnaire in lieu of onsite verification, the agency conducted an…

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in-person verification of respondent Shakti Forge Industries' facilities in India. Judge Stephen Vaden declared the procedural claims "vanquished," then sustained the agency's reliance on Shakti's reported costs. The judge noted that Commerce didn't find a "single inaccuracy" in the respondent's reporting and reasonably accepted the exporter's explanation of its finishing processes to be reasonable.