US Supports Use of Thai Surrogate Data in Vietnamese Frozen Shrimp CVD Review
The U.S. pushed back July 16 against exporter Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co.’s challenge to the Commerce Department’s surrogate value calculation of Vietnamese land rental prices in a countervailing duty review (see 2501270012). The government said Commerce’s use of Thai data was supported by substantial evidence (Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00030).
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The surrogate the exporter preferred, the Phillippines, wasn’t as reliable, as, among other things, some of the information Soc Trang reported from it was undated, the U.S. said. The exporter also failed to provide information regarding the sources of the Filipino data, it said.
On the other hand, the land rental price data from Thailand was contemporaneous and adequate to be used in the surrogate value calculation, it said. Commerce’s selection of the Thai data was reasonable and a matter of discretion, it said, so the trade court should support it.