US Supports Unopposed Remand Results in Multilayered Wood Flooring Review
The U.S. supported Aug. 27 the Commerce Department’s decision, after a voluntary remand, not to continue applying adverse facts available to a mandatory respondent in an administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China for the 2018 review period (see 2507140055) (Evolutions Flooring v. United States, CIT Consol. #21-00591).
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Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Reif sustained most of the department’s review results against challenges brought by 18 importers and exporters (see 2503280020). He granted Commerce’s request for a remand to correct an “inadvertent error” in its normal value calculation for mandatory respondent Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co and to let the department reconsider its use of AFA for another mandatory respondent, Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry.
Commerce properly did both in its remand results, the U.S. government said. Because the results are unopposed, the court should sustain them, it said.