The Court of International Trade on July 12 upheld the Commerce Department's decision on voluntary remand to slash the antidumping duty rate for the separate rate respondents in the 2016-17 review on diamond sawblades from China from 82.05% to 41.03%. The case had been stayed pending the resolution of Bosun Tools v. U.S., in which Commerce originally used the 82.05% adverse facts available rate in an earlier review given that the mandatory respondents were uncooperative. The agency slashed the rate in that case as well, leading to an identical move in the present case led by exporter Danyang Weiwang Tools Manufacturing Co.
Country of origin cases
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A horizontal lawnmower engine should not have been included under the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on vertical shaft engines between 99cc and up to 225cc from China in a Commerce Department scope ruling simply because it is used in walk-behind mowers, exporter Zhejiang Amerisun Technology said in a July 7 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Zhejiang Amerisun Technology v. U.S., CIT # 23-00011).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A case at the Court of International Trade contesting Commerce's lack of adjustment for non-selected companies' antidumping duty rates for export subsidies was dismissed on July 5 after agreement by all parties (Federation of Indian Quartz Surface Industry v. U.S., CIT # 23-00026). The case, originally brought in February by the Federation of Indian Quartz Surface Industry, contested as[ects of the final results of the AD administrative review on quartz surface products from India. The Quartz Federation had argued that Commerce inappropriately failed to adjust the cash deposit rate by the amount found to be subsidized in the companion CVD investigation (see 2302280014).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on July 5 dismissed importer Amsted Rail's conflict-of-interest suit concerning attorney Daniel Pickard and his firm, Buchanan Ingersoll, in an injury proceeding at the International Trade Commission. Amsted Rail filed a joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal a few days prior in the suit that the Court of International Trade previously dismissed for lack of jurisdiction (see 2211160057).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP announced an Enforce and Protect Act investigation on whether Suzhou Quality Import and Export had evaded antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusions from China and imposed interim measures. The investigation followed a January allegation by the Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee, which said Suzhou Quality had entered Chinese-origin aluminum extrusions subject to the AD/CVD into the U.S. without declaring them subject to those orders or paying the required cash deposits.
The Commerce department’s decision to use the all-others rate from an earlier antidumping duty investigation on quartz surface products to calculate the rate for the non-selected respondents in the first administrative review should be remanded to the agency, AD petitioner Cambria said in a June 30 motion at the Court of International Trade (Cambria Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00007).