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CIT Grants ITA a Voluntary Remand to Revise Labor Costs in Chinese Garlic AD Review

Following the second remand results in the antidumping duty administrative review of fresh garlic from China for the period November 2001 - October 2002, Jinan Yipin Corporation contested the International Trade Administration’s cardboard and labor surrogate values and alleged other…

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errors, while the ITA requested a voluntary remand to revise the value to conform with an appeals court ruling that found the ITA’s prior method of calculating Chinese labor costs to be illegal. The Court of International Trade denied Jinan Yipin’s complaints and upheld the ITA’s remand results methodologies, but granted the ITA a voluntary remand to revise labor costs. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 11/09/09 news, 09110935, for BP summary of second remand decision. See ITT’s Online Archives or 05/19/10 news, 10051935, for BP summary of the CAFC decision overturning ITA’s use of certain labor cost values.) (Slip Op. 11-36, dated 04/12/11)