CAFC Throws out China Iron Table AD Review due to False Documents
In the third AD administrative review of floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables and certain parts thereof from China, the International Trade Administration discovered Chinese producer Since Hardware (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd. had provided falsified documents in that review as well as the…
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two preceding reviews, which were still in litigation at the time. At the Court of International Trade, U.S. manufacturer Home Products International, Inc. lost a bid to overturn the results of the two preceding reviews in light of the false information discovered by the ITA. However, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overruled the CIT and directed it to issue a remand for a new second review; now the higher court has applied the same ruling to the earliest of the three successive reviews, covering the period February 3, 2004 through July 31, 2005. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 02/11/11 news, 11021110, for BP summary of prior court decision.) (Decision 2010-1194, decided 06/22/11)