CIT Affirms Most of China Steel Wire AD Determination, Remands Labor Surrogate Value
The Court of International Trade rejected most of a challenge to the 2011 final determination in the antidumping duty investigation of drill pipe from China (A-570-965), but remanded the International Trade Administration’s surrogate values for drill pipe green tube and labor. CIT remanded the labor surrogate value because the ITA didn’t distinguish between producers and “significant producers” in its average of wage rates in 31 countries. The ITA agreed to the remand in light of recent court rulings against the methodology.
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(Downhole Pipe & Equip. LP v. U.S., Slip Op. 12-141, dated 11/20/12, Judge Tsoucalas)
(Attorneys: Mark Lehnardt of Lehnardt & Lehnardt for plaintiffs Downhole Pipe & Equipment, LP and DPMaster Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; Stuart Delery for defendant U.S. government; Roger Schagrin of Schagrin Associates for defendant-intervenors VAM Drilling USA, Texas Steel Conversions, Rotary Drilling Tools, and TMK IPSCO; Jeffrey Gerrish for defendant-intervenor U.S. Steel Corp.)