CIT Issues Decisions in AD Cases on Tires, Fish Fillets
The Court of International Trade granted the Commerce Department's motion to lift a stay and voluntarily remand an antidumping duty challenge to give the agency a chance to consider new information showing inaccuracies in the mandatory respondent's reported sales prices. Pirelli Tyre Co., who received the all-others rate in the 2017-18 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China. Commerce said the inaccuracies are based on potential fraud.
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In a separate decision, CIT also sustained remand results in a case over the 2016-17 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam, in a Sept. 20 order. The court held that Commerce's determination on remand to grant offsets for mandatory respondent NTSF Seafoods Joint Stock Company's fish oil and fish meal byproducts was backed by sufficient evidence. The trade court also held that Commerce's finding that the Global Trade Atlas' data was the best available to calculate a surrogate value for the byproducts was properly supported.