AD Plaintiffs to Appeal Case Over Commerce's Use of Questionnaire Instead of On-Site Verification
Plaintiffs Ellwood City Forge, Ellwood National Steel, Ellwood Quality Steel and A. Finkl & Sons will appeal a Court of International Trade decision on the Commerce Department's use of a questionnaire instead of on-site verification in an antidumping duty case.…
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The plaintiffs will take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, according to the Jan. 6 notice of appeal. In the case, which concerns the antidumping duty investigation on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy, the trade court said the plaintiffs failed to exhaust their administrative remedies on the verification question (see 2206140044). The plaintiffs then unsuccessfully sought reconsideration of the issue -- a move the court deemed to be an impermissible attempt to relitigate the case (Ellwood City Forge v. U.S., CIT #21-00073).