CIT Denies Bid for Oral Argument Following Pushback From AD Respondents
The Court of International Trade in a June 23 order denied antidumping duty petitioners' bid for an oral argument in a suit on whether to collapse mandatory respondents Yieh Phui Enterprise Co. and Synn Industrial Co. with one of their affiliates, Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co. Judge Timothy Stanceu rejected the oral argument request following opposition from Prosperity and Yieh Phui, finding that "oral argument would not assist in the resolution of the issues remaining in this litigation" (Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 16-00138).
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The case concerns the AD investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products from Taiwan, in which Commerce decided to collapse Yieh Phi and Synn with Prosperity. CIT sustained the decision after Prosperity and Yieh Phui challenged it, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Commerce didn't engage in a permissible analysis when collapsing the respondents. Stanceu remanded the case 14 months after the appellate court decision, and Commerce reversed its decision to collapse (see 2202150032). The petitioners, led by California Steel Industries, requested an oral argument on the issue, which Yieh Phui and Prosperity objected to because they said the case has been going on for six years and the main issue in the matter has been "extensively briefed" (see 2205230048).