Greek Welded Pipe Exporter to Appeal CIT Opinion Upholding Total AFA
Greek exporter Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry and importer CPW America Co. will appeal a Court of International Trade opinion upholding the use of total adverse facts available due to Corinth's reported costs not being reconciled to its normal books and…
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records. Per the notice of appeal, the exporter will take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. At the trade court, Judge Leo Gordon said the law does not require Commerce to respond to Corinth's claims on its use of total AFA, which the agency used in the first instance in the final results of the AD review on large diameter welded pipe from Greece (see 2305010054). The result was a 41.04% margin for Corinth (Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry v. United States, CIT # 22-00063).