CIT Settles on 45% China-wide AD Rate for Hand Tools Admin Review
The International Trade Administration originally proposed a China-wide “adverse facts” antidumping duty rate of 45.25% for imports of heavy forged hand tools from producer/exporter Shandong Machinery Import & Export Company, for the review period of February 2005 through January 2006,…
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arguing that the rate must be higher than the prior rate of 34.56% in order to ensure cooperation. In the first remand, the Court of International Trade found the agency had failed to corroborate the 45.25% rate and ordered the agency to use a “different rate.” However, in the second remand, the court ruled out as “punitive” a revised rate of 109.16%, which was based on a single sale in the preceding review. The CIT then instructed the agency to revert to the 45.25% rate, but with corroboration, and the court has now accepted this result. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 08/18/10 news, 10081817, for BP summary of the CIT’s second remand.) (Slip Op. 11-47, dated 04/26/11)