AD Respondent to Appeal CIT Decision Over Surrogate Data Picks, Steel Plate Cost Adjustment
Plaintiff Dongkuk S&C Co. will appeal a November 2022 Court of International Trade opinion upholding the Commerce Department's surrogate data selection and steel plate cost adjustments in an antidumping duty investigation. The exporter will take the case to the U.S.…
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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the notice of appeal said. The case deals with the AD investigation on utility scale wind towers from South Korea. In the opinion, the trade court upheld Commerce's finding that Dongkuk's reported steel plate costs do not reasonably reflect the cost of making wind towers (see 2211170084). The court further said that Commerce properly used exporter SeAH Steel Holdings Corp.'s 2018 consolidated financial statement as the basis for constructed value calculations for Dongkuk's profit and selling expenses (Dongkuk S&C Co. v. U.S., CIT # 20-03686).