In dueling submissions to the Court of International Trade following oral arguments on April 19, DOJ and Ancientree made their final cases for the best surrogate country pick in the antidumping investigation on wooden cabinets and vanities from China. In a feud over whether Commerce should have picked Malaysia or Romania, the main contention was detailed financial statements versus more comparable producers in quantity and quality of product.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Commerce Department will reverse course on a particular market situation adjustment to production costs for the purposes of a sales-below-cost test in an antidumping review on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products from Turkey, it said in a final remand redetermination filed with the Court of International Trade April 19. But it will only do so under protest, it said, noting the Federal Circuit has yet to weigh in with binding precedent on the issue.