CIT Nixes Late Challenge to Entry Date as Sale Date in China Paper AD Review

The Watanabe Group asked the Court of International Trade to reconsider and vacate its decision upholding the ITA’s assignment of the China-wide rate of 258.21% in the antidumping duty administrative review of certain lined paper products from China for the period September 2007 through August 2008.

The agency had given Watanabe the high rate for reporting it made no sales during the period, when, by the agency’s definition of entry date as sale date, it had in fact made one sale.

However, the court ruled Watanabe had presented no evidence or argument to merit a reconsideration of either the court’s prior decision in favor of the ITA’s conclusions or the agency’s methodology for assigning entry dates in the review at issue. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 01/11/11 news, 11011036, for BP summary of prior CIT decision on this issue, for the same review.) (Slip Op. 11-25, dated 03/07/11)