CIT Remands Commerce's Reallocation of Non-Prime Product Costs in Calculating Constructed Value in AD Case

The Court of International Trade sustained in part and remanded in part the Commerce Department's remand results in an antidumping administrative review on welded line pipe from Korea in a June 7 decision made public on June 15 -- the second on the case. Judge Claire Kelly took issue with Commerce's decision to reallocate the costs of production for respondent NEXTEEL Co.'s non-prime welded line pipe products to its prime products when calculating NEXTEEL's constructed value in the review. The judge sustained all of Commerce's remaining determinations in the case including findings that a particular market situation did not exist in Korea for a key input of welded line pipe products and the agency's reversal, under protest, of its initial rejection of respondent SeAH's Steel Corp.'s third country sales data into Canada to calculate normal value.