CIT Sustains Mexican Surrogate Pick Over Malaysia in Chlorinated Isocyanurates AD Case

The Court of International Trade sustained the final determination in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China in an Aug. 5 opinion. Plaintiffs Heze Huayi Chemical Co. and Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. launched their challenge to contest the selection of Mexico over Malaysia as a surrogate nation for calculating the AD duty, to find that Mexico has the highest quality information and to adjust the Mexican "freight-on-board" values to a "cost of insurance and freight" mark. For all three contentions, Judge Timothy Reif sided with the government, finding that Mexico is a "significant producer" of "comparable merchandise," that its selection of the Mexican conglomerate CYDSA's financial statements was backed by substantial evidence and that the adjustment of the data to a CIF basis was permitted.