Steel Nail Importer to Appeal CIT Antidumping Case Over Total AFA for Data Reporting Error

Building Material Distributors, Inc., consolidated plaintiff in an antidumping case in the Court of International Trade, will appeal the court's decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, according to an Aug. 9 notice of appeal (Xi'An Metals & Minerals Import & Export Co., Ltd., et al. v. U.S., CIT Consol. #20-00103). The case was over the 2017-18 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on steel nails from China in which the Commerce Department applied total adverse facts available. BMD will appeal CIT's contention that Commerce had the right to apply total AFA for a mandatory respondent's failure to provide its factors of production data on a control number-specific basis (see 2106090048).