CIT Upholds Commerce's Cost of Production Calculation Method in South Korean Acetone AD Case

The Commerce Department properly calculated antidumping mandatory respondent LG Chem's cost of production when calculating constructed price, the Court of International Trade said in an Aug. 13 opinion. The case was over the antidumping duty investigation into acetone from South Korea. Judge M. Miller Baker held that Commerce's decision to spurn LG Chem's method for calculating the cost of the materials for making acetone in favor of the other mandatory respondent, Kumho P&B Chemical's, method was legal. This decision led to a higher antidumping rate for LG Chem in the investigation's final determination, sticking the exporter with a 25.05% rate.