Commerce Backs Remand Dropping Retroactive Levying of AD/CVD Duties, Cites Plaintiffs' Support

The Commerce Department backed its own remand results in two Court of International Trade cases, citing the plaintiffs' agreement that the remand complied with the court's orders in two comments on the redeterminations. The cases, one challenging an antidumping duty scope ruling on a subset of steel trailer wheels from China, and the other challenging the countervailing duty scope ruling for the same goods, concern the date of imposition for the duties. In May, the court told Commerce to move the imposition date for the duties to the date of publication of the final determination rather than the date of the preliminary determination (see 2105180062). Commerce did so in its remand results (see 2106160026), also indicating that it will issue instructions to CBP to exclude plaintiffs Trans Texas Tire and Zhejiang Jingu Co.'s entries of physical vapor deposition chrome process wheels (PVD chrome wheels) entered between Feb. 25, 2019, and June 24, 2019, from the scope of the investigation (Trans Texas Tire, LLC v. United States, CIT #19-00188, -00189).