CIT Consolidates 3 Challenges Over AFA Rate to All Others in Indian Steel Flanges AD Review

The Court of International Trade on Nov. 30 consolidated three court cases, all challenging the Commerce Department's final results in the 2018-2019 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel flanges from India. The three cases are now consolidated under the action brought by Kisaan Die Tech Private Limited and all concern whether Commerce's all-others rate calculation was in accordance with the law. In the review, the agency hit the one mandatory respondent with adverse facts available, then extended this rate to all other respondents (see 2109140030). Kisaan challenged this action, arguing that "all other" respondents never failed to cooperate with Commerce's review, precluding the agency from hitting them with AFA (Kissan Die Tech Private Limited v. United States, CIT #21-00512).