CIT Remands Commerce's Adjustment for Steel Plate Costs in Wind Towers AD Case

The Court of International Trade remanded on Dec. 13 the Commerce Department's final results in the antidumping duty investigation of utility scale wind towers from South Korea. Judge Leo Gordon held that Commerce didn't group the different towers' control numbers together by any of the required 11 physical characteristics or use the characteristics as a "guidepost." Instead, the agency adjusted the towers' costs by weight-averaging the reported steel plate costs for all the reported CONNUMs. Gordon asked Commerce for further explanation or reconsideration.