CIT Sends Back Parts of AD Investigation Into Chinese Metal Lockers

The Court of International Trade remanded parts and upheld parts of the Commerce Department's antidumping duty investigation on metal lockers from China. Judge Mark Barnett sent back the investigation so that Commerce can reconsider its treatment of surrogate company Ayes Celikhasir's "incentive income," "shipping revenues," "rental income" and "interest income" when calculating surrogate financial ratios. The judge sustained Commerce's treatment of certain other real operating income categories. Barnett also upheld the agency's determination that Ayes made comparable merchandise with the goods under investigation while plaintiff List Industries' preferred surrogate company, Grupo Carso, did not.