CIT Sustains AD Proceedings on CTL Plate From Germany, Activated Carbon From China

The Court of International Trade on Dec. 21 sustained the Commerce Department's fourth remand results in a case on an antidumping investigation into carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Germany. Judge Leo Gordon noted that the court already rejected exporter AG der Dillinger Huttenwerke's argument that Commerce improperly rejected the company's proposed quality code for sour service pressure vessel plate, adding that Dillinger didn't properly show reconsideration of the issue is "appropriate." The judge also rejected petitioner Nucor's challenge to the adjustment to the model match methodology to include a separate quality code for sour transport plate in calculating Dillinger's margin.

In a separate opinion, Judge Mark Barnett sustained Commerce's surrogate value picks in an AD review on activated carbon from China. The court rejected exporter Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co.'s challenge to the surrogate value of bituminous coal for failure to raise the issue administratively, sustained the benchmark data for valuating bituminous coal and upheld Commerce's surrogate valuation of coal tar pitch.