Trade Coalition Withdraws From Suit Challenging Alleged Expansion of CVD Orders on Vietnamese Chassis

A petitioner in a review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on certain chassis and subassemblies from China withdrew from a case challenging that review after it successfully sought intervention by consent in April (see 2404120032) (Pitts Enterprises v. United States, CIT # 24-00030).

The petitioner, Coalition of American Chassis Manufacturers, had asked to join the case on the side of the plaintiff, Pitts Enterprises, to litigate the Commerce Department’s interpretation of the orders’ language.

Pitts, part of the coalition, was also a petitioner for the orders. However, after the COVID-19 pandemic, it also began importing chassis from Vietnam after the COVID-19 pandemic (see 2408220016). In the AD/CVD reviews being challenged before the trade court, Commerce found that Pitts’ imports were covered by the orders; Pitts claims the department is illegally expanding the orders to include “unassembled subassemblies,” though they’re “straightforwardly” not covered by them (see 2403070060).