CAFC Affirms Commerce's Adjustment of Wind Tower Exporter's Steel Plate Costs, Surrogate Selection

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled April 21 that the Commerce Department had been allowed to adjust wind tower exporter Dongkuk S&C Co.’s steel plate input costs, saying the department reasonably found price fluctuations unrelated to an input's physical characteristics. The court also upheld Commerce’s surrogate selection of SeAH Steel Holdings Corporation over SeAH Steel as reasonable because the former could offer data covering the entire period of investigation (Dongkuk S&C Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1419).