In '07 Chinese Wooden Bedroom Furniture AD Review, CIT Issues Extensive Remand

Chinese exporters and domestic producers both challenged the final results of the January-December 2007 AD administrative review of wooden bedroom furniture from China, questioning the ITA’s respondent selections, fair value calculations, and adverse rate assignments, among other issues. The Court of International Trade remanded the case to the ITA to 1) consider assigning a separately calculated adverse rate to Orient International Holding Shanghai, rather than the 216.01% country-wide rate, since that rate “greatly exceeds“ the highest individually assigned rate of 29.89% (Orient had duly completed its separate rate questionnaire but later withdrew its cooperation from the review); 2) reconsider the choice of the best set of published prices for wood components; 3) adjust the value for labor per the ITA’s recent redetermination in a prior review under the same order; 4) etc. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 02/11/11 news, 11021111, for BP summary of most recent CIT decision on ITA’s revised approach to NME labor values) (Slip-Op.11-16, decided 02/11/11).