CIT Agrees With ITA's Results in Pasta from Italy AD Review

July 25, 2011 by Barbara Chaves|Penalties and Courts

Italian producer Garofalo S.p.A. challenged the International Trade Administration’s use of quarterly, or three-month, periods for cost averaging and sales price comparisons between the U.S. and home markets in the July, 2007 -- June 2008 AD administrative review of certain pasta from Italy. U.S. producers objected to the ITA’s announced plan to introduce a new model match methodology in future reviews, and to the use of company-specific model-match criteria in the concluded 2007-2008 review. The Court of International Trade ruled that it was premature to challenge the agency’s future model match approaches, but affirmed the 2007-2008 final results of review in all respects. (Slip Op. 11-65, dated 06/08/11, public version posted subsequently.)