CIT Sustains 2005-06 India Steel Flat Products AD Review on ITA's Second Try

The Court of International Trade sustained the International Trade Administration’s second remand redetermination of the final results of the 2005-06 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products (A-533-820). This second remand redetermination, which was ordered by CIT in April (i) for application of the ITA’s new policy on adjusting cost of production in accordance with the adjustment to Indian company Essar Steel Limited’s export price resulting from its duty-drawback claim, and (ii) to allow for the correction of a ministerial error discovered by Essar and agreed to by the ITA, sets the AD rate for Essar at 9.01%, up from 5.22% in the original final results. No parties contested the second remand redetermination, so CIT sustained it.

(Slip Op. 12-91, dated 06/28/12, Judge Aquilino)

(See ITT’s Online Archives 11062332 for summary of first remand of the final results in 2011, and 12041249 for summary of the second remand in April.)