ITA Amends Scope of China Nails AD Order to Include Nails in Toolkits

The International Trade Administration amended the scope of the antidumping duty order on steel nails from China (A-570-909), effective Aug. 4, to include steel nails found within toolkits, pursuant to a July Court of International Trade ruling affirming the ITA’s redetermination of an earlier scope ruling on remand. The ITA had originally found steel nails in toolkits imported by Target Corporation to be outside of the scope of the AD order in an August 2010 scope determination, and again found such nails to be outside of the scope on remand from CIT. CIT rejected this first remand, however, and on its second try, under protest, the ITA found the nails to be within scope.

(See ITT’s Online Archives 12072622 for summary of CIT’s July ruling affirming the ITA’s finding that the nails in toolkits were within the scope of the AD order on steel nails from China. See also ITT's Online Archives 11051935 for summary of CIT's first remand order in May 2011, and 12031205 for summary of the second remand in March 2012.)