Commerce 'Finally' Gets Right Determination in AD Review on Korean Transformers, Exporter Says

The Commerce Department "finally" came to a conclusion in an antidumping administrative review on large power transformers from South Korea that is in line with "record facts, the law and basic standards of investigative fairness," mandatory respondent Hyosung Heavy Industries Corporation said in June 7 comments on remand results. Joined by the other mandatory respondent Hyundai Heavy Industries and the Department of Justice, Hyosung voiced its approval of the remand results in the Court of International Trade, which scrapped the application of total adverse facts available after DOJ requested a voluntary remand to "reconsider" the original determinations (Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. v. United States, CIT #18-00066).

The only objection to the second remand results came from the defendant-intervenor and petitioner ABB, Inc. which, in its own comments, argued that CIT "did not properly apply the standard of review in this case." However, the petitioner did not dispute that Commerce complied with the court's orders in its second remand instructions.