CAFC Dismisses Pair of Cases on Scope Ruling for AD/CVD Orders on Steel Trailer Wheels

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two mandates dismissing challenges brought by Trans Texas Tire and Zhejiang Jingu Company over a scope ruling in the antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigation into steel trailer wheels from China. In November 2021, the Court of International Trade upheld Commerce's inclusion of steel trailer wheels coated in chrome through a physical vapor deposition process under the ADD/CVD orders on steel trailer wheels while also dropping the retroactive imposition of the duties on subject merchandise (see 2111180043). One case concerns the antidumping duty order and the other is on the countervailing duty order. Jingu moved to dismiss the the appeals on Feb. 7 (Trans Texas Tire LLC v. U.S., Fed. Cir. #22-1395, -1396).