CIT Again Remands Steel Pipe Case in Confidential Opinion

The Court of International Trade sent back the Commerce Department's remand results in a case on the 2017-18 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India, in a March 11 confidential order. In a letter on the opinion, Judge Claire Kelly announced her intention to release the public version of the opinion on March 21, giving litigants until March 18 to review any bracketed information (Garg Tube Export v. United States, CIT #20-00026).

Previously, the court remanded Commerce's decision to make a particular market situation adjustment to the sales-below-cost test and use partial adverse facts available (see 2107210065). In the remand results, Commerce dropped the PMS adjustment for the sales-below-cost test but continued to make a PMS adjustment when calculating the costs of production where normal value is based on constructed value.