CAFC Tosses 4 Appeals Over PMS Adjustment to Sales-Below-Cost Test

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed four appeals over whether the Commerce Department can make a particular market situation adjustment to the sales-below-cost test when determining normal value in antidumping duty proceedings. The appellant in each case, AD petitioner Wheatland Tube, voluntarily moved to dismiss the cases after it didn't petition the Supreme Court to hear a key case, Hyundai Steel v. U.S. In that decision, the Federal Circuit said the statute doesn't permit Commerce to make a PMS adjustment to the sales-below-cost test (see 2112100039). Wheatland subsequently dropped all of its appeals on the subject except for one, which it argued should be continued even in light of the Hyundai Steel decision (see 2207120072). The court, in a series of three orders, dismissed four of the appeals and lifted the stay in the remaining one (Saha Thai Steel Pipe v. U.S., Fed. Cir. #22-1172, #22-1173, #22-1174) (Husteel v. U.S., Fed. Cir. #22-1300).