Commerce Rightly Corrected AD Rate Errors in Steel Pipe Case, Nucor Argues

The Commerce Department correctly reconsidered Nucor’s ministerial error allegations in recalculating antidumping duty rates for Prolamsa and Maquilacero in its remand results on the 2018-19 administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico, Nucor said in May 26 response comments to the remand redetermination at the Court of International Trade (Nucor Tubular Products v. U.S., CIT # 21-00543).

Commerce correctly determined that the errors were timely raised and needed to be corrected, Nucor said. The remand redetermination explained the errors affecting the final results in detail as required by the remand order, and addressed those errors, Nucor said. Nucor made similar arguments to those of DOJ in its remand comments a day earlier (see 2305260042).

"Maquilacero objects to the Court’s original opinion and repeats arguments that this Court rejected," Nucor said. The relevant question before the Court is whether the remand redetermination is supported by substantial evidence and in accordance with the law, not whether a reasonable objection exists to the final determination, Nucor said, arguing that the court already had rejected Maquilacero's arguments in its remand order.