Trade Group Looks to Intervene in Case on Vietnamese Chassis With Chinese Parts

A petitioner in a review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on certain chassis and subassemblies from China filed a consent motion April 10 to intervene in a case challenging that review brought by importer Pitts Enterprises. The Coalition of American Chassis Manufacturers said it intends to join the case on the side of Pitts to litigate the Commerce Department’s interpretation of the orders’ language (Pitts Enterprises, Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00030).

Pitts, also a petitioner of the original AD/CVD orders, is part of the coalition. It began importing chassis from Vietnam to “respond to the need to strengthen the U.S. logistics chain” after the COVID-19 pandemic (see 2403070060). It brought its complaint to the Court of International Trade after CBP found its Vietnamese chassis were covered by AD/CVD orders on the products from China because Pitts’ chassis contained certain Chinese components. Pitts said, as a petitioner of the orders, it hadn't intended the presence of Chinese components to bring Vietnamese chassis under the orders' umbrella.