Turkish Steel Exporter to Appeal 3 Cases on ITC's Sunset Review of AD Order

Turkish exporter Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari (Erdemir) will appeal its three separate cases filed at the Court of International Trade regarding the sunset review of an antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Turkey (Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari v. U.S. International Trade Commission, CIT #'s 22-00349, -00350, -00351).

Erdemir's suits center on the fact that Colakoglu, Turkey's largest steel exporter, was excluded from the parallel countervailing duty order, though an error saw the company included in the AD order. Colakoglu sued and was dropped from the order, though the International Trade Commission concurrently began its sunset review of the AD order.

Erdemir filed three of its own cases, the first arguing that the ITC failed to "reconsider and correct errors in the AD negligibility determination in the original investigation.” The second claimed that the ITC’s refusal to conduct a changed circumstances review was illegal, and the third challenges the ITC’s finding in its sunset review that dumping would continue as a result of removal of the order.

In June, the trade court dismissed the suit on the underlying injury decision (see 2406200045). In July, the court dismissed Erdemir's case on the ITC's failure to reconsider its initial negligibility decision and the suit on the commissions' refusal to conduct a changed circumstances review (see 2407220036).