Indonesian Mattress Exporters Support Voluntary Remand to Consider Calculation Error

In order to avoid duplicative arguments, Indonesian mattress exporters said simply that they support a U.S. request (see 2408130041) to remand the results of the first antidumping duty review on Indonesian mattresses to consider a calculation error they had alleged (PT Ecos Jaya Indonesia v. U.S., CIT # 24-00001).

The government sought the remand so that it could review its decision to use the financial statements of one surrogate to construct the exporters’ value, selling expenses and export price profit. It also said it wanted to reconsider its inclusion of investment-related items in the cost of goods sold denominator of another surrogate’s profit and selling expense ratio without including it in the numerator of its profit and selling expense ratio.

On the other hand, it opposed petitioners’ claims that the mattresses had been misclassified. Plaintiffs led by PT Ecos Jaya Indonesia and PT Grantec Jaya Indonesia supported its reasoning, agreeing that the two mattress models had been entered properly and that no foul had been made in the failure to report the models’ U.S. sales, as they satisfied scope exclusion definitions.