The U.S. Department of Commerce today published its final results of the reconducted 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from Vietnam for the exporter Grobest & I-Mei Industrial (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. (“Grobest”). Commerce in 2010 assigned Grobest a 3.92% rate based on the examination of other companies. Grobest successfully challenged Commerce’s refusal […]
Commerce capitulates on labor rate in review of shrimp from Vietnam
The Department of Commerce yesterday filed its remand results with the Court of International Trade in longstanding litigation over the labor rate to calculate duties on in the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from Vietnam. PKR brought the case on behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (AHSTAC), an […]
China Challenges EU Compliance With WTO Fasteners Ruling
The People’s Republic of China this week requested consultations with the European Union to resolve a longstanding trade dispute over the assessment of antidumping duties on Chinese iron and steel fasteners. According to China, the EU has not complied with the July 2011 WTO Appellate Body (AB) ruling that found the EU to have violated its […]
CIT again remands Commerce’s labor rate in review of shrimp from Vietnam
The Court of International Trade today issued a remand for the Commerce Department to reconsider the labor rate used to calculate duties in the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from Vietnam. PKR brought the case on behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee, an association of domestic producers of […]
CIT Affirms Commerce Circumvention Determination
This week, the Court of International Trade released the public version of its decision Max Fortune Industrial Co. v. United States. In 2011, the Department of Commerce determined that Max Fortune had circumvented the antidumping duty order on tissue paper products from China. At the request of a domestic paper company, Commerce had in 2010 […]