CIT Orders ITA to Reconsider Surrogate Values in China PET Film AD Review

The Court of International Trade remanded the final results of the 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip from China (A-570-924) for the International Trade Administration to reconsider surrogate values for certain inputs and to correct a clerical error. Specifically, CIT granted ITA’s request for a voluntary remand to address respondents Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd. and Shaxoing Xiangyu Green Packing Co., Ltd.’s arguments regarding the surrogate value for the labor input, and also to correct a clerical error in Green’s per-unit water and electricity costs. Additionally, CIT agreed with respondents’ arguments and remanded the ITA’s use of a simple average of two HTS numbers (3907.60.20 and 3907.60.10) to obtain Indian value data for the ITA’s surrogate value for PET chips, the primary input for PET film.