Essar Appeals CIT Ruling on India Steel Flat Products AD Rate

Indian producer Essar Steel appealed the Court of International Trade’s June ruling in U.S. Steel Corporation v. U.S. (Slip Op. 12-91), according to a Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit docketing notice. Essar’s antidumping rate grew from 5.22% to 9.01% as a result of CIT’s ruling, which arose from U.S. Steel and Nucor’s challenge of the final results of the 2005-06 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products (A-533-820). At issue in the ruling were adjustments to cost of production for Essar’s duty drawback and corrections of ministerial errors made by the International Trade Administration. The appealed decision sustained the ITA’s second remand redetermination.