Vietnamese Fish Exporters Appeal CIT OK of Zeroing in Administrative Reviews

Several Vietnamese exporters appealed the Court of International Trade’s affirmance of the use of zeroing methodology in the 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). In its Aug. 2 ruling in Grobest & I-Mei Industrial v. U.S., CIT remanded the ITA’s decision not to individually review Grobest. The International Trade Administration subsequently initiated a review of Grobest on Oct. 17 in response to the court order. But CIT also affirmed the ITA’s use of zeroing in the administrative review, in light of its February opinion in Union Steel v. U.S. that the ITA adequately explained its practice of zeroing in administrative reviews but not investigations. The Vietnamese appellants are only challenging the zeroing aspect of the Aug. 2 ruling.