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NAFTA Panel Upholds ITA Zeroing in Canada Wire Rod Admin Review

A NAFTA panel affirmed the International Trade Administration’s use of zeroing in the 2005-06 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Canada (A-122-840). Because NAFTA panels must apply the domestic law of the investigating country, the panel had remanded in May the ITA’s use of zeroing in administrative reviews but not investigations for further explanation, in light of Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rulings in JTEKT and Dongbu. The panel found the ITA’s explanation reasonable.

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NAFTA Panel opinion available here.

ITA notice of the panel's decision (FR Pub 10/31/12) available here.