CIT Sustains Redetermination of Gem Year's AD Rate in 2008-10 China Threaded Rod Admin Review

The International Trade Administration assigned Gem Year the separate antidumping rate of 55.16 percent, instead of the China-wide AD rate of 206 percent originally assigned, in a remand redetermination of the 2008-10 administrative review of steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932) that was sustained by the Court of International Trade Feb. 7. During the review, the ITA found that Gem Year had no entries for which liquidation was suspended to review, ignoring Gem Year’s entries of subject merchandise that had been liquidated due to an error by an unaffiliated importer, and assigned it to the China-wide entity. But in a September 2012 ruling, CIT said the ITA’s position that liquidated entries are unreviewable was unjustified by the statute and the regulations, because both only refer to “entries.” In sustaining the remand redetermination, the court said there were no “substantive challenges” to the results.