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CIT Sustains Reversal of Commerce Position in China Hand Trucks AD Scope Case

The Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department’s decision on remand to reverse a scope ruling, finding Welcom’s Magna Cart MCK utility cart to be outside the scope of the antidumping duty order on hand trucks from China (A-570-891).…

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Commerce had originally found the utility cart to be in scope, because not all telescoping tubes in the frame were under 5/8 inch. But Welcom argued, and the court agreed in September, that the agency’s determination went against prior scope rulings 12100103. Welcom supported Commerce’s reversal on remand, and so did the court.