CIT Again Remands Labor Value for Camau in 2009-10 AD Review on Vietnam Frozen Shrimp

The Court of International Trade again rejected the Commerce Department’s reasoning for choosing Bangladesh as the “surrogate country” to value Camau Frozen Seafood’s labor input in the 2009-10 antidumping duty administrative review of frozen shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802), again remanding the final results. CIT had first sent the case back in December (see 12111602). Commerce had once again explained that it used Bangladesh to value all of Camau’s other inputs, so using the same surrogate for the company’s labor input would avoid distortion. But the court said that wasn’t enough, because Commerce didn’t address arguments that the Bangladeshi labor data was itself distorted.