CIT Sustains Qingdao Sea-Line AD Rate from China Fresh Garlic AD New Shipper Review
The Court of International Trade sustained on Aug. 8 the antidumping duty rate of $1.28 per kilogram assigned to Qingdao Sea-Line Trading in a new shipper review on fresh garlic from China (A-570-851). CIT had remanded in April 2012 for Commerce to reconsider the surrogate values used to calculate the company’s AD rate (see 12040402). Although Commerce made no changes to its calculations, CIT accepted the agency’s new explanations for why it used a non-contemporaneous surrogate value, and why it chose certain financial statements over others.
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(Qingdao Sea-Line Trading Co. v. U.S., Slip Op. 13-102, dated 08/08/13, Judge Eaton)