CIT OKs Commerce Ruling That Appliance Door Handle Not Subject to Aluminum Extrusions Duties
The Court of International Trade on Aug. 26 affirmed (here) a recent decision by the Commerce Department that an assembled kitchen appliance door handle imported by Whirlpool is not subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusions from China.…
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Commerce’s redetermination, made “under protest,” comes in the wake of a CIT decision that aluminum extrusions that have undergone assembly operations are not subject to AD/CV duties (see 1602020072). Commerce had originally found the appliance door handle, consisting of a single aluminum extrusion with two plastic end caps, did not qualify for the “finished merchandise” exemption because that exemption excludes fasteners (see 14080602).