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CIT Sustains Commerce's Switch From Thai to Mexican Surrogate Data in Solar Cell AD Review

The Court of International Trade on Dec. 8 sustained the Commerce Department's fourth remand results in a case over an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China, covering entries from 2014-15. In her…

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second opinion of the day, nearly identical to the first, Judge Claire Kelly upheld Commerce's switch to valuing nitrogen using Mexican imports rather than Thai imports after the court previously said the agency's use of the Thai surrogate data was improper. Under "respectful protest," Commerce used the Mexican data, and none of the plaintiffs, led by Canadian Solar International Limited, objected.