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CIT Upholds Section 232 Deduction From US Price in Antidumping Review

The Court of International Trade sustained on Dec. 20 the Commerce Department's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico in which plaintiff Deacero served as a mandatory respondent. The…

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court held, as it has done before, that Commerce can deduct Section 232 steel and aluminum duties from Daecero's U.S. price because they can be treated as U.S. import duties. Further, Judge Jane Restani said Commerce did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act by not notifying Daecero of its decision to deduct the Section 232 duties. Since AD procedures are fact-based, investigative activities, they are not beholden to notice-and-comment procedures, she said.