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CIT Sends Back Commerce's Remand in CVD Case Over EBCP, Land Benchmark

The Court of International Trade on April 11 sent back the Commerce Department's remand results in a case on the sixth administrative review of the countervailing duty order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China. Judge Jane Restani ruled Commerce…

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did not properly use adverse facts available for respondent Risen Energy Co.'s alleged use of China's Export Buyer's Credit Program, finding the exporter provided enough gap-filling information from its customers to show that 95% of its sales did not benefit from the EBCP. Restani also sent back the agency's use of a 2010 CBRE market view report for Thailand in its land benchmark calculation and Commerce's use of Descartes data to value ocean freight.