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Trade Court Sustains Commerce's Treatment of Income Types in Surrogate Value Calculation

The Court of International Trade in a Sept. 28 opinion upheld the Commerce Department's remand results in a case on the antidumping duty investigation of metal lockers from China. Previously, the court sustained Commerce's use of Turkey as the primary…

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surrogate country but remanded the inclusion of rental income and treatment of interest income in calculating Turkish firm Ayes Celikhasir VE CT's profit as part of the surrogate value calculation. In its redetermination, the agency further explained how it treated shipping revenue, incentive income, interest income and rental income in setting the selling, general and administrative expense ratio. No party contested the remand results.