CIT Sends Back Parts, Sustains Parts of ITC Injury Decision on Seamless Pipe

The Court of International Trade in an Oct. 12 opinion made public Oct. 20 remanded parts and sustained parts of the International Trade Commission's injury determination on imports of seamless pipe from South Korea, Russia and Ukraine. Judge M. Miller Baker sent back the ITC's failure to give Russian exporter PAO TMK a chance to argue against its sole reliance on questionnaire data from one unnamed company as to German imports and data from another unnamed company as to Mexican imports. Baker also remanded the ITC's acceptance of "Company A's questionnaire" while rejecting "Company C's." The court sustained the commission's estimate of seamless pipe imports from Ukraine and refusal to determine what imports correspond to domestic like products.