CIT Sends Back Circumvention Finding on Vietnamese Steel Pipe
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 16 remanded the Commerce Department's finding that circular welded steel pipe completed in Vietnam with hot-rolled steel from South Korea, India and China circumvented the antidumping and countervailing duty orders from these three…
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countries. Despite siding with the U.S. regarding all of the legal challenges made to the circumvention determination by exporter SeAH Steel Vina, Judge Mark Barnett said Commerce failed to support its conclusion with substantial evidence. Barnett said the agency only based its conclusion on the circumvention statute's "mandatory" factors, adding that the statute requires Commerce to offer something additional to support a circumvention determination, which the agency failed to do here.