CIT Denies Exporter's Bid to Add to the Record in AD Case
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 19 denied exporter Fuzhou Hengli Paper's motion to supplement the record to add an Excel data file in a case on the antidumping duty investigation on paper plates from China. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves…
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held that the exporter didn't properly file its exhibit in line with Commerce's procedures for filing documents on the agency's ACCESS system, since Fuzhou Hengli only filed its submission "on the one-day lag system on a temporary basis in connection with the barcode of the non-final rebuttal brief." The exporter never re-filed the submission "after one business day with the final rebuttal brief," the judge noted. By failing to re-file the next day, the respondent filed its final rebuttal brief without an attached exhibit, meaning the file at issue was never "formally placed on the administrative record," the court said.