China Steel Corporation v. United States

Slip Op. 20–5
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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CHINA STEEL CORP., 	:
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Plaintiff, 	:
: 	Before: Richard K. Eaton, Judge
v. 	:
: 	Court No. 17-00152
UNITED STATES, 	:
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Defendant, 	:
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and 	:
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ARCELORMITTAL USA LLC, NUCOR CORP., 	:
and SSAB ENTERPRISES LLC, 	:
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Defendant-Intervenors. 	:
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JUDGMENT
Before the court is the United States Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) remand
redetermination (“Remand Results”), ECF No. 110, issued pursuant to the court’s order in China
Steel Corp. v. United States, 43 CIT __, Slip Op. 19-106 (Aug. 13, 2019) (“China Steel”). No party
contests the Remand Results. See Letter from China Steel Corp., Response to Court’s Request for
Comments on Remand Results, ECF No. 112 (“China Steel Corporation does not intend to
comment on the final remand determination.”).
In China Steel, the court directed Commerce to recalculate its difference-in-merchandise
(DIFMER) adjustment to normal value without using data that had been affected by Commerce’s
use of adverse inferences:
Commerce 	shall 	compute 	the 	DIFMER 	adjustment 	to 	normal 	value 	using
information from China Steel’s final COP2 cost database, without the application
of an adverse inference, and may use facts available in filling in missing or
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replacing unverifiable necessary information.
China Steel, 43 CIT at __, Slip. Op. 19-106 at 42. Under protest, Commerce calculated a rate of
6.23 percent for Plaintiff, in compliance with the court’s order:
Pursuant to the Court’s order, we calculated a weighted-average margin for China
Steel without the use of AFA in the DIFMER test. 	Based on this approach, we
calculated a dumping margin of 6.73 percent for China Steel.
Remand Results 10.
Upon consideration of the Remand Results, the parties’ submissions, and the papers and
proceedings had herein, it is hereby
ORDERED that the Remand Results are sustained.
Richard K. Eaton
Richard K. Eaton, Judge
Dated: January 9, 2020
New York, New York
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