US to Appeal AD Case Dropping PMS Adjustment to Sales-Below-Cost Test
The U.S. will appeal a Court of International Trade decision sustaining the Commerce Department's drop of a particular market situation adjustment to the sales-below-cost test in an antidumping duty review. In an Aug. 13 filing, the U.S. gave notice of…
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its intent to appeal the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The case was brought by Turkish steel company Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret, which challenged an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products from Turkey (see 2106170026). Judge Jane Restani ruled that Commerce improperly applied a PMS adjustment in the below-cost test, finding that such adjustments are only allowed when calculating normal value based on constructed value, as opposed to normal value based on home market sales (Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. et al v. United States, CIT, Slip Op. 21-75, #20-00015).