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Activated Carbon Companies to Appeal CIT Opinion on Surrogate Value Selection

Chinese exporter Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. and its U.S. importer Carbon Activated Corp. will appeal a Court of International Trade decision upholding the Commerce Department's surrogate value picks for coal-based carbonized materials and financial statement selections used to calculate surrogate…

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ratios. The companies are challenging an antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China, the June 27 notice of appeal said. CIT Judge Mark Barnett ruled that Commerce's pick of Malaysian data for Harmonized System subheading 4402.90.1000 to value carbonized material was backed by substantial evidence, as was the agency's selection of the 2018 Bravo Green financial statements (see 2305010006) (Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00131).