Chinese Mobile Access Equipment Exporter Files Complaint Challenging First AD Review
In a Jan. 8 complaint at the Court of International Trade, exporter Zhejiang Dingli Machinery challenged the results of the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Chinese-origin mobile access equipment (Zhejiang Dingli Machinery v. United States, CIT # 24-00221).
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Dingli, a mandatory respondent, took aim at a number of issues previously raised during the review. It said that the Commerce Department should have selected Bulgaria, not Turkey, as a surrogate, as both countries met the statutory requirements and Turkey experienced “hyperinflation in government controlled skewed exchange rates.”
It also pushed back on Commerce’s use of the Cohen’s d test in the review, and it said the department shouldn’t have deducted Section 301 duties the exporter paid from Dingli’s U.S. sales price.
As a result of the review, it said, Commerce assigned Dingli an AD rate of 12.39%. It asked the trade court to remand the results for reconsideration by Commerce.