CIT Rejects Fluid End Block Exporter's Attempt to Add End-Use Limit to AD Order's Scope
The Court of International Trade on Oct. 22 rejected exporter BGH Edelstahl Siegen's claim that the Commerce Department improperly included various products from the company in its normal value calculation in the 2022 review of the antidumping duty order on…
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forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany. Judge Mark Barnett said BGH improperly tried adding an end-use restriction to the order's scope in arguing that some of its products sold in the home market aren't within the scope of the order. The scope's language covering fluid end blocks, "which are typically used in the manufacture or service of hydraulic pumps," doesn't use clear enough language to impose an end-use restriction, Barnett said.