CIT Remands Commerce's Use of Shipment Date for Steel Exporter's US Date of Sale
The Court of International Trade on Oct. 23 remanded the Commerce Department's use of antidumping respondent Toyo Kohan's shipment date as its date of sale for the company's U.S. sales in the 2022-23 review of the AD order on diffusion-annealed,…
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nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan. Judge Jane Restani said Commerce's use of Toyo Kohan's shipment date lacked a "reasoned explanation" and wasn't supported by the record, since the billing documentation at the time of shipping is "virtually meaningless" because it doesn't necessarily show the "quantity or price in the purchase order or the final invoice." The judge said Commerce should consider the role an "agreed-to pricing formula" may play in its date of sale analysis, since where such a formula is present, "there may be a disconnect in the record data" for the date of sale and the sale price.