CIT Sustains AD Review of Strontium Chromate From Austria
The Court of International Trade on Oct. 29 sustained the Commerce Department's 2021-22 review of the antidumping duty order on strontium chromate from Austria. Judge Joseph Laroski rejected petitioner Lumimove's claims against Commerce's findings that respondent Habich wasn't affiliated with…
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its North American sales agent and that normal value should be calculated using Habich's slaves to Mexico. Regarding the agency's affiliation finding, Laroski said that Lumimove's claims boiled down to: "Commerce should have asked Habich different questions." The judge rejected this assertion, finding that the agency "acted reasonably by consulting the relevant legal framework in structuring its inquiry into affiliation," adapting its questions to Lumimove's concerns, conducting a "robust verification" and "distilling the law and facts that informed its conclusion."