In comments Dec. 16, the trade group Catfish Farmers of America opposed the Commerce Department’s remand results regarding its antidumping duty review on Vietnamese frozen fish fillets (see 2410220042) after the department refused to deviate from its previous surrogate decisions (Catfish Farmers of America, et al. v. United States, CIT # 22-00125).

Court of International Trade Judge Claire Kelly on Jan. 2 granted a motion to consolidate two cases challenging the Commerce Department’s refusal to grant several Chinese pea protein exporters separate rates in an antidumping duty investigation (Yantai Oriental Protein Tech Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00181, -00179).

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The Court of International Trade sent back the Commerce Department's determination in a covered merchandise referral to exclude certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings made from Chinese fittings that underwent production in Vietnam from the scope of the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves remanded Commerce's consideration of various (k)(1) sources, including a circumvention finding that took a contrary position.

The U.S. agreed to liquidate importer Tingley Rubber Corp.'s latex rubber boot savers under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 6401.99.30, dutiable at 25%, as opposed to subheading 6401.92.90, dutiable at 37.5%, according to a stipulated judgment at the Court of International Trade (Tingley Rubber Corp. v. U.S., CIT # 20-03711).

The parties in a pair of countervailing duty suits asked the Court of International Trade to continue a stay in the cases pending the result of a separate action involving the same parties on whether the Commerce Department can countervail exporter KG Dongbu Steel Co.'s debt-to-equity restructurings. KG Dongbu, the U.S., petitioner Nucor Corp. and the South Korean government asked Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves to continue the stay pending the result of the lead action (KG Dongbu Steel Co. v. United States, CIT #s 23-00055, 24-00056).

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The Court of International Trade on Jan. 2 remanded the Commerce Department's finding in a covered merchandise referral excluding from the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings made using fittings from China that underwent subsequent production in Vietnam. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves sent back Commerce's consideration of various (k)(1) sources, including the petition, declarations from domestic industry executives and a prior circumvention in which Commerce came to a contrary conclusion.

Foreign-trade zone goods become "importations" for duty drawback purposes when they are entered for consumption into the U.S. and not when they are admitted into an FTZ, importer King Maker Marketing told the Court of International Trade. Responding to the government's motion to dismiss the company's suit challenging the rejection of its duty drawback claims, King Maker said goods in an FTZ are considered to be outside the customs territory of the U.S., making the "date of importation" the date the goods were withdrawn from the FTZ (King Maker Marketing v. United States, CIT # 24-00134).

The Commerce Department erred in finding that respondents Heze Huayi Chemical Co. and Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. cooperated to the best of their ability despite a failure to produce land-use purchase contracts in the 2021 review of the countervailing duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China, petitioners led by Bio-Lab argued (Bio-Lab v. U.S., CIT # 24-00118).