German Steel Duty Pricing Methodology Is Overturned on Appeal

The US must reassess and possibly lower antidumping duties on certain imports of German steel, after the Federal Circuit on Monday took issue with how the Commerce Department determined production costs.

The US Court of International Trade’s decision to affirm the US Department of Commerce’s “likely selling price” as a stand-in for estimating the production cost of a German company’s non-prime steel products was “unreasonable,” Judge Jimmie V. Reyna said. The US Circuit Court for the Federal Circuit partially vacated the methodology and remanded the suit with instructions to direct the Commerce Department to determine the production costs in a ...