Vietnamese Fish Exporters to Appeal CIT Decision Upholding AFA in AD Review
Plaintiffs challenging an antidumping review, led by Hung Vuong Corporation, will appeal an October Court of International Trade opinion upholding the Commerce Department's use of adverse facts available, the plaintiffs said in a Dec. 8 notice of appeal. The decision,…
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which came in a case over an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam, will be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Commerce's use of AFA was originally remanded by the court, but was then sustained after swapping out the grounds on which the AFA finding was based (see 2110130031). The agency ultimately based the AFA finding on Hung Vuong's failure to retain source documents on feed consumption, production records and sales correspondence, and Hung Vuong's failure to report factors of production data on a control number-specific basis (Hung Vuong Corp., et al. v. United States, CIT #19-00055).