Federal Circuit Says Confidential Appendix Not in Compliance With Court Rules
The parties appealing a Court of International Trade decision, led by Shanxi Hairui Trade Co., filed a confidential appendix that is not in compliance with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the appellate court said in a Dec.…
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7 notice. The confidential version of the appendix doesn't include the "pertinent excerpts of any statutes imposing confidentiality or the entirety of any judicial or administrative protective order" at the beginning of the filing. Further, the document doesn't have the required proof of service, the notice said. The appellants are challenging the Commerce Department's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on steel nails from China, in which Commerce used adverse facts available (Shanxi Hairui Trade Co., Ltd. v. United States, Fed. Cir. #21-2067).