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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MCC EUROCHEM, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant.
    Slip Op. 11-80.
    Court No. 10-00260.
    United States Court of International Trade.
    July 8, 2011.
    
      Squire Sanders & Dempsey, LLP (Peter J. Koenig and Christine J. Sohar Henter), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff MCC Euro-chem.
    Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Jeanne E. Davidson, Director, Patricia M. McCarthy, Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, (David D’Alessandris); and Office of Chief Counsel, Department of Commerce (Shana Hofstetter), of counsel, for Defendant United States.
    Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Valerie A. Slater, Margaret C. Marsh), Washington, DC, for DefendantIntervenor Ad Hoc Committee of Domestic Nitrogen Producers.
   MEMORANDUM and ORDER

GORDON, Judge:

The court previously granted Defendant’s motion to dismiss Count 2 of Plaintiffs complaint (Compl. ¶ 11), which challenged the U.S. Department of Commerce’s “zeroing” methodology. MCC Eurochem v. United States, 35 CIT -, 753 F.Supp.2d 1369 (2011) (“Opinion and Order”). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has subsequently issued two decisions, Dongbu Steel Co. v. United States, 635 F.3d 1363 (Fed.Cir.2011) and JTEKT Corp. v. United States, 642 F.3d 1378 (Fed.Cir.2011), which indicate that Plaintiffs zeroing claim has merit. The court is therefore sua sponte vacating its prior Opinion and Order, and reinstating Count 2 of Plaintiffs complaint.

Accordingly, it is hereby

ORDERED that this Court’s Opinion and Order dismissing Count 2 of Plaintiffs complaint, MCC Eurochem v. United States, 35 CIT -, 753 F.Supp.2d 1369 (2011), is vacated; and it is further

ORDERED that Count 2 (¶ 11) of Euro-chem’s complaint is reinstated.