Slip Op. 02 -140 

UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

BEFORE: GREGORY W. CARMAN, CHIEF JUDGE

PACIFIC GIANT, INC., et al., 

Plaintiffs,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant,

and

CRAWFISH PROCESSORS ALLIANCE, 

et al.,

DefendantIntervenors.

 Court No. 01-00340

[The Department of Commerce’s Final Results of Determination Pursuant to Court

Remand are affirmed.]

Dated: December 2, 2002

Garvey, Schubert & Barer (John C. Kalitka, William E. Perry), Washington, D.C., for

Plaintiffs.

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; David M. Cohen, Director,

Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice; Mark L.

Josephs, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States

Department of Justice; Arthur D. Sidney, Attorney, Office of the Chief Counsel for Import

Administration, of Counsel, for Defendant.

Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, L.L.P. (Will E. Leonard, Mark Leventhal, John C.

Steinberger), Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Intervenors.
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OPINION

CARMAN, CHIEF JUDGE: This Court reviews the United States Department of

Commerce’s (“Commerce”) Final Results of Determination Pursuant to Court Remand (October

15, 2002) (“Remand Results”). The Remand Results were issued in response to the Court’s

Order of August 6, 2002. The remand directed Commerce to further explain its decision to apply

adverse facts available to the labor production factors of Huaiyin Foreign Trade Corporation No.

30 (“HFTC30”) for direct sales channel, as determined in Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From

the People’s Republic of China: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review and New Shipper Reviews, and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review, 66 Fed. Reg. 20,634 (Apr. 24, 2001), amended by Freshwater Crawfish

Tail Meat From the People’s Republic of China: Amended Final Results of Administrative

Review and New Shipper Reviews, 66 Fed. Reg. 30,409 (June 6, 2001). Pacific Giant, Inc. v.

United States, No. 01-00340, slip op. 02-83 (Ct. Int’l Trade Aug. 6, 2002). Specifically, this

Court ordered Commerce to:

1. Reconsider Commerce’s conclusion that HFTC30 failed to act to the best of its

ability to comply with Commerce’s requests for information for the direct sales

channel. Id. at 14.

2. Further explain its conclusion by showing that (a) HFTC30 could comply with

the request for information; and (b) either HFTC30’s willful decision not to

comply or HFTC30’s insufficient attention to its statutory duties under the unfair

trade laws. Id. (quoting Nippon Steel Corp. v. United States, 118 F. Supp. 2d

1366, 1378 (2000)).

3. Explain why the missing information regarding labor production factors is

significant to the administrative review. Id. at 15 (quoting Nippon Steel, 118 F.

Supp. 2d at 1378-79).
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 The appendix to Commerce’s Remand Results contains the comments that Plaintiffs

submitted to the Department of Commerce in response to Commerce’s “Draft Results of

Determination Pursuant to Court Remand” (September 20, 2002). Plaintiffs’ failure to submit

comments to this Court on the Remand Results constitutes a waiver of Plaintiffs’ right to submit

comments to the Remand Results.

4. Provide to the Court the appropriate labor factor to apply if Commerce reached

the same conclusion in its Remand Results. Id.

Plaintiffs have not submitted any comments to Commerce’s Remand Results to the

Court.1 Upon consideration of the Remand Results, the Court holds that Commerce duly

complied with the Court’s August 6, 2002 Order. 

In reconsidering whether HFTC30 acted to the best of its ability to comply with

Commerce’s requests for information for the direct sales channel, Commerce found that HFTC30

could have complied with Commerce’s requests for accurate, verifiable labor factors for its

suppliers in the direct sales channel. (Remand Results at 8.) Commerce explained that: 

“Huaiyin30’s [referred to by the Court as HFTC30] main business is selling

crawfish tail meat, and during the period of review it dealt with a limited number

of crawfish tail meat processors, including Huaiyin Freezing. As such, Huaiyin30

was in a position to provide the Department with accurate information on its

suppliers’ factors of production, including labor. During verification, Huaiyin

Freezing stated that it maintains attendance records on a daily basis, and that it

tallies these sheets to calculate total monthly labor hours. As the data requested

by the Department was routinely maintained by Huaiyin Freezing in the normal

course of business, it was readily available and, as a consequence, would not have

been burdensome to report accurately to the Department.” (Id. at 8-9.) (citation

omitted) 

Further, Commerce found that HFTC30 paid insufficient attention to its statutory duties

under the unfair trade laws. (Id. at 9.) Commerce explained that HFTC30 failed to reply

accurately to requests for factual information relevant to the administrative review. (Id. at 9.) 

Commerce supported its finding that HFTC30 paid insufficient attention to its statutory duties by
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noting that: (1) HFTC30 failed to demonstrate how it calculated its direct, indirect, or packing

labor factors of production even though HFTC30 was provided with sufficient notice that

Commerce intended to review these labor production factors; (2) HFTC30 provided wholly

inaccurate information on its direct, indirect, and packing labor factors in its questionnaire; and

(3) HFTC30 did not support its response to Commerce’s questionnaire with regard to those labor

factors at verification. (Id. at 10-12.) 

Commerce also explained why the missing information is significant to the administrative

review. (Id. at 12.) In the Remand Results, Commerce stated that “such basic information as that

which is used to calculate labor factors is an integral part of the antidumping duty margin

calculation process” and the information “is solely within the control of [HFTC30].” (Id. at 12.)

Commerce concluded that a partial adverse inference was properly applied in selecting

from among facts otherwise available for the labor factor of production for HFTC30's direct sales

channel suppliers. (Id. at 17-18.) Commerce stated that the highest labor factor on the record of

this review should continue to apply to direct sales channel labor factors of HFTC30. (Id. at 18.) 

CONCLUSION

This Court finds that Commerce’s Remand Results are supported by substantial evidence

on the record or otherwise in accordance with law. See 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(b)(1)(B)(i) (2000). 

Therefore, Commerce’s Remand Results are affirmed in the entirety. 

______________________________

Gregory W. Carman

Dated: December , 2002 Chief Judge

New York, New York