Opinion ID: 3007030
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Fifth Administrative Review

Text: On April 9, 2010, Commerce initiated the Fifth Ad- ministrative Review, covering entries of subject merchandise made between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010. Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the People’s Republic of China, 75 Fed. Reg. 18,154 (Dep’t of Commerce Apr. 9, 2010) (initiation of administrative review). Hilltop was selected as the sole mandatory respondent. The company requested and was granted permission to file information regarding its eligibility for separate rate status as part of its Section A questionnaire response, instead of through a separate rate certification. Thereafter, the company submitted its Section A response containing the same information as was reported in the Fourth Review. Specifically, Hilltop again reported its sales and administrative facility is located in Hong Kong and it is affiliated with several Chinese shrimp producers and processors, as well as various companies in other third countries. It also listed all of the shareholders and directors for each disclosed third-country affiliate. In response to Commerce’s request for a list of third parties in which Hilltop or its owners, either collectively or individually, owned five percent or more in stock, Hilltop again stated that “[n]one of the [Hilltop] Group companies or their individual owners own 5 percent or more in stock in any third parties.” J.A.-1514, at 94. These responses were certified by Mr. To. 8 AD HOC SHRIMP TRADE ACTION COMM. v. UNITED STATES On February 14, 2011, Commerce published the Pre- liminary Results for the Fifth Administrative Review. Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the People’s Republic of China, 76 Fed. Reg. 8338 (Dep’t of Commerce Feb. 14, 2011) (preliminary results and preliminary partial rescission of fifth antidumping duty administrative review). In the Preliminary Results, Commerce again found Hilltop eligible for a separate rate and calculated a de minimis dumping margin based on Hilltop’s reported sales and production data. Id. at 8340–41, 8343. These determinations were left unchanged in Commerce’s Final Results for the Fifth Review, published on August 19, 2011. Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the People’s Republic of China, 76 Fed. Reg. 51,940 (Dep’t of Commerce Aug. 19, 2011) (final results and partial rescission of antidumping duty administrative review). On September 1, 2011, the Shrimp Trade Committee appealed the Final Results for the Fifth Review to the CIT, challenging Commerce’s selection of mandatory respondents and certain valuations and calculations. The CIT remanded certain aspects of the Final Results to Commerce for further consideration. While remand was pending, Commerce moved for permission to reopen the administrative record to consider new evidence from the Sixth Review that suggested Hilltop had filed false or incomplete information. “Because Commerce’s request to expand the scope of remand was based on a substantial and legitimate concern, the motion was granted.” Ad Hoc Shrimp I, 925 F. Supp. 2d at 1317.