Opinion ID: 531407
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Deference to Agency Interpretation

Text: 8 ITA's interpretation of the statutes it administers and its own regulations implementing those laws are to be accorded substantial weight. See Zenith Radio Corp. v. U.S., 437 U.S. 443, 450-51, 98 S.Ct. 2441, 2445-46, 57 L.Ed.2d 337 (1978); American Lamb Co. v. United States, 785 F.2d 994, 1001 (Fed.Cir.1986). To sustain ITA's statutory interpretation, this court need not find that the agency's interpretation is the only reasonable one, or is even the one we would have reached had the question arisen first in judicial proceedings. See American Lamb, 785 F.2d at 1001. Regulations are to be sustained unless unreasonable or plainly inconsistent with the statute. See id.