Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-04 21:02:04.633158+00
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Slip Op. 23-145

                UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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FUSONG JINLONG WOODEN GROUP :
CO., LTD., ET AL.,                    :
                                      :
             Plaintiffs,              :
                                      :
YIHUA LIFESTYLE TECHNOLOGY            :
CO., LTD., ET AL.,                    :
                                      :
             Consolidated Plaintiffs, :
                                      :
      and                             :  Before: Richard K. Eaton, Judge
                                      :
LUMBER LIQUIDATORS SERVICES,          :  Consol. Court No. 19-00144
LLC, ET AL.,                          :
                                      :
             Plaintiff-Intervenors,   :
      v.                              :
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UNITED STATES,                        :
                                      :
             Defendant,               :
                                      :
      and                             :
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AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS OF             :
MULTILAYERED WOOD FLOORING, :
                                      :
             Defendant-Intervenor.    :
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                                           ORDER
       Before the court is the motion of Defendant United States, on behalf of the Department of

Commerce (“Commerce” or the “Department”), for reconsideration, ECF No. 120. Defendant’s

motion follows the court’s decision in Fusong Jinlong Wooden Grp. Co. v. United States, 46 CIT

__, 617 F. Supp. 3d 1221 (2022) (“Fusong I”), which held that Commerce’s use of Senmao’s

highest transaction-specific dumping margin as Sino-Maple’s adverse facts available rate was not
Consol. Court No. 19-00144                                                                  Page 2

authorized by the statute. The court remanded the final results to Commerce with instructions to

“reconsider the method used to select Sino-Maple’s [adverse facts available] rate to comply with

the statute, 19 U.S.C. § 1677e(d).” Id., 46 CIT at __, 617 F. Supp. 3d at 1252. Defendant, by its

motion, asks the court to find that Commerce’s method for selecting an adverse facts available rate

was lawful.

         Upon consideration of Defendant’s motion, and other papers and proceedings had herein,

and upon due deliberation, it is hereby

         ORDERED that Defendant’s motion is granted, and the court finds that Commerce’s

method for selecting an adverse facts available rate for Sino-Maple was lawful; it is further

         ORDERED that Fusong I is hereby partially vacated, only to the extent the court held that

Commerce was prohibited from using Senmao’s highest transaction-specific dumping margin as

Sino-Maple’s adverse facts available rate; and it is further

         ORDERED that, because the court remanded Commerce’s final results solely on this

point, the Department is relieved of the obligation to conduct a remand redetermination and file

its results.

         The court will issue a subsequent opinion deciding the issues upon which it previously

reserved decision. See id., 46 CIT at __, 617 F. Supp. 3d at 1227 n.8.

                                                                          /s/ Richard K. Eaton
                                                                                 Judge
Dated:          October 4, 2023
                New York, New York