Case: Timken Co., plaintiff and defendant-intervenor v. United States, defendant, and NTN Bearing Corp. of America, American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corp., NTN Corp., NSK Ltd., and NSK Corp., defendant-intervenors and plaintiffs, and American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda of America Mfg., Inc., and Honda Motor Co., Ltd., defendant-intervenors
Abbreviation: Timken Co. v. United States
Decision Date: 1999-04-16
Docket Number: Consolidated Court No. 96-12-02686
Citation: 23 Ct. Int'l Trade 252
Volume: 23
Reporter: United States Court of International Trade Reports
Court: United States Court of International Trade
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Timken Co., plaintiff and defendant-intervenor v. United States, defendant, and NTN Bearing Corp. of America, American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corp., NTN Corp., NSK Ltd., and NSK Corp., defendant-intervenors and plaintiffs, and American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda of America Mfg., Inc., and Honda Motor Co., Ltd., defendant-intervenors
Judges: 
Pages: 252–253

Head Matter:
46 F.Supp.2d 1052
Timken Co., plaintiff and defendant-intervenor v. United States, defendant, and NTN Bearing Corp. of America, American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corp., NTN Corp., NSK Ltd., and NSK Corp., defendant-intervenors and plaintiffs, and American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda of America Mfg., Inc., and Honda Motor Co., Ltd., defendant-intervenors
Consolidated Court No. 96-12-02686
(Dated April 16, 1999)

Opinion:
JUDGMENT
Tsoucalas, Senior Judge:
On December 3,1997, this Court remanded to the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration ("Commerce") several issues arising from the final results of the administrative review, entitled Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, From Japan and Tapered Roller Bearings, Four Inches or Less in Outside Diameter, and Components Thereof, From Japan; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews and Revocation in Part of an Antidumping Finding, 61 Fed. Reg. 57,629 (Nov. 7, 1996) ("Final Results"). See Timken Co. v. United States, 21 CIT 1313, 989 F. Supp. 234 (1997). The Court ordered Commerce, inter alia, to treat NSK Ltd. and NSK Corporation's ("NSK") return rebates as direct expenses.
On April 21,1998, Commerce released draft remand results in this action and invited interested parties to comment. In NSK's comments to the draft remand results, NSK argued that Commerce erred in its calculation of foreign market value ("FMV") by treating NSK's return rebates as price adjustments rather than promotional expenses as Commerce had done in three determinations decided between the original Final Results and the remand.
On June 1,1998, in compliance with this Court's remand order, Commerce filed its Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court Remand ("Remand Results"). In the Remand Results, Commerce treated NSK's return rebates as direct expenses, but nonetheless denied any adjustment to FMV for such expenses because the reported amounts could not be tied to specific transactions.
The Court finds that Commerce correctly treated NSK's return rebates as direct expenses pursuant to this Court's order in determining that the rebates constituted direct price adjustments. Commerce's prior treatment of NSK's return rebates as promotional expenses in previous determinations has no bearing on the Final Results of this case.
Commerce having complied with this Court's remand order, it is hereby
Ordered that the Remand Results are affirmed in their entirety, and all issues having been previously decided, it is further
Ordered that this case is dismissed.