International trade · 01/10/2003

Sanction for Dissemination of “ITC Questionnaire Tip Sheet"

Notice is hereby given of the sanction imposed by the Commission for the dissemination of a document entitled "ITC Questionnaire Tip Sheet" by Sanford B. Ring, Esq. of the law firm of Dykema Gossett to a client and a non-client in Steel Consuming Industries: Competitive Conditions With Regard to Steel Safeguard Measures, Inv. No. 332-452. The Commission found that there was good cause to sanction Ring, pursuant to 19 CFR 201.15(a), because the tip sheet went beyond the boundaries of appropriate guidance for clients and non-clients regarding their responses to Commission questionnaires. The Commission believes it is important to maintain the integrity of its investigations and to ensure that questionnaire responses in a fact-finding Commission investigation will be accurate and not inappropriately influenced by counsel seeking to support his or her view of the facts in an investigation.