Bulk Aspirin from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Court Decision and Suspension of Liquidation

Résumé

On September 9, 2002, in Rhodia, Inc. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 00-08-00407, Slip. Op. 02-109 (CIT 2002), a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce's ("the Department's") Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Bulk Aspirin From the People's Republic of China, 65 FR 33805 (May 25, 2000) and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (May 17, 2000) ("Issues and Decision Memorandum"), and Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Bulk Aspirin from the People's Republic of China, 65 FR 39598 (June 27, 2000) (collectively, "Final Determination"), the Court of International Trade ("CIT") affirmed the Department's remand determination and entered a judgment order. In its remand determination, the Department reviewed the record evidence regarding the extent to which the Indian surrogate producers are integrated and concluded that the evidence did not support the Final Determination in this regard. We also reconsidered our use of weighted- average ratios for overhead, SG&A, and profit, and amended our calculations using simple averages. Finally, in accordance with our voluntary request for remand, we removed "trade sal