CIT Remands China Aluminum Extrusions AD/CVD Scope Ruling for Finding on Subassemblies

The Court of International Trade remanded a scope ruling on the aluminum extrusions from China antidumping and countervailing duty orders, for the Commerce Department to apply a new policy for the exclusion of finished goods from the order. Meridian Products said Commerce should have applied the new test adopted in an October scope ruling on side mount valve controls to Meridian’s scope ruling on trim kits. Meridian had requested the scope ruling in November, and Commerce found the trim kits to be covered by the AD/CVD orders the next month. The test from the October scope ruling relates to whether subassemblies can be considered “finished goods” or “finished goods kits,” and therefore excluded from the order.