CIT Sustains AD Rate Hike for Chinese Drill Pipe Company

The Court of International Trade sustained on Nov. 4 the final determination from the Commerce Department’s antidumping investigation on drill pipe from China (A-570-965). Downhole Pipe and its Chinese affiliate DP-Master challenged the way the agency valued a key input, and CIT had remanded in November on the issue 12112301. On remand, Commerce changed the way it valued the input, but ended up raising Downhole Pipe’s AD rate from 69.19% to 149.36%. Downhole Pipe unsurprisingly continued to contest the determination, but CIT found Commerce’s redetermination to be reasonable.