Viet I-Mei Frozen Foods Co. v. United States, No. 16-1006 (Fed. Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseThe U.S. Department of Commerce reconducted a fourth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warm-water shrimp from Vietnam. The Trade Court upheld Commerce’s decision to refuse Grobest’s request to terminate the individual examination of Grobest and Commerce’s decision to assign a 25.76% antidumping duty rate using adverse facts available after Grobest failed to cooperate with the examination. The Federal Circuit affirmed. Given Grobest’s failure to cooperate in the examination and the lack of any specific challenge to Commerce’s corroboration analysis, the application of the Vietnam-wide rate was amply supported by the record. Commerce was reasonable in treating Grobest as a mandatory respondent with no right to escape review once it was selected for individual examination pursuant to the Trade Court’s Final Judgment. Nor was Commerce required by any statutory or regulatory authority to rescind the court-ordered individual examination simply because Grobest no longer wished to proceed, regardless of the timing of its rescission request.
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