Xi'an Metals & Minerals Import & Export Co. v. United States

• Decision Date: 19 June 2018
• Docket Number: Slip Op. 18–70,Consolidated Court No. 15–00109
• Citation: 312 F.Supp.3d 1380 (Mem)
• Parties: XI'AN METALS & MINERALS IMPORT & EXPORT CO., LTD., Plaintiff, and The Stanley Works (Langfang) Fastening Systems Co., Ltd. and Stanley Black and Decker, Inc., Consolidated–Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc., Intervenor–Defendant.
• Court: U.S. Court of International Trade

312 F.Supp.3d 1380 (Mem)

XI'AN METALS & MINERALS IMPORT & EXPORT CO., LTD., Plaintiff,andThe Stanley Works (Langfang) Fastening Systems Co., Ltd. and Stanley Black and Decker, Inc., Consolidated–Plaintiffs,

v. UNITED STATES, Defendant,andMid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc., Intervenor–Defendant.

Slip Op. 18–70

Consolidated Court No. 15–00109

United States Court of International Trade.

June 19, 2018

JUDGMENT

Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., Senior Judge

Upon consideration of the results of remand filed by the defendant pursuant to the court's slip opinion 17–120, 41 CIT ––––, 256 F.Supp.3d 1346 (2017), and of the comments thereon filed by the consolidated plaintiffs and the intervenor-defendant; and noting the absence of any comments from the plaintiff with particular respect to the first issue hereinafter described of which it, and not the consolidated-plaintiffs, complained; be it

ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that, with respect to the issue of the allocation of labor costs and the recalculation of the financial ratios on remand in accordance with the court's opinion, after consideration of the parties' comments and further consideration of Antidumping Methodologies in Proceedings Involving Non–Market Economies: Valuing the Factor of Production: Labor, 76 Fed. Reg. 36092 (June 21, 2011), Elkay Mfg. Co. v. United States, 38 CIT ––––, 34 F.Supp.3d 1369 (2014), remand results sustained, 40 CIT ––––, 180 F.Supp.3d 1245 (2016), aff'd sub nom. Guangdong Dongyuan Kitchenware Indus. Co. v. United States, 702 Fed. Appx. 981 (Fed.Cir. 2017) ; and of the histories of Clearon Corp. v. United States, Slip Op. 14–88, 38 CIT –––– (July 24, 2014), first remand results remanded, Slip Op. 15–91, 39 CIT –––– (Aug. 20, 2015), second remand results sustained, Slip Op. 16–110, 40 CIT –––– (Nov. 23, 2016), aff'd, 711 Fed. Appx. 648 (Fed.Cir. 2018) ; and of Hangzhou Yingqing Material Co. v. United States, 40 CIT ––––, 195 F.Supp.3d 1299 (2016), remand results sustained, 41 CIT ––––, 222 F.Supp.3d 1292 (2017), the remand result on said issue be, and it hereby is, vacated in order to abide precedent; and it is further

ORDERED that the original final determination on the foregoing issue, as articulated in Certain Steel Nails from the PRC, 80 Fed.Reg. 18816 (April 8, 2015), PDoc 294, via the accompanying final issues and decision memorandum, PDoc 276, be, and it hereby is, reinstated; and it is further

ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that, with respect to the issue of the transcription error in...