RSI (India) Pvt., Ltd. v. US
Citation | 688 F. Supp. 646,12 CIT 594 |
Decision Date | 30 June 1988 |
Docket Number | Court No. 87-01-00086. |
Parties | RSI (INDIA) PVT., LTD., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and Pinkerton Foundry, Inc., et al., Defendant-Intervenors. |
Court | U.S. Court of International Trade |
Brownstein, Zeidman & Schomer, Irwin P. Altschuler, Denise T. DePersio, David R. Amerine, and Ronald M. Wisla, and Kaplan, Russin & Vecchi, Dennis James, Jr. and Kathleen Patterson, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.
John R. Bolton, Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Elizabeth C. Seastrum, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Mark J. Sadoff, for defendant.
Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, Paul C. Rosenthal, Carol A. Mitchell and Robin H. Beeckman, Washington, D.C., for defendant-intervenors.
Indian exporters and United States importers of iron-metal construction castings from India (plaintiffs) move under Rule 59 of the Rules of this Court for a rehearing of RSI (India) Pvt., Ltd. v. United States, 12 CIT ___, 687 F.Supp. 605 (1988), which affirmed the determination of the International Trade Administration of the United States Department of Commerce (Commerce) to countervail the entire amount of International Price Reimbursement Scheme (IPRS) payments.
Plaintiffs submit that the Court (1) "misapplied" 19 U.S.C. § 1677(6) to reach its holding that Commerce lawfully countervailed the IPRS payments in full and (2) neglected to consider Commerce's duty to conduct a thorough investigation. Plaintiffs raise no challenge to the portions of the opinion concerning the calculation of the net benefit of the IPRS payments to RSI (India) Pvt., Ltd. or the calculation of the interest rate benchmark for packing credit loans.
The granting of a motion for rehearing is within the sound discretion of the court. Quigley & Manard, Inc. v. United States, 61 CCPA 65, 67, C.A.D. 1121, 496 F.2d 1214, 1214 (1974); Commonwealth Oil Ref. Co. v. United States, 60 CCPA 162, 166, C.A.D. 1105, 480 F.2d 1352, 1355 (1973). The purpose of a rehearing is not to relitigate a case. BMT Commodity Corp. v. United States, 11 CIT ___, 674 F.Supp. 868, 869 (1987). A rehearing is a method of rectifying a significant flaw in the conduct or the original proceeding. W.J. Byrnes & Co. v. United States, 68 Cust.Ct. 358, 358, C.R.D. 72-5 (1972). The exceptional circumstances for granting a motion for rehearing are well established:
(1) an error or irregularity in the trial; (2) a serious evidentiary flaw; (3) a discovery of important new evidence which was not available at the time of trial; or (4) an occurrence at trial in the nature of an accident or an unpredictable surprise or unavoidable mistake which impaired a party's ability to adequately present its case.
North Am. Foreign Trading Corp. v. United States, 9 CIT 80, 80, 607 F.Supp. 1471, 1473 (1985), aff'd, 4 Fed. Cir. (T) 43, 783 F.2d 1031 (1986); Oak Laminates d/o Oak Materials Group v. United States, 8 CIT 300, 302, 601 F.Supp. 1031, 1033 (1984), aff'd, 4 Fed.Cir. (T) 43, 783 F.2d 195 (1986); V.G. Nahrgang Co. v. United States, 6 CIT 210, 211 (1983). In ruling on a petition for rehearing, a court's previous decision will not be disturbed unless it is "manifestly erroneous." United States v. Gold Mountain Coffee, Ltd., 9 CIT 77, 78 (1985); United States v. Gold Mountain Coffee, Ltd., 8 CIT 336, 336-37, 601 F.Supp. 212, 214 (1984).
Plaintiffs submit that the Court's decision is "fundamentally flawed" because the Court "misapplied" Congress' definition of "net subsidy" in 19 U.S.C. § 1677(6) (1982). The reference to the statute appeared only in the Court's survey of the entire statutory scheme as an aid to correctly apply the countervailing duty laws:
RSI (India) Pvt., Ltd., 12 CIT at ___, 687 F.Supp. at 610.
Contrary to plaintiffs' assertions, the Court did not "misapply" 19 U.S.C. § 1677(6) (1982) because the Court's citation to that section did not control the disposition of any of plaintiffs' claims.
The Court affirmed Commerce's determination to countervail IPRS payments in full. Commerce had found that because the formula used to calculate payments was fatally flawed in the absence any relationship between the amount of IPRS payments and actual pig iron consumption and in the absence of a true world market price for pig iron. In rejecting plaintiffs' claims, the Court found the Indian government's IPRS payments worked to provide materials on terms more favorable than those commercially available on world markets and was thus a countervailable subsidy under paragraph (d) of the Illustrative List of Export Subsidies annexed to the Agreement on...
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