The US Commerce Department must better explain why it denied 12 requests by JSW Steel (USA) for Section 232 exclusions after the company complained that the department's conversations with competitors may have unduly influenced its decisions, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) has ruled.
The court remanded the case and gave Commerce until Monday August 17 to explain if the case record is complete and whether any ex parte conversations were relied upon in the decision to deny the exclusions, which JSW had sought for its imports of steel slab from India and Mexico."Given the defects in the record and Commerce's failure to engage with record evidence, the court orders completion of the record, inclusive...