International Trade Administration February 12, 2015 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On December 18, 2014, the United States Court of International Trade (``the Court'') issued final judgments in Catfish Farmers of America et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 11-00109 and Catfish Farmers of America et al. v. United States, Court No. 11-00110, sustaining the Department of Commerce's (``the Department'') AR6 Remand final results which included an aligned new shipper review.\1\ On December 19, 2014, the Court issued final judgment in Catfish Farmers of America et al. v. United States, Court No. 11-00252, sustaining the Department's NSR7 Remand final results.\2\ In the AR6 Remand, the Department recalculated the weighted-average dumping margin for Vinh Hoan Corporation (``Vinh Hoan'') using revised surrogate values for by- products (fish waste, broken meat, and fish skin) and made adjustments for the inventory changes in the surrogate financial statements.\3\ Because Vinh Hoan's margin is now above de minimis, it also becomes the margin for those companies not individually examined but receiving a separate rate.\4\ The margins for the voluntary respondent Vinh Quang Fisheries Corporation (``Vinh Quang'') and the new shipper Cuu Long Fish Joint Stock Company (``CL-Fish'') did not change and remain de minimis.