Emerson Power Transmission Corp. v. United States

19 Ct. Int'l Trade 1154, 903 F. Supp. 48, 19 C.I.T. 1154, 17 I.T.R.D. (BNA) 2253, 1995 Ct. Intl. Trade LEXIS 201
CourtUnited States Court of International Trade
DecidedSeptember 1, 1995
DocketCourt No. 92-07-00480
StatusPublished
Cited by8 cases

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Emerson Power Transmission Corp. v. United States, 19 Ct. Int'l Trade 1154, 903 F. Supp. 48, 19 C.I.T. 1154, 17 I.T.R.D. (BNA) 2253, 1995 Ct. Intl. Trade LEXIS 201 (cit 1995).

Opinion

Opinion

Tsoucalas, Judge:

Plaintiff Emerson Power Transmission Corporation is an importer of antifriction bearings (“AFBs”). Plaintiff challenges the final results of the administrative review issued by the United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (“Commerce”), concerning AFBs and parts thereof from Japan. See Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof From France; et al.; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews (“FinalResults”), 57 Fed. Reg. 28,360 (June 24,1992).

Background

On June 28, 1991, Commerce initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on ball bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, spherical plain bearings, and parts thereof from Japan, for the period of [1155]*1155May 1, 1990 to April 30, 1991. Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts ThereofFrom the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Kingdom; Initiation of Antidumping Administrative Reviews, 56 Fed. Reg. 29,618 (June 28, 1991):

On March 31,1992, Commerce published the preliminary determination of its second administrative reviews, for the period of May 1,1990 to April 30,1991. Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts ThereofFrom Japan; Preliminary Results of Antidump-ing Duty Administrative Reviews and Partial Termination of Administrative Reviews, 57 Fed. Reg. 10,868 (March 31, 1992).

On June 24,1992, Commerce published the final results of its second administrative reviews. Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts ThereofFrom France; et al.; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 57 Fed. Reg. 28,360 (June 24,1992).

Emerson moves pursuant to Rule 56.2 of the Rules of this Court for judgment on the agency record, alleging the following actions by Commerce were unsupported by substantial evidence on the agency record and not in accordance with law: (1) use of best information available (“BIA”) where Nippon Pillow Block Sales Co. (“Nippon”) failed to provide home market sales data; and (2) use of “all others” rate under second-tier BIA to compute the dumping margin for Nippon.

Discussion

The Court’s jurisdiction in this action is derived from 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(a)(2) (1988) and 28 U.S.C. § 1581(c) (1988).

The Court must uphold Commerce’s final determination unless it is “unsupported by substantial evidence on the record, or otherwise not in accordance with the law.” 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(b)(l)(B) (1988). Substantial evidence is “more than a mere scintilla. It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.” Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, 340 U.S. 474, 477 (1951) (quoting Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB, 305 U.S. 197, 229 (1938)). “It is not within the Court’s domain either to weigh the adequate quality or quantity of the evidence for sufficiency or to reject a finding on the grounds of a differing interpretation of the record.” Timken Co. v. United States, 12 CIT 955, 962, 699 F. Supp. 300, 306 (1988), aff’d, 894 F.2d 385 (Fed. Cir. 1990).

1. Use of BIA:

Emerson contends that Commerce improperly resorted to BIA to calculate Nippon’s antidumping margin rate. According to Emerson, Nippon submitted all of the information requested by Commerce, including the home market sales data. Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs Motion for Judgment on the Agency Record (“Plaintiffs Brief”) at 10. Emerson asserts that Nippon complied with the instructions in the [1156]*1156questionnaire supplied by Commerce requiring Nippon to report its home market sales. The questionnaire, as amended, instructed:

If your firm made more than 2,000 home market * * * sales of a particular class or kind of the subject merchandise during the period of review, then report sales in the following months of bearing families and part types (e.g., inner races, rolling elements) corresponding to those bearings and part types sold in your U. S. sales listing (both PP and ESP).
Sample dates are as follows:
1. March, 1990
2. May, 1990
3. July, 1990
4. October, 1990
5. November, 1990
6. January, 1991
7. March, 1991
8. May, 1991

Questionnaire, PR Document No. 26 at 12-13 (“Questionnaire”), amended by Questionnaire Clarifications I Corrections, PR Document No. 31 at 2. Emerson claims that Nippon correctly interpreted the above instructions to require Nippon to report home market sales for only those months corresponding to the months in which Nippon reported United States exporter’s sales price (“ESP”) sales. Plaintiff’s Brief at 7. Emerson supports the methodology used by Nippon to report home market sales, whereby, if there were no home market sales in the sample month corresponding to the ESP sale during that month, Nippon reported home market sales in either the prior sample month or the immediately following sample month. Plaintiff’s Brief at 15.

According to Emerson, Nippon also correctly reported home market sales for purposes of comparing them to purchase price (“PP”) sales. Emerson maintains that since PP sales were reported in their entirety, as opposed to for selected sampled months, Nippon correctly reported home market sales in the same months for the same bearing families as the months in which it reported PP sales. Emerson maintains that Nippon provided sufficient information since if no home market sales were made in the same month as PP sales, Nippon reported home market sales from either 90 days prior to the PP sale or 60 days subsequent to the PP sale. Id. at 15-16. Emerson asserts that the 90/60-day methodology used by Nippon was consistent with both the instructions in the questionnaire and the methodology used by Commerce in the first administrative review. Id. at 16-17.

Emerson further suggests that even if Nippon did not comply with the instructions in the questionnaire, Nippon’s interpretation was reasonable. Id. at 17.

According to Emerson, even if Nippon’s interpretation were unreasonable, Commerce should not have completely rejected the questionnaire response in favor of using BIA. Id. at 18. Emerson concedes that the [1157]

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