Koyo Seiko Co. v. United States

20 F.3d 1160, 1994 WL 111937
CourtCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
DecidedMarch 28, 1994
DocketNos. 93-1310, 93-1341 and 93-1311
StatusPublished
Cited by14 cases

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Koyo Seiko Co. v. United States, 20 F.3d 1160, 1994 WL 111937 (Fed. Cir. 1994).

Opinion

RADER, Circuit Judge.

Twenty years ago the Timken Company requested an antidumping investigation of tapered roller bearings (TRBs) four inches or less in outside diameter imported from Japan. The United States Department of Treasury initiated the investigation and calculated dumping margins for many TRB entries. Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd., Koyo Corporation of U.S.A, Inc. (collectively “Koyo”), NSK Ltd. and NSK Corporation (collectively “NSK”) made extensive entries of TRBs between 1974 and 1979 which were subject to the investigation. In 1980, the Department of Commerce assumed responsibility for administering the antidumping law. Commerce commenced administrative reviews, gathered additional information, and recalculated the dumping margins.

In 1992, the Court of International Trade instructed Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) to disregard the data from its investigation of certain TRB entries and to liquidate them under Treasury’s earlier dumping margins. On March 4, 1993, the trial court upheld ITA’s reliance on Treasury dumping margins and the recalculation of dumping margins for the remaining TRB entries. Both parties appealed. This court reverses-in-part and affirms-in-part.

BACKGROUND

The Court of International Trade set forth the relevant facts for both of these cases in published opinions. Koyo Seiko Co. v. United States, 819 F.Supp. 1093 (Ct.Int’l Trade [1162]*11621993); Koyo Seiko Co. v. United States, 796 F.Supp. 617 (Ct.Int’l Trade 1992); NSK Ltd. v. United States, 794 F.Supp. 1156 (Ct. Int’l Trade 1992). Therefore, this court may confine itself to the facts pertinent to this appeal.

On October 31, 1973, Timken filed a petition for imposition of antidumping duties on TRBs from Japan. Tapered Boiler Bearings from Japan; Antidumping Proceeding Notice, 38 Fed.Reg. 33,408 (Dep’t Treas.1973). Under the Antidumping Act of 1921, 19 U.S.C. §§ 160-173 (1976), amended by 19 U.S.C. §§ 161, 168 (Supp. II 1978) (repealed 1979) (the 1921 Act), Treasury initiated an investigation and published a dumping finding on August 18, 1976. Tapered Roller Bearings and Certain Components from Japan, 41 Fed.Reg. 34,974 (Dep’t Treas.1976). The dumping finding covered Koyo’s and NSK’s entries. These entries, however, were never liquidated.

I. Koyo v. United States

Between 1977 and 1980, Treasury prepared a series of master lists covering Koyo’s TRB entries from April 1,1974 through September 30, 1977 (the 1974-1977 entries). These master lists enabled U.S. Customs Service officials to appraise the entries and assess antidumping duties. One master list covered entries from April 1973 through December 1976. Another covered entries from January 1977 through September 1977. Koyo, however, disputed the accuracy of the 1973-1976 master list. Treasury suspended this master list due to possible errors.

Effective January 1, 1980, Congress enacted the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (Trade Agreements Act). • The Trade Agreements Act of 1979, Pub.L. No. 96-39, 93 Stat. 144 (codified as amended in scattered sections of 19 U.S.C.). The Trade Agreements Act repealed the 1921 Act and amended the Tariff Act of 1930. Section 106(a), 93 Stat. at 193. Section 751(a) of the Trade Agreements Act made dumping findings under the 1921 Act subject to an annual review. Section 751(a), 93 Stat. at 175 (current version at 19 U.S.C. § 1675(a) (1988)).

On January 2, 1980, Commerce assumed administration of the antidumping laws. Exec. Order No. 12,188, 3 C.F.R. 131 (1981), reprinted in 19 U.S.C. § 2171 (1988). Commerce’s ITA issued a corrected master list with a lower dumping margin for the January 1977 to September 1977 entries. On March 28, 1980, ITA began a section 751(a) administrative review of the 1976 dumping finding. Administrative Review of Anti-dumping Determinations, 45 Fed.Reg. 20,-511 (Dep’t Comm.1980). ITA suspended liquidation of entries covered by master lists under section 751(a) review. ITA began to verify Koyo’s submitted information and reevaluate the dumping margins.

In 1982, Commerce reached some preliminary results in its administrative review. The preliminary draft contained dumping margins of 1.95% or less for Koyo’s TRB entries from April 1973 to July 1980. Although disclosed to Koyo, these results were not published. Again, Customs did not liquidate any Koyo entries under these dumping margins.

On September 19, 1983, Timken submitted to ITA an allegation that Koyo sold TRBs in its home market at prices below the full cost of production. In response, ITA initiated a cost-of-production (COP) investigation for Koyo’s TRB entries from April 1, 1978 through March 31, 1979 (the 1978-1979 entries).

In 1984, section 751(a) was amended to require annual reviews only upon the request of interested parties. 19 U.S.C. § 1675(a). Timken requested such a review. ITA requested additional data from Koyo and conducted verifications of Koyo’s submitted information. Accordingly, ITA discovered likely inaccuracies in the previous dumping margins. In response, Koyo requested several extensions of time. ITA noted several times that Koyo’s submissions were incomplete. In 1986, Koyo finally informed ITA that all documents for entries before 1980 had been destroyed.

During this process, ITA twice changed its methodology for calculating dumping margins, first adopting a three-criteria and then a five-criteria test. In 1987, ITA concluded that Koyo’s submission was unacceptable. In addition, ITA noted that Koyo resisted [1163]*1163requests for additional data. ITA therefore used a combination of data from its investigation and the “best information available” for the April 1974 to July . 1985 TRB entries. See 19 U.S.C. § 1677e(c) (1988).

Finally, on June 1, 1990, ITA issued its final determination. Tapered Roller Bearings Four Inches or Less in Outside Diameter From Japan; Final Results of Anti-dumping Duty Administrative Review, 55 Fed.Reg. 22,369 (Dep’t Comm.1990) (TRB Final Results). The determination relied on the data from ITA’s investigation and “best information available” after Commerce took over the investigation, not on the Treasury master lists. Id. at 22,370, 22,375-76. Over Koyo’s objection, ITA performed a cost-of-produetion (COP) analysis based on the best information available for the 1978-1979 entries. Thus, ITA disregarded sales in the home market below the COP when computing the foreign market value of the TRBs. See 19 U.S.C. § 1677b(b) (1988). Under this method, Koyo’s final dumping margins ranged from 18.81% to 35.89% for 1974-1977 and 1978-1979 entries.

Koyo challenged these results in the Court of International Trade.

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