Zenith Electronics Corp. v. United States

19 Ct. Int'l Trade 344

Opinion

Opinion

Restani, Judge:

This matter is before the court following a remand order of September 26,1994 in which the court directed that the value-added tax adjustment to United States price be made in accordance with the new methodology sustained in Independent Radionic Workers v. United States, Slip Op. 94-144, at 2-4 (Sept. 16, 1994), and Torrington Co. v. United States, Slip Op. 94-167, at 8 (Oct. 20, 1994). Commerce has complied with the court’s direction.

Plaintiffs assert that 19 U.S.C. § 1677a(d)(l)(C) (1988) requires that the adjustment be capped by the amount of the home market tax. This is not required by the statute. The limitation in the statute, “only to the extent that such taxes are added to or included in the price of such or similar merchandise when sold in the country of exportation,” id., is interpreted by the International Trade Administration of the United States Department of Commerce to require it to determine if the home market tax was a separate “add on” to home market price or was otherwise included in home market price, not to require an equivalency in amount as a ceiling. This interpretation is a reasonable reading of the statute.

Accordingly, the remand determination is sustained.

JUDGMENT

Restani, Judge: This case having been submitted for decision and the Court, after deliberation, having rendered a decision therein; now, in conformity with that decision,

It IS HEREBY ORDERED: that the remand determination of the International Trade Administration is sustained.