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Court of International Trade Upheld Some Elements of Commerce Department Determination that Korea’s Emissions Permit Allocation Constituted Countervailable Subsidy but Remanded for Reconsideration of One Element

Challenge to  the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final results for the 2019 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on hot-rolled steel flat products from the Republic of Korea.

Hyundai Steel Co. v. United States

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Court of International Trade Ordered Commerce Department to Reconsider Determination that Korea’s Emissions Permit Allocation to Steel Company Constituted Countervailable Subsidy

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Court of International Trade Upheld Some Elements of Commerce Department Determination that Korea’s Emissions Permit Allocation Constituted Countervailable Subsidy but Remanded for Reconsideration of One Element

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