Home Products International, Inc. v. United States

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential United States Court of AppeaIs for the FederaI Circuit HOME PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, ~ V. UNITED STATES, Defendcmt-Appellee, AND SINCE HARDWARE (GUANGZHOU) CO. LTD., Defen.dcmt-Appellee. 2019-1194 Appea1 from the United States C0u1't of Internati0na1 Trade in case n0. 07-CV-O123, Judge Le0 M. G0rd0n. ON MOTION Before GAJARSA, MAYER and PROST, Circu,it Ju,dges. GAJARsA, Circuit Judge. ORDER 1-IOME PRODUCTS V. US 2 Home Products International, lnc. (Home Products) moves to summarily reverse the judgment of the United States Court of Internati0nal Trade in Home Prods. Int’l, Inc v. United States, 633 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (here- inafter Home Prods. I) for further proceedings. The United States does not oppose summary disposition but moves for vacatur rather than reversal. Home Products replies This appeal concerns an antidumping duty order cov- ering floor-standing metal-top ironing tables'and certain parts thereof from the People’s Republic of China. Com- merce determined that Since Hardware (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd. (Since Hardware) and other Chinese exporters were selling ironing tables in the United States at less than fair va1ue, and the International Trade Commission found material injury. Thereafter, in the first and second administrative reviews of that antidumping o_rder, Com- merce calculated dumping margins for Since Hardware. Because the agency considered those margin percentage determinations de minimis, Commerce did not impose any antidumping duties on Since Hardware for these review periods. Home Products, an American manufacturer of iron tables, initiated actions in the Trade Court challenging the results of Commerce’s first and second administrative review. This appeal stems from Home Products challenge to Commerce’s first administrative review, while Home Products’ appeal from the Trade Court’s decision in the second administrative review gave rise to Home Prods. I. While these challenges were pending, Commerce con- ducted its third administrative review of the same anti- dumping order. During that proceeding new evidence was brought to light that indicated Since Hardware had submitted falsified documents to Commerce during the 3 HOME PRODUCTS V. US third administrative review. Commerce concluded that the documents were unreliable Commerce also found that documents provided by Since Hardware in the course of the first and second administrative reviews were also falsified Based on Commerce’s findings Home Products moved the Trade Court to amend its complaints and to remand the cases to Commerce for reconsideration in light of the new evidence of falsification The Trade Court denied the motions, and thereafter issued final judgments in favor of the United States in both Home Products challenges to the first and second administrative review. Home Prod- ucts appealed both rulings. This court stayed the briefing schedule in this appeal pending this court’s disposition in Home Prods. I. ln Home Pr0ds. I, this court reversed the Court of ln- ternational Trade’s decision, concluding that the Court of International Trade abused its discretion by failing to remand the case to Commerce where Home Products produced clear and convincing evidence that the proceed- ing below was tainted by material fraud We agree with the parties that because this matter is controlled by Home Prods. I, summary disposition is appropriate. See Joshua 1). Un,ited States, 17 F.3d 378, 380 (Fed. Cir. 1994) (Sum- mary disposition “is appropriate, inter alia, when the position of one party is so clearly correct as a matter of law that no substantial question regarding the outcome of the appeal exists."). In Home Pr0ds. I, this Court determined on essen- tially identical circumstances that the appropriate rem- edy was to reverse the judgment of the Trade Court and remand with instructions that the Trade Court remand this case to Commerce for further proceedings consistent with this opinion in order to secure the views of the HOME PRODUCTS V. US 4 agency itself. While the United States moves instead for vacatur, it has failed to meet its burden of demonstrating why a different and extraordinary remedy should be applied in this case. See generally U.S. Ban,corp Mortg. Co. v. B0n.nor Mall Partnership, 513 U.S. 18, 26 (1994) (placing the burden on the movant to demonstrate enti- tlement to the “extraordinary remedy of vi-1catur."). Accordingly, I'r ls 0RDERED THAT: (1) Home Products’ motion for summary reversal is granted (2) The United States’ motion to vacate and remand is denied. _ (3) Each side shall bear its own costs. - - FoR THE CoURT JUN 22 2011 /s/ J an Horbaly Date J an Horbaly Clerk l cc: Frederick L. Ikenson, Esq. F"~Eo agana M. WiS1a, ESq. ”'St§fz".~i§l>i'§’¢iAfPri¢f¢f‘:'i¢S¢f°R David S. Silverbrand, Esq. JUN 2 2 mm s20 .lAN HORBALY CLERK