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J U D G M E N T
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., Senior Judge
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AJINOMOTO NORTH AMERICA, INC., :
Plaintiff, :
v. : Court No. 14-00351
UNITED STATES, :
Defendant. :
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The plaintiff having interposed a motion pursuant to CIT
Rule 56.2 for judgment upon the record compiled by the
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
(“ITA”) sub nom. Monosodium Glutamate From the People’s Republic
of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
the Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 79
Fed.Reg. 58326 (Sept. 29, 2014); and the court in slip op. 17-48,
41 CIT ___ (April 25, 2017), having granted plaintiff’s motion to
the extent of remand to ITA for reconsideration of the issues of
(1) the appropriate corn factor-of-production weight and (2) the
calculation of an inland-freight surrogate value; and the defendant
having filed herein ITA’s Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant
to Court Remand (Aug. 30, 2017), amending its analysis thereof and
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resulting dumping margin from 21.28 percent to 34.15 percent; and
the court having now reviewed those results; and the plaintiff not
having filed any response or opposition thereto; Now therefore,
after due deliberation, it is
ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that the ITA’s Final
Results of Determination Pursuant to Court Remand (Aug. 30, 2017)
be, and they hereby are, affirmed.
Dated: New York, New York
November 3, 2017
/s Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr.
Senior Judge