Grievance Administrator v. Nelson

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• holding that a producer failed to meet the “best of its ability” standard when it failed to respond to Commerce’s request for conversion data factors
• noting that 19 U.S.C. § 1677e does not require Commerce to find “evidence of nefarious intentions” to apply AFA against the importer
• stating that “the standard does not require perfection and recognizes that mistakes sometimes occur”
• noting that “[t]he mere failure of a respondent to furnish requested information — for any reason — requires Commerce to resort to other sources of information to complete the factual record on which it makes its determination”
• stating that a respondent must “have familiarity with all of the records it maintains . . . and conduct prompt, careful, and comprehensive investigations of all relevant records . . . .”
• indicating that the “best of its ability” standard requires respondents to “take reasonable steps to keep and maintain full and complete records documenting the information that a reasonable [respondent] should anticipate being called upon to produce”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).