Nation Ford Chemical Company v. United States, and Yude Chemical Company, Zhenxing Chemical Industry Company and Pht International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• collecting cases and explaining that 19 U.S.C. § 1677b(c) provides “guidelines,” but “accords Commerce wide discretion in the valuation of factors of production in the application of those guidelines”
• collecting cases and explaining that 19 U.S.C. § 1677b(c) provides “guidelines,” but “accords Commerce wide discretion in the valuation of factors of production in the application of those guidelines”
• the “best available information” test must be evaluated under the circumstances of the case
• “[A] surrogate value must be as representative of the situation in the NME country as is feasible[.]” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “There is no reason . . . to incorporate the distortions in the [surro- gate] market into a hypothetical [respondent] market[.]”
• Section “1677b(c) merely requires the use of the ‘best available information’ with respect to the valuation of a given factor of production; it does not require that a uniform methodology be used in the valuation of all relevant factors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).