CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's CVD final determination on melamine from Qatar

The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-81 dated July 27, 2026, sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's final affirmative countervailing duty determination on melamine from Qatar, 89 Fed. Reg. 97,593 (Dec. 9, 2024), in Court No. 25-00053. The court sustained Commerce's rejection of QAFCO's reconciliation of unreported electricity and water usage at verification, but remanded for reconsideration of the 16% adverse facts available subsidy rate for electricity and water and the benefit determination for land rights. Commerce had calculated 8% ad valorem for electricity, 8% ad valorem for water, and 1.71% ad valorem for certain land rights.