NUCOR CORP. v. U.S.

Slip Op. 04-15. Court No. 02-00612.

318 F.Supp.2d 1207 (2004)

NUCOR CORPORATION; Bethlehem Steel Corporation; National Steel Corporation; and United States Steel Corporation, Plaintiffs, and Steel Dynamics, Inc.; Weirton Steel Corporation; and Independent Steelworkers Union, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, and AB Sandvik Steel, Aceralia Corporation Siderurgica; Arcelor International America Inc.; Arcelor Packaging International; Association of German Specialty Cold Rolled Steel Strip Producers; BHP Steel Americas, LLC; BHP Steel Ltd.; Borcelik Celik Sanayii Ticaret A.S.; Companhia Siderurgica Nacional; Companhia Suderurgica Paulista; Corus Staal BV; Corus Steel USA, Inc.; Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd.; Hyundai Hysco, Co., Ltd.; Iscor (Pty.) Ltd.; JFE Steel Corp. (Formerly Kawasaki Steel Corp. & NKK Corporation); Kobe Steel Ltd.; New Zealand Steel, Ltd.; Nippon Steel Corporation Ltd.; Nisshin Steel Company Ltd; Posco; Salzgitter AG; Sandvik Steel Company; Siderar S.A.I.C.; Siderurgica del Orinoco C.A.; Sidmar, N.V.; Sollac Atlantique; Sollac Lorraine; Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.; Thai Cold Rolled Steel Sheet Public Co., Ltd.; Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG; Tradearbed, Inc.; and Usinas Siderúrgica de Minas Gerais, S.A., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States Court of International Trade.

February 19, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewey Ballantine LLP,1 Washington, DC (Kevin M. Dempsey, Alan Wm. Wolff) on behalf of Bethlehem Steel Corp. and United States Steel Corp.; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP (Robert E. Lighthizer, John J. Mangan, James C. Hecht), Washington, D.C., on behalf of United States Steel Corp. and National Steel Corp.; Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, DC (Charles Owen Verrill, Jr., Alan H. Price, Timothy C. Brightbill), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Nucor Corp., for Plaintiffs.

Schagrin Associates (Roger B. Schagrin), Washington, D.C., for Steel Dynamics, Inc., Weirton Steel Corp., and Independent Steelworkers Union, for Plaintiff-Intervenors.

Lyn M. Schlitt, General Counsel, James M. Lyons, Deputy General Counsel, Charles A. St. Charles, Attorney-Advisor, United States International Trade Commission, for Defendant.

Barnes, Richardson & Colburn (Matthew T. McGrath, Stephen W. Brophy), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Association of German Specialty Cold Rolled Steel Strip Producers; Hunton and Williams (William Silverman), Washington, D.C., on behalf of AB Sandvik Steel and Sandvik Steel Company; Kaye Scholer, LLP (Donald B. Cameron, Julie C. Mendoza, Randi Turner, Deborah Wengel Heitmann, Margaret Scicluna Rudin), Washington, D.C., on behalf of POSCO, Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd., and Hyundai HYSCO, Co., Ltd; Lafave and Sailer LLP (Arthur J. Lafave, III) Washington, D.C., on behalf of Borcelik Celik Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S.; Sharretts, Palet, Carter & Blauvelt, P.C. (Peter Jay Baskin, Gail T. Cumins), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG and Salzgitter AG; Shearman & Sterling (Robert S. LaRussa, Christopher M. Ryan, Thomas B. Wilner), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Sollac Atlantique, Sollace Lorraine, Arcelor Packaging International, Arcelor International America Inc., Aceralia Corporacion Siderurgica, Sidmar, N.V., and TradeArbed, Inc.; Steptoe & Johnson, LLP (Eric C. Emerson, Richard O. Cunningham, Tina Potuto Kimble), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Corus Staal BV and Corus Steel USA, Inc.; White & Case, LLP (David P. Houlihan, Richard J. Burke), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Siderurgica del Orinoco, C.A. and Siderar S.A.I.C.; Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP (Kenneth J. Pierce, Jocelyn C. Flynn, Robert Edward DeFrancesco) Washington, D.C., on behalf of Nippon Steel Corp., JFE Steel Corp (formerly Kawasaki Steel Corp. and NKK Corp.), Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd., Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, Companhia Siderurgica Paulista, Usinas Siderurgica de Minas Gerais, S.A., and Thai Cold Rolled Steel Sheet Public, Co., Ltd.; Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP (Lynn M. Fischer, John D. Greenwald, Leonard M. Shambon), Washington, D.C., on behalf of BHP Steel LLC, New Zealand Steel, Ltd., and BHP Steel Americas, Ltd.; Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP (Kristin H. Mowry, Gary N. Horlick), Washington, D.C., on behalf of Iscor (Pty.) Ltd., for Defendant-Intervenors.


OPINION

CARMAN, Judge.

In this consolidated action, Plaintiffs have filed two Rule 56.2 Motions for Judgment on the Agency Record: the first filed by Nucor Corporation ("Nucor"); the second filed jointly by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, National Steel Corporation, and United States Steel Corporation (collectively "Domestic Integrated Producers"). Plaintiffs challenge two final negative material injury determinations of the United States International Trade...

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