American Spring Wire Corp. v. United States

Opinion and Order

MALETZ, Senior Judge:

Plaintiffs have filed a motion for discovery of confidential information subject to judicial protective order. The documents sought by plaintiffs are verification data compiled by the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce in the course of its countervailing duty investigation of prestressed concrete steel wire strand imported from South Africa.

The starting point for analysis of the motion for discovery of confidential information is section 516A(b)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(b)(2)(B) (Supp. IV…