Komatsu Forklift Manufacturing Co. of U.S.A. v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

RE, Chief Judge:

In this action, plaintiffs, Komatsu Forklift Manufacturing Co. and Komatsu Forklift Inc. move to enjoin the defendant, through its agent, the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce (Commerce), from disclosing the proprietary information submitted by plaintiffs in response to a request for information in a circumvention inquiry.

Plaintiffs object to the release of the information to the Hyster Company, a domestic producer and intervenor in this action, on the ground that the response contains “highly sensitive proprietary…