Bell Supply Co. v. United States

Kelly, Judge:

This case is on remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Court of Appeals vacated and remanded this court's decision in Bell Supply Co., LLC v. United States, 39 CIT ----, 83 F.Supp.3d 1311 (2015) (" Bell Supply I"), which held that section 781 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C. § 1677j (2012), precluded the U.S. Department of Commerce's ("Department" or "Commerce") use of a "substantial transformation test" to determine whether certain oil country tubular goods ("OCTG") originated in the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China") and was subject to…