Archroma U.S., Inc. v. Commerce
CourtCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Date FiledAugust 7, 2026
Docket24-2159
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United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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ARCHROMA U.S., INC.,
Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, TEH FONG MIN
(TFM) INTERNATIONAL CO, LTD.,
Defendants-Appellants
INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION,
Defendant
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2024-2159, 2024-2162
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Appeals from the United States Court of International
Trade in No. 1:22-cv-00354-MMB, Judge M. Miller Baker.
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Decided: August 7, 2026
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TATIANA SAINATI, Wiley Rein, LLP, Washington, DC,
argued for plaintiff-appellee. Also represented by TIMOTHY
C. BRIGHTBILL, PAUL A. DEVAMITHRAN, DERICK HOLT,
MAUREEN E. THORSON.
GEOFFREY M. LONG, Commercial Litigation Branch,
Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Wash-
ington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant. Also repre-
sented by TARA K. HOGAN, PATRICIA M. MCCARTHY, BRETT
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SHUMATE, FRANKLIN E. WHITE, JR.; AYAT MUJAIS, FEE
PAUWELS, Office of the Chief Counsel for Trade Enforce-
ment and Compliance, United States Department of Com-
merce, Washington, DC.
PETER JOHN KOENIG, SBA Trade Law, Washington,
DC, for defendant-appellant. Also represented by JEREMY
WILLIAM DUTRA, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Washing-
ton, DC
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Before MOORE, Chief Judge, CUNNINGHAM and STARK,
Circuit Judges.
STARK, Circuit Judge.
This case, which is before us on review from the Court
of International Trade (“Trade Court”), asks us to decide
whether a filing deadline imposed by a regulation issued
by the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) conflicts
with the statute governing “sunset reviews” of antidump-
ing duty orders. The Trade Court found such a conflict and,
thus, declared Commerce’s regulation void, enjoining its
enforcement.
We see the situation differently. The applicable statute
is silent as to when a domestic interested party must indi-
cate an intent to participate in a sunset review, and Com-
merce’s regulatory requirement that such parties do so
within 15 days after Commerce issues notice of initiating a
review was the product of reasoned decisionmaking within
the bounds of the agency’s delegated power. Therefore, the
regulation is a permissible exercise of the agency’s author-
ity. We reverse the contrary judgment of the Trade Court.
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I
A
The Tariff Act of 1930 (“Tariff Act”), as amended by the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (“URAA”), 1 requires Com-
merce to review antidumping duty orders every five years
to determine whether revocation of such an order would be
likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping.
See 19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)(1). The statute further commands
that these “sunset reviews” begin with the agency publish-
ing “a notice of initiation of a review” in the Federal Regis-
ter. Id. § 1675(c)(2); see also generally SAA,
1994 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 4205 (explaining that § 1675(c) “es-
tablish[es] the procedural and basic substantive rules to be
applied by Commerce and the [International Trade Com-
mission (“Commission”)] in conducting five-year reviews
(i.e., sunset reviews)”). The statute adds that the notice of
initiation must request that “interested parties submit” in-
formation, including “a statement expressing their willing-
ness to participate in the review.” 19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)(2).
“Interested party” is defined in § 1677(9) and includes,
1 The URAA gave effect to several agreements arising
from the Uruguay Round of international trade negotia-
tions. See Comm. Overseeing Action for Lumber Int’l Trade
Investigations or Negots. v. United States, 66 F.4th 968, 977
(Fed. Cir. 2023) (hereinafter “COALITION”). The URAA is
interpreted according to the Statement of Administrative
Action (“SAA”), H.R. Doc. No. 103-316 (1994), reprinted
in 1994 U.S.C.C.A.N. 4040, which “shall be regarded as an
authoritative expression by the United States concerning
the interpretation and application of the [URAA] in any ju-
dicial proceeding in which a question arises concerning
such interpretation or application.” 19 U.S.C. § 3512(d);
see also Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc. v. United States,
941 F.3d 530, 539 (Fed. Cir. 2019).
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among others, “a foreign manufacturer, producer, or ex-
porter, or the United States importer, of subject merchan-
dise” as well as “a manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler
in the United States of a domestic like product,” the latter
of whom are referred to as “domestic interested parties.”
Id. § 1677(9)(A), (C); see also 19 C.F.R. § 351.102(b)(17)
(“‘Domestic interested party’ means an interested party de-
scribed in subparagraph (C) . . . of section 771(9) of the
[Tariff Act].”).
While the Tariff Act imposes no express deadline for
interested parties to submit the information requested by
Commerce, it provides that “[i]f no interested party re-
sponds to the notice of initiation . . . , [Commerce] shall is-
sue a final determination, within 90 days after the
initiation of a review, revoking the [antidumping duty] or-
der . . . to which such notice relates.” 19 U.S.C.
§ 1675(c)(3)(A) (emphasis added). 2 This provision, accord-
ing to the SAA, is intended to “eliminate needless reviews,”
as it is expected that any entity failing to respond within
90 days to a notice of initiation also “would not provide ad-
equate information if the agencies conducted a full-fledged
review.” SAA, 1994 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 4206.
Because the Tariff Act mandates that Commerce ter-
minate a sunset review, and revoke an antidumping order,
if no interested party responds within 90 days to the notice
of initiation, it is necessary that Commerce determine, at
some point in advance of the 90-day mark, whether any in-
terested parties intend to participate. The statutory 90-
2 If, alternatively, at least one interested party submits
an adequate and timely response, Commerce must conduct
a full sunset review and (subject to certain exceptions)
“shall make its final determination . . . within 240 days af-
ter the date on which a review is initiated.” 19 U.S.C.
§ 1675(c)(5)(A).
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day command also means, as a logical consequence, that in
effect the deadline for interested parties to submit the in-
formation Commerce needs to conduct its sunset review is
no later than 90 days after the notice of initiation of such
review.
The Tariff Act authorizes “appropriate officers of the
United States Government” to “issue such regulations, as
may be necessary to ensure that any provision of [the
URAA] . . . is appropriately implemented.” 19 U.S.C.
§ 3513(a)(2); see also generally COALITION, 66 F.4th at
974-75 (explaining that Commerce typically proceeds
through notice-and-comment rulemaking). Pursuant to
this authority, Commerce undertook a notice-and-com-
ment rulemaking process and adopted two regulatory
deadlines. The first, which is at issue in this appeal, is a
requirement that domestic interested parties submit a “no-
tice of intent to participate” within 15 days after Commerce
issues the notice of initiation of review (“15-day require-
ment”). 19 C.F.R. §351.218(d)(1)(i) (“Sec-
tion 315.218(d)(1)(i)”). The second deadline requires that
all interested parties submit their “substantive re-
sponse[s]” within 30 days after issuance of the notice of in-
itiation of review (“30-day requirement”).
Id. § 351.218(d)(3)(i).
Commerce justified its adoption of the 15-day require-
ment as furthering the goals of eliminating needless re-
views and promoting administrative efficiency. See 63 Fed.
Reg. at 13,517 (“The requirement that domestic interested
parties notify [Commerce] of their intention to participate
prior to the deadline for submission of substantive re-
sponses . . . is intended to alleviate the burden on parties
of having to prepare substantive responses in cases where
there is no domestic party interest.”). It emphasized the
minimal burden of complying, given that a domestic inter-
ested party is required to submit only basic, readily-avail-
able information (as we describe more fully below). See id.
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at 13,517-18 (“It is [Commerce’s] intention to make the No-
tice of Intent procedure as simple as possible and, as a re-
sult, the information required to be provided is minimal.”).
The regulation also allows for a domestic interested party
to request an extension of the 15-day deadline if it can
show, prior to the deadline, “good cause,” and additionally
allows Commerce to accept untimely filings upon a show-
ing of an “extraordinary circumstance.” 19 C.F.R.
§ 351.302(b), (c).
In the same regulation imposing the 15-day and 30-day
requirements, Commerce delineated the information that
needs to be provided in each responsive filing. For the 15-
day notice of intent to participate, a domestic interested
party must provide:
(A) “The name, address, and phone number of
the domestic interested party (and its
members, if applicable) that intends to
participate in the sunset review and the
statutory basis . . . for interested party sta-
tus;”
(B) A statement indicating if the domestic pro-
ducer is related to a foreign producer or
foreign exporter or is an importer of the
subject merchandise, or is related to such
an importer;
(C) “The name, address, and phone number of
legal counsel or other representative, if
any;”
(D) Identification of “[t]he subject merchan-
dise and country subject to the sunset re-
view;” and
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(E) “The citation and date of publication in the
Federal Register of the notice of initia-
tion.”
Id. § 351.218(d)(1)(ii)(A)-(E).
For the 30-day substantive response, an interested
party must provide all of the same information required in
the 15-day filing (except (B) above, which relates to domes-
tic producers) as well as:
A statement expressing the interested
party’s willingness to participate in the re-
view by providing information requested
by the Department, which must include a
summary of that party’s historical partici-
pation in any segment of the proceeding
before the Department related to the sub-
ject merchandise;
A statement regarding the likely effects of
revocation of the order or termination of
the suspended investigation under review,
which must include any factual infor-
mation, argument, and reason to support
such statement;
Factual information, argument, and rea-
son concerning the dumping margin or
countervailing duty rate, as applicable,
that is likely to prevail if the Secretary re-
vokes the order or terminates the sus-
pended investigation, that the
Department should select for a particular
interested party(s);
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A summary of the Department’s findings
regarding duty absorption, if any, includ-
ing a citation to the Federal Register no-
tice in which the Department’s findings
are set forth; and
A description of any relevant scope clarifi-
cation or ruling, including a circumvention
determination, or changed circumstances
determination issued by the Department
during the proceeding with respect to the
subject merchandise.
Id. § 351.218(d)(3)(ii)(E)-(I) (internal lettering omitted).
The regulation expressly warns domestic interested
parties that they will not be permitted to participate in a
sunset review if they do not satisfy the 15-day requirement.
It states: “A domestic interested party that does not file a
notice of [i]ntent to participate in the sunset review will be
considered not willing to participate in the review and the
Secretary will not accept or consider any unsolicited sub-
missions from that party during the course of the review.”
Id. § 351.218(d)(1)(iii)(A).
B
In 2012, Commerce issued antidumping duty orders on
paper whitening chemicals (i.e., stilbenic optical brighten-
ing agents or “SBAs”) from the People’s Republic of China
and Taiwan. Following a sunset review in 2017, Commerce
extended the antidumping duties through 2022.
Commerce published a notice of initiation of a second
set of sunset reviews on October 3, 2022. 3 Consistent with
3Commerce issued its notice three days later than its
own regulation required. See 19 C.F.R. § 351.218(c)(2).
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Section 315.218(d)(1)(i), the notice of initiation advised
that notices of intent to participate were due from domestic
interested parties within 15 days, on October 18, and sub-
stantive responses from all interested parties were due
within 30 days, on November 2.
Archroma U.S., Inc. (“Archroma”), a domestic importer
of SBAs and therefore a “domestic interested party,” filed a
notice of intent to participate on October 24, which was six
days too late to comply with the 15-day requirement. Sub-
sequently, on October 31, Archroma filed its substantive
response, which was in advance of the deadline for meeting
the 30-day requirement. However, because Archroma
failed to meet the 15-day deadline, Commerce did not ac-
cept Archroma’s October 31 substantive filing. Instead,
Commerce explained to Archroma that its filings were un-
timely and would be removed from the record. Thereafter,
Archroma asked Commerce to accept its late notice of in-
tent filing, but it neither explained nor justified its lateness
nor attempted to demonstrate “extraordinary circum-
stances” for missing the deadline. Thus, Commerce re-
jected Archroma’s notice of intent to participate and
reiterated that, as a result, it would not accept substantive
responses from Archroma. Commerce subsequently re-
jected Archroma’s requests for reconsideration.
Because no other domestic interested party responded
to the notice of initiation by the October 18 regulatory
deadline, on December 29, 2022, Commerce terminated the
sunset review and revoked the antidumping duty orders,
meeting the statutory command to do so within 90 days of
having issued its notice of initiation of review.
No party asserts that Commerce’s tardiness is of any legal
significance to the issues on appeal.
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Archroma then filed this lawsuit in the Trade Court
against Commerce and the Commission. 4 Teh Fong Min
International Co., Ltd. (“TFM”), a Taiwanese producer-im-
porter, intervened in support of the agencies. Archroma
eventually moved for judgment on the agency record, which
the Trade Court granted, holding that Sec-
tion 315.218(d)(1)(i)’s 15-day requirement for domestic in-
terested parties to file a notice of intent to participate
“contradicts” 19 U.S.C. § 1675(c). J.A. 3. The trial court
acknowledged that § 1675(c) is silent regarding what con-
stitutes “[n]o response” from domestic interested parties,
triggering the statutory requirement to terminate the re-
view and revoke the antidumping duty order within
90 days. J.A. 6, 14. It concluded, nonetheless, that reading
all of § 1675(c) as a whole and in context, “it’s obvious that
‘no . . . respon[se]’ to the notice of initiation under this sub-
section in § 1675(c)(3)(A) means no answer to a solicitation
for the substantive content that § 1675(c)(2)(A)-(C) in-
structs the agency to seek.” J.A. 16 (alterations in original;
emphasis added). Thus, because Archroma provided Com-
merce with the substantive content in time to meet the 30-
4The Tariff Act requires both Commerce and the Com-
mission to play a role in sunset reviews. See 19 U.S.C.
§ 1675(c)(1) (“[T]he administering authority [i.e., Com-
merce] and the Commission shall conduct a review to de-
termine . . . whether revocation of the countervailing or
antidumping duty order . . . would be likely to lead to con-
tinuation or recurrence of dumping or a countervailable
subsidy (as the case may be) and of material injury.”).
Commerce assesses whether dumping is likely to continue
or recur if the order is revoked; the Commission determines
whether material injury would be likely to continue or re-
cur upon revocation. Id. § 1675(d)(2). This appeal involves
only the requirements for a domestic interested party’s
participation in Commerce’s portion of a sunset review.
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day requirement, Commerce had no discretion to reject its
submission simply because Archroma had previously failed
to satisfy the 15-day requirement for making its intent to
participate in the sunset reviews known. Hence, the Trade
Court entered a declaratory judgment for Archroma and a
corresponding injunction, reinstating the antidumping or-
ders on SBAs and requiring Commerce to conduct full sun-
set reviews, with Archroma’s participation.
Commerce and TFM timely appealed. We have juris-
diction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(5).
II
We review the Trade Court’s grant of judgment on the
administrative record de novo. See Nucor Corp. v. United
States, 927 F.3d 1243, 1248 (Fed. Cir. 2019). Here, then,
“[w]e review Commerce’s decision using the same standard
of review applied by the Court of International Trade.” Id.
In doing so, we “hold unlawful any determination, finding,
or conclusion found . . . to be arbitrary, capricious, an abuse
of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
19 U.S.C. § 1516a(b)(1)(B)(ii).
Whether a statute conflicts with – and, hence, invali-
dates – an agency regulation is a question of law we also
decide de novo. See Lesko v. United States, 161 F.4th 1352,
1358 (Fed. Cir. 2025) (en banc) (“Statutory interpretation
is a question of law we review de novo.”); see also Gujarat
Fluorochemicals Ltd. v. United States, 153 F.4th 1376,
1381 (Fed. Cir. 2025) (“Questions of regulatory interpreta-
tion we review de novo.”).
III
Our analysis of the parties’ dispute proceeds in three
parts. First, we assess whether Section 315.218(d)(1)(i)’s
15-day requirement is within Commerce’s delegated power
to regulate under the Tariff Act and whether it conflicts
with § 1675(c). Because we find the regulation to be within
the bounds of Commerce’s regulatory authority and not to
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be in conflict with § 1675(c), we next address whether the
rule reflects reasoned agency decisionmaking, and con-
clude that it does. Lastly, we address, and reject,
Archroma’s arguments for a contrary conclusion.
A
In evaluating whether to set aside a regulation based
on a purported conflict with a statute, we must first assess
whether the regulation is a “valid exercise of [the agency’s]
congressionally delegated rulemaking authority.” Lesko,
161 F.4th at 1355, 1358. To do so, we exercise our “inde-
pendent judgment” to determine whether Congress dele-
gated rulemaking authority to the agency. Id. at 1358.
Congress delegates regulatory authority in statutes that
(1) “expressly delegate to an agency the authority to define
statutory terms,” (2) “empower an agency to prescribe rules
to ‘fill up the details’ of a statutory scheme,” or (3) “provide
agencies with ‘flexibility’ to regulate.” Id. (quoting Loper
Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369, 394-95 (2024)).
The Tariff Act authorizes Commerce to “fill up the de-
tails” of § 1675(c)’s statutory requirement that a sunset re-
view (and associated duty order) be terminated in the
absence of any interested party response within 90 days.
This necessarily includes the details of when, and how, a
domestic interested party is required to indicate its intent
to participate in the sunset review. Sec-
tion 315.218(d)(1)(i)’s 15-day requirement for domestic in-
terested parties to submit a notice of intent to participate
is within the bounds of Commerce’s delegated authority.
Our conclusion that the Tariff Act provides Commerce
“fill up the details” authority is based on the statutory pro-
vision authorizing “appropriate officers of the United
States Government” to “issue such regulations[] as may be
necessary to ensure that any provision of [the Tariff] Act
. . . is appropriately implemented.” 19 U.S.C. § 3513(a)(2)
(emphasis added). We have previously interpreted
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§ 3513(a)(2) as a broad “grant of regulatory-implementa-
tion power to Commerce.” COALITION, 66 F.4th at 977;
see also id. at 971 (“We hold . . . that [Commerce] had stat-
utory authority to adopt [an] expedited-review process as
procedures for implementing statutory provisions that au-
thorize individualized determinations in [countervailing
duty] proceedings.”); Lesko, 161 F.4th at 1360 (holding that
statute authorizing adoption of regulations that are “nec-
essary” delegates agency the authority to fill up the de-
tails). We have also previously approved Commerce’s
adoption of a 30-day regulatory deadline for a party to re-
quest a hearing, where the applicable portion of the Tariff
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 1677c(a)(1), required Commerce to hold
hearings at the request of any party but was silent regard-
ing the deadline for parties to make such a request. See
M S Int’l, Inc. v. United States, 32 F.4th 1145, 1152-53
(Fed. Cir. 2022) (“Commerce may set such deadlines where
the statute is silent, and must be permitted to enforce them
in order to administer the trade remedy laws.”) (internal
citation omitted).
It was within Commerce’s broad delegated authority to
determine that the 15-day requirement is “necessary to en-
sure” that Commerce can meet its statutory obligations un-
der the Tariff Act. In particular, to enable Commerce to be
ready to terminate a sunset review and revoke an anti-
dumping duty order “within 90 days” after noticing the in-
itiation of a sunset review – actions Commerce is required
by statute to take in the event that “no interested party re-
sponds to the notice of initiation” – it is necessary that
Commerce know, sufficiently in advance of the 90-day
deadline, whether any interested party is going to respond
to the notice. 19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)(3). Setting a 15-day re-
quirement for domestic interested parties to make known
whether they will participate and support extension of an
antidumping duty order, and giving another 15 days to
other interested parties (who may prefer termination of the
order, which will happen even without their participation
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if no domestic interested party meets the 15-day require-
ment), ensures Commerce can appropriately implement
the statute.
Further support for our conclusion that Congress dele-
gated Commerce authority to establish the 15-day require-
ment is found in § 1675(c)(2)(A)’s directive that Commerce
solicit “a statement expressing [an interested party’s] will-
ingness to participate in the review by providing infor-
mation requested by” Commerce. Since Commerce is given
explicit authority to require a statement of intent to partic-
ipate, and further explicit authority to determine the infor-
mation to request, it follows that Commerce likewise has
authority to “fill in” the detail of a reasonable deadline for
submission of these materials.
In short, the combination of broad “as may be neces-
sary” language in 19 U.S.C. § 3513(a)(2), along with silence
in 19 U.S.C. § 1675(c) as to interim (i.e., pre-90-day) dead-
lines, demonstrates that Congress intended Commerce to
“fill up the details” of the response requirement. See Lesko,
161 F.4th at 1360 (“Congress’s silence on this issue, in com-
bination with its delegation of authority to OPM to pre-
scribe regulations necessary for administering the
overtime statute, clears the path for OPM to fill up the de-
tails of the authorization process.”). Therefore, Com-
merce’s 15-day requirement fits within the bounds of the
agency’s delegated power.
B
Archroma does not contend that Sec-
tion 315.218(d)(1)(i)’s 15-day requirement is unconstitu-
tional. Thus, we proceed to assess whether Commerce’s
adoption of this regulation reflects “‘reasoned decisionmak-
ing’ within the boundaries of its delegated authority.”
Lesko, 161 F.4th at 1358. It does.
As Commerce explained during its rulemaking process,
the 15-day requirement is designed “to alleviate the burden
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on parties having to prepare substantive responses in cases
where there is no domestic party interest,” furthering the
goals of “eliminat[ing] needless reviews and promot[ing]
administrative efficiency,” consistent with the statutory
mandate of the Tariff Act. 63 Fed. Reg. at 13,517; see also
SAA, 1994 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 4206. Without a reasonable
deadline for domestic interested parties to make their in-
tent to participate known, entities subject to the relevant
duty order might waste time preparing (and even submit-
ting) substantive responses – which are due 30 days after
the notice of initiation is published in the Federal Register
– that would be entirely unnecessary if no domestic inter-
ested party intends to participate in the sunset review.
Without a reasonable deadline for domestic interested par-
ties, Commerce, too, might waste its resources, conducting
the early stages of a sunset review, preparing for later
stages, and possibly even reviewing substantive responses
from entities subject to the duty order – even if, unbe-
knownst to the agency, no domestic interested party in-
tends to participate.
As the Trade Court noted (and Archroma does not con-
test), the burdens imposed by the 15-day requirement of
Section 315.218(d)(1)(i) are minimal and do not prejudice
any party. Moreover, the 15-day deadline is not absolute:
a domestic interested party can obtain an extension by
showing “good cause” before the deadline, and can have an
untimely filing accepted upon a showing of “extraordinary
circumstances.” 19 C.F.R. § 351.302(b), (c). Given Com-
merce’s demonstrated need to know whether, as required
by the statute, it will be terminating the sunset review and
revoking the antidumping duty order “within 90 days” –
along with the minimal burdens imposed on domestic in-
terested parties and the opportunities for relief from the
15-day requirement – we conclude that Commerce’s adop-
tion of Section 315.218(d)(1)(i)’s 15-day requirement is the
product of reasoned decisionmaking.
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C
Archroma, echoing the Trade Court, makes several ar-
guments in favor of a contrary conclusion. Although none
persuade us, several merit further discussion.
Archroma contends that our reading of the statute is
inconsistent with the “whole-text-canon,” which “‘calls on
the judicial interpreter to consider the entire text, in view
of its structure and of the physical and logical relation of
its many parts.’” Transpacific Steel LLC v. United States,
4 F.4th 1306, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 2022) (quoting Antonin Scalia
& Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Le-
gal Texts § 24, at 167 (2012)). Applying this interpretive
principle, the Trade Court emphasized it was “undisputed
that Archroma timely responded to Commerce’s request for
substantive material,” in compliance with the 30-day re-
quirement, and from this reasoned that “[t]he statute
therefore obligated [Commerce] to undertake reviews and
allow [Archroma] to participate in the ensuing proceed-
ings” regardless of whether Archroma also complied with
the 15-day requirement. J.A. 16.
While we agree that, as a general matter, the best read-
ing of a statute is one that provides a full and fair meaning
to each part of the statute, we have done so here. Neither
the Trade Court nor Archroma have identified any provi-
sion of the Tariff Act that Commerce’s 15-day requirement
reads out. Nowhere does the Tariff Act give an interested
party, including a domestic interested party, an unquali-
fied right to participate in sunset reviews.
Archroma’s position is further undermined by its ac-
ceptance of the 30-day requirement as an acceptable exer-
cise of Commerce’s regulatory authority. See Oral Arg. at
13:51-16:48 (discussing substantive response deadline in
19 C.F.R. § 351.218(d)(3)(i)); see also Resp. Br. at 22-23.
Archroma further concedes that Commerce has authority
to require full substantive responses within 15 days of the
notice of initiation of a sunset review. See Oral Arg. at
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13:51-16:48. We do not see how to square these concessions
with Archroma’s insistence that the 15-day regulatory re-
quirement for indicating an intent to participate is some-
how beyond Commerce’s authority, or in conflict with the
statute.
Finally, Archroma suggests that our reversal of the
Trade Court implies that Commerce enjoys “inherent au-
thority to issue whatever procedural rule it sees fit.” Resp.
Br. at 16. That is simply not the case: Commerce may only
regulate where Congress has delegated to it the power to
do so. Commerce must also act lawfully and reasonably in
adopting regulations. Our decision today is limited to Com-
merce’s adoption of the 15-day requirement.
IV
We have considered Archroma’s remaining arguments
and find them unpersuasive. Section 315.218(d)(1)(i)’s 15-
day requirement for domestic interested parties to submit
their notice of intent to participate in a sunset review of an
antidumping duty order is an exercise of Commerce’s “fill
up the details” rulemaking authority and the product of the
agency’s reasoned decisionmaking. The Trade Court’s
judgment to the contrary, and order enjoining enforcement
of the 15-day requirement, is reversed. This case is re-
manded for the Trade Court to enter judgment for Com-
merce, the Commission, and TFM.
REVERSED AND REMANDED
COSTS
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