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Summary: OPINION and ORDER Pogue , Senior Judge : In this action, Plaintiffs Shenyang Yuanda Aluminum Industry Engineering Co., Ltd. and Yuanda USA Corporation (collectively "Yuanda"); Jango Curtain Wall Americas Co. ("Jangho"); and Permasteelisa North America Corp., Permasteelisa South China Factory, and Permasteelisa Hong Kong Ltd. (collectively "Permasteelisa"), challenge the decision, 2 made by Defendant, the U.S. Department of Commerce ("Commerce"), that Yuanda's unitized curtain wall, i.e.,

OPINION and ORDER

Pogue, Senior Judge:

In this action, Plaintiffs Shenyang Yuanda Aluminum Industry Engineering Co., Ltd. and Yuanda USA Corporation (collectively "Yuanda"); Jango Curtain Wall Americas Co. ("Jangho"); and Permasteelisa North America Corp., Permasteelisa South China Factory, and Permasteelisa Hong Kong Ltd. (collectively "Permasteelisa"), challenge the decision,2 made by Defendant, the U.S. Department of Commerce ("Commerce"), that Yuanda's unitized curtain wall, i.e., a complete curtain wall, unitized and imported in phases pursuant to a sales contract, is within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders (the "AD & CVD Orders" or the "Orders") on aluminum extrusions from the People's Republic of China ("PRC").3

Currently before the court are Plaintiffs' renewed motions for judgment on the agency record pursuant to USCIT Rule 56.2, arguing that Commerce's affirmative scope ruling is not in accordance with law, unsupported by substantial evidence, and arbitrary and capricious.4 Defendant opposes Plaintiffs' motions.5 Defendant-Intervenors, Walters & Wolf, Architectural Glass & Aluminum Company, and Bagatelos Architectural Glass Systems, Inc. (collectively the "Curtain Wall Coalition" or "CWC") join in opposition to the motions.6

The court has jurisdiction pursuant to § 516A(a)(2)(B)(vi) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(a)(2)(B)(vi) and 28 U.S.C. § 1581(c) (2012).7

Because Commerce's scope ruling redefines key terms contrary to the plain language of the AD & CVD Orders, it is not in accordance with law; because it does not reasonably consider the characteristics of Plaintiffs' merchandise and the evidence that weighs against the agency's determination, it is unsupported by substantial evidence; because it offers insufficient reasons for treating similar products differently, it is arbitrary and capricious. Accordingly, the court remands to Commerce for further consideration in accordance with this opinion.

BACKGROUND

I. The Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Aluminum Extrusions

The issues presented here arise from Commerce's AD & CVD Orders on aluminum extrusions from the PRC.8 The AD & CVD Orders followed a March 31, 2010, petition by the Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (collectively, "Petitioners"), alleging that "[certain] aluminum extrusions imported from the [PRC] are being subsidized and sold at less than normal value."9 Commerce made final affirmative determinations of subsidization and sales at less than fair value10; the International Trade Commission similarly made a final affirmative determination of material injury to U.S. industry.11 Commerce then issued the AD & CVD Orders.12

II. The Language of the Order

The AD & CVD Orders on aluminum extrusions were "written in general terms,"13 to cover "aluminum extrusions," which are defined as "shapes and forms,14 produced by an extrusion process, made from [certain] aluminum alloys."15 They may have a variety of finishes, "both coatings and surface treatments,"16 and may be "fabricated, i.e., prepared for assembly."17

Aluminum extrusions "described at the time of importation as parts for final finished products" such as "window frames, door frames, solar panels, curtain walls, or furniture," to be "assembled after importation," are subject to the order if such parts "otherwise meet the definition of aluminum extrusions,"18 that is, they are shapes or forms made from the covered aluminum alloys and made by an extrusion process.19 The AD & CVD Orders also cover "aluminum extrusion components that are attached (e.g., by welding or fasteners) to form subassemblies, i.e., partially assembled merchandise."20

The AD & CVD Orders exclude "finished merchandise containing aluminum extrusions as parts" so long as such merchandise is "fully and permanently assembled and completed at the time of entry, such as finished windows with glass, doors with glass or vinyl, picture frames with glass pane and backing material, and solar panels."21 The AD & CVD Orders also exclude "finished goods containing aluminum extrusions that are entered unassembled in a `finished goods kit.'"22 A finished goods kit is "a packaged combination of parts that contains, at the time of importation, all of the necessary parts to fully assemble a final finished good and requires no further finishing or fabrication, such as cutting or punching, and is assembled `as is' into a finished product."23 Subassemblies may be excluded as well, provided that they enter the United States as part of or as "finished goods" or "finished goods kits."24

III. Interpreting the Scope of an Order

Where, as here, there is a question as to "whether a particular product is included within the scope of an antidumping or countervailing duty order," Commerce follows an interpretive framework, provided in the agency's regulations, to determine the answer.25 First, relying on the description of the product contained in the scope-ruling request, Commerce looks to the plain language of the underlying order.26 If the terms of the order are dispositive, then the order governs.27

Second, if the order is ambiguous, Commerce "consider[s] the regulatory history, as contained in the so-called `(k)(1) materials'" — named for the regulatory subsection in which they appear.28 Specifically, Commerce considers "[t]he descriptions of the merchandise contained in the petition, the initial investigation, and the determinations of [Commerce] (including prior scope determinations) and the [International Trade] Commission."29 If the (k)(1) materials disambiguate the language of the order, then Commerce will issue its scope ruling.30

Third, if the (k)(1) materials "are not dispositive," Commerce will initiate a scope inquiry.31 Specifically, Commerce "will further consider: (i) [t]he physical characteristics of the product; (ii) [t]he expectations of the ultimate purchasers; (iii) [t]he ultimate use of the product; (iv) [t]he channels of trade in which the product is sold; and (v) [t]he manner in which the product is advertised and displayed."32

Commerce's interpretations of its own scope rulings are given "significant deference,"33 however, "Commerce cannot `interpret' an antidumping order so as to change the scope of that order, nor can Commerce interpret an order in a manner contrary to its terms."34

IV. The Scope Ruling on Curtain Wall Units and Other Parts of a Curtain Wall System from the PRC

The Yuanda Scope Ruling challenged in this case is the second scope ruling Commerce has issued relevant to unitized curtain wall.35 Prior to the Yuanda Scope Ruling, on October 11, 2012, Defendant-Intervenors, the CWC, applied for a ruling from Commerce, pursuant 19 C.F.R. § 351.225, to confirm that "parts of curtain wall[s],"36 defined as "curtain wall sections, falling short of the final finished curtain wall that envelopes an entire building structure," including, but not limited to individual curtain wall units (i.e., "unitized... modules that are designed to be interlocked with each other, like pieces of a puzzle").37 Both Yuanda and Jangho submitted comments in opposition.38

In the CWC Scope Ruling, Commerce determined, based on the description of the product in CWC's application,39 that the language of the AD & CVD Orders and the "descriptions of the merchandise in the investigation" are "dispositive": curtain wall parts, as defined in the CWC's Scope Request, fell within the scope of the Orders.40 While Yuanda and Jangho argued that "a complete curtain wall unit" could be excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders under the "finished goods kit" exclusion, Commerce declined to rule on the application of this exclusion because the CWC's scope request "[did] not seek a scope ruling on complete curtain walls units, but rather `parts of curtain walls,' and [its] scope ruling [was] limited to the products discussed in the CWC's Amended Scope Request."41

Yuanda and Jango challenged the CWC Scope Ruling before the Court of International Trade ("CIT"), but the CIT affirmed Commerce's finding that "curtain wall units and other parts of curtain wall systems fall within the scope of the [AD & CVD] Orders."42 The plaintiffs appealed this decision to the Federal Circuit, but the Federal Circuit affirmed.43

V. The Scope Ruling on Curtain Wall Units that are Produced and Imported Pursuant to a Contract to Supply Curtain Wall

On March 26, 2013, while Yuanda I was still pending before the CIT, Yuanda filed its own scope ruling request, pursuant to 19 C.F.R. § 351.225, to confirm that complete curtain wall units sold "pursuant to [a] contract[] to supply [a] complete curtain wall [system]" were excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders.44 Jangho and Permasteelisa submitted comments in support of Yuanda's application; the CWC submitted comments in opposition.45 Commerce found that "the description of the products [in Yuanda's application] and the scope language, as well as the descriptions of the merchandise in prior scope rulings and determinations of [Commerce] and the [International Trade Commission ("ITC")] [were] dispositive."46 Relying on these sources, Commerce determined that Yuanda's products are subject to the AD & CVD Orders.47

Yuanda, Jangho, and Permasteelisa appealed the ruling to this Court. In their initial motions for summary judgment in this action, Plaintiffs brought attention to the fact that Commerce had not considered the "description of the merchandise contained in the [P]etition,"48 in particular, an exhibit from that Petition that listed "unassembled unitized curtain walls" as non-subject merchandise under the "finished goods kit" exclusion.49 Commerce requested a remand to consider this evidence and argument.50 The court granted the Defendant's motion for voluntary remand.51

In the resulting redetermination, Commerce found that Yuanda's unassembled curtain wall units were within the scope of the AD & CVD Orders unless all necessary parts for an entire curtain wall were present "at the time of importation," i.e., in the same entry, on a single Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") 7501 Entry Summary form.52 Plaintiffs' renewed motions for judgment on the agency record are now before the court.53 On December 10, 2015 the court heard oral argument on Plaintiffs' motions.54

VI. The Product at Issue as Described in Yuanda's Scope Ruling Request

Yuanda requested a scope ruling to confirm that "complete, finished unitized curtain wall units ... sold to building developers, general contractors and/or glazing companies pursuant to contracts to supply them with curtain wall systems," were excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders.55 This product is also referred to as "complete curtain wall units"56 to be assembled into a curtain wall (curtain wall and curtain wall system being used interchangeably) and "unassembled unitized curtain walls."57

A curtain wall, according to Yuanda, is a set of interlocking "curtain wall units that form a non-load bearing wall on a floor or part of a building."58 Each curtain wall unit is "produced to the exacting architectural specifications of the building on which it is to be installed."59 A "`complete and finished' unitized curtain wall unit is produced by fabricating a frame (generally from extruded aluminum), adding to it thermal insulation, filling it (generally with glass), sealing the infill, drilling holes, attaching additional metal or plastics, and shipping to the job site for installation."60

Because "complete curtain wall units form part of a larger curtain wall system specifically designed for a building," unassembled curtain wall units "are sold and delivered to the job site in segments pursuant to the schedule stipulated in the contract to supply the larger system."61 If that system is "for a multi-story skyscraper," then it may require shipments of curtain wall units and installation hardware "over a period of months," with "[e]ach entry dovetail[ing] with the contractor's construction schedule so that complete curtain wall units can be immediately installed onto the building when the container arrives at the job site."62

STANDARD OF REVIEW

The court will sustain Commerce's determinations unless they are "unsupported by substantial evidence on the record, or otherwise not in accordance with law."63 The court will set aside agency actions found to be arbitrary and capricious.64

DISCUSSION

I. Individual Curtain Wall Units Are Within the Scope of the AD & CVD Orders as "Parts of ... Curtain Walls"

The AD & CVD Orders on aluminum extrusions cover, as the name indicates, "aluminum extrusions," that is, "shapes and forms, produced by an extrusion process, made from [certain] aluminum alloys."65 Aluminum extrusions "described at the time of importation as parts for final finished products" such as "curtain walls," to be "assembled after importation," are subject to the AD & CVD Orders as long as they "otherwise meet the definition of aluminum extrusions."66 "A single [curtain wall] unit" is not a whole "curtain wall," and as such, is a "part" or "subassembly" of a curtain wall.67

At issue here is whether "curtain wall units ... produced and imported pursuant to a contract to supply a complete curtain wall,"68 — may be properly excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders under one of the pertinent exclusions, that is, either as a "finished good" or as a "finished goods kit."69

II. Finished Goods Exclusion

The finished goods exclusion provides that "finished merchandise containing aluminum extrusions as parts that are fully and permanently assembled and completed at the time of entry" are excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders.70

Following the Federal Circuit's statement that a single curtain wall unit is a part for a final finished good (a curtain wall), and therefore not a finished good in and of itself,71 Plaintiffs here withdrew their arguments that a complete, unitized curtain wall imported pursuant to a sales contract was a finished good,72 even though the Federal Circuit's holding was for a different product (i.e., curtain wall parts and individual curtain wall units) than that at issue here,73 and arguably outside the jurisdiction conferred for review of the underlying CWC Scope Ruling.74

III. Finished Goods Kit Exclusion

The AD & CVD Orders provide that "finished goods" that contain aluminum extrusions and are entered "unassembled in a `finished goods kit'" are excluded from the scope of the order.75 A product may be excluded as a finished goods kit if it is "[1] a packaged combination of parts that [2] contains, at the time of importation, all of the necessary parts to fully assemble a final finished good and [3] requires no further finishing or fabrication, such as cutting or punching, and [4] is assembled `as is' into a finished product."76

Initially, Commerce's analysis of the "finished goods kit" exclusion focused on whether all the parts to assemble a complete downstream product were present "at the time of importation."77 Commerce subsequently "identified a concern with this analysis."78 Namely, if a product was "designed to work with other parts to form a larger structure,"79 or "system,"80 then requiring all of the necessary parts for a final finished good at the time of importation could "lead to unreasonable" or even "absurd results" that unduly "expand the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders]" outside the "intended ... aluminum extrusions."81

"[U]pon further reflection of the language in the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders]," Commerce "revis[ed] the manner in which it determines whether a given product is a `finished good' or `finished goods kit.'"82 Specifically, the AD & CVD Orders expressly exclude "subassemblies, i.e., partially assembled merchandise" when "imported as part of [a] finished goods kit."83 Reliance on whether all the parts for complete downstream product are present at the time of importation84 "fails to account" for this language "allow[ing] for the exclusion of `subassemblies,' i.e., merchandise that is `partially assembled' and inherently part of a larger whole."85 Instead, this language indicates that, when a product is a subassembly, it "may be excluded from the scope"86 provided that "[1] [it] require[s] no further `finishing' or `fabrication' prior to assembly, [2] contain[s] all the necessary hardware and components for assembly, and [3] [is] ready for installation at the time of entry."87

Thus, while Commerce's initial test for the finished goods kit exclusion remains the general rule,88 when subassemblies are at issue, Commerce's "finished goods" and "finished goods kit" analysis no longer focuses on whether all the parts for the ultimate downstream product (e.g., the fire truck, the building) are present "at the time of importation"; rather the emphasis is on how finished and ready for installation in the ultimate downstream product the subassembly is.89

Here, Commerce has determined that, based on the plain language of the AD & CVD Orders and the (k)(1) materials, "a unitized curtain wall shipped as curtain wall units can be excluded as a `finished goods kit,' but only if all of the necessary curtain wall units are imported at the same time in a manner that they can be assembled into a finished curtain wall upon importation."90 Commerce makes this determination on the basis that a finished goods kit must include "all of the necessary parts" to assemble a final finished good at the time of importation, i.e. "at the same time, as part of the same entry," listed on the same CBP 7501 form.91 Because "[t]he evidence on the record indicate[d] that many curtain walls are constructed in stages," and Yuanda "in particular does not import all the necessary curtain wall units to assemble a curtain wall at one time," Commerce reasoned that the finished goods kit exclusion could not apply.92 Commerce declined to consider the subassemblies test because it believes curtain wall units are not, by definition, subassemblies.93

Commerce's determination is unreasonable because (1) it is contrary to the terms of the AD & CVD Orders, having defined "subassembly" contrary to the plain language of the Orders; (2) it fails to adequately consider or address the description of the merchandise at issue and the (k)(1) materials, making the determination unsupported by substantial evidence; and (3) it draws distinctions between small and large unitized curtain wall systems, and between unitized curtain wall systems and similar products in a way that is arbitrary and capricious.

A. Commerce Has Interpreted the AD & CVD Orders Contrary to Their Terms

"[A] scope determination is not in accordance with the law if it changes the scope of an order or interprets an order in a manner contrary to the order's terms."94

The AD & CVD Orders define "subassembl[y]" as "partially assembled merchandise."95 This definition is important because a subassembly may be excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders "provided that they enter the United States as `finished goods' or `finished goods kits.'"96 Subassemblies may be finished goods or a finished goods kit (and therefore excluded) if they satisfy the subassemblies test: "[1] they require no further `finishing' or `fabrication' prior to assembly,97 [2] contain all the necessary hardware and components for assembly, and [3] are ready for installation at the time of entry."98

Here, Commerce defines subassembly, without reference to the language of the AD & CVD Orders, as a "unique subsidiary component of a larger finished product,"99 and determines that, based on this definition, unitized curtain wall cannot be a subassembly because curtain wall units "ha[ve] no identity of [their] own other than as a part of a curtain wall."100 But Commerce's analysis is contrary to the plain language of the AD & CVD Orders. There is nothing in the language of the Orders that requires "uniqueness" or "individual identity" from a subassembly. A subassembly is defined as "partially assembled merchandise."101 Indeed, Commerce's own application of the subassemblies test contradicts this "uniqueness" requirement.102

Commerce also asserts that the subassemblies test need not be considered here because "there is specific scope language identifying parts for curtain walls as subject to the [AD & CVD Orders]" and "both the CIT and [Federal Circuit] have affirmed [Commerce's] conclusion that curtain wall units are `parts of curtain walls.'"103

"[P]arts for ... curtain walls," however, are included within the scope of the AD & CVD Orders only insofar as they "otherwise meet the definition of aluminum extrusions."104 The exclusions are part of the definition of aluminum extrusions, i.e, in the same way that parts for curtain walls made with non-PRC aluminum are excluded, parts for curtain walls that are a finished good kit or a subassembly finished good kit are excluded.105 That parts for curtain walls are within the scope does not prevent Yuanda's unitized curtain wall from being excluded.106 "Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition; they have only a communal existence; and not only does the meaning of each interpenetrate the other, but all in their aggregate take their purport from the setting in which they are used [...]."107

Further, the decisions to which Commerce cites do not, as Commerce suggests, support the proposition that the inclusion of "parts for ... curtain walls" precludes consideration of any exclusion.108 In the CWC Scope Ruling, Commerce found that "the products described in CWC's Amended Scope Request are within the scope of the Orders."109 The CWC's Amended Scope Request covered "parts of curtain walls,"110 defined as "curtain wall sections, falling short of the final finished curtain wall," including, but not limited to, curtain wall units, i.e., "modules that are designed to be interlocked with each other, like pieces of a puzzle."111 The CIT and Federal Circuit affirmed this ruling.112 However, because the "scope ruling was limited to the products discussed" in the CWC's scope request, Commerce did not consider, indeed expressly declined to consider, whether the specific products of any interested party could be properly excluded under any of the AD & CVD Orders' enumerated exclusions.113 This Court sustained that decision.114 At no point did Commerce consider the products at issue here,115 nor the applicability of any scope exclusions thereto.116 The CWC Scope Ruling, and the cases affirming it, cannot be cited for an interpretation and finding that was not considered or discussed.

If anything, Yuanda I and Yuanda II may be cited for the opposite proposition, as both found that individual curtain wall units were subject merchandise at least in part because curtain wall units were subassemblies of curtain walls,117 and declined, expressly or impliedly, to consider the subassembly exclusion as applied to any specific product, including Plaintiff's, because that would go "far beyond the [underlying] CWC's [Scope Ruling] Request," and therefore the scope of Commerce's determination and the courts' jurisdiction.118 That is, the courts affirmatively answered the threshold question as to whether a curtain wall unit was a subassembly,119 but left to Commerce the question of how the subassembly exclusion affected the status of any specific unitized curtain wall product. The court in Yuanda I indicated that "[i]f [P]laintiffs wished treatment for their specific products under the `finished goods kit' exception," whether general or subassembly-specific, "their route was to file a petition of their own seeking the benefit of the exclusion" for their specific product, making the finished good kit exclusion a question "for another day."120 This is that day.

While Commerce "enjoys substantial freedom to interpret and clarify its antidumping duty orders, it can neither change them, nor interpret them in a way contrary to their terms."121 Here, Commerce has changed and expanded the terms of the AD & CVD Orders by redefining "subassembly" and ignoring the scope language that limits products covered. Accordingly, Commerce's Redetermination is not in accordance with law.

B. Commerce's Ruling is Unsupported by Substantial Evidence

"[T]he substantial evidence standard requires review of the entire administrative record" and asks, in light of that evidence, whether that determination was reasonable.122 "The substantiality of evidence must take into account whatever in the record fairly detracts from its weight."123

In the scope ruling at issue here, the administrative record includes the (k)(1) materials — "[t]he descriptions of the merchandise contained in the petition, [Commerce's] initial investigation, and the [prior] determinations of [Commerce] (including prior scope determinations) and the [International Trade] Commission,"124 — which provide the regulatory history, to aid in the interpretation of the language of the AD & CVD Orders.125

Here, Commerce was confronted with the fact that a(k)(1) material, the previously neglected Petition, expressly lists "unassembled unitized curtain walls" as excluded merchandise under the "finished goods kit" exclusion.126

Commerce tries to construe this statement as evidence for its conclusion that "a unitized curtain wall shipped as curtain wall units can be excluded as a `finished goods kit,' ... only if all of the necessary curtain wall units" to make a complete curtain wall are "imported at the same time," i.e., entered on the same 7501 form.127 However, as Commerce points out, the Petition "provides no further clarification on what [`at the time of importation'] [means] in relation to `unassembled unitized curtain walls' or any other product."128

Commerce looks to other documents of varying relevance and reliability for confirmation of its interpretation. First, Commerce relies on another (k)(1) material, a preliminary scope memorandum from the investigation, in which Commerce found that "unitized curtain wall and its assorted parts" (i.e., "the separately packaged assorted component parts (an aluminum frame and aluminum bracket)") were within the scope of the AD & CVD Orders as parts for curtain walls.129 This determination is of limited relevance because it was made before the final determination in which Commerce amended the scope of the AD & CVD Orders to clarify that subassemblies could fall within the finished goods kit exclusion.130 Further, the product described in this preliminary determination ("separately packaged assorted parts" of curtain walls) is parallel to that discussed in the CWC Scope Ruling (curtain wall units and parts),131 in contrast to the complete curtain wall units imported pursuant to a sales contract.132 Commerce does not account for these differences in its evaluation of the determination.

Second, Commerce argues that its finding that complete curtain wall units imported pursuant to a sales contract are not excluded as a finished goods kit unless "all of the necessary parts to assemble the finished good ... [are] imported at the same time, as part of the same entry,"133 is in keeping with its prior scope determinations.134 Commerce cites to three final scope rulings discussing the finished goods kit exclusion.135 While all three rulings do emphasize the "at the time of importation" requirement,136 all three were decided before Commerce revised its interpretation of the AD & CVD Orders to provide for situations where it was unreasonable to require all necessary parts "at the time of importation," i.e., the subassemblies exclusion.137 What is perhaps more telling is that Commerce does not address the other prior scope rulings that go against its determination here, i.e., that did not require all parts for the complete downstream product "at the time of importation" because the products at issue were subassemblies.138

Third, Commerce offers a letter, written by Petitioners specifically for this scope proceeding, supporting Commerce's position,139 and a news article quoting Petitioner's counsel as having said that a curtain wall system would have to "contain all of the window glass at the time of entry to be excluded."140 Neither of these documents is appropriate support, as they are not (k)(1) materials.141 The former is a post hoc rationalization made for the purposes of litigation; the latter Commerce itself has previously dismissed as irrelevant.142

In contrast, Commerce does not consider the ample evidence on the administrative record defining and explaining the product at issue here. Commerce does not consider whether a single-entry, unitized curtain wall is a real product, outside the realm of its own ungainly semantic gymnastics, that is imported with any regularity into the United States.143 This makes Commerce's interpretation unreasonable.144 Indeed, Petitioners themselves provided in other (k)(1) materials that "it is simply not possible for a complete curtain wall to enter as a `kit'" — i.e., all at once.145 Petitioners could not have intended to use a product as an example in their petition that, by Petitioners' own admission, does not exist. "An exclusion from a scope determination must ... encompass merchandise which is or may be imported into the United States in order to act as a meaningful exclusion; anything less renders the exclusion hollow and improperly changes the meaning of the exclusion."146 Even if such a product existed but was rarely imported, insisting upon such an interpretation would render the exclusion "insignificant, if not wholly superfluous."147

Commerce has therefore "entirely failed to consider an important aspect of the problem,"148 i.e., the actual nature of the products it is considering. "The substantiality of evidence must take into account whatever in the record fairly detracts from its weight."149 Commerce has not done so here, leaving its ruling unreasonable.

C. Commerce Has Made Arbitrary Distinctions Between Subject and Non-Subject Products

An agency determination is arbitrary and capricious if the agency has treated similarly situated parties or products differently "without reasonable explanation."150

Here, in finding that only unitized curtain walls entered with all parts on a single 7501 form are excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders, Commerce makes several distinctions between similar products without reasonable explanation. First, Commerce has drawn a distinction between (hypothetical) small (i.e., capable of being entered on a single 7501 form) and all other curtain wall systems. This distinction is not based on any quality or aspect of the constituent units, indeed the units could be identical in all but number, and thereby treats products that are effectively the same differently under the AD & CVD Orders.

Similarly, Commerce's ruling draws an arbitrary distinction between window walls and curtain walls. Window walls are excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders under the finished goods kit exclusion.151 Under Commerce's interpretation, unitized curtain walls, largely, if not entirely, are not.152 While Commerce acknowledges that the Plaintiffs allege similarities between window walls and curtain walls, Commerce considers these similarities irrelevant, finding the differences dispositive.153

Commerce finds two differences: First, "unlike parts for curtain walls, such as curtain wall units, window walls are not specifically identified as subject merchandise in the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders]."154 However, this distinction has no real meaning. That parts for curtain walls are within the scope does not prevent unassembled unitized curtain wall from being excluded.155 Moreover, industry publications on the record show that window walls are a type of curtain wall156 — such that "parts for ... curtain walls" means parts for window walls as well, making both listed as subject merchandise. Second, Commerce finds that curtain walls and window walls "are not comparable for purposes of [Commerce's] analysis," because "[w]indow walls, once assembled, are each a finished good" whereas curtain wall units "which attach to other curtain wall units, are parts for the finished good, the curtain wall itself."157 This is again, a meaningless distinction that does not consider the definition of the product at issue here and belies the similarities between the two products, namely, that both are interlocking, aluminum-framed, widow-like products shipped in phases and installed in sections.158 Indeed, Commerce makes no effort to account for the evidence on the record indicating that window walls and curtain walls are substantially similar products.

Accordingly, Commerce has treated similarly situated products differently without reasonable explanation.

CONCLUSION

As Commerce anticipated elsewhere, an interpretation of "finished goods kit" that requires "all parts to assemble the ultimate downstream product" to enter at the same time, on the same 7501 Form, "where the ultimate downstream product" is "a fire truck" or "a larger structure, such as a house" or an entire building façade, has led to an "unreasonable," if not "absurd" result.159

Accordingly, the court remands to Commerce for further consideration in accordance with this opinion. Commerce shall have until March 22, 2016 to complete and file its remand redetermination. Plaintiffs shall have until April 5, 2016 to file comments. Defendant and Defendant-Intervenor shall have until April 15, 2016 to file any reply.160

IT IS SO ORDERED.

FootNotes

1. This action is consolidated with court numbers 14-00107 and 14-00108. Order, July 16, 2014, ECF No. 28.

2. Compl., ECF No. 9 (Yuanda's complaint); Compl., Ct. No. 14-00107, ECF No. 8 (Jangho's complaint); Compl., Ct. No. 14-00108, ECF No. 8 (Permasteelisa's complaint).

3. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce March 27, 2014) (final scope ruling on curtain wall units that are produced and imported pursuant to a contract to supply curtain wall), ECF No. 34-1 ("Yuanda Scope Ruling"); Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Ct. Remand, ECF No. 68-1 ("Redetermination"); see Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], 76 Fed.Reg. 30,650 (Dep't Commerce May 26, 2011) (antidumping duty order) ("AD Order"); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], 76 Fed.Reg. 30,653 (Dep't Commerce May 26, 2011) (countervailing duty order) ("CVD Order").

Yuanda USA Corp is an importer and Shenyang Yuanda Aluminum Industry Engineering Co., Ltd. is a foreign producer and exporter of curtain wall units. Jangho is a foreign producer of subject merchandise. Permasteelisa North America Corp. is an importer and Permasteelisa Hong Kong Ltd. is a foreign producer of subject merchandise. Yuanda Scope Ruling, ECF No. 34-1, at 1-2.

4. Mem. of P. & A. in Supp. of Yuanda's Am. Mot. for J. on the Agency R., ECF Nos. 79 (conf. ver.) & 80 (pub. ver.) ("Yuanda's Br."); Am. Mem. in Supp. of Pl. Jangho's Mot. for J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 78 ("Jangho Br."); Mem. of P. & A. in Supp. of [Permasteelisa's] Rule 56.2 Mot. for J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 39 (as amended by Notice of Withdrawal, ECF No. 84) ("Permasteelisa's Br.").

5. Def.'s Resp. to Pl.'s & Consol. Pl.'s Rule 56.2 Mots. for J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 85 ("Def.'s Resp.").

6. Def.-Intervenors' Opp'n to Pls.' Mots. & Am. Brs. For J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 87 ("CWC's Resp.").

7. All further citations to the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, are to Title 19 of the U.S.Code, 2012 edition.

8. See AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg.

9. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce March 31, 2010) (petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties) at 1, reproduced in Pub.App. to [Yuanda's Br.], ECF No. 83-3 at Tab 10 ("Petition").

10. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], 76 Fed.Reg. 18,524 (Dep't Commerce Apr. 4, 2011) (final determination of sales at less than fair value) and accompanying Issues & Decision Mem., A-570-967, POI July 1, 2009-Dec. 31, 2009 (Apr. 4, 2011) ("Final AD I & D Mem."); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], 76 Fed.Reg. 18,521 (Dep't Commerce Apr. 4, 2011) (final affirmative countervailing duty determination).

11. Certain Aluminum Extrusions from China, USITC Pub. 4229, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-475 & 731-TA-1177 (May 2011) ("ITC Final Determination").

12. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,653.

13. See 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(a).

14. Aluminum extrusions "are produced and imported in a wide variety of shapes and forms, including, but not limited to, hollow profiles, other solid profiles, pipes, tubes, bars, and rods." AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654. Drawn aluminum (aluminum extrusions that are "drawn subsequent to extrusion") also fall within the AD & CVD Orders. Id.

15. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,653.

16. See AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654 ("The types of coatings and treatments applied to subject aluminum extrusions include, but are not limited to, extrusions that are mill finished (i.e., without any coating or further finishing), brushed, buffed, polished, anodized (including bright-dip anodized), liquid painted, or powder coated.").

17. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654; see id. ("Such operations would include, but are not limited to, extrusions that are cut-to-length, machined, drilled, punched, notched, bent, stretched, knurled, swedged, mitered, chamfered, threaded, and spun.").

18. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650-51; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654,

19. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,653.

20. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654.

21. Id. Aluminum extrusion "identified with reference to their end use, such as fence posts, electrical conduits, door thresholds, carpet trim, or [certain] heat sinks ... are subject merchandise if they otherwise meet the scope definition, regardless of whether they are ready for use at the time of importation." Id.

22. Id.

23. Id. However, "[a]n imported product will not be considered a `finished goods kit' and therefore excluded from the scope of the investigation merely by including fasteners such as screws, bolts, etc. in the packaging with an aluminum extrusion product." Id.

24. Id.; see Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Sept. 24, 2012) (preliminary side mount valve controls scope Ruling) at 7 ("SMVC Scope Ruling") (adopted unchanged in Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Oct. 26, 2012) (final side mount valve controls scope ruling)), reproduced in Def.'s App. Accompanying [Def.'s Resp.], ECF No. 86 at Tabs 3 & 4.

25. 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(a).

26. Duferco Steel, Inc. v. United States, 296 F.3d 1087, 1097 (Fed.Cir.2002).

27. Tak Fat Trading Co. v. United States, 396 F.3d 1378, 1383 (Fed.Cir.2005) ("[A] predicate for the interpretive process is language in the order that is subject to interpretation." (quoting Duferco Steel, 296 F.3d at 1097); ArcelorMittal Stainless Belgium N.V. v. United States, 694 F.3d 82, 84 (Fed.Cir.2012) ("If Commerce determines that the language at issue is not ambiguous, it states what it understands to be the plain meaning of the language, and the proceedings terminate. On the other hand, if Commerce finds that the scope language is ambiguous, it then looks to two sets of factors spelled out in [19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)] to determine the intended scope of the order.").

28. Mid Continent Nail Corp. v. United States, 725 F.3d 1295, 1302 (Fed.Cir.2013).

29. 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)(1).

30. Id. at § 351.225(d).

31. Id. at §§ 351.225(e), (k)(2); see also Walgreen Co. of Deerfield, IL v. United States, 620 F.3d 1350, 1352 (Fed.Cir.2010).

32. 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)(2).

33. Duferco Steel, 296 F.3d at 1094-95.

34. Eckstrom Indus., Inc. v. United States, 254 F.3d 1068, 1072 (Fed.Cir.2001).

35. Commerce has also issued a third scope ruling on curtain wall units with non-PRC aluminum extrusions. See Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce March 14, 2013) (final scope ruling on Tesla curtain walls with non-PRC extrusions). However, this determination is not relevant here because, unlike there, the country of origin of Yuanda's aluminum extrusions is not at issue.

36. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Oct. 11, 2012) (amended scope request regarding curtain wall units and other parts of a curtain wall system) at 1-2, reproduced in Pub.App. to [Yuanda's Br.], ECF No. 83-1, at Tab 2 at Ex. B ("CWC Am. Scope Request"). Originally, the Northern California Glass Management Association ("NCGMA") submitted the scope ruling request for "curtain wall units and parts for curtain walls." Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Oct. 11, 2012) (letter re amended scope request regarding curtain wall units and other parts of a curtain wall system) at 2, reproduced in Pub.App. to [Yuanda's Br.], ECF No. 83-1, at Tab 2 at Ex. B. However, because Commerce found that the "NCGMA [did] not adequately demonstrate[] how it qualifies as an interested party under [19 U.S.C. § 1677(9)(E)]," three members of the NCGMA, Walters & Wolf, Architectural Glass & Aluminum Company, and Bagatelos Architectural Glass Systems, Inc., filed an amended scope request on NCGMA's behalf, as the Curtain Wall Coalition. Id. at 3. Commerce subsequently found that the CWC had standing as an interested party. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Nov. 30, 2012) (final scope ruling on curtain wall units and other parts of a curtain wall system) ("CWC Scope Ruling") at 9-10.

37. CWC Am. Scope Request, ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 at Ex 2, at 8-9.

38. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 2. Overgaard Ltd, a foreign producer of curtain wall units, and Bucher Glass Inc., an importer, also submitted comments in support of Yuanda's opposition. Id.

39. The CWC defined curtain wall system as "an aluminum extrusion framed non-weight bearing exterior wall, secured to and supported by the structural frame of a building," which functions as the "outer cover of typically multi-level buildings uniquely designed to envelope an entire building and provide architectural and functional goals." CWC Am. Scope Request, ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 at Ex 2, at 7. "A curtain wall includes numerous parts and components including curtain wall units that are pieces which comprise a curtain wall system. Id. at 2.

40. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 10 ("[T]he products described in CWC's Amended Scope Request are within the scope of the [AD & CVD] Orders."); see also CWC Am. Scope Request, ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 at Ex 2, at 2 ("This request covers curtain wall units and other parts of a curtain wall system, which are assembled to create a complete curtain wall that covers the outside of a building."); id. at 8-9 ("The merchandise covered by this scope request is curtain wall sections, falling short of the final finished curtain wall that envelopes an entire building structure. Certain curtain wall parts are unitized into modules that are designed to be interlocked with each other, like pieces of a puzzle. The units are assembled at a production facility and shipped to site for installation.").

41. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9.

42. Shenyang Yuanda Aluminum Indus. Eng'g Co. v. United States, ___ CIT ___, 961 F.Supp.2d 1291, 1294 (2014) ("Yuanda I").

43. Shenyang Yuanda Aluminum Indus. Eng'g Co. v. United States, 776 F.3d 1351, 1353 (Fed.Cir.2015)(affirming) ("Yuanda II").

44. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce March 26, 2013) (scope ruling request regarding complete and finished curtain wall units that are produced and imported pursuant to a contract to supply a complete curtain wall) at 1-2, reproduced in Pub. Appx. To [Yuanda's Br.], ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 ("Yuanda Scope Request").

45. Yuanda Scope Ruling, supra note 3, at 2.

46. Id. at 20.

47. Id.

48. See 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)(1).

49. Petition, ECF No. 83-3 at Tab 10, at Exhibit I-5; see Mem. of P. & A. in Supp. of Yuanda's Mot. for J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 38-1, at 4, 14; Mem. in Supp. of Pl. Jangho's Mot. for J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 37-1, at 14; [Permasteelisa's] Rule 56.2 Mot. for J. on the Agency R., ECF No. 39, at 4, 24; see also Mot. to Supp. the Admin. Record, ECF No. 33 (requesting that the administrative record be amended to include the Petition); Order, Sept. 18, 2014, ECF No. 36 (granting the motion to supplement the administrative record to include the Petition).

50. Def.'s Consent Mot. for Voluntary Remand, ECF No. 49.

51. Order, Dec. 9, 2014, ECF No. 50.

52. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 16.

53. See Yuanda's Br., ECF Nos. 79 & 80; Jangho Br., ECF No. 78; Permasteelisa's Br., ECF No. 39 (as amended by Notice of Withdrawal, ECF No. 84).

54. Oral Arg., Dec. 10, 2015, ECF No. 99; see Tr. of Oral Arg., ECF No. 100.

55. Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 1-2.

56. This term appears to have been adopted to describe the merchandise at issue here to be in keeping with the CWC Scope Ruling, where Commerce declined to consider whether a "complete curtain wall unit" could be excluded as a finished goods kit. See CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9; Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 7.

57. See Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 7; Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 34.

58. Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 7; see also id. at 8 ("Because curtain wall units form a wall of a building or part of a building when they are joined together, they are designed to meet thermal expansion and contraction, building sway and movement, water diversion, thermal efficiency, and structural integrity." (citation omitted)).

59. Id. at 7.

60. Id. at 8; see Ex. 1 to Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 (providing diagrams and photos illustrating the fabrication, finishing, and installation process of Yuanda's unitized curtain wall).

61. Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 8-9.

62. Id. at 9.

63. 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(b)(1)(B)(i).

64. Changzhou Wujin Fine Chem. Factory Co., Ltd. v. United States, 701 F.3d 1367, 1377 (Fed.Cir.2012) (citing Bowman Transp., Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight Sys., Inc., 419 U.S. 281, 284, 95 S.Ct. 438, 42 L.Ed.2d 447 (1974)).

65. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,653; see also Meridian Products, LLC v. United States, 125 F.Supp.3d 1306, 1310 (CIT 2015) (explaining that the AD & CVD Orders are meant to cover aluminum extrusions).

66. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650-51; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,653-54.

67. Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1357-58 (citing Yuanda I, ___ CIT ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1298-99)).

68. See Yuanda Scope Ruling, supra note 3, at 1.

69. Plaintiffs argue that "the subject curtain wall units and curtain walls were not part of the underlying injury determination by the [ITC]." Jangho's Br., ECF No. 78, at 17; see Yuanda's Br., ECF Nos. 79 & 80, at 31; Permasteelisa's Br., ECF No. 39, at 22-27. However, this question has already been decided. Yuanda I and Yuanda II concluded that the ITC injury determination was broad enough to include curtain wall products. Yuanda I, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1299 (finding curtain wall products within the scope of the ITC's injury determination in the absence of "any statute or regulation that makes an individual product's inclusion within the scope of an order contingent upon the initiation by Commerce or the ITC of a specific investigation regarding that product"); Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1358 (finding that the ITC's injury determination supported Commerce's scope ruling for curtain wall parts because the injury determination discussed "high-rise curtain wall products" (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)).

70. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654.

71. Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1358-59.

72. Compare Yuanda's Br., ECF No. 79 (not arguing the finished goods exclusion); Jangho's Br., ECF No. 78 (same) with Yuanda's Br., ECF No. 38-1 at 24-25 (arguing that the finished goods exclusion was appropriate); Jangho's Br., ECF No. 37-1, at 13-14 (same); Notice of Withdrawal, ECF No. 84, at 2 (amending Permasteelisa's brief to withdraw "[a]ll argument regarding whether the `finished goods' exclusion" applies).

73. Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1358 ("A single unit does not a curtain wall make, nor is it a finished product.... A part or subassembly, here a curtain wall unit, cannot be a finished product.); see also Yuanda I, ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1298-99 ("An individual curtain wall unit, on its own, has no consumptive or practical use because multiple units are required to form the wall of a building. Therefore, a curtain wall unit's sole function is to serve as a part for a much larger, more comprehensive system: a curtain wall. All of this being the case, it is clear that curtain wall units are not finished merchandise but, rather, are parts for curtain walls."); CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 1 (considering "curtain wall units and other parts of curtain wall systems"), 9 (declining to consider "complete curtain wall[] units"); CWC Am. Scope Request, ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 at Ex 2, at 1-2, 8-9 (defining the product at issue in the CWC Scope Ruling as "parts of curtain walls," namely "curtain wall sections, falling short of the final finished curtain wall that envelopes an entire building structure," including, but not limited to individual curtain wall units, i.e., "unitized ... modules that are designed to be interlocked with each other, like pieces of a puzzle").

74. See CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36 at 8-10 (providing, in a discussion section that is a model of opacity, no mention, let alone analysis, of the finished goods exclusion, despite the issue having been raised before the agency, id. at 6-7). This Court (and by extension the Federal Circuit) requires that administrative remedies be exhausted. 28 U.S.C. § 2637(d); Sandvik Steel Co. v. United States, 164 F.3d 596, 599 (Fed.Cir.1998) (citing McKart v. United States, 395 U.S. 185, 193, 89 S.Ct. 1657, 23 L.Ed.2d 194 (1969)). Where administrative remedies have not been exhausted, "judicial review of administrative action is inappropriate," Sharp Corp. v. United States, 837 F.2d 1058, 1062 (Fed.Cir.1988), since it is "a general rule that courts should not topple over administrative decisions unless the administrative body not only has erred but has erred against objection made at the time appropriate under its practice." United States v. L.A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc., 344 U.S. 33, 37, 73 S.Ct. 67, 97 L.Ed. 54 (1952).

75. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654.

76. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654.

77. See Final AD I & D Mem., supra note 10, at Cmt. 3H at 28 (finding that because "a baluster kit" was "a packaged collection of individual parts, which comprise a single element of a railing or deck system," it could not "represent a finished product"); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Oct. 31, 2011) (final scope ruling on certain modular aluminum railing systems) at 14 (finding that "[b]ecause these individual component products at issue [modular aluminum railing systems] do not contain all of the parts required to assemble a final finished railing system, the products do not constitute complete and finished products") ("Modular Railing Scope Ruling").

78. SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7.

79. Final AD I & D Mem., supra note 10, at Cmt. 3H at 28

80. Modular Railing Scope Ruling, supra note 77, at 14.

81. SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7 (quoting AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,653 ("The merchandise covered by this order is aluminum extrusions which are shapes and forms, produced by an extrusion process, made from aluminum alloys having metallic elements....")). Commerce explained that "[a]n interpretation of `finished goods kit' which requires all parts to assemble the ultimate downstream product [at the time of importation] may lead to absurd results, particularly where the ultimate downstream product is, for example, a fire truck," or indeed a "larger structure, such as a house." SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7.

82. SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 6-7.

83. With a finished good kit defined as "a packaged combination of parts that contains, at the time of importation, all of the necessary parts [to fully assemble a final finished good] and requires no further finishing or fabrication, such as cutting or punching, and is assembled `as is' into a finished product." Id. (emphasis omitted) (quoting AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654).

84. Commerce phrases this in terms of "simply examining whether [a product] is part of a larger structure or system," not present at the time of importation. See id. at 7.

85. Id. at 7.

86. Id.

87. [Valeo] Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Ct. Remand, Ct. No. 12-00381, ECF No. 20-1 ("Valeo Redetermination"), at 8 (citing SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7). Further, subassemblies made entirely from aluminum extrusions cannot be so excluded. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654; see Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Nov. 19, 2012) (final scope ruling on motor cases, assembled and housing stators) at 14.

88. See, e.g., Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Dec. 2, 2013) (final scope ruling on Traffic Brick Network, LLC's event decor parts and kits) ("Traffic Brick Scope Ruling") at 10 ("[W]e find Traffic Brick's Pipe Kits and Pipe and Drape Kits to be excluded from the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders] because they are finished goods kits that contain at the time of importation all parts necessary to fully assemble a complete display structure."); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Sept. 12, 2013) (final scope ruling on Law St. Enterprises, LLC's disappearing door screens) ("Law St. Scope Ruling") at 9 ("The disappearing screens do not constitute finished good kits because, at the time of importation, like parts are packaged together for shipment, meaning that all of the pieces necessary to assemble a final finished product (i.e., a disappearing screen) are not packaged together at the time of importation." Further, "Side Mount Valve Controls are ... distinguishable from disappearing screens because they are `subassemblies' (merchandise that is partially assembled and inherently part of a larger whole) that entered the United States as finished goods kits)."); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Apr. 19, 2013) (final scope ruling on 5 Diamond Promotions, Inc.'s aluminum flag pole sets) (Diamond Scope Ruling") at 9 ("Although the flag pole sets require no further fabrication once imported, the flag pole sets do not constitute finished good kits because at the time of importation, similarly-sized unassembled flag pole sections are bundled together for shipment, meaning that all of the sections necessary to assemble a final finished product (i.e., the flag pole) are not packaged together as a complete set in one package.").

89. See, e.g., Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Nov. 21, 2013) (final scope ruling on Kam Kiu's subparts for metal bushings) at 9 ("Kam Kiu's subparts [are not excluded as subassemblies because they] are incomplete and unfinished, resembling standard extrusions that require additional finishing before being installed."); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Nov. 19, 2012) (final scope ruling on motor cases, assembled and housing stators) at 14 ("We find that the assembled motor cases housing stators at issue meets the criteria for exclusion as outlined in the SMVC Scope Ruling. As noted above, the assembled motor cases housing stators at issue do not consist entirely of extruded aluminum. Further, we find that the assembled motor cases housing stators require no further finishing or fabrication upon importation.").

90. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 16.

91. Id. at 15 (citations omitted).

92. Id. at 17.

93. Id. at 35-36.

94. Allegheny Bradford Corp. v. United States, 28 C.I.T. 830, 842, 342 F.Supp.2d 1172, 1183 (2004) (citing Duferco Steel, 296 F.3d at 1094-95); Eckstrom Indus., 254 F.3d at 1072.

95. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654; see also Valeo Redetermination, Ct. No. 12-00381, ECF No. 20-1, at 8 (sustained, unchallenged, in Order, June 20, 2013, Ct. No. 12-00381, ECF No. 23) (defining subassembly as "merchandise that is `partially assembled' and inherently part of a larger whole.") (quoting SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7).

96. SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7 (quoting AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654).

97. Defendant-Intervenor argues that the unitized curtain wall at issue here cannot be excluded under the finished goods kit exclusion because it requires "further fabrication and assembly after importation." CWC Reply, ECF No. 87, at 30-32. Because Commerce did not reach this question, see Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 41-42, the court also does not reach this question.

98. Valeo Redetermination, Ct. No. 12-00381, ECF No. 20-1, at 8 (citing SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7). Further, subassemblies made entirely from aluminum extrusions cannot be so excluded. AD Order, 76 Fed. Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654; see Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], Final Scope Ruling, A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Nov. 19, 2012) (final scope ruling on motor cases, assembled and housing stators) at 14. This prohibition is not at issue here because unitized curtain wall is made from a variety of materials, including aluminum extrusions. See Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 8 (Yuanda's unitized curtain wall "is produced by fabricating a frame (generally from extruded aluminum), adding to it thermal insulation, filling it (generally with glass), sealing the infill, drilling holes, [and] attaching additional metal or plastics."); Ex. 1 to Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 (providing diagrams and photos explaining fabrication, finishing, and installation process of Yuanda unitized curtain wall).

99. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 35 (citing SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7).

100. Id. at 36 (quoting Yuanda Scope Ruling, ECF No. 34-1, at 25).

101. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654.

102. See, e.g., Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce July 25, 2014) (final scope ruling on fan blade assemblies) at 16 (finding that fan blades, to be installed in a cooling system, although not unique, were subassemblies and finished goods, and therefore excluded); id. at 17 (explaining that the Yuanda Scope Ruling, ECF No. 34-1, does not stand for the proposition that "a final finished good must have a consumptive use on its own in order to be excluded from the scope of the [AD & CVD] Orders."); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Nov. 23, 2015) (final scope ruling on Dometic Corp.'s lateral arm assemblies) at 11 (finding the lateral arm assemblies excluded as "subassemblies that qualify for the finished merchandise exclusion" because they "entered the United States as finished merchandise and subsequently were integrated into a larger system," and "require no further assembly or fabrication after importation; they are ready for immediate use," without mention of any uniqueness or individual identity requirement).

103. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 36 (citing Yuanda I, ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1297-98; Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1356-59.

104. AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654.

105. To suggest, as Commerce has done here, that excluding Yuanda's unitized curtain wall would render the provision for "parts for ... curtain walls" a nullity, is a false contrapositive. See Yuanda Scope Ruling, ECF No. 34-1, at 23 ("Because the scope language expressly includes parts of curtain walls, and because a curtain wall unit is part of a curtain wall, we would read out of the scope the inclusion of parts of curtain walls were we to find that a curtain wall unit is finished merchandise that is not covered by the scope."). As the CWC pointed out in their scope ruling request, "[a] curtain wall includes numerous parts and components including curtain wall units." CWC Am. Scope Request, ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 at Ex. 2, at 2; see also American Architectural Manufacturers Assoc., Curtain Wall Design Guide Manual (2005), Ex. 2 to Yuanda Scope Request, reproduced in Pub. App. to [Yuanda's Br.], ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 ("AAMA Manual"), at 3-9 (explaining that there are five main types of curtain wall systems, including stick systems, unit systems, and unit and mullion systems, all having different parts of various degrees of preassembly).

106. See Petition, ECF No. 83-3 at Tab 10, at Ex. I-5 (listing "unassembled unitized curtain walls" as excluded from the scope under the finished goods kit exclusion).

107. NLRB v. Federbush Co., 121 F.2d 954, 957 (2d Cir.1941) (L.Hand, J.).

108. Cf. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 9-17 (finding that curtain wall units may be excluded from the scope of the AD & CVD Orders as a finished goods kit if all parts to assemble a final, finished curtain wall were present at the time of importation).

109. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 10.

110. CWC Am. Scope Request, ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 at Ex 2, at 2.

111. Id. at 8-9; see also CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 3 ("The CWC states that curtain wall parts fall short of the final finished curtain wall that envelopes an entire building structure. Certain curtain wall parts are assembled into modules that are designed to be interlocked with either curtain wall parts, like pieces of a puzzle."). But cf. id. at 9 ("[W]e note that CWC's Amended Scope Request does not seek a scope ruling on complete curtain wall units, but rather `parts of curtain walls,' and this scope ruling is limited to the products discussed in the CWC's Amended Scope Request.").

112. Yuanda I, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1294 ("Because curtain wall units are `parts for' a finished curtain wall, the court's primary holding is that curtain wall units and other parts of curtain wall systems fall within the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders]."); Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1359 ("The scope language explicitly includes "parts for ... curtain walls" and curtain wall units are parts of a finished curtain wall.").

113. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9.

114. Yuanda I, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1301 ("The court finds that Commerce properly confined its inquiries to the request made by the CWC.... That is, an inquiry as to whether a particular entry, or even product, would qualify for an exception to the scope language simply goes far beyond the CWC's request."); see also Yuanda II, 776 F.3d 1351 (providing no discussion of the finished goods kit exclusion nor the subassemblies test). The court in Yuanda II appears to have misstated when it says that "Commerce explicitly considered whether Yuanda's merchandise fell into one of the enumerated exclusions." 776 F.3d at 1358. Further any such misstatement would also be mere dicta because Yuanda's merchandise was never at issue before Commerce, CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9 ("[T]his scope ruling is limited to the products discussed in the CWC's Amended Scope Request."), and Commerce explicitly declined to consider Yuanda's merchandise and the applicability of the AD & CVD Order exclusions thereto, id. at 9 ("[W]e note that the CWC's Amended Scope Request does not seek a scope ruling on [the product described by Yuanda,] complete curtain wall units, but rather `parts for curtain walls,' and this scope ruling is limited to the products discussed in the CWC's Amended Scope Request."). See 28 U.S.C. § 2637(d) (requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies for jurisdiction).

115. Yuanda II refers to the product at issue in the CWC Scope Ruling as "Yuanda's curtain wall units." See, e.g., Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1354 ("Commerce initiated a scope investigation of the [AD & CVD Orders] and determined Yuanda's curtain wall units were within the scope."). However, this is a misnomer, as Yuanda's merchandise, curtain wall units or otherwise, were not at issue before Commerce. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9 ("[T]his scope ruling is limited to the products discussed in the CWC's [] Scope Request."); id. at 1 (considering "curtain wall units and other parts of curtain wall[s]" as described in the CWC Am. Scope Request); Yuanda I, ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1300 ("Commerce properly confined its inquiries to the request made by the CWC.... That is, an inquiry as to whether a particular entry, or even product, would qualify for an exception to the scope language simply goes far beyond the CWC's request."). "Yuanda's curtain wall units" could not have been at issue before the Federal Circuit if they were not at issue already before Commerce. See 28 U.S.C. § 2637(d) (requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies for jurisdiction); see also Sandvik Steel, 164 F.3d at 599 (Fed.Cir. 1998) (citing McKart, 395 U.S. at 193, 89 S.Ct. 1657).

116. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9; Yuanda I, ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1300-01; Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1353 ("[The CWC Amended Scope Request] asked Commerce to issue a scope ruling confirming that curtain wall units and other parts of curtain wall systems are subject to the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders]." (internal quotation marks, emphasis, and citation omitted)).

117. Specifically, the court in Yuanda I notes that "`[t]he scope includes the aluminum extrusion components that are attached (e.g., by welding or fasteners) to form subassemblies, i.e., partially assembled merchandise,'" ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1296 (quoting AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651), that "[c]urtain wall units are assembled into completed curtain walls by, among other things, fasteners," id. at 1297 (internal citations omitted), and that "[p]laintiffs necessarily concede that absolutely no one purchases for consumption a single curtain wall piece or unit" because "a number of curtain wall units are attached to form the completed curtain wall, the final finished product," id. at 1298 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). On this basis the court concluded that "[c]urtain wall units are therefore undeniably components that are fastened together to form a completed curtain wall," tracking the subassembly language from the AD & CVD Orders, and are thus "`parts for,' and `subassemblies' for, completed curtain walls" and "fall within the scope of the [AD & CVD] Orders. Id. at 1298; see AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654. Yuanda II affirms this analysis. Yuanda II, 776 F.3d at 1358.

118. Yuanda I, ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1301; see CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 9; Yuanda I, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1300-01 ("The court finds that Commerce properly confined its inquiries to the request made by the CWC.... That is, an inquiry as to whether a particular entry, or even product, would qualify for an exception to the scope language simply goes far beyond the CWC's request."); Yuanda II, 776 F.3d 1351 (providing no discussion of the finished goods kit exclusion nor the subassemblies test); see also 28 U.S.C. § 2637(d) (requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies for jurisdiction).

119. Indeed, as the Yuanda I and II analysis implies, a curtain wall unit must be considered a subassembly rather than a "part" on the plain language of the AD & CVD Orders: "[P]arts" of final finished merchandise are "included in the scope" if they "otherwise meet the definition of aluminum extrusions," AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,651; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654, i.e., are shapes and forms made of the covered aluminum alloys and produced by an extrusion process, AD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,650; CVD Order, 76 Fed.Reg. at 30,654. Subassemblies are "partially assembled merchandise" including both "aluminum extrusion component[s] attached [together] (e.g., by welding or fasteners)" and "non-aluminum extrusion components." Id. A curtain wall unit is more than extruded aluminum shapes and forms; they include "non-aluminum extrusion components" — glass, plastics, and other metals. Yuanda Scope Request, supra note 3, at 8; see Ex. 1 to Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 (providing diagrams and photos explaining fabrication, finishing, and installation process of Yuanda unitized curtain wall).

120. Yuanda I, ___ CIT at ___, 961 F.Supp.2d at 1301.

121. Wheatland Tube Co. v. United States, 161 F.3d 1365, 1370 (Fed.Cir.1998) (internal citations, and quotation and alteration marks, omitted).

122. Nippon Steel Corp. v. United States, 458 F.3d 1345, 1351 (Fed.Cir.2006).

123. Universal Camera Corp. v. N.L.R.B., 340 U.S. 474, 488, 71 S.Ct. 456, 95 L.Ed. 456 (1951).

124. Mid Continent Nail Corp., 725 F.3d at 1302 (quoting 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)(1)) (alterations original).

125. Smith Corona Corp. v. United States, 915 F.2d 683, 685 (Fed.Cir.1990) ("The class or kind of merchandise encompassed by a final antidumping order is determined by the order, which is interpreted with the aid of the antidumping petition, the factual findings and legal conclusions adduced from the administrative investigations, and the preliminary order.").

126. Petition, ECF No. 83-3 at Tab 10, at Ex. I-5.

127. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 16; id. at 10 ("[I]t appears ... that Petitioner intended that curtain walls which are composed of curtain wall units which enter the United States unassembled, and meet the requirements of the `finished goods kit' exclusion language of the scope, could be considered a `finished goods kit' and be excluded from the scope....").

128. Id. at 11-12.

129. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Oct. 27, 2010) (preliminary determination comments on the scope of the investigations) at 11, reproduced in Redetermination, ECF No. 68-2, at Attach. 2. Specifically, Commerce "preliminarily determined that curtain wall components exported by [Yuanda] are covered by the scope because [Yuanda] has not established that it imports its merchandise in a kit that contains at the time of importation all of the necessary parts to fully assemble a finished good." Id. at 11-12. Commerce notes that the Petitioner supported the agency's position. Id. at 11; Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 13.

130. See Final AD I & D Mem., supra note 10, at 18 (amending, at Petitioner's request, to add the phrase "`unless imported as part of the "kit" defined further below' at the end of the last sentence in the fourth paragraph so that the resulting sentence reads: `The scope includes aluminum extrusions that are attached (e.g., by welding or fasteners) to form subassemblies, i.e., partially assembled merchandise unless imported as part of a "kit" defined further below.'").

131. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 1.

132. Yuanda Scope Ruling, supra note 3, at 1.

133. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 15.

134. These are also (k)(1) materials. See Mid Continent Nail Corp., 725 F.3d at 1302 (quoting 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)(1)).

135. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 15 (citing Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Aug. 17, 2012) (final scope ruling on Solarmotion controllable sunshades) ("Solarmotion Scope Ruling") at 11; Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Dec. 13, 2011) (final scope ruling on Ameristar Fence Products' aluminum fence and post parts) ("Ameristar Scope Ruling") at 6; Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce Dec. 9, 2011) (final scope ruling on window kits) ("Window Kits Scope Ruling") at 5).

136. Solarmotion Scope Ruling, supra note 135, at 11; Ameristar Scope Ruling, supra note 135, at 6; Window Kits Scope Ruling, supra note 135, at 5.

137. In fact, none of these cases even provide discussion of whether the products at issue there were subassemblies, much less whether they could be excluded as such. See Solarmotion Scope Ruling, supra note 135; Ameristar Scope Ruling, supra note 135; Window Kits Scope Ruling, supra note 135.

138. See, e.g., Valeo Redetermination, Ct. No. 12-00381, ECF No. 20-1, at 8-9; SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 6-7 (however this ruling is discussed at Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 35-36, where Commerce declines to apply the subassembly exclusion); Traffic Brick Scope Ruling, supra note 88, at 10; Law St. Scope Ruling, supra note 88, at 9; Diamond Scope Ruling, supra note 88, at 9.

139. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (June 7, 2013) (rebuttal comments in response to Yuanda's Comments regarding Commerce's Initiation of a formal scope inquiry), reproduced in Redetermination, ECF No 68-2, at Attach. 4.

140. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 14 (quoting "Petitioner's counsel in National Glass Magazine).

141. See 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k)(1).

142. See Yuanda Scope Ruling, supra note 3, at 26 ("[W]e do not find that this quote, which was not on the record of the investigation, can be considered to embody the intent of the petitioner.").

143. See CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 6 ("Petitioners reiterate CW[C]'s contention that it is simply not possible for a complete curtain wall to enter as a `kit' because the entire installation process is designed to work with other parts to form a larger structure and represent a collection of individual parts that comprise a single element as opposed to complete system." (footnotes omitted)); Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 8-9 (indicating that Yuanda's practice is to deliver unitized curtain wall, given its size and complexity, to job sites in phases); Ex. 1 to Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 (providing illustration of curtain wall units shipped to building sites in sets to assembled into curtain wall systems); Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Apr. 26, 2013) (comments in opposition to the scope request regarding complete curtain wall units) at 20, reproduced in Yuanda's App., ECF No. 83-1 at Tab 2 ("[C]urtain wall units are imported with many entries in a multitude of containers and numerous shipments to construct a complete curtain wall for a particular project.").

144. Cf. Polites v. United States, ___ CIT ___, 755 F.Supp.2d 1352, 1357 (2011) (finding that Commerce's interpretation of an order was "unreasonable" because "nothing in the record demonstrates merchandise matching this definition is imported into the United States or is even possibly imported into the United States").

145. CWC Scope Ruling, supra note 36, at 6 ("Petitioners reiterate CW[C]'s contention that it is simply not possible for a complete curtain wall to enter as a `kit' because the entire installation process is designed to work with other parts to form a larger structure and represent a collection of individual parts that comprise a single element as opposed to complete system." (footnotes omitted)).

146. Polites, ___ CIT at ___, 755 F.Supp.2d at 1357.

147. See TRW Inc. v. Andrews, 534 U.S. 19, 31, 122 S.Ct. 441, 151 L.Ed.2d 339 (2001) (citation omitted). Commerce expresses concern that, if the exclusion were made to cover "numerous imports over an unspecified period of time," of curtain wall units imported pursuant to a contract to supply a curtain wall, "it would appear to be very difficult if not impossible, for CBP to administer, monitor, and enforce an exclusion to the [AD & CVD Orders] which would be contingent on piecemeal imports over a period of time." Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 17. Plaintiffs point out that such monitoring could be as simple as referencing the entry documents: Yuanda produces and exports curtain wall units pursuant to a contract to supply a curtain wall. Each commercial invoice accompanying Yuanda's 7501 forms is coded to a specific contract. "Hence, to determine whether the complete curtain wall was delivered, it is only a matter of tying the commercial invoices to the contract terms." Yuanda Br., ECF Nos. 79 & 80, at 24 (citing Ex. 3 to Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1 (providing example contract for unitized curtain wall to be delivered in phases); see also Jangho Br., ECF No. 78, at 12-17.

As Commerce states elsewhere, ease or difficulty of administration is not a valid basis for scope rulings. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 37 (Commerce's scope determination must be based "on the language of the scope of the [AD & CVD Orders], the language of the Petition, the underlying investigation, the Department's interpretation of the scope in other scope rulings, and the factual information on the record of this proceeding."). It is not a question of policy, as Defendant suggests, see Def.'s Br., ECF No. 85, at 33, but rather a list of factors prescribed by regulation, see 19 C.F.R. § 351.225(k) — and expressio unius est exclusio alterius.

148. Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of U.S., Inc. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 463 U.S. 29, 43, 103 S.Ct. 2856, 77 L.Ed.2d 443 (1983). Although the Court in State Farm was discussing the "arbitrary or capricious" (rather than the "substantial evidence") standard of review, this reasoning is also relevant here because an agency determination that is arbitrary is ipso facto unreasonable. See, e.g., Ward v. Sternes, 334 F.3d 696, 704 (7th Cir. 2003) (noting that "a decision [that] is so inadequately supported by the record as to be arbitrary [is] therefore objectively unreasonable") (quotation marks and citations omitted).

149. Universal Camera, 340 U.S. at 488, 71 S.Ct. 456.

150. Consol. Bearings Co. v. United States, 348 F.3d 997, 1007 (Fed.Cir.2003) (citation omitted).

151. Aluminum Extrusions from the [PRC], Final Scope Ruling, A-570-967 & C-570-968 (Dep't of Commerce June 19, 2014) (final scope ruling on finished window [wall] kits) ("Window Wall Scope Ruling"), at 1.

152. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 16.

153. Id. at 32.

154. Redetermination, ECF No. 68-1, at 33.

155. See Petition, ECF No. 83-3 at Tab 10, at Ex. I-5 (listing "unassembled unitized curtain walls" as excluded from the scope under the finished goods kit exclusion). Cf. Eckstrom Indus., Inc. v. United States, 254 F.3d 1068, 1073 (Fed.Cir.2001) ("The Government's argument essentially reduces to an interpretation of the Order as covering any stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings under fourteen inches in diameter. This construction is belied by the terms of the Order itself, which indicate that it applies only to `certain stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings, whether finished or unfinished, under 14" in diameter.'" (emphasis original)).

156. A window wall is "[a] type of metal curtain wall installed between floors or between floor and roof and typically composed of vertical and horizontal framing members, containing operable sash or ventilators, fixed lights or opaque panels or any combination thereof." AAMA Manual, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 2. Further, the terms window wall and curtain wall "still mean different things to different people. Often they are used interchangeably with no clear distinction being made between them." Id. Their meanings are "interrelated and overlapping." Id.

157. Redetermination, ECF No. 67, at 33-34.

158. Window Wall Scope Ruling, supra note 151, at 5 ("A window wall must be installed in sections and [is] imported as completed sections in phases with each phase comprising of approximately 30 or more cartons."); Yuanda Scope Request, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 8; AAMA Manual, ECF No. 83 at Tab 1, at 2, 5.

159. See SMVC Scope Ruling, supra note 24, at 7.

160. Because the court remands, it does not reach the issue of whether Commerce must clarify or amend the instructions issued to CBP regarding the suspension date of the entries at issue to include Plaintiffs Jangho and Permasteelisa. See Jangho's Br., ECF No. 78, at 23; Permasteelisa's Br., ECF No. 39, at 38.

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SHENYANG YUANDA ALUMINUM INDUSTRY ENGINEERING CO. v. U.S., 146 F.Supp.3d 1331 (2016)

OPINION and ORDER

BACKGROUND

I. The Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Aluminum Extrusions

II. The Language of the Order

III. Interpreting the Scope of an Order

IV. The Scope Ruling on Curtain Wall Units and Other Parts of a Curtain Wall System from the PRC

V. The Scope Ruling on Curtain Wall Units that are Produced and Imported Pursuant to a Contract to Supply Curtain Wall

VI. The Product at Issue as Described in Yuanda's Scope Ruling Request

STANDARD OF REVIEW

DISCUSSION

I. Individual Curtain Wall Units Are Within the Scope of the AD & CVD Orders as "Parts of ... Curtain Walls"

II. Finished Goods Exclusion

III. Finished Goods Kit Exclusion

A. Commerce Has Interpreted the AD & CVD Orders Contrary to Their Terms

B. Commerce's Ruling is Unsupported by Substantial Evidence

C. Commerce Has Made Arbitrary Distinctions Between Subject and Non-Subject Products

CONCLUSION

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SHENYANG YUANDA ALUMINUM INDUSTRY ENGINEERING CO. v. U.S., 146 F.Supp.3d 1331 (2016)

OPINION and ORDER

BACKGROUND

I. The Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Aluminum Extrusions

II. The Language of the Order

III. Interpreting the Scope of an Order

IV. The Scope Ruling on Curtain Wall Units and Other Parts of a Curtain Wall System from the PRC

V. The Scope Ruling on Curtain Wall Units that are Produced and Imported Pursuant to a Contract to Supply Curtain Wall

VI. The Product at Issue as Described in Yuanda's Scope Ruling Request

STANDARD OF REVIEW

DISCUSSION

I. Individual Curtain Wall Units Are Within the Scope of the AD & CVD Orders as "Parts of ... Curtain Walls"

II. Finished Goods Exclusion

III. Finished Goods Kit Exclusion

A. Commerce Has Interpreted the AD & CVD Orders Contrary to Their Terms

B. Commerce's Ruling is Unsupported by Substantial Evidence

C. Commerce Has Made Arbitrary Distinctions Between Subject and Non-Subject Products

CONCLUSION

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