7.3 Korea argues that, in calculating the dumping margins for the relevant respondents, the
USDOC:
(i) identified different "models" (i.e., types of products based on the most relevant
product characteristics);
(ii) calculated weighted average prices for sales in the United States and weighted
average normal values for sales in the comparison market on a model-specific basis,
for the entire period of investigation;
(iii) compared the weighted average normal value of each model to the weighted average
United States price for that same model;
(iv) calculated the dumping margin for an exporter by summing up the amount of
dumping for each model and then dividing it by the aggregated United States price
for all models; and in doing so
(v) set to zero all negative margins on individual models prior to summing the total
amount of dumping for all models.
7.4 Korea submits that by applying this methodology, the USDOC calculated margins of
dumping in amounts that exceeded the actual extent of dumping (if any) by the investigated
companies and, consequently, that the United States collected anti-dumping duties in excess of those
that would have been due had the zeroing methodology not been applied.