Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
The Commerce Department has initiated an inquiry to determine if concrete reinforcing steel bar, bent at one or both ends, circumvents existing antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders covering imports from Mexico. The action responds to requests from domestic operators Byer Steel, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, Commercial Metals, Gerdau Ameristeel, Nucor Corp. and Steel Dynamics.
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Commerce staff has announced affirmative final determinations in antidumping duty (AD) investigations of steel concrete reinforcing bar imports from Japan and Turkey, plus affirmative final determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of rebar imports from Turkey.
Read MoreSources: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Washington, D.C.; CP staff
Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc., Nucor Corp., Keystone Consolidated Industries Inc., and Charter Steel have filed petitions concurrently with the U.S. Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission charging that unfairly-traded imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod are causing material injury to the domestic industry.
Read MoreSources: U.S. International Trade Commission; CP staff
The International Trade Commission will expedite a five-year review concerning an antidumping duty order on Gray Portland Cement and Clinker from Japan dating to 1991. The review will be conducted to determine whether revocation of the order would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to domestic cement producers within a reasonably foreseeable time.
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Sources: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Washington, D.C.; CP staff
Through the U.S. Department of Commerce, seven domestic stainless steel bar producers have filed a request for changed circumstances reviews, arguing that Viraj Profiles and Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd. should be immediately reinstated back under the existing antidumping duty order on competing product from India. Following respective 2004 and 2011 revocations from the order, they contend, Viraj Profiles and Venus Wire resumed dumping concrete reinforcing and other stainless steel bar products in the U.S.
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