The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will uphold existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate imports from India, Indonesia, Italy, and Korea, as well as an antidumping duty order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate imports from Japan. However, an existing antidumping duty order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate imports from France will be revoked.

The decisions follow the ITC’s investigation and determination that revoking the existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders regarding cut-to-length carbon steel plate from India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and Korea (but not France) would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to the domestic market.

With respect to India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and Korea, Chairman Stephen Koplan and Commissioners Jennifer A. Hillman, Charlotte R. Lane, and Shara L. Aranoff voted in the affirmative, finding that revoking the existing orders would be likely to lead material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. Vice Chairman Deanna Tanner Okun and Commissioner Daniel R. Pearson voted in the negative, finding that revoking the existing orders would not be likely to lead to material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.

With respect to France, Chairman Koplan, Vice Chairman Okun, and Commissioners Hillman, Pearson, and Aranoff voted in the negative, finding that revoking the existing order would not be likely to lead to material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. Commissioner Lane voted in the affirmative, finding that revoking the existing order would be likely to lead to material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.