U.S. Agency Votes to Keep Antidumping Duties on Rebar Imports for Another Five Years
06/13/2013 - The U.S. International Trade Commission voted to not allow antidumping duties on rebar imports from Belarus, China, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine to expire, or sunset, so the duties will remain in place for another five years.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty orders on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Belarus, China, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the existing orders on the rebar under review will remain in place.
With respect to the order on China, all six commissioners voted in the affirmative. With respect to the orders on Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, chairman Irving A. Williamson and commissioners Shara L. Aranoff, Dean A. Pinkert, David S. Johanson, and Meredith M. Broadbent voted in the affirmative; commissioner Daniel R. Pearson voted in the negative.
With respect to the orders on Indonesia, Latvia, and Poland, chairman Williamson and commissioners Aranoff, Pinkert, and Johanson voted in the affirmative; commissioners Pearson and Broadbent voted in the negative.
The action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
