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U.S. Electrical Steel Producers Pleased with Dumping Margins Set in Trade Case

ArcelorMittal Frydek Mistek 13.76%
Sujani 35.93%
 
 
The antidumping margins are customs duties imposed by the U.S. government on imports from the Czech Republic.
 
"We are pleased by the Commerce Department's announcement that GOES from the Czech Republic is being dumped in the U.S. at significant margins.  This announcement confirms the domestic industry's belief that imports from the Czech Republic are competing unfairly in the U.S. market, and marks an important step in the domestic industry's efforts to obtain relief from the injury caused by unfairly traded imports.  The next event in the Czech Republic case will be a vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission on 23 October as to whether the dumped imports have caused material injury to the US producers," said David A. Hartquist, counsel to the domestic industry.
 
The DOC's determinations follow the filing, on 18 September 2013, of antidumping and countervailing duty petitions by domestic GOES producers AK Steel Corporation and Allegheny Ludlum LLC d/b/a ATI Flat Rolled Products, an Allegheny Technologies company, as well as the United Steelworkers (USW), which represents workers engaged in the production of GOES at ATI Flat Rolled Products.  The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), which represents workers engaged in the production of GOES at AK Steel, subsequently expressed its support for the petitions.
 
GOES is a flat-rolled alloy steel product that contains by weight at least 0.6% but not more than 6% of silicon, not more than 0.08% of carbon, and not more than 1% of aluminum.  The petitions cover GOES that is sold in either sheet or strip form, in coils or in straight lengths.  GOES is manufactured using a specialized rolling and annealing process that yields grain structures uniformly oriented in the rolling (or lengthwise) direction of the sheet, enabling it to conduct a magnetic field with a high degree of efficiency.  Based on these unique product characteristics, GOES is used primarily in the production of laminated cores for large and medium-sized electrical power transformers and distribution transformers. 
 
The petitioners are represented in these actions by David A. Hartquist and John M. Herrmann of the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP.