U.S. Trade Commission Issues Affirmative Rulings in Two Steel Cases
03/21/2019 - The U. S. International Trade Commission will allow a dumping and subsidy investigation into fabricated structural steel to proceed, and it has cleared the way for duties to be imposed on another product.
In announcements Wednesday, the ITC said it has preliminarily determined that unfairly traded fabricated structural steel imports from Canada, China and Mexico have injured U.S. producers. It also has affirmed that U.S. producers were harmed by unfairly traded imports of cast iron soil pipe from China.
The fabricated structural steel investigation was launched earlier this year on a complaint from the American Institute of Steel Construction. The Commerce Department has set preliminary anti-dumping duties of 30.4% on Canadian imports, 30.6% on Mexican imports and 222.4% on Chinese imports.
The soil pipe case was initiated last year on a complaint from the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute. The Commerce Department has imposed an anti-dumping duty of 235.9%.
