The U.S. Department of Commerce announced positive results in investigations of antidumping duties on imports of certain structural steels from China and Mexico, finding that exporters from China and Mexico dumped precast structural steel in the United States with margins ranging from 0.00 percent to 141.38. percent and 0.00 percent to 30.58 percent, respectively. The Department also announced a negative preliminary determination in the AD investigation of some manufactured structural steels from Canada. As a result of this decision, the Department of Commerce will instruct the US Customs and Border Guard to collect duties from structural steel importers from China and Mexico based on the preliminary rates indicated above.
The applicant is an American member of the Steel Structure Institute Subgroup Chicago, Illinois.
In 2018, imports of finished structural steel from Canada, China and Mexico were estimated at 722.5 million US dollars, 897.5 million US dollars and 622.4 million US dollars, respectively.
The final definitions must be announced in these investigations on or about January 24, 2020. If the final decisions of Commerce are positive, the US International Trade Commission will have to make a final decision on the harm on March 9, 2020 or so. gives affirmative final definitions of dumping, and ITC gives affirmative final definitions of damages, Commerce will issue AD orders. If Commerce accepts the negative final definition of dumping, the investigation will be terminated.
