Are Manufactured HR and CR Parts Included in the Antidumping Suits?

The legalese can be brain numbing when reviewing the documents involved with the various steel trade suits. However, large manufacturing companies have their attorneys go through the petitions and review the specific language in order to recognize when changes are made in order to protect themselves from surprises. If your company has not done so already you may want to be aware that there is a potential big surprise in the latest cold rolled and hot rolled antidumping and countervailing duty suits.

A large manufacturing company with operations in the United States, as well as elsewhere around the world, approached SMU about changes in the scope language contained in the federal record on the cold rolled antidumping case. The new language impacts their business as it now includes “non-rectangular shapes, not in coils, which are the result of being processed by cutting or stamping and which have assumed the character of articles or products classified outside of Chapter 72 of the HTS”. (We are working on getting a layman’s answer to our inquiries as to how this change affects manufactured parts).