Trade Cases
September 22, 2016
CSI and SDI File Circumvention Complaint Against Vietnamese Coated Steels
Written by John Packard
Earlier today California Steel and Steel Dynamics filed a Request for Circumvention Ruling with the U.S. Department of Commerce against Vietnam. One of the trading companies Steel Market Update spoke to this afternoon termed the complaint a “game breaker” for steel trading companies importing foreign steel who will now shy away from any country that might put a target on the trading company’s back (since they are the importer of record).
The complaint alleges that Vietnamese exports of CORE (corrosion resistant = galvanized/Galvalume) are being done as a way of circumventing duties against those countries the Department of Commerce had found affirmative action of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) previously.
