Trade Cases
November 8, 2016
U.S. DOC Initiates Circumvention Inquiry on Corrosion Resistant Steels
Written by John Packard
On Monday the U.S. Department of Commerce, responding to petitions from ArcelorMittal, Nucor, US Steel, AK Steel, Steel Dynamics and California Steel, initiated an inquiry of circumvention of the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders against China. The probe will be for hot rolled and cold rolled substrate supplied by China to Vietnam for the purposes of converting to coated products which was then exported to the United States. The U.S. steel mills allege the transformation from hot rolled and cold rolled to coated products is not significant
The DOC initiated the anti-circumvention inquiry based on the following criteria (same as cold rolled initiation):
