Trade Cases
June 14, 2018
U.S. Mills Accuse Korea, Taiwan of Chinese Circumvention Tactics
Written by Tim Triplett
U.S. steelmakers filed trade cases this week on cold rolled and corrosion resistant (CORE) steels alleging that Korea and Taiwan are guilty of using the same circumvention tactics as the Chinese–namely sending hot rolled and cold rolled substrate to Vietnam.
As many predicted, the Commerce Department’s recent Chinese circumvention ruling has set a precedent that domestic steelmakers hope to exploit to further restrict what they consider unfair imports from other countries without having to file new antidumping and countervailing duty petitions. U.S. mills filed three petitions this week, one on cold rolled steel products originating in South Korea and two on CORE products from substrate originating in South Korea and Taiwan that have been converted and then shipped to the U.S. from Vietnam.
