U.S. Government Makes Moves On Metals Trade Cases

As the law firm Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg has noted, the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Administration, and International Trade Commission have recently announced several actions regarding antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty cases.

These cases include:

• Aluminum foil. The Commerce Department made a final determination that imports of aluminum foil exported from Korea and Thailand using inputs (aluminum foil- and sheet-gauge products) manufactured in China are circumventing the AD and CV duty orders on aluminum foil from China. Read more about that case here.
• Steel fittings. The Commerce Department also found evocation of the AD orders on forged steel fittings from China, Taiwan, and Italy would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping. Read more about that case here.
• Steel wire rod. The Commerce Department also determined carbon and alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from South Korea were not sold in the United States at less than normal value from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022. Read more about that case here.

The ITC also recently determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by imports of aluminum extrusions from China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam that are allegedly sold in the United States at less than fair value and subsidized by the governments of China, Indonesia, and Mexico, and it determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of aluminum extrusions from Turkey that are allegedly subsidized by the government of Turkey. Click here to read more about that investigation.