US producers of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) filed an appeal Tuesday of the negative decision on material injury by the US International Trade Commission (ITC).
AK Steel Corporation and Allegheny Ludlum, LLC, and the United Steelworkers appealed the decision to the Court of International Trade, while the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America also expressed its support for the appeal.
“We are very disappointed by the negative determination by the ITC,” said David A. Hartquist of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, counsel to petitioners. “We believe the case warranted an affirmative determination and that the majority decision contains fundamental errors of fact and law. The Department of Commerce found antidumping margins of up to 241 percent which caused lost sales and significant financial injury to the US producers, which in our judgment met the legal standard for an affirmative determination. Therefore, the petitioners have appealed the decision to the Court of International Trade.”
The decision by the ITC on August 27 covered imports from Germany, Japan and Poland. The ITC is scheduled to make final injury determinations on the remaining cases against the Czech Republic, China, Korea and Russia on October 23.