On June 26, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced a partial rescission of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of hot rolled carbon steel flat products (HR steel) from Thailand.
On December 1, 2008, US domestic HR producer US Steel and Thai HR producer G Steel requested the DOC to conduct an administrative review of G Steel's sales of the subject merchandise, for the period November 1, 2007, through October 31, 2008. G J Steel also requested the DOC to review the sales of G J Steel, asserting in its request that the DOC should treat both companies, in this case G Steel and G J Steel as affiliated, and as affiliated producers, as a single entity entitled to a single AD duty rate as a result of this review.
On December 24, 2008, the DOC published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of the subject review covering the period in question.
On March 12, 2009, G Steel and G J Steel withdrew their requests for a review, and asked the DOC to rescind the review with respect to G Steel and G J Steel, noting that in the case of G J Steel no other party had requested a review.
On April 7, 20, and 28, 2009, domestic interested parties Nucor Corporation (Nucor) and US Steel submitted comments and additional information for the record in support of their position that the review should not be rescinded.
The DOC has determined to rescind the review in question with respect to G J Steel. As regards G Steel, the petitioner US Steel requested a review of G Steel and, therefore, as not all parties have withdrawn their requests for a review of G Steel, the DOC has determined that the review will continue with respect to G Steel.