The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has made its preliminary determinations in the first administrative review of the antidumping order against light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico.
The review covers eight Mexican producers/exporters during the period from January 30, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
The preliminary dumping margins are as follows, with the current dumping duty deposit rates are in parentheses:
(a) Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. - 22.62% (2.40%)
(b) Regiomontana de Perfiles y Tubos S.A. de C.V. - 9.48% (3.76%)
(3) Industrias Monterrey S.A. de C.V. - 16.05% (11.50%)
(4) Perfiles y Herrajes LM S.A. de C.V. - 16.05% (3.76%)
(5) Galvak S.A. de C.V. - 16.05% (3.76%)
(6) Nacional de Acero S.A. de C.V. - 16.05% (11.50%)
(7) Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. - 16.05% (5.12%)
(8) Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V. (formerly Hylsa S.A. de C.V.) - 16.05% (3.76%)
Maquilacero and Regiomontana are the mandatory respondents in this review, and the DOC calculated dumping margins for them. The dumping margin for the remaining companies is a simple average of the margins for the mandatory respondents.
The DOC plans to complete this review by January 2011, and the current dumping duty deposit rates will remain in effect until the DOC's final results are published in the Federal Register.