The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Monday its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of certain steel wheels from China.
In the AD investigation, mandatory respondents Shanghai Yata Industry Company Limited and Zhejiang Jingu Company Limited each received a dumping rate of 82.92 percent. Mandatory respondent Jining Centurion Wheels Manufacturing Co., Ltd. received a dumping rate of 44.96 percent. Eight additional exporters qualified for a separate rate of 63.94 percent. All other Chinese producers/exporters are subject to the China-wide dumping rate of 193.54 percent.
In the CVD investigation, mandatory respondent Jining Centurion Wheel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Jining CII Wheel Manufacture Co., Ltd. (the Centurion Companies) received a net subsidy rate of 25.66 percent. Mandatory respondent Shandong Xingmin Wheel Co., Ltd. and Sino-tex (Longkou) Wheel Manufacturers Inc. (the Xingmin Companies) received a net subsidy rate of 32.62 percent. Mandatory respondent Zhejiang Jingu Company Limited, Chengdu Jingu Wheel Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Wheel World Industrial Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Yata Industrial Co., Ltd. (the Jingu Companies) received a net subsidy rate of 38.32 percent.
The petitioners for these investigations are Indiana-based Accuride Corporation and Michigan-based and Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
Imports of the subject merchandise are provided for under the following categories of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS): 8708.70.0500, 8708.70.2500, 8708.70.4530, and 8708.70.6030. Imports of the subject merchandise may also enter under the following categories of the HTSUS: 8406.90.4580, 8406.90.7500, 8420.99.9000, 8422.90.1100, 8422.90.2100, 8422.90.9120, 8422.90.9130, 8422.90.9160, 8422.90.9195, 8431.10.0010, 8431.10.0090, 8431.20.0000, 8431.31.0020, 8431.31.0040, 8431.31.0060, 8431.39.0010, 8431.39.0050, 8431.39.0070, 8431.39.0080, 8431.43.8060, 8431.49.1010, 8431.49.1060, 8431.49.1090, 8431.49.9030, 8431.49.9040, 8431.49.9085, 8432.90.0005, 8432.90.0015, 8432.90.0030, 8432.90.0080, 8433.90.1000, 8433.90.5020, 8433.90.5040, 8436.99.0020, 8436.99.0090, 8479.90.9440, 8479.90.9450, 8479.90.9496, 8487.90.0080, 8607.19.1200, 8607.19.1500, 8708.70.1500, 8708.70.3500, 8708.70.4560, 8708.70.6060, 8709.90.0000, 8710.00.0090, 8714.19.0030, 8714.19.0060, 8716.90.1000, 8716.90.5030, 8716.90.5060, 8803.20.0015, 8803.20.0030, and 8803.20.0060.