The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (CTL plate) imports from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan and Turkey, and a countervailing duty (CVD) investigation for imports of these products from Brazil, China, and South Korea.
As SteelOrbis reported previously, the investigations were launched upon a complaint received from the three major US steel producers, ArcelorMittal USA, Nucor Corporation and SSAB Enterprises, alleging that producers in each of the twelve countries are dumping CTL plate in the US market and that the governments of Brazil, China, and South Korea are providing countervailable subsidies to producers of CTL plate.
The products in question currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7208.40, 7208.51, 7208.52, 7211.13, 7211.14, 7225.40, 7226.20 and 7226.91.