The Canadian International Trade Tribunal conducted a preliminary injury inquiry into whether the evidence discloses a reasonable indication that the alleged injurious dumping of corrosion-resistant flat-rolled steel sheet products of carbon steel originating in or exported from the China, Taiwan, India and South Korea has caused injury or retardation or is threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry.
The inquiry included products in coils or cut lengths, in thicknesses up to 0.168 in. (4.267 mm) and widths up to 72 in. (1,828.8 mm), and alloyed with the following elements: Boron (B) not more than 0.01 percent; Niobium (Nb) not more than 0.100 percent; Titanium (Ti) not more than 0.08 percent; or Vanadium (V) not more than 0.300 percent.
The inquiry excludes unpassivated corrosion-resistant steel sheet products; corrosion-resistant steel sheet products for use in the manufacture of passenger automobiles, buses, trucks, ambulances or hearses or chassis therefor, or parts thereof, or accessories or parts thereof; steel products for use in the manufacture of aeronautic products; steel sheet that is coated or plated with tin, lead, nickel, copper, chromium, chromium oxides, both tin and lead (terne plate), or both chromium and chromium oxides (tin-free steel); stainless flat-rolled steel products; corrosion-resistant steel sheet products that have been pre-painted or coated with organic (non-metallic) coatings, including lacquers or varnishes; galvanized armouring tape, which is narrow flat steel tape of 3 in. or less, that has been coated by a final operation with zinc by either the hot-dip galvanizing or the electrogalvanizing process so that all surfaces, including the edges, are coated; and tool steel.