Preliminary AD margins announced on U.S. CR imports
The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced its preliminary determinations in the anti-dumping investigations of certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products from
Argentina,
Australia,
Belgium,
Brazil,
China,
France,
Germany,
India,
Japan,
Korea, the
Netherlands,
New Zealand, the Russian Federation, South
Africa,
Spain,
Sweden,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
Turkey, and
Venezuela
The Department has calculated 1.97% (de Minimus) preliminary dumping margin for Usinor Group of
France. Relatively favourable margins of 3.15% for
China Steel Corp./Yieh Loong of
Taiwan and 5.25% for POSCO of
Korea have been announced. On the other hand, Thai Cold-Rolled Steel Sheet has been hit by a 142.78% margin announcement.
Please see related article under Trade Watch for the details of the preliminary dumping margins announced by the D.O.C.
U.S. D.O.C., is scheduled to make its final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations by July 10, 2002 for
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Australia
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China
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France
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India
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Japan
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Korea
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Netherlands
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Russia
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Sweden
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Spain
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Thailand
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Turkey
The D.O.C. has time until September 13, 2002 to make final determinations for the following countries:
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Argentina
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Brazil
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Belgium
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Germany
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New Zealand
- South
Africa
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Taiwan
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Venezuela
After previous allegations by petitioners, the D.O.C. made preliminary determinations that critical circumstances do exist for imports from:
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Australia
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China
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India
- the
Netherlands
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Russia
With respect to imports from
Korea, the D.O.C. preliminary determinations are that critical circumstances exist for imports produced or exported from POSCO and all other Korean producers/exporters, but it made a preliminary negative critical circumstances determination for imports produced or exported by Dongbu Steel.
The Department has made a preliminary determination that critical circumstances do not exist with respect to imports from
Argentina, South
Africa, and
Taiwan.