The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the final results of its antidumping duty (AD) administrative review for silicon metal from China on Tuesday, January 12, making changes in the margins compared to the preliminary results based upon the analysis of the comments and information received from the involved actors.
Accordingly, the DOC has made revisions to the margin calculations in the final results for Jiangxi Gangyuan Silicon Industry Company (Jiangxi Gangyuan) and Shanghai Jinneng International Trade Co. (Shanghai Jinneng) but has stuck to its preliminary decision that two respondents, Datong Jinneng and Lao Silicon, did not make sales to the US of the subject merchandise during the period of the review. The period of the review launched on July 30, 2008 covers June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008.
The DOC's dumping margins for this period are as follows: Jiangxi Gangyuan, 50.02 percent; Shanghai Jinneng, 23.16 percent and other China-wide entity, 139.49 percent.
As publicized by the DOC on July 9, 2010, the margin in the preliminary results of the review for Shanghai Jinneng was 41.81 percent and for Jiangxi Gangyuan was 55.25 percent. The China-wide rate did not change in the final determination.
Silicon metal is currently provided for under subheadings 2804.69.10
and 2804.69.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) as a chemical
product, but is commonly referred to as a metal.