The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its preliminary affirmative determination in the anti-dumping (AD) investigations against imports of galvanized steel wire from the People's Republic of China and Mexico. The DOC determined that Chinese and Mexican exporters sold galvanized wire in the US at margins ranging from 76.34 to 235 percent and 37.87 to 61.54 percent, respectively. The petitioners for these investigations are: Davis Wire Corporation, Johnstown Wire Technologies, Inc., Mid-South Wire Company, Inc., National Standard, LLC, and Oklahoma Steel & Wire Company, Inc.
In the China investigation, Tianjin Honbase Machinery Manufactory Co., Ltd. (Tianjin Honbase); and Shanghai Bao Zhang Industry Co., Ltd., Anhui Bao Zhang Metal Products Co., Ltd., and B&Z Galvanized Wire Industry (Baozhang) received preliminary dumping rates of 131.84 and 76.34 percent, respectively. Tianjin Huayuan Metal Wire Products Co., Ltd. received the China-wide rate of 235.00 percent, because it did not receive a separate rate. In the Mexico investigation, Deacero S.A. de C.V. received a preliminary dumping rate of 61.54 percent, and Aceros Camesa, S.A. de C.V. received a preliminary dumping rate of 37.87 percent. All other Mexican exporters received a preliminary dumping rate of 59.37 percent.
Imports of the subject merchandise are provided for under the following categories of the HTSUS: 7217.20.30 and 7217.20.45. Steel wire is reported under statistical reporting numbers 7217.20.3000, 7217.20.4510, 7217.20.4520, 7217.20.4530, 7217.20.4540, 7217.20.4550, 7217.20.4560, 7217.20.4570 and 7217.20.4580. These products may also enter under HTSUS subheadings 7229.20.0015, 7229.20.0090, 7229.90.5008, 7229.90.5016, 7229.90.5031 and 7229.90.5051.