On June 26, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the rescission and the preliminary rescission, with regard to Angang and Baosteel respectively, of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review on certain hot rolled carbon steel flat products from China.
On December 24, 2008, the DOC published a notice of initiation of the review in question, following the requests of Nucor Corporation and ArcelorMittal USA, Inc., domestic producers of certain hot rolled steel flat products, for the DOC to conduct an administrative review of Baosteel Group Corporation, Shanghai Baosteel International Economic & Trading Co., Ltd., and Baoshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (collectively Baosteel) and Angang Steel Company, Ltd., Angang Group International Trade Corporation, New Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Angang Group Hong Kong Co., Ltd., Anshan Iron & Steel Group, and all affiliated entities (collectively Angang).
On February 2, 2009, Angang submitted a letter stating that it had no sales of subject merchandise to the US during the period of review. On March 18, 2009, ArcelorMittal withdrew its request for review of Baosteel and Angang. As ArcelorMittal was the sole party requesting review of Angang, the DOC has determined to rescind this review for the period of November 1, 2007, to October 31, 2008, with respect to Angang.
On January 12, 2009, Baosteel also submitted a letter stating that it had no sales of subject merchandise to the US during the period in question. On March 25, 2009, the DOC requested additional information from Baosteel. On April 1, 2009, Baosteel submitted its response to the DOC's inquiry. On April 1, 2009, Baosteel provided information demonstrating that the entries in question were actually shipments of merchandise outside the scope of this AD duty order. Upon review of Baosteel's response, the DOC has found that there is no record evidence that indicates Baosteel made entries of subject merchandise during the period of review.
Therefore, the DOC has preliminarily rescinded this review of the AD duty order on certain hot rolled carbon steel flat products from China for the period of November 1, 2007, to October 31, 2008.
The merchandise subject to this review is classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US at subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00, 7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60, 7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60, 7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30, 7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90, 7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00, 7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00, 7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30, 7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90. Certain hot rolled carbon steel flat products covered by this review may also enter under the following tariff numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00, 7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00, 7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90, 7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30, 7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00, 7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00, 7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and 7226.99.00.00. Subject merchandise may also enter under 7210.70.30.00, 7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30, 7212.40.10.00, 7212.40.50.00, and 7212.50.00.00.