The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced its affirmative determination that imports of fabricated structural steel from Canada, China and Mexico caused material injury to the domestic sector and that the Department of Commerce (DOC) should continue its antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations related to the subject product.
Accordingly, the DOC will announce its preliminary countervailing duty determinations on May 1, 2019 and its preliminary antidumping duty determinations on July 15, 2019.
According to offical import statistics presented by the ITC, imports of fabricated structural steel from Canada, China and Mexico in 2017 amounted to $2 billion, while import of other products from these countries totaled $900 million.