US ITC determination on carbon steel products from 16 countries

On November 1, 2005, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) instituted five-year reviews (“sunset”) concerning the antidumping duty orders and countervailing duty orders on imports of certain carbon steel products from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. Moreover, on February 6, 2006, the ITC announced that it would conduct full reviews for these orders. The US ITC used the sunset reviews to determine whether the revocation of the orders would be likely to lead to a continuation or recurrence of material injury to US domestic industries. As a result of these reviews, the ITC has determined that revocation of the existing antidumping duty orders on cut-to-length (CTL) carbon steel plate from Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, and the antidumping finding on the same product from Taiwan, as well as revocation of countervailing duty orders on the same product from Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Sweden, would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the US. The ITC has further determined that revocation of the antidumping duty orders on corrosion-resistant steel from Germany and South Korea and the countervailing duty order on the same product from South Korea would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the US. Finally, the ITC has determined that revocation of the antidumping duty orders on corrosion-resistant steel from Australia, Canada, France, and Japan, as well as the countervailing duty order on the same product from France, would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the US.