The US International Trade Commission (ITC) today determined that revoking the existing countervailing duty order on stainless steel plate from South Africa and the existing antidumping duty orders on this product from Belgium, South Africa, and Taiwan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of these products from Belgium, South Africa, and Taiwan will remain in place. All six Commissioners voted in the affirmative.
The sunset reviews concerning stainless steel plate from Belgium, South Africa, and Taiwan were instituted on July 1, 2016. On October 4, 2016, the Commission voted to conduct expedited reviews. Chairman Irving A. Williamson, Vice Chairman David S. Johanson, and Commissioners Dean A. Pinkert, F. Scott Kieff, and Rhonda K. Schmidtlein concluded that the domestic group response for these reviews was adequate and the respondent group responses were inadequate and voted for expedited reviews. Commissioner Meredith M. Broadbent concluded that the domestic group response was adequate and the respondent group responses were inadequate, but that circumstances warranted full reviews.