The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) today determined that a US industry is materially injured by reason of imports of cold-rolled steel flat products from China and Japan that the US Department of Commerce (DOC) has determined are sold in the United States at less than fair value and subsidized by the government of China.
All six Commissioners voted in the affirmative. As a result, the DOC will issue a countervailing duty order on imports of these products from China and antidumping duty orders on imports of these products from China and Japan.
The Commission also made negative findings with respect to critical circumstances with regard to imports of these products from China and Japan. As a result, goods that entered the United States from China prior to December 22, 2015, will not be subject to retroactive countervailing duties, and goods that entered the United States from China and Japan prior to March 7, 2016, will not be subject to retroactive antidumping duties (dates are the dates of the Department of Commerce’s affirmative preliminary determinations).