Turkey Rebar: Commerce Postpones CV Duty Preliminary Determination

The Commerce Department is extending until Feb. 19 the deadline for its preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-819). Although the agency’s preliminary finding was due Dec. 16, Commerce said it received a request from domestic industry to postpone the deadline. Cash deposits of estimated CV duties can only be collected after the preliminary determination in CV duty investigations, although cash deposits can be made retroactive 90 days from the preliminary determination if Commerce finds “critical circumstances.”