China GOES: Prelim AD Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from China (A-570-994) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Commerce did not find that any Chinese exporters demonstrated independence from state control, so for the time being all entries from China will be subject to the high China-wide rate. The agency will impose these AD duty cash requirements on entries of GOES from China effective May 12.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
Amended Scope Has New Exception to AD Duties
In response to comments from parties to the investigation, Commerce added the following language to the scope of AD duties on GOES to exclude some cut-to-shape products:
"Excluded are flat-rolled products not in coils that, prior to importation into the United States, have been cut to a shape and undergone all punching, coating, or other operations necessary for classification in Chapter 85 of the HTSUS as a transformer part (i.e., laminations)."
AD Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposit Requirements
Commerce will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation for all entries of subject merchandise from China that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 9. The preliminary AD cash deposit rates are as follows:
| Manufacturer/Exporter | AD Rate |
| China-wide Entity1 | 159.21% |
1The China-wide entities includes, among others, the following companies that didn't demonstrate independence from Chinese government control: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.; Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corporation; Hebei Shougang Qian’an Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.; and Wuhan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
(The period of investigation is 07/01/12 - 06/30/13. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope, suspension of liquidation, detailed cash deposit instructions, etc. See 13103020 for summary of initiation of this investigation, and 13091909 for the underlying petition.)
AD/CVD Operations contact -- Edythe Artman (202) 482-3931
(Federal Register 05/12/14)