Hot-Rolled Steel: Commerce Postpones Preliminary AD Duty Determinations

The Commerce Department is postponing until March 8 the due date for its preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on hot rolled steel flat products from Australia, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom (A-602-809, A-351-845, A-588-874, A-580-883, A-421-813, A-489-826, A-412-825) (here). Commerce chose to delay after determining the investigations are extraordinarily complicated given the number of companies under investigation. Once Commerce makes its preliminary determination, it can suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated AD duties. The preliminary determination was originally due Jan. 19.