Russia Hot-Rolled Steel: Prelim Results of AD Admin Review

The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Russia (A-821-809). The agency preliminarily said the only company under review, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), had no bona fide exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's "no shipments" finding for NLMK is continued in the final results, subject merchandise from NLMK will continue to enter at the AD rate set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with NLMK's case number entered Dec. 1, 2016, through Nov. 30, 2017, will be liquidated at the "all others" rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in May.