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 all three companies under review -- Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), Severstal PAO and Severstal Export GmbH -- had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's "no shipments" findings for NLMK, Severstal PAO and Severstal GmbH are continued in the final results, subject merchandise from each of these three companies will continue to enter at the AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with the case numbers for NLMK, Severstal PAO or Severstal GmbH and entered Dec. 1, 2017, through Nov. 30, 2018, 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 February.