Commerce Finalizes Scope Ruling That SDABS Connectors Not Subject to AD/CV Duties
The Commerce Department on July 2 finalized a scope ruling that self-drilling anchor bolt systems (SDABS) imported by Midwest Diversified Technologies are not subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on forged steel fittings from China (A-570-067/C-570-068). Just as it had…
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in a preliminary scope ruling issued in May (see 2105200027), the agency found the fittings, used to improve the structural integrity of soil or rock to provide a stable foundation for construction, are not “forged” for the purposes of the order because they are not intended to hold high pressure and lack any pressure rating at all. Petitioners in the case raised the possibility that companies could circumvent AD duties by omitting a pressure rating from their pipe fittings (see 2106090057). In response, Commerce clarified “that the absence of a pressure rating or the lack of a pressure rating in this instance was only one characteristic among many that, taken together, led to our conclusion that MDT’s SDABS couplers are outside the scope of the Orders.”