Commerce Begins Anti-Circumvention Inquiry on Malaysian Steel Shelving
The Commerce Department will consider whether boltless steel shelving made in Malaysia from Chinese components should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on China, the agency said in a notice beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry.
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Commerce will determine whether to extend the duties on Chinese beltless steel shelving to “boltless steel shelving that has been completed or assembled in Malaysia using, at a minimum, the key components of boltless steel shelving, i.e., vertical posts and horizontal beams, from China, that are then subsequently exported to the United States,” it said. The inquiry will apply countrywide to all such merchandise from Malaysia.
The agency will “solicit information from certain companies in Malaysia concerning their production of boltless steel shelving and their shipments thereof to the United States,” and “a company's failure to completely respond to Commerce's requests for information may result in the application of partial or total facts available,” it said. Commerce can use adverse facts available to automatically apply AD/CVD to non-cooperative companies.
Commerce’s preliminary determination in this anti-circumvention inquiry is due in 150 days. If Commerce finds circumvention in its preliminary determination, it may suspend liquidation and require cash deposits retroactive at least to the Dec. 9 publication date of this initiation notice.