Commerce Begins Anti-Circumvention Inquiries on Thailand, Vietnam Staples
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether collated steel staples from Thailand and Vietnam made from Chinese components should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on the same product from China (A-570-112/C-570-113), it said in a notice released Dec. 20.
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Commerce will determine whether to extend the duties on Chinese collated steel staples to “collated steel staples, which are completed in Thailand or Vietnam using parts and components” from China, it said. The inquiry will apply countrywide to all such merchandise from Thailand and Vietnam.
The agency will “solicit information from certain companies in Thailand and Vietnam concerning their production of collated staples and their shipments thereof to the United States. 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. 21 scheduled publication date of this initiation notice.