International Trade Administration August 17, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On April 23, 2010, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register the initiation of an antidumping circumvention inquiry to determine if certain products were circumventing the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from the People's Republic of China (PRC).\1\ That initiation indicated the merchandise subject to the inquiry was produced by Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (Wuyang), but also noted the Department intended ``to address whether its circumvention ruling will apply to particular producers, exporters, and/or importers * * * or to all U.S. imports'' of certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from the PRC. Id. at 21242. On February 22, 2011, the Department published its notice of affirmative preliminary determination of circumvention in which it found that imports from the PRC of certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate products with 0.0008 percent or more boron, by weight, regardless of the producer or exporter or importer of the merchandise, and otherwise meeting the description of in-scope merchandise, are within the class or kind of merchandise subject to the order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from the PRC.\2\ We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Determination, and received briefs and rebuttal briefs from various parties. After evaluating the comments submitted by parties, we find no basis for altering the preliminary determination referenced above. Therefore, we continue to determine that imports of the aforementioned merchandise are circumventing the order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from the PRC.