AD: Brazil Silicon Metal
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release and Federal Register notice stating that on November 15, 2006, five Commissioners voted to revoke the existing antidumping (AD) duty order on silicon metal from Brazil (A-427-801).
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The Commissioners determined that revoking the existing order on silicon metal from Brazil would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
(The Commissioners also determined that revoking the order on silicon metal from China would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time; as a result, the order on China (A-570-806) will remain in place.)
(This action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which according to 19 CFR 351.218(a), requires the International Trade Administration (ITA) to revoke an AD or countervailing (CV) duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless it is found that revocation would be likely to lead to both (1) a continuation or recurrence of dumping or a countervailable subsidy and (2) material injury to a U.S. industry within a reasonably foreseeable time.
A negative determination either by the ITA with respect to (1) above or by the ITC with respect to (2) above results in the revocation of the AD and/or CV duty order.)
(See ITT's Online Archives or 01/06/06 news 06010620 for BP summary of the ITA and ITC's initiation of these investigations.)
ITC Contact - Peg O'Laughlin (202) 205-1819
ITC Press Release (06-111, Inv. Nos. 731-TA-471, 472 (second review), dated 11/15/06) available athttp://www.usitc.gov/ext_relations/news_release/2006/er1115dd1.htm
ITC Federal Register notice (FR Pub 12/11/06) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-21007.pdf