AD: Thailand Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products
The International Trade Administration has announced that it is initiating a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Thailand.
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ITA to Determine AD Order Should be Reinstated for SSI
The ITA will determine whether Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company Limited (SSI), a Thai hot-rolled steel producer previously revoked from the AD duty order, sold hot-rolled steel at less than normal value subsequent to its revocation.
The petitioner alleges that SSI has resumed sales at prices below normal value. The petitioner notes that SSI agreed in writing to reinstatement in the AD duty order if it was found to have resumed dumping, and contends that SSI violated this agreement by selling hot-rolled steel at less than normal value in the U.S. subsequent to its revocation from the order. Therefore, the petitioner requests that the ITA reinstate the AD duty order with respect to SSI.
If the ITA determines in this changed circumstances review that SSI sold hot-rolled steel at less than normal value and resumed dumping, it will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation of all entries of hot-rolled steel manufactured and exported by SSI.
(The ITA expects to request data from SSI for the July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007 period in order to determine whether SSI has resumed dumping sufficient to warrant reinstatement of the order.)
(See ITA notice for more information, including the scope of the review, details of the allegation of resumed dumping, etc.)
ITA contact - Stephen Bailey (202) 482-0193
ITA notice (FR Pub 04/07/08) available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-7204.pdf