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Steel Wire Rod: AD Cash Deposit Rates Decrease for All Italian Exporters

The Commerce Department is amending its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Italy (A-475-836). The agency is decreasing AD duty cash deposit rates in effect for all Italian exporters, in a correction to errors in its Oct. 31 preliminary determination (see 1710300025). Effective Dec. 21, AD duty cash deposit rates for Italian exporters are as follows:

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ExporterAD Rate
Ferriere Nord S.p.A./Acciaierie di Verona S.p.A12.58% (from 22.06%)
Ferriera Valsider S.p.A.18.89% (from 22.06%)
All others12.58% (from 22.06%)

The final determinations in this investigation and concurrent investigations on steel wire rod from Spain, South Korea, Turkey and the United Kingdom are due March 15 (see 1711060029). Commerce is also conducting AD duty investigations on steel wire rod from Belarus, Russia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine.

(The period of investigation is 01/01/16 - 12/31/16. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope (unchanged), suspension of liquidation, etc. See 1704250021 for a summary of the initiation of this AD duty investigation, and 1703300012 for a summary of the underlying petition.)

(Federal Register 12/21/17)