Large Residential Washers: Commerce Considers Ending AD/CV Duties on Some Belt-Drive Washers
The Commerce Department will consider revoking antidumping and countervailing duties on horizontal-axis washing machines with induction motors and belt drives, it said in a notice initiating a changed circumstances review on large residential washers from Mexico and South Korea (A-201-842, A-580-868/C-580-869). The partial revocation was requested by Whirlpool, the petitioner that originally requested the AD/CV duty orders.
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Whirlpool requests that duties be revoked for all unliquidated entries that meet the following proposed scope exemption: Also excluded from the scope are automatic clothes washing machines that meet all of the following conditions: “(1) have a horizontal rotational axis; (2) are front loading; and (3) have a drive train consisting, inter alia, of (a) a controlled induction motor and (b) a belt drive.” Commerce now seeks comments on whether the entire domestic industry supports the scope exemption. Comments are due May 21.
(Federal Register 05/11/18)