U.S. Final Sunset Review Results for PC Strand Antidumping Orders
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This notice finds that ending U.S. antidumping duty orders on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from 15 countries would likely lead to renewed or continued dumping. The product is steel wire strand used in prestressed concrete, including pretensioned and post-tensioned construction applications. Importers, foreign producers, U.S. buyers, and construction supply chains should expect the existing trade restrictions to remain a major cost and compliance issue if the broader sunset review process keeps the orders in place. The Commerce Department lists likely dumping margins of up to 194.40% for Saudi Arabia, 170.65% for the UAE, 155.10% for South Africa, and lower but still material rates for the other covered countries.
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Key Changes
- Commerce found that lifting the antidumping orders would likely lead to continued or renewed dumping of PC strand in the U.S. market.
- The review covers PC strand from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and the UAE.
- Likely dumping margins range up to 194.40% for Saudi Arabia, with high listed margins also for the UAE at 170.65% and South Africa at 155.10%.
Obligations
What this law requires
Parties subject to an administrative protective order (APO) in these antidumping sunset reviews must return or destroy proprietary information disclosed under the APO, or convert the APO materials to a judicial protective order, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.
Parties subject to an administrative protective order must timely notify Commerce that APO materials have been returned, destroyed, or converted to a judicial protective order.