China Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes: Preliminary Circumvention for Jilin Carbon
The Commerce Department preliminarily determined that graphite electrodes with an actual or nominal diameter of 17 inches, produced and/or exported by Jilin Carbon from China to the U.S., is circumventing the antidumping duty order on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929). Although the scope of that AD duty order only includes graphite electrodes with a diameter of 16 inches or less, the agency preliminarily found that the 17-inch electrodes are only a “minor alteration,” and so should be included within the scope.
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Commerce will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of graphite electrodes with an actual diameter of 17 inches, produced and or exported by Sinosteel Jilin Carbon Co., Ltd. or Jilin Carbon Import & Export Company, and entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after June 25, 2012. It will also instruct CBP to require an AD cash deposit at the applicable rate.
Although several other Chinese producers were originally subject to this anticircumvention inquiry (see 12062234), Commerce said the record showed that only Jilin Carbon produces the 17-inch graphite electrodes at issue.
AD/CVD Operations Contact: Thomas Schauer - (202) 482-0410
(Federal Register 04/17/13)