China Diamond Sawblades: Husqvarna Wants Reconsideration of Injury, Revocation of AD Duty Order
A U.S. producer and importer of diamond sawblades asked the International Trade Commission to consider whether the antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades from China should be revoked. Husqvarna Construction Products North America on July 11 requested an ITC changed circumstances review to revisit the trade agency’s 2008 finding of threat of injury by Chinese imports. According to the self-described “largest domestic producer of diamond sawblades,” shifts in the industry have reduced competition between foreign and domestic products. And the 2008 injury finding was voided by Commerce’s revocation of the AD order on diamond sawblades from South Korea in 2011, Husqvarna said.
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According to Husqvarna, its large domestic market share and its opposition to continuation of the AD duty order on diamond sawblades from China are reason enough for the ITC to reexamine whether antidumping duties should remain in place. But shifts within the industry are also a cause for reconsideration, it said. Domestic producers have moved production of low-end commodity sawblades overseas, and now rely on imports to supplement their production of higher value U.S. sawblades.
But the “most significant change” since the injury finding is the Commerce Department’s decision to revoke the AD duty order on diamond sawblades from South Korea, Husqvarna said. The ITC’s original finding of threat of injury was based on harm to U.S. industry by dumped Chinese and South Korea measured together. But Commerce’s revocation was based on a finding that South Korea’s imports had never been dumped, which throws the ITC’s injury finding out the window, Husqvarna said.
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