Commerce Launches Section 232 Investigation on Cranes
The Commerce Department will open an investigation to decide whether imports of cranes from Austria, Germany, Japan and other countries are imperiling national security. The Bureau of Industry and Security will conduct the investigation and request comments in a coming notice, it said.
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The Manitowoc Company requested the investigation in December, the Commerce Department said May 6. The company says that a Chinese company's patent infringement, along with low-priced imports after the patent-infringing company was banned, caused the closure of one of its two plants. Manitowoc says that imports of mobile cranes increased 1.5-fold from 2014 to 2019.
Commerce announced another Section 232 investigation on electrical steel imports on May 4 (see 2005040059).