Commerce Finalizes AD/CVD on Steel Staples From Thailand, Vietnam
Imports of collated steel staples from Thailand and Vietnam made from Chinese wire or wire band are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on collated steel staples from China (A-570-112/C-570-113), the Commerce Department said in a Jan. 30 final determination in an anti-circumvention inquiry.
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As a result, country-wide suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements remain in effect for all collated steel staples from Thailand and Vietnam entered on or after Dec. 21, 2022, the date that Commerce published notice of the initiation of the anti-circumvention inquiry (see 2212200031).
Commerce made several changes from its August preliminary finding, most notably finding circumvention by Vietnamese collated steel staples made from both steel wire and wire band. The agency had preliminarily found circumvention by Thai staples made from both Chinese steel wire and wire band, but only by Vietnamese staples made from wire band. As a result, suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements are now also in effect for collated steel staples from Vietnam made with Chinese steel wire that were entered on or after Dec. 21, 2022.
Commerce also changed the certification language in its notice to include mill certificates in the list of documents that may be provided to CBP or Commerce to support a certification that imports of collated steel staples from Vietnam and Thailand weren't manufactured using Chinese steel wire or wire band, and should be exempt from suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements.
Commerce continued to find two Vietnamese companies, Meihotech and Weifang Wenhe, didn't cooperate in the proceeding, so those two companies will remain ineligible for the certification process and the duty exemption, Commerce said.