China Metal Lockers: Commerce Set to Add Another AD/CVD Exemption for Safes
The Commerce Department is set to exempt more safes from its antidumping and countervailing duty orders on metal lockers from China (A-570-133/C-570-134), it said in a notice announcing the initiation and expedited preliminary results of a changed circumstances review.
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SA Consumer Products and Academy, Ltd., which does business as Academy Sports + Outdoors, requested the exemption. List Industries and Tennsco, the petitioners in the original AD/CVD investigations, filed comments in support of partially revoking the orders.
If Commerce finalizes the new exemption, it would add the following language to the scope of the AD/CVD orders (in addition to a current exemption with different requirements for gun safes):
"The scope also excludes metal safes with each of the following characteristics:
"(1) Pry resistant hinges, whether concealed or external. External hinges must be accompanied by solid steel inactive bolts (minimum 0.75 inch (19 mm) diameter) or plates (minimum 0.177 inch (4.5 mm) thickness), welded or bolted to the door and protrude into the safe and into or behind the door frame by at least 0.39 inches (10 mm) to prevent the physical removal or opening of the door;
"(2) body walls and doors made of steel that is at least 17 gauge (0.05625 inch or 1.42874 mm thick);
"(3) an integrated locking mechanism that includes one of the following: (a) at least two round steel active bolts 0.75 inch (19 mm) or larger in diameter; (b) three or more steel active bolts 0.70 inch (17.78 mm) or more in diameter; (c) four or more steel active bolts at least 0.60 inch (15.24 mm) or more in diameter; or (d) four or more flat steel locking plates (at least two active and two inactive) of a minimum of 0.177 inch (4.5 mm) in thickness and minimum height of 1.57 inches (40 mm), that extend out from the door by at least 0.78 inches (20 mm). The bolts or plates must project from the door, into the safe, and into or behind the door frame by at least 0.39 inches (10 mm) to prevent the physical removal or opening of the door; and
"(4) made of a welded body construction and enter the United States fully assembled."
Commerce said that, if it adopts the exclusion in the final results of this review, then the partial revocation will apply retroactively to Dec. 1, 2021.