Stainless Steel Flanges: Commerce Set to End AD/CVD on SAE J518, ISO 6162 Flanges
The Commerce Department intends to end antidumping and countervailing duties on stainless steel flanges made to SAE J518 or ISO 6162 specification, the agency said in the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review of the AD/CVD orders on stainless steel flanges from China (A-570-064/C-570-065) and India (A-533-877/C-533-878).
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The agency said the petitioners that originally requested the orders don’t oppose the partial revocation, and represent most production of domestic stainless steel flanges. Anchor Fluid Power requested the changed circumstances reviews.
If Commerce continues to find there’s no opposition to the partial revocation request in the final results of this review, it will add the following exclusion to the scope of the AD/CVD orders: “The scope also excludes stainless steel flanges produced in accordance with specification SAE J518 (or its international equivalent, ISO 6162).”
The partial revocation would apply retroactively to any “unliquidated entries of merchandise” subject to the changed circumstances reviews “that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or after the day following the last day of the period covered by the most recently completed administrative review of each of the Orders, and are not already subject to automatic liquidation instructions.”
The final results of the reviews are due in 270 days, or in 45 days “if all parties agree to the outcome of the reviews,” Commerce said in the notice, released March 28.