Mexico Rebar: Amended Final Results of AD Admin Review
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico (A-201-844), covering the period Nov. 1, 2019, through Oct. 31, 2020, based on a recent decision in a court case challenging those final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for Grupo Simec, which affected the review average rate for Grupo Acerero S.A. de C.V. (Grupo Acerero), and Sidertul S.A. de C.V. (Sidertul). The AD rate for all of the respondents changed to zero percent.
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Grupo Simec is the collective name for the following affiliated companies: Grupo Simec S.A.B. de C.V. (Simec, as in individual entity); Aceros Especiales Simec Tlaxcala, S.A. de C.V.; Compania Siderurgica del Pacifico S.A. de C.V.; Fundiciones de Acero Estructurales, S.A. de C.V.; Grupo Chant S.A.P.I. de C.V.; Operadora de Perfiles Sigosa, S.A. de C.V. (Sigosa); Orge S.A. de C.V.; Perfiles Comerciales Sigosa, S.A. de C.V.; RRLC S.A.P.I. de C.V.; Siderúrgicos Noroeste, S.A. de C.V.; Siderurgica del Occidente y Pacifico S.A. de C.V.; Simec International 6 S.A. de C.V.; Simec International, S.A. de C.V.; Simec International 7 S.A. de C.V.; and Simec International 9 S.A. de C.V.
However, because each of the three companies has a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there have been final results published in a subsequent administrative review, Commerce will not issue revised cash deposit instructions to CBP, and the current cash deposit rate for them won't change.
The notice also said that Commerce remains, at this time, "enjoined by CIT order from liquidating entries that: were produced and/or exported by Grupo Simec, produced and exported by Grupo Acerero, produced and/or exported by Sidertul, and were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period November 1, 2019 through October 31, 2020. These entries will remain enjoined pursuant to the terms of the injunction during the pendency of any appeals process."
(The review period is 11/01/19 - 10/31/20. See Commerce's notice for more information. See 2206080048 for a summary of the original final results of the subject administrative review).