Commerce, ITC Consider Ending AD/CVD on Wind Towers, OCTG, Wire Rod, Etc.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Brazil (A-351-832/C-351-833); utility scale wind towers from Canada (A-122-867/C-122-868) and Vietnam (A-552-825/C-552-826); light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914/C-570-915); and oil country tubular goods from India (A-533-857/C-533-858) and Turkey (A-489-816/C-489-817); as well as the antidumping duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Indonesia (A-560-815), Mexico (A-201-830), Moldova (A-841-805) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-804); utility scale wind towers from Indonesia (A-560-833) and South Korea (A-580-902); barium carbonate from China (A-570-880); ferrovanadium from China (A-570-873) and South Africa (A-791-815); light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from South Korea (A-580-859), Mexico (A-201-836) and Turkey (A-489-815); tow-behind lawn groomers and parts thereof from China (A-570-939); and oil country tubular goods from South Korea (A-580-870), Ukraine (A-823-815) and Vietnam (A-552-817), Commerce said in a notice June 2.
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Sunset Review Is an Opportunity for Revocation of Order
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) requires that AD and CVD orders be revoked after sunset reviews held every five years unless it's found that revocation would likely lead to both (1) a continuation or recurrence of dumping or a countervailable subsidy and (2) material injury to a U.S. industry within a reasonably foreseeable time. As a result, a negative determination either by Commerce with respect to (1) or by the ITC with respect to (2) results in a revocation of the AD or CVD order(s).
Commerce Sunset Review Deadlines
Commerce said domestic interested parties (as defined in certain sections of the Tariff Act of 1930 and 19 CFR 351.102(b)) wishing to participate in the sunset reviews must respond by filing a notice of intent to participate by 15 days after the publication of this notice, i.e., on or about July 16 (letters of appearance are due July 11).
If it doesn't receive a notice of intent to participate from at least one domestic interested party by the deadline, Commerce will automatically revoke the AD/CVD order(s) without further review. However, if it does receive an order-specific notice of intent to participate from a domestic interested party, then all parties wishing to participate in the sunset reviews must file complete substantive responses not later than 30 days after publication of this notice, i.e., on or about July 31.
ITC Sunset Review Deadlines
The ITC said interested parties must respond by July 31 to its notices on the sunset reviews for steel wire rod, wind towers, rectangular pipe and tube, OCTG, barium carbonate, ferrovanadium and tow-behind lawn groomers. The ITC said it will assess the adequacy of interested party responses to the notices of institution to determine whether to conduct full or expedited reviews. The ITC said comments on the adequacy of responses may be filed by 5:15 p.m. on Sept. 10.