Commerce Finds Circumvention, Sets New AD/CVD on Low Carbon Steel Wire From Mexico
The Commerce Department is setting new antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of low carbon steel wire from Mexico that are subsequently being processed in the U.S. into welded wire mesh, the Commerce Department said in its preliminary determination in an anti-circumvention inquiry. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements are retroactive to April 2, 2024, for entries from Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V., and take effect Sept. 16, 2025, for entries from all other Mexican companies.
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Commerce preliminarily found the imports of Mexican low carbon steel wire are being processed into welded wire mesh in the U.S. are circumventing the AD/CVD orders on welded wire mesh from Mexico (A-201-853/C-201-854).
While suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect for Deacero on the date Commerce published its initiation notices that began the inquiries (see 2501130045), Commerce said the other Mexican company it examined, Impulsora del Alambre S.A. de C.V., didn't circumvent the orders. As a result, though it's still preliminarily applying its circumvention determination country-wide to all imports from Mexico, Commerce will only suspend liquidation and require cash deposits from Impulsora and other Mexican exporters beginning on the publication date of its preliminary determination.
Deacero and Impulsora "together account for nearly all shipments of low-carbon steel wire to the United States from Mexico (more than 95 percent)," Commerce said.
Imports from Mexico of low carbon steel wire that aren't processed into welded wire mesh in the U.S. will be eligible for a certification scheme that will allow such imports to avoid AD/CVD. Commerce noted that "the claims made in the certifications and any supporting documentation are subject to verification by Commerce and/or CBP."
"Where the certification and documentation requirements are not met for an entry, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to suspend the entry and collect cash deposits at the rates applicable to the AD and CVD orders on welded wire mesh from Mexico," the agency said.
Certifications and supporting documents are due Oct. 27 for imports from Deacero entered April 2, 2024, through Sept. 26, 2025, and for imports from all other Mexican companies entered Sept. 16 through Sept. 26, 2025. A blanket option is available covering multiple entries. Importers of low carbon steel wire from Mexico that is processed into welded wire mesh in the U.S. must file post-summary corrections with CBP for any unliquidated entries declared as non-AD/CVD that are now covered by retroactive suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements, Commerce said. Those corrections are due Sept. 26.