Commerce Begins Scope, Anti-Circumvention Inquiries on Aluminum Wire and Cable
The Commerce Department will consider whether imports of aluminum wire and cable completed in Cambodia, South Korea and Vietnam using inputs manufactured in China are covered by antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095, C-570-096), it said in a notice released Oct. 18 launching scope inquiies and anti-circumvention inquiries on each country.
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Commerce said it will first conduct the scope inquiry to determine whether the Cambodian, Korean and Vietnamese aluminum wire and cable, or some subset of them, should be subject to AD/CV duties. If it doesn't find that some or all Cambodian, South Korean or Vietnamese aluminum wire and cable is covered by the scope of the AD/CVD orders, it will then conduct anti-circumvention inquiries to address the same question for the non-scope merchandise, Commerce said.
The inquiries specifically cover all aluminum wire and cable, from all producers, assembled and completed in Cambodia, South Korea and Vietnam, using Chinese-origin inputs, such as stranded wire and cables or unfinished aluminum wire and cable, that is subsequently exported from those countries to the United States.
Commerce will direct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation for Cambodian, South Korean or Vietnamese aluminum wire and cable made from Chinese-origin inputs for any inputs already suspended. If it issues a preliminary or final scope ruling that the merchandise is subject to the AD/CVD orders, Commerce will direct CBP to suspend liquidation for all entries on or after Oct. 19, and likely for any unliquidated entries “not yet suspended, entered or withdrawn from warehouse” on or after Nov. 4, 2021, the effective date of a Commerce final rule allowing retroactive suspension of liquidation (see 2109160058).
Likewise, should Commerce proceed after the scope inquiry, it will tell CBP to continue to suspend liquidation for any entries already suspended. If it issues a preliminary or final circumvention determination, it may direct CBP to suspend liquidation for unliquidated entries retroactively to Nov. 4, 2021, the effective date of the final rule.