China Threaded Rod: ITA Preliminarily Finds Gem-Year's High Chromium Bolts Circumvent AD Order
The International Trade Administration preliminarily found that certain steel threaded rod products with 1.25 percent or more chromium by weight, produced by Gem-Year Industrial Co., Ltd., are circumventing the antidumping duty order on certain steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932) because they are of the same class or kind as merchandise subject to the order. The ITA will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation and collect AD cash deposits on entries of the merchandise at issue in this anti-circumvention inquiry effective Jan . 5, 2012.
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The ITA initiated the inquiry in January on the basis of petitioner Vulcan Threaded Products’ allegation that Gem-Year’s higher chromium DA bolts are of the same class or kind as the merchandise covered by the AD order and that the addition of small amounts of chromium above the 1.25% threshold in the scope of the order is a minor alteration that constitutes circumvention.
As a result of the ITA’s preliminary determination, the ITA will direct CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of the higher-chromium bolts produced by Gem-Year that are entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after Jan. 5, 2012. The ITA will also instruct CBP to collect AD cash deposits at the applicable rates for each unliquidated entry, also effective Jan. 5, 2012..
(See ITT’s Online Archives 12010510 for summary of the initiation of this anti-circumvention inquiry.)