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Steel Nails: Commerce Postpones Preliminary CV Duty Determinations for 5 Countries

The Commerce Department is extending until May 31 the deadline for its preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigation on certain steel nails from India (C-533-905), Oman (C-523-817), Sri Lanka (C-542-805), Thailand (C-549-845) and Turkey (C-489-847), it said in a…

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notice released March 2. The preliminary determination had been due by March 25 (see 2201260027). The agency decided to postpone after the petitioner that requested the investigation, Mid Continent Steel & Wire, asked for an extension. Cash deposits of estimated CV duties can be collected only after the preliminary determination, although cash deposits can be made retroactive 90 days from the preliminary determination if Commerce finds “critical circumstances.”