WASHINGTON-The US Commerce Department on Monday announced its preliminaryaffirmative determination in the antidumping duty investigation against imports of stainless steelsheets and strips from China, signaling that it may pose punitive duties on the products.
The department said that such products from China had been sold in the United States atdumping margins of 63.86 percent and 76.64 percent.
As a result of the preliminary affirmative determinations, the Commerce Department will instructUS Customs and Border Protection to require cash deposits based on these preliminary rates.
The Commerce Department launched antidumping duty and countervailing duty (CVD)investigations against imports of such products from China in March 2016, in response to arequest from AK Steel Corporation and three other US steel companies.
The Commerce made its preliminary affirmative determination in the CVD investigation in July,saying that producers and exporters of such products from China had received countervailingsubsidies from 57.3 percent to 193.12 percent.
Imports of these products from China were estimated at about $302 million in 2015, according toUS official data.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has kept urging Washington to abide by its commitmentagainst protectionism and help maintain a free, open and just international trade environment.
Punitive duties would be imposed after both the Commerce Department and the US InternationalTrade Commission (USITC) make affirmative final rulings.
The Commerce is scheduled to make its final determinations in November this year and theUSITC is slated to make its final determination in January 2017.
Source:Xinhua
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