Listen to this post

On September 5, 2024 Steel Dynamics, Inc. (“SDI”), Nucor Corporation (“Nucor”), United States Steel Corporation (“U. S. Steel”), Wheeling-Nippon Steel, Inc. (“Wheeling-Nippon”), and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (the “USW”) (collectively “Petitioners”)[1], filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of certain corrosion-resistant steel products (“CORE”) imported from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (the “UAE”), and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (“Vietnam”).

SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION

The following language describes the imported merchandise from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the UAE and Vietnam that is within the scope of this Petition: For purposes of these investigations, the products covered are certain flat-rolled steel products, either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished, laminated, or coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances in addition to the metallic coating. The products covered include coils that have a width of 12.7 mm or greater, regardless of form of coil (e.g., in successively superimposed layers, spirally oscillating, etc.). The products covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and a width that is 12.7 mm or greater and that measures at least 10 times the thickness. The products covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more and a width exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least twice the thickness. The products described above may be rectangular, square, circular, or other shape and include products of either rectangular or non-rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., products which have been ‘‘worked after rolling’’ (e.g., products which have been beveled or rounded at the edges).

For purposes of the width and thickness requirements referenced above:

(1) Where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is within the scope if application of either the nominal or actual measurement would place it within the scope based on the definitions set forth above, and

(2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product (e.g., the thickness of certain products with non-rectangular cross-section, the width of certain products with non-rectangular shape, etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies.

Steel products included in the scope of these investigations are products in which:

(1) iron predominates, by weight, over each of the other contained elements; and (2) the carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight.

Subject merchandise also includes corrosion-resistant steel that has been further processed in a third country, including but not limited to annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing, trimming, cutting, punching and/or slitting or any other processing that would not otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the investigations if performed in the country of manufacture of the in-scope corrosion resistant steel.

All products that meet the written physical description are within the scope of these investigations unless specifically excluded. The following products are outside of and/or specifically excluded from the scope of these investigations:

  • Flat-rolled steel products either plated or coated with tin, lead, chromium, chromium oxides, both tin and lead (“terne plate”) or both chromium and chromium oxides (“tin free steel”), whether or not painted, varnished or coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances in addition to the metallic coating;
  • Clad products in straight lengths of 4.7625 mm or more in composite thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness;
  • Certain clad stainless flat-rolled products, which are three-layered corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat-rolled products less than 4.75 mm in composite thickness that consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio; and

Also excluded from the scope of the antidumping duty investigation on corrosion-resistant steel from Taiwan are any products covered by the existing antidumping duty order on corrosion-resistant steel from Taiwan. See Certain Corrosion- Resistant Steel Products From India, Italy, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 Fed. Reg. 48,390 (Dep’t Commerce July 25, 2016).

PETITIONERS

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

7575 West Jefferson Boulevard

Fort Wayne, IN 46804

Contact Person: Tommy Scruggs,

Vice President – Commercial & Steel Processing

Email: tommy.scruggs@steeldynamics.com

Phone: (260) 969-3500

Nucor Corporation

1915 Rexford Road

Charlotte, NC 28211

Contact Person: Gregory J. Murphy,

Executive Vice President of Business Services and General Counsel

Email: Greg.Murphy@nucor.com

Phone: (704) 366-7000

United States Steel Corporation

600 Grant Street

Pittsburgh, P A 15219

Phone: (412) 433-1121

Fax: (412) 433-1167

Contact Person: Benjamin B. Caryl,

Associate General Counsel – Int’l Trade & Public Policy

Email: bbcaryl@uss.com

Phone: (202) 783-3843

United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber,

Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial

and Service Workers International Union,

AFL-CIO, CLC

1155 Connecticut Ave NW #500

Washington, DC 20036

Contact Person: Roy Houseman, Legislative Director

Email: rhouseman@usw.org

Phone: (202) 778-4384

Wheeling-Nippon Steel

531 Veterans Dr

Follansbee, WV 26037

Phone: (304) 527-2800

Email: brianp@wheeling-nipponsteel.com

COUNSEL FOR PETITIONERS

SCHAGRIN ASSOCIATES

900 Seventh Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

(202) 223-1700

WILEY REIN LLP

2050 M Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

(202) 719-7000

CASSIDY LEVY KENT (USA) LLP

2112 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, D.C. 20037

(202) 567-2300

NAMED PRODUCERS/EXPORTERS

For a list of foreign producers/exporters alleged by Petitioners, please see Attachment I.

NAMED IMPORTERS

For a list of importers alleged by the Petitioner, please see Attachment II.

ESTIMATED SCHEDULE

EventEarliest Date
Petition FiledSeptember 5, 2024
DOC InitiationSeptember 25 2024
ITC Preliminary Investigation:
Questionnaires DueSeptember 19. 2024
Request to appear at hearing                                     September 24, 2024
HearingSeptember 26, 2024
BriefsOctober 1, 2024
ITC VoteOctober 20. 2024
  
DOC Investigation Schedule: 
DOC Preliminary Antidumping DeterminationFebruary 12, 2025
DOC Final Antidumping DeterminationApril 28 2025
DOC Preliminary Countervailing DeterminationNovember 29. 2024
DOC Final Countervailing DeterminationFebruary 12, 2025
  
ITC Final Investigation: 
ITC Final AD Determination                June 12, 2025
ITC Final CVD Determination              March 29. 2025

ALLEGED DUMPING MARGINS

Australia:                    45.50% – 51.35%

Brazil:                         47.0% – 99.5%

Canada:                       19.1% – 51.3%

Mexico:                       26.67% – 41.08%

The Netherlands:        12.8% – 20.6%

South Africa:              51.96% – 52.02%

Taiwan:                       67.9%

Turkey:                       9.40% – 24.47%

The United Arab Emirates:                76.96% – 78.41%

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam:   158.83%

ALLEGED COUNTERVAILING DUTY MARGINS

Above de minimis

ALLEGED SUBSIDIES

For a list of alleged subsidies the Petitioner, please see Attachment III.

IMPORTS OF SUBJECT MERCHANDISE

For a list of imports of subject merchandise, please see Attachment IV.

CONTACT US For more information concerning this petition and how it may affect your business, please contact Nithya Nagarajan, Dan Wilson, Jeffrey Neeley, or Stephen Brophy.

 

[1] U. S. Steel, Wheeling-Nippon, and the USW join in the petitions on CORE from Australia, Brazil, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the UAE, and Vietnam. U. S. Steel, Wheeling-Nippon, and the USW do not join in the antidumping and countervailing duty petitions on CORE from Canada. Nucor joins in the petitions on CORE from Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the UAE, and Vietnam. Nucor does not join in the petitions on CORE from Mexico.