On October 29, 2024, IDC Group, Inc., Iowa Spring Manufacturing, Inc., and Service Spring Corp. (collectively “Petitioners”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from the People’s Republic of China and India.
SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
The following language describes the imported merchandise from China and India:
The merchandise covered by these investigations is helicallywound, overhead door counterbalance torsion steel springs (“overhead door counterbalance torsion springs”). Overhead door counterbalance torsion springs are helical steel springs with tightly wound coils that store and release mechanical energy by winding and unwinding along the spring’s axis by an angle, using torque to create a lifting force in the counterbalance assembly typically used to raise and lower overhead doors, including garage doors, industrial rolling doors, warehouse doors, trailer doors, and other overhead doors, gates, grates, or similar devices. The merchandise covered by these investigations covers all overhead door counterbalance torsion springs with a coil inside diameter of 15.8 millimeters (“mm”) or more but not exceeding 304.8 mm (measured across the diameter from inner edge to inner edge); a wire diameter of 2.5 mm to 20.4 mm; a length of 127 mm or more; and regardless of the following characteristics:
- wire type (including, but not limited to, oil-tempered wire, hard-drawn wire, music wire, galvanized or other coated wire);
- wire cross-sectional shape (e.g., round, square, or other shapes);
- coating (e.g., uncoated, oil- or water-based coatings, lubricant coatings, zinc, aluminum, zinc-aluminum, paint or plastic coating, etc.);
- winding orientation (left-hand or right-hand wind direction);
- end type (including, but not limited to, looped, double looped, clipped, long length, mini warehouse, Barcol, Crawford, Kinnear, Wagner, rolling steel or barrel ends); and
- whether the overhead door counterbalance torsion springs are fitted with hardware, including but not limited to fasteners, clips, and cones (winding or stationary cones).
For purposes of the diameters referenced above, 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.
The steel torsion springs included in the scope of these investigations are produced from steel 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 includes cones or other fittings attached to or entered with the subject overhead door counterbalance torsion springs. Subject merchandise also includes all subject overhead door counterbalance torsion springs entered as a part of overhead door kits, overhead door mounting or assembly kits, or as a part of a spring-operated motor assembly or as a part of a spring winder assembly kit for torsion springs. When counterbalance torsion springs are entered as a part of such kits, only the counterbalance spring and cones attached to or entered with the spring are within scope.
Subject merchandise also includes overhead door counterbalance torsion springs that have been further processed in a third country, including but not limited to cutting to length, attachment of hardware, cones or end-fittings, inclusion in garage door kits or garage door mounting or assembly kits, or any other processing that would remove the merchandise from the scope of these orders if performed in the country of manufacture of the in-scope overhead door counterbalance torsion springs.
All products that meet the written physical description are within the scope of these investigations unless specifically excluded. The following products are specifically excluded from the scope of these investigations:
- leaf springs (slender arc-shaped length of spring steel of a rectangular cross-section);
- disc springs (conical springs consisting of a convex disc with the outer edge working against the center of the disc);
- extension springs (close-wound round helical wire springs that store and release energy by resisting the external pulling forces applied to the spring’s ends in the direction of its length);
- compression springs (helical coiled springs with open wound active coils (such open winding is also known as pitch) that are designed to compress under load or force); and
- spiral springs (torsion springs wound as concentric spirals such as a clock spring or mainspring).
The products subject to these investigations are currently classified under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 7320.20.5020, 7320.20.5045 and 7320.20.5060. They may also be classified under HTSUS subheading 8412.90.9085 if entered as parts of spring-operated motors. They may also be classified in HTSUS subheading 8412.80.1000 (spring-operated motors) if entered as part of a spring counterweight assembly for an overhead door. They may also be classified in HTSUS subheading 7308.90.9590, a basket category that includes metal garage doors entered with mounting accessories or assemblies. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and Customs purposes, the written description of the scope of these investigations is dispositive.
PETITIONERS
IDC Group, Inc.
9385 Holly Street NW
Minneapolis, MN 55433
Phone: (763) 398-8221
Fax: (763) 786-9186
Contact: Jodi Boldenow, President
Email: jboldenow@idcgroup.us
Website: www.idcspring.com
Iowa Spring Manufacturing, Inc.
2112 Green Street
P.O. Box 130
Adel, IA 50003
Phone: (770) 562-2850
Fax: (770) 562-2264
Contact: Tim Bianco, President and CEO
Email: tbianco@iowaspring.com
Website: www.iowaspring.com
Service Spring Corp.
1703 Toll Gate Drive
Maumee, OH 43537
Phone: (419) 838-0264
Fax: (419) 838-6071
Contact: Matt McAlear, CEO
Email: matt@sscorp.com
Website: www.servicespring.com
COUNSEL FOR PETITIONERS
KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
3050 K Street, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20007
(202) 342-8400
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
| Event | Earliest Date |
| Petition Filed | October 29, 2024 |
| DOC Initiation | November 18, 2024 |
| ITC Preliminary Investigation: | |
| Questionnaires Due | November 12, 2024 |
| Request to appear at hearing | November 17, 2024 |
| Hearing | November 19, 2024 |
| Briefs | November 24, 2024 |
| ITC Vote | December 13, 2024 |
| DOC Investigation Schedule: | |
| DOC Preliminary Antidumping Determination | April 7, 2025 |
| DOC Final Antidumping Determination | June 21, 2025 |
| DOC Preliminary Countervailing Determination | January 22, 2025 |
| DOC Final Countervailing Determination | April 7, 2025 |
| ITC Final Investigation: | |
| ITC Final AD Determination | August 5, 2025 |
| ITC Final CVD Determination | May 22, 2025 |
ALLEGED DUMPING MARGINS
China: 685.93% – 787.30%
India : 104.57% – 124.86%
Periods of Investigation: For both India, the antidumping duty period of investigation will be October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024. For China, considered by Commerce to be a non-market economy, the antidumping duty period of investigation will be April 1, 2024 through September 30, 2024.
ALLEGED COUNTERVAILING DUTY MARGINS
Above de minimis.
Periods of Investigation: For both China and India, the countervailing duty period of investigation will be January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.
ALLEGED SUBSIDIES
For a list of alleged subsidies the Petitioner, please see Attachment III.
IMPORTS OF SUBJECT MERCHANDISE
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 Jan-June | 2024 Jan-June | |
| China | |||||
| Quantity (pounds) | 3,454,390 | 10,648,307 | 11,008,569 | 4,112,207 | 8,316,989 |
| Value (US $) | 6,904,776 | 19,876,969 | 20,099,530 | 7,375,248 | 15,899,474 |
| AUV ($/lb) | 2.00 | 1.87 | 1.83 | 1.79 | 1.91 |
| India | |||||
| Quantity (pounds) | 27,443 | 1,412,403 | 81,271 | 1,861 | 1,102,187 |
| Value (US $) | 46,300 | 2,724,314 | 159,662 | 8,979 | 1,278,982 |
| AUV ($/lb) | 1.69 | 1.93 | 1.96 | 4.83 | 1.16 |
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.