U.S. Department of Commerce investigates stainless steel flange imports

The U.S. Department of Commerce has started new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether imports of stainless steel flanges from China and India are being dumped in the U.S. and whether producers in China and India are receiving alleged unfair subsidies.

The investigations were initiated based on petitions filed by the Coalition of American Flange Producers and its individual members—Core Pipe Products Inc., Carol Stream, Ill., and Maass Flange Corp., Houston. The estimated dumping margins alleged by the petitioners are 99.23 to 257.11 percent for China and 78.49 to 145.25 percent for India.

In the AD investigation, the Commerce Department will determine whether imports of stainless steel flanges from China and India are being dumped in the U.S. market at less than fair value. In the CVD investigations, the Commerce Department will determine whether Chinese and Indian producers of stainless steel flanges are receiving unfair government subsidies.

If the Commerce Department determines that stainless steel flanges from China and India are being dumped into the U.S. market and/or receiving unfair government subsidies, and if the U.S. International Trade Commission determines that dumped and/or unfairly subsidized U.S. imports of stainless steel flanges from China and India are causing injury to the U.S. industry, the Commerce Department will impose duties on those imports in the amount of dumping and/or unfair subsidization found to exist.