U.S. Department of Commerce initiates duty investigations of fabricated structural steel imports

The U.S. Department of Commerce has initiated new antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations to determine whether fabricated structural steel from Canada, China, and Mexico is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value and to find if producers in those countries are receiving unfair subsidies.

These investigations were initiated based on petitions filed by American Institute of Steel Construction Full Member Subgroup (Chicago) on Feb. 4, 2019. The alleged dumping margins are 30.41 percent for Canada, 222.35 percent for China, and 30.58 percent for Mexico. In addition, there are 44 subsidy programs alleged for Canada, 26 for China, and 19 for Mexico.

If Commerce makes an affirmative finding in these investigations, and if the U.S. International Trade Commission determines that dumped and/or unfairly subsidized U.S. imports of fabricated structural steel from Canada, China, and Mexico are causing injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce will impose duties on those imports in the amount of dumping and/or unfair subsidization found to exist.

Click here for a fact sheet on these initiations.