Commerce Department Announces Affirmative Circumvention Ruling

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The U.S. Department of Commerce on June 1 announced an affirmative circumvention ruling involving an antidumping duty order on imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico.

The Commerce Department determined that Deacero, a Mexican company, violated an antidumping duty order on rebar that is straight or coiled by exporting to the United States rebar that was bent at one or both ends.

“U.S. law,” the agency explained, “provides that Commerce may conduct a circumvention inquiry when evidence suggests that merchandise subject to an existing [antidumping duty] order undergoes a minor alteration that brings the product outside the literal terms of the scope of the order.”

Courtesy: AIIS