Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have dumped plate products into the US market, the department said.
It therefore assessed anti-dumping margins ranging from as low as 3.62%, in the case of Taiwan’s Shang Chen Steel, to as high as 148.02%, for French steelmaker Industeel France, according to a fact sheet published on Thursday March 30.
Commerce also determined that South Korea’s government has provided subsidies to its plate producers, and thus imposed final countervailing duty margins of 4.31% on South Korea-origin plate.
Additionally, imports from Austria, Belgium and Italy were assessed with “critical circumstances”, which means that provisional cash deposits will be collected on imports that arrived 90...
