Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
February 12, 2020
I am asking manufacturing companies if their company buys parts from China, and if so, what has the coronavirus done to shipments of their products. An ag-related company told me the workers are just returning to the plant in China after the extended holidays. I was told they were seeing at least a two-week delay in delivery expectations and they are not sure if that could be extended should workers not be allowed on the docks, or if the parts can’t get delivered for shipment.
If your company is getting parts from China, please let me know what you are seeing from your suppliers (confidentially of course). You can reach me at John@SteelMarketUpdate.com
I was asked yesterday about an article Lewis Leibowitz wrote on Tuesday regarding the “…Preliminary Ruling of Circumvention” on the UAE and others who had been accused of using Chinese substrate in their galvanized being shipped to the United States. The question was about companies who did not participate (and therefore are unable to certify their substrate as not being Chinese). Lewis had provided me some information on this in an earlier email: “I have reviewed the Commerce preliminary determination on the UAE. There is only one company in the UAE that is not eligible to certify that Chinese substrate was not used in production. That company is Asian Ispat FZ LLC. Any CORE produced by that company will be subject to AD/CVD duty deposits on China—about 160 percent. All other UAE producers and exporters may certify. This is pretty much the same as earlier cases.”
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