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    Domestic producers prevail in Japanese tin mill product trade case

    Written by Laura Miller


    A vote on Friday by the International Trade Commission (ITC) ensures that antidumping duties on certain steel sheet imports from Japan will continue for the mid-term.

    After conducting a five-year sunset review, the ITC voted that imports of tin- and chromium-coated steel sheet from Japan are injuring, or threatening to injure, the domestic market. The agency will release details on its reasoning for the affirmative vote at a later date.

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