Updated timeline for coated steel trade case

Less-than-fair-value investigations

The US Commerce Department has agreed to postpone preliminary decisions in the corrosion-resistant steel (CORE) antidumping duty (AD) investigations.

Commerce said in a Federal Register filing that it will now issue initial AD margin determinations by April 3. The deadline had previously been Feb. 12.

The extension comes after domestic petitioners requested earlier this month that the deadline be pushed out due to the scope and complexity of the investigations. Those petitioners include Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), Nucor, U.S. Steel, Wheeling-Nippon Steel, and the United Steelworkers (USW) union.

This pushes the deadline for Commerce’s final AD margin decisions out to June 17 in the investigations against Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

Subsidy investigations

Feb. 3 remains the due date for Commerce’s preliminary countervailing duty (CVD) determinations in the subsidy investigations of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. Despite new subsidy allegations made by petitioners in early January, there have been no requests to extend this deadline, according to the court filings reviewed by SMU.

Updated case timeline

The chart below shows the current deadlines in the investigations, as well as the potential timeline should the petitioners’ request for Commerce to align the final AD and CVD decisions be approved. Legal representatives for the petitioners made the request on Jan. 6, but Commerce has yet to respond, according to public court documents.

CORE trade case event	Current due date	Potential due date (if case alignments approved)
DOC preliminary CVD margin determination	Feb. 3	Feb. 3
DOC preliminary AD margin determination	April 3	April 3
DOC final CVD margin determination	April 19	June 17
DOC final AD margin determination	June 17	June 17
ITC final CVD injury determination	June 3	Aug. 1
ITC final AD injury determination	Aug. 1	Aug. 1

We will continue to monitor filings for case updates to keep you informed.

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. Since 2007, she has held various editorial and marketing positions with steel industry publications, associations, and mills. In 2021, after a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel trade journalism, joining SMU in 2022. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.