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ITC votes to keep HR duties after sunset review
Written by Laura Miller
September 4, 2025
The US government determined this week that hot-rolled steel imports from a handful of countries continue to threaten the domestic steel industry.
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) made an affirmative injury determination on Wednesday in the five-year ‘sunset’ reviews of duties on HR from China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Ukraine.
The Commission found that removing the existing anti-dumping and countervailing duties on the subject imports “would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable future.”
Late last year, the Commerce Department determined the weighted-average dumping margins that would likely persist if the duties were removed. They were 44.4% for India, 47.86% for Indonesia, 90.83% for China, 29.14% for Taiwan, 20.3% for Thailand, and 90.33% for Ukraine.
Commerce also found that net countervailable subsidies would persist at rates of 10.21% for Indonesia and over 340% for India.
As a result of the ITC’s vote, existing orders on HR from those countries will stay in place for at least another five years.
This was the fourth sunset review of these HR duty orders, meaning these duties have been on the books for almost 25 years. The original case was filed in 2000, with the first duties imposed in 2001.
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