ITC votes to keep HR duties after sunset review

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.