USITC MAKES DETERMINATION IN FIVE-YEAR (SUNSET) REVIEW CONCERNING CLAD STEEL PLATE FROM JAPAN

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty order on clad steel plate from Japan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. 

As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determination, the existing order on imports of this product from Japan will remain in place. 

Chairman David S. Johanson and Commissioners Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, Jason E. Kearns, and Amy A. Karpel voted in the affirmative. 

Today’s action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. See the attached page for background on this five-year (sunset) review.

The Commission’s public report Clad Steel Plate from Japan (Inv. No. 731-TA-739 (Fifth Review), USITC Publication 5502, April 2024) will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the review. 

The report will be available by April 25, 2024; when available, it may be accessed on the USITC website at: https://www.usitc.gov/commission_publications_library.

BACKGROUND

The Uruguay Round Agreements Act requires the Department of Commerce to revoke an antidumping or countervailing duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless the Department of Commerce and the USITC determine that revoking the order or terminating the suspension agreement would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping or subsidies (Commerce) and of material injury (USITC) within a reasonably foreseeable time.  Read More→ https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2024/er0328_65013.htm