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Cases
Cold Rolled Cases
Tin Mill Product Case
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June 2, 1999
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Weirton Steel, six other
domestic steel companies and two steel unions file trade cases with
the U.S. government alleging that 12 countries sold cold-rolled steel
in American markets at prices that violated U.s. trade laws. The 12
countries targeted are China, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina,
Thailand, Russia, Venezuela, Japan, Indonesia, Slovakia and Taiwan.
Cold rolled imports from those countries captured nearly 14 percent of
the U.S. market in 1998. This compares to 11.3 percent in 1997 and 6.5
percent in 1996.
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July 19, 1999
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously rules that
evidence exists that cold-rolled steel imports from the 12 countries
threatened the domestic steel industry in 1998. The ITC forwards the
case to the U.S. Commerce Department, which will now begin its
investigation.
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| Nov. 2, 1999 |
The Commerce Department
announces preliminary tariffs ranging as high as 178 percent against
Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Thailand and Venezuela,
and the cases are returned to the ITC. Rulings will be issued later in
the cases of the other five countries.
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| Dec. 29, 1999 |
Commerce Department announces
preliminary tariffs on cold-rolled steel exported from the remaining
five countries and the cases are returned to the ITC.
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March 3, 2000
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Apparently disagreeing with
Commerce, the ITC rules that domestic producers of cold-rolled steel
were not harmed by cold-rolled imports from Japan, Brazil, Russia,
Argentina, South Africa and Thailand. ITC rulings regarding the other
nations involved in the cold-rolled cases are expected later this year.
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April 27, 2000
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In a sparsely attended public
vote that was foretold last month, the ITC repeats itself in a 5-1
determination that imports of cold-rolled products from Turkey and
Venezuela did not cause injury or threaten to cause injury to the
domestic market. The ruling means that product from the two countries
can be shipped to the U.S. without the penalty of anti-dumping duty
margins the Commerce Department had determined ranged up to 56.37
percent. The vote duplicated the March determination that dismissed
charges against six other countries in the same case. The ITC is
expected to make an injury ruling on the balance of the countries cited
in the investigation, including China, Indonesia, Slovakia and Taiwan,
this summer.
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