Commerce Sets Retroactive AD/CVD on High Carbon Steel Wire From Mexico

Retroactive suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect for high carbon steel wire from Mexico entered on or after July 31, 2023, the Commerce Department said in the preliminary determination of an anti-circumvention inquiry.

Commerce found imports of high carbon steel wire from Mexico are being processed into prestressed concrete steel wire strand in the U.S., circumventing the AD order on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Mexico (A-201-831).

Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements are now in effect as of the date Commerce began its circumvention inquiry (see 2307280038).

Commerce said the high carbon steel wire covered by the circumvention finding has a "high carbon content (i.e., 0.60–0.85 percent), is not heat treated, and has a diameter less than 4.50 millimeters." It enters under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 7217.10.8090

The agency is creating a certification process to avoid AD/CVD for high carbon steel wire from Mexico that won't be processed into prestressed concrete steel wire strand in the U.S., it said.

For unliquidated entries of high carbon steel wire from Mexico on or after July 31, 2023, but prior to April 1, importers may file certifications by May 17. For unliquidated entries newly subject to AD that were filed type 01, importers must file post-summary corrections to change the entries to type 03.

Entries preliminarily subject to the orders under the anti-circumvention inquiry are subject to the exporter’s company-specific AD rate under the AD order on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Mexico or, if there is no applicable company-specific rate, the all-others rate of 62.78%.