Commerce Must Revisit Duties on China Steel Corp.'s Taiwanese Plate

The Commerce Department must revisit and possibly lower antidumping duties on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Taiwan, a federal court ruled Aug. 6.

Cut-to-length plate is used in the construction of buildings; bridgework; transmission towers; agricultural, construction and mining equipment; machine parts; ships; rail cars; tankers and barges. The U.S. imported about $21 million worth of this plate from Taiwan in 2015, according to the Commerce Department. The U.S. began imposing antidumping duties on these imports in 2017.

Commerce calculated a 75.42% dumping rate for China Steel Corp. This rate was factored into the 39.52% rate that ...