Turkey Rebar Producer Keeps Victory in Anti-Subsidy Duty Dispute

Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S., A Turkish rebar producer, convinced a federal appeals court that it shouldn’t have to pay higher countervailing duties on United States imports.

Rebar Trade Action Coalition and other US-steel producers failed to show that the Turkish government’s subsidization of a company related to Kaptan triggered the imposition of those duties under the Tariff Act of 1930, Judge Richard Linn of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a Monday opinion.

The act allows the US Department of Commerce to impose countervailing duties on merchandise imported from countries whose governments ...