AD/CV: Brazil and Canada Brass Sheet and Strip
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release stating that on March 6, 2006, a majority of the six Commissioners voted to revoke the existing antidumping (AD) and/or countervailing (CV) duty orders on brass sheet and strip from Canada (A-122-601) and Brazil (A-351-603 & C-351-604).
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According to the press release, the majority of ITC Commissioners determined that revocation of these existing AD and CV duty orders on subject merchandise from Canada and Brazil would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
However, the majority of ITC Commissioners also determined that revoking the existing AD and CV duty orders on imports of brass sheet and strip from France, Germany, Italy, and Japan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. As such, these existing AD and CV duty orders will remain in place.
(This action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which according to 19 CFR 351.218(a), requires the International Trade Administration (ITA) to revoke an AD or countervailing (CV) duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless it is found that revocation would be likely to lead to both (1) a continuation or recurrence of dumping or a countervailable subsidy and (2) material injury to a U.S. industry within a reasonably foreseeable time.
A negative determination either by the ITA with respect to (1) above or by the ITC with respect to (2) above results in the revocation of the AD and/or CV duty order.)
(See ITT's Online Archives or 04/05/05, 05040540, for BP summaries of the ITA and ITC's initiation and scheduling of these investigations.)
ITC Contact - Peg O'Laughlin (202) 205-1819
ITC Press Release (06-016, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-269 and 731-TA-311-314, 317 and 379, dated 03/06/06) available athttp://www.usitc.gov/ext_relations/news_release/2006/er0306dd1.htm.