Members of the US steel threaded rod industry are appealing the final determinations of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) that imports of threaded rod from India and Thailand are not causing injury to the US industry.
The coalition members include All America Threaded Products, Inc. of Denver, Colorado; Bay Standard Manufacturing, Inc. of California; and Vulcan Threaded Products of Pelham, Alabama. Together they account for the vast majority of steel threaded rod manufactured in the United States.
On June 27, 2013, All America, Bay Standard, and Vulcan filed antidumping (AD) petitions against imports of threaded rod from India and Thailand and a countervailing duty (CVD) petition against imports of threaded rod from India. The ITC made affirmative preliminary injury determinations in all cases in July 2013, and the US Department of Commerce (DOC) initiated its separate AD and CVD investigations on July 24, 2013. On March 14, 2104, the DOC issued its final determination that imports of threaded rod from Thailand are being sold at unfair prices in the US market at dumping margins between 68.41 percent and 74.90 percent. Subsequently, on July 14, 2014, the DOC announced final dumping margins of 16 .74 percent to 119.87 percent and subsidy margins of 8.61 percent to 39.46 percent on imports of threaded rod from India.
However, the ITC made final determinations that imports of threaded rod from India and Thailand do not cause material injury or threaten to cause material injury to the American industry. The ITC reached these results despite that fact that it received no information at all from any Thai producers or exporters of threaded rod and only limited information from the many Indian producers and exporters. On the other hand, the US producers responded in full to all requests for information from the ITC and provided extensive evidence of significant lost sales and lost income as the result of the unfairly traded imports from India and Thailand.
Accordingly, the US threaded rod industry has appealed the ITC’s determinations to the US Court of International Trade.
