WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of new antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether certain metal lockers and parts thereof (metal lockers) from China are being dumped in the United States, and to determine if producers are receiving unfair subsidies.
The petitions were filed by List Industries, Inc. (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), Lyon LLC (Montgomery, Ill.), Penco Products, Inc. (Greenville, N.C.), and Tennsco LLC (Dickson, Tenn.).
In the AD investigation, Commerce will determine whether imports of metal lockers from China are being dumped in the U.S. market at less-than-fair value. The alleged dumping margins range from 245.96 to 322.25 percent.
In the CVD investigation, Commerce will determine whether Chinese producers of metal lockers are receiving unfair government subsidies. Commerce will investigate 24 subsidy programs, including renumeration programs, preferential lending programs, export programs, tax programs, and grant programs.
If Commerce makes affirmative findings in these investigations, and if the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) determines that dumped and/or unfairly subsidized U.S. imports of metal lockers from China materially injure, or threaten material injury to, the U.S. industry, Commerce will impose duties on those imports in the amount of dumping and/or unfair subsidization found to exist.
The petitioners estimated that the value of imports of metal lockers from China in 2018 was $64 million. Read More →
