Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, and Taiwan. Investigation Nos. 731-TA-770-773 and 775 (Second Review)

摘要

In response to countervailing and antidumping duty petitions filed on July 30, 1997, by Al Tech Specialty Steel Corp. (Al Tech), Carpenter Technology Corp. (Carpenter), Republic Engineered Steels, Inc. (Republic), Talley Metals Technology, Inc. (Talley), and the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO/CLC, the U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission) determined on September 1, 1998, that an industry in the United States was materially injured by reason of subject imports of SSWR from Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. On September 15, 1998, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued a countervailing duty order on subject imports from Italy and antidumping duty orders on subject imports from Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. Because it found de minimis antidumping duty margins for three subject producers in the original investigations, Commerce excluded Hitachi Metals, Ltd. (Hitachi) (Japan), Yieh Hsing Enterprise Corp. Ltd. (Yieh Hsing) (Taiwan), and Acciaierie Valbruna S.r.l. (Valbruna) (Italy) from the scope of those antidumping duty orders. Valbruna, however, remained subject to a countervailing duty order on subject imports from Italy, until Commerce revoked that order effective September 15, 2003, as a result of its negative first five-year reviews of that order.