The Dept. of Commerce introduced preliminary determinations from an ongoing investigation that aluminum extrusion producers and exporters in China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam imported aluminum extrusions at less-than-fair worth in the USA. Since they’re preliminary determinations, Commerce will proceed to gather data and settle for feedback from related events whereas the investigation is lively.
Photo voltaic merchandise affected by this investigation embrace tracker assemblies, racking and mounts constructed from aluminum extruded within the nations beneath investigation. Two elements which might be cited within the newest updates to the scope are actuators and bearings used on photo voltaic tracker methods.
GameChange Photo voltaic, an organization producing racking and tracker constructions, filed feedback in November 2023 for the Dept. of Commerce to take away bearings, off-grid PV modules and actuators from consideration for these import duties. Commerce amended the scope, eradicating off-grid modules, however actuators and bearings for actuators stay topic to impending duties. GameChange filed feedback once more on March 28 to take away actuators, arguing that this {hardware}, very similar to preassembled photo voltaic modules — that are excluded from these duties — have many extra elements than extruded aluminum.
The U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition and the United Metal, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Vitality, Allied Industrial and Service Staff Worldwide unions — petitioners on this case — counseled Commerce’s resolution to impose duties and urged the division to take care of these choices within the last section of the continuing, in accordance with a press launch.
“The Commerce division’s findings in opposition to these 14 nations present simply how widespread dumping practices are globally and spotlight the significance of strongly implementing the antidumping legal guidelines to defend U.S. companies and employees from the devastating results of unfair commerce,” mentioned Robert E. DeFrancesco, commerce counsel to the petitioners and a accomplice within the Worldwide Commerce Follow at Wiley. “We’re inspired by the preliminary affirmative findings and can proceed to work with the Commerce Division to make sure that for its last willpower, the margins correctly mirror the total quantity of dumping happening by the international producers.”
Commerce calculated affirmative preliminary dumping charges from these nations within the following ranges: China 4.91 to 376.85%; Colombia 8.85 to 34.47%, Ecuador 17.23 to 51.20%; India 3.44 to 39.05%; Indonesia 5.66 to 112.21%; Italy 15.3 to 41.67%; South Korea 2.42%; Malaysia 26.7 to 27.51%; Mexico 9.18 to 82.03%; Taiwan 33.93 to 57.86%; Thailand 2.02 to 4.04%; Turkey 45.44 to 602.72%; UAE 9.13-42.29%; and Vietnam 2.85-41.84%.
Commerce’s willpower establishes the preliminary obligation charges within the dumping segments of the investigations. One week following the publication of Commerce’s preliminary willpower within the Federal Register, the division will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Safety to start suspending liquidation and amassing preliminary duties (within the type of money deposits) on entries of aluminum extrusions from these 14 nations. For imports from China, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey, antidumping duties will likely be added to countervailing duties introduced on March 5, 2024.
Commerce is scheduled to subject its last determinations in mid-July, which could possibly be prolonged to late September 2024, and the preliminary calculated charges might enhance.
