Illustrative image (Source: internet)Hanoi (VNA) – The United StatesInternational Trade Commission (USITC) has announced its final conclusion of itssunset reviews concerning anti-dumping to utility scale wind towers importedfrom Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
The MoIT further said the USITC announced that the termination of theimposition of anti-dumping duties on utility scale wind towers imported fromVietnam would likely cause the US’ domestic manufacturing industry to continue sufferingsignificant losses.
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) will continue to impose anti-dumping dutieson wind tower products for another five years and may conduct administrativereviews annually to adjust the applicable tax rates.
On January 18, 2012, the DOCinitiated an anti-dumping investigation into utility scale wind towers importedfrom a number of countries, including Vietnam. Both the USITC and the DOCissued their final conclusion related to the case and applied anti-dumpingmeasures against the Vietnamese product.
The DOCpreliminarily determined that Vietnamese producers and exporters sold utilityscale wind towers in the US at dumping margins of 52.51 percent to 58.49percent in 2012.
In the investigation,mandatory respondent CS Wind Corporation and CS Wind Vietnam Co., Ltd.,received a preliminary dumping margin of 51.50 percent. All other Vietnameseproducers and exporters received a preliminary dumping margin of 58.49 percent.
The petitioner for these investigations is theWind Tower Trade Coalition. The Wind Tower Trade Coalition consists of thefollowing member companies: Broadwind Towers, Inc. (Manitowoc, WI); DMIIndustries (Fargo, ND); Katana Summit LLC (Columbus, NE); and TrinityStructural Towers, Inc. (Dallas, TX). –VNA
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