The US Department of Commerce found practically no applicable preliminary duty margins for rebar produced by Mexico's Deacero and Grupo Simec and Turkey's Icdas in separate administrative reviews.
For the April 24, 2014-October 31, 2015, review period, Commerce calculated a 0.56% weighted-average dumping margin for Deacero and no dumping margin for Grupo Simec. The cash deposit rate for all other Mexican producers and exporters is unchanged from the original antidumping investigation determination at 20.58%.
The threshold for de minimis in this case is less than 0.5%. If Commerce makes an affirmative final ruling in its administrative review, then it will instruct Customs to impose the dumping margin on all entries covered by the duty order during the period of review. The final results of the administrative review are due within 120 days of the issuance of the preliminary results.
Deacero sold rebar to the US during the period of review, but Grupo Simec did not.
In an administrative review of Icdas for the September 15-December 31, 2014, review period, Commerce calculated a de minimis subsidy rate, which in effect is zero.
The original subsidy rate found for Icdas in 2014 was 1.25%. Commerce issued a 20.58% dumping margin for Deacero and a 66.7% dumping margin for Grupo Simec at that time.
