According to the preliminary determination made by the US Department of Commerce (USDOC) on Thursday (July 11th), the producers and exporters in Belgium, France, Italy and South Korea sold their cut-to-length (CTL) plate to the US market during the period of investigation.

The weighted-average dumping margin for Belgium’s Industeel Belgium and NLMK Clabecq was set at 4.91% and 13.27% respectively, and the margin for all producers and exporters was at 11.36%. The previous final dumping margin for all imports from Belgium was in a range of 5.4%-51.78%.

The preliminary margin for French Industeel was confirmed at 5.29%. Italian NLMK Verona S.p.A. and Officine Tecnosider were subject to a dumping margin at 1.26% and 1.63% respectively, and other producers and exporters in Italy were set at 1.52%. South Korean producers and exporters received a rate at 0.56%, which was lower than the previous 7.1%.

The period of this investigation for Belgium, France and Italy was from November 14th, 2016 to April 30th, 2018, and that for South Korea covered from April 4th, 2017 to December 31st, 2017.