Interested parties have until Oct. 6 to submit requests for a hearing on the U.S. Commerce Department’s affirmative preliminary determination on antidumping duties against truck and bus tire imports from China.
Commerce published a document in the Sept. 6Federal Register, following up on its antidumping findings against the Chinese imports.
The agency found a dumping margin of 20.87 percent against Prinx Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Co. Ltd. — one of the two mandatory respondents to the Commerce Investigation — and more than 250 other tire manufacturers and importers that qualified as “non-selected separate rate respondents.” This means that, though not selected as mandatory respondents, these companies provided the agency with what it regarded as adequate information.
Double Coin Holdings Ltd., the other mandatory respondent, did not demonstrate it was entitled to a separate rate, and thus was assigned the China-wide antidumping duty rate of 22.57 percent, Commerce said.
The agency directed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to begin collecting cash deposits in the amount of the duties from the Chinese importers, beginning retroactively 90 days from the Federal Register publication. With the preliminary countervailing duties levied June 28, this means that Chinese truck and bus tire importers are currently being charged duties of at least 40 percent.
