U.S. Final Anti-Subsidy Ruling on China's Steel Wheel Hubs

25/03/2012 12:00 - 406 Views

On March 19, 2012, the U.S. Department of Commerce released a notice on its final anti-subsidy ruling on China-made steel wheel hubs (see the table below).

According to related procedure, the U.S. International Trade Commission will make a final ruling on this case on April 30, 2012, if it is an affirmative ruling, the Department of Commerce will issue an order for imposing anti-subsidy duty on the involved products.

On April 19, 2011, the Department launched the antidumping and anti-subsidy investigations into the involved products under HS codes:

87087005.00, 87087025.00, 87087045.30, 87087060.30, 84069045.80, 84069075.00, 84209990.00, 84229011.00, 84229021.00, 84229091.20, 84229091.30, 84229091.60, 84229091.95, 84311000.10, 84311000.90, 84312000.00, 84313100.20, 84313100.40, 84313100.60, 84313900.10, 84313900.50, 84313900.70, 84313900.80, 84314380.60, 84314910.10, 84314910.60, 84314910.90, 84314990.30, 84314990.40, 84314990.85, 84329000.05, 84329000.15, 84329000.30, 84329000.80, 84339010.00, 84339050.20, 84339050.40, 84369900.20, 84369900.90, 84799094.40, 84799094.50, 84799094.96, 84879000.80, 86071912.00, 86071915.00, 87087015.00, 87087035.00, 87087045.60, 87087060.60, 87099000.00, 87100000.90, 87141900.30, 87141900.60, 87169010.00, 87169050.30, 87169050.60, 88032000.15, 88032000.30, 88032000.60.

U.S. Final Anti-Subsidy Ruling on China's Steel Wheel Hubs

Manufacturer/Exporter	Subsidy Rate (%)
Jining Centurion Wheel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Jining CII Wheel Manufacture Co., Ltd. (the Centurion Companies)	25.66
Shandong Xingmin Wheel Co., Ltd. and Sino-tex (Longkou) Wheel Manufacturers Inc. (the Xingmin Companies)	32.62
Zhejiang Jingu Automobile Components, Chengdu Jingu Wheel Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Wheel World Industrial Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Yata Industrial Co., Ltd. (the Jingu Companies)	46.59
General Chinese	34.55