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The U.S. Department of Commerce completed expedited second sunset reviews of antidumping duty orders on non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) from Sweden, Germany, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, finding that revocation would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping. The orders covering case numbers A-401-809, A-428-843, A-570-996, A-580-872, A-583-851, and A-588-872 will therefore remain in place. This determination sustains existing AD tariff protections for the U.S. electrical steel industry across a broad set of major trading partners.
CVD orders on NOES from China and Taiwan reached their statutory five-year review window, triggering the mandatory sunset process under 19 U.S.C. 1675(c). Commerce's expedited finding that subsidies would likely recur reflects the agency's standard posture in expedited reviews where no substantive response from domestic interested parties triggers a default affirmative. This determination runs alongside companion AD sunset reviews covering six countries, signaling a coordinated effort to retain the full suite of trade remedy protections on NOES.
The domestic electrical steel industry, historically anchored by integrated US producers, has a consistent record of defending NOES orders through sunset cycles, and Commerce's expedited procedure in this round indicates the domestic coalition submitted adequate response to trigger review without full briefing. No cross-pressure from downstream users is reflected in the record, though NOES consumers in motor and transformer manufacturing have a structural interest in lower input costs. Congressional support for maintaining steel-sector trade remedies is broadly bipartisan, reducing political risk to order continuation.
China remains subject to both CVD and AD orders on NOES, reflecting longstanding US findings of state-subsidized overproduction in electrical steel. Taiwan faces parallel CVD exposure. The companion AD sunset covering six countries, including Germany, Sweden, South Korea, and Japan, indicates the US is maintaining a broad multilateral tariff perimeter on NOES rather than narrowing exposure to non-market economies only. WTO consistency of the underlying CVD methodology is a latent exposure but has not been the subject of active dispute in this record.