United States Issues Final Antidumping Duties For Tin Mill Products From Several Countries

On January 5, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it had found imports of tin mill products from Canada, China, Germany, and South Korea are being dumped onto the U.S. market and that imports of tin mill products from China are being subsidized. The department determined companies from Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom are not dumping these products into U.S. markets.

Tin mill products are generally used in cans and other containers.

The department reserved the highest final anti-dumping duties, 122.5 percent, for products from China. It also imposed countervailing anti-subsidy duties of 650 percent on tin mill products from top China producer Baoshan Iron and Steel. Countervailing anti-subsidy duties for all other Chinese steelmakers will be 331.9 percent. For Canadian products, the department put in place anti-dumping and countervailing duties of 5.27 percent. In 2022, tin mill imports from Canada were worth $463.6 million.

The Canadian government immediately condemned the ruling. “These duties not only weaken supply chains between Canada and the U.S. but also worsen the impacts of inflation on both sides of the border,” Canada’s Export Promotion, International Trade, and Economic Development Minister Mary Ng said in a statement.

For the duties to remain in place, the U.S. International Trade Commission must determine that U.S. producers have sustained material injury. As Reuters reported, that vote is expected in the coming weeks.