Commerce initiates AD/CVD circumvention probe into steel from China by way of Vietnam

The Commerce Department on Tuesday self-initiated a circumvention inquiry involving stainless steel products from China that are completed in Vietnam and then exported to the U.S. Commerce claims shipments of stainless sheet and strip from Vietnam to the U.S. increased “in value by $122 million (180.4 percent)” when compared to import data from the 40-month periods before and after the initiations of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on Chinese stainless sheet and strip in March 2016. If the agency preliminarily...