Commerce issues preliminary affirmative rulings in aluminum foil cases

The Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that aluminum foil imports from Korea and Thailand are evading antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese foil. The department self-initiated the probes last July, citing data that showed that Korean and Thai foil was “cast into a solid state” in China -- and that foil imports from the two countries had risen steeply in tandem with a decline in foil imports from China after the U.S. imposed the trade remedies in 2018. In a...