KYIV, July 18 – The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an antidumping investigation into importation of Ukrainian reinforcing steel into the U.S., Serhii Stetsenko, head of the department of trade restrictions and regulation of foreign economic activity, told Ukrainian News.
According to Stetsenko, the commission accuses Dniprovsk, Zaporizhstal, Makiivka, Ienakieve, Kryvorizhstal and Kramatorsk metallurgical plants of dumping steel.
The commission launched the investigation on the basis of complaints by seven American companies for exports of reinforcing steel in 1999.
According to Stetsenko, Kryvorizhstal and the Dniprovsk metallurgical plant have expressed the willingness to participate in the investigation.
The Kramatorsk metallurgical plant says it does not produce reinforcing steel while the Ienakieve and Makiivka metallurgical plants say they did not export reinforcing steel to the U.S..
Tetiana Hermash, deputy head of the Dniprovsk metallurgical plant's department of foreign economic relations, said in an interview with Ukrainian News that the plant did not produce or export reinforcing steel during the period in question.
Preliminary hearings in the antidumping investigation are scheduled for July 19.
Special investigations are also underway in Poland for imports of Ukrainian rolled steel, in Egypt for imports of Ukrainian billets and in Russia for imports of Ukrainian pipes.
