Notice of initiation of administrative review: Stainless steel sinks (SSS 2025 UP1)
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated an administrative review (review) to update the normal values, export prices, and amounts of subsidy of certain stainless steel sinks (SSS) originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China).
This review is part of the CBSA’s ongoing enforcement of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s (CITT) order issued on October 4, 2023 in Expiry Review RR‐2022-002.
The product definition and the applicable tariff classification numbers of the goods subject to the CITT’s injury finding can be found on the CBSA’s Measures in Force.
As part of the review, the CBSA is initiating an inquiry under section 20 of SIMA to examine the status of the stainless steel sink sector in China. Section 20 of SIMA applies where, in the opinion of the CBSA, domestic prices are substantially determined by the government and there is sufficient reason to believe that they are not the same as they would be if they were determined in a competitive market.
Information before the CBSA indicates that there is reason to believe that non-competitive conditions exist in the stainless steel sink sector in China and, as such, the CBSA will examine this sector in this section 20 inquiry. As part of this section 20 inquiry, the CBSA is requesting certain information from the Government of China as well the exporters.
For the purposes of obtaining information necessary to calculate normal values pursuant to subparagraph 20(1)(c) of SIMA, the CBSA is requesting information from producers in surrogate countries. As such, the CBSA has selected Australia, India, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and Switzerland as potential surrogate countries and has sent questionnaires to known producers of SSS in these countries.
Normal values and amounts of subsidy established during this review will be effective for the subject goods released from the CBSA on or after the date of the conclusion of the review. Normal values and amounts of subsidy currently in place will expire on that date. Normal values and amounts of subsidy determined on the basis of the review will be applied to any entries of subject goods under appeal that have yet to be re-determined at the time of the conclusion of the review.
Exporters that wish to participate in this review are required to provide a complete and accurate response to the CBSA’s request for information (RFI) by April 2, 2025. An exporter will be considered cooperative if the requested information is submitted on time and the exporter permits verification of the data. A complete listing of dates of interest is available on the administrative review schedule.
Where an exporter of subject goods which has been asked to respond to an RFI does not provide sufficient information to determine specific normal values or does not permit verification of information submitted, anti-dumping duties will be assessed at a rate of 103.1% for subject good from China in accordance with a ministerial specification pursuant to section 29 of SIMA, expressed as a percentage of the export price of the subject goods imported into Canada.
Similarly, in cases where either the Government of China or exporters in China fail to provide complete and accurate submissions enabling the determination of specific amounts of subsidy, countervailing duties may be assessed at the rate of 264.94 Renminbi per unit in accordance with a ministerial specification pursuant to subsection 30.4(2) of SIMA.
Exporters that are not the manufacturer of the subject goods (e.g. trading companies, vendors, etc.) will receive normal values only to the extent that their suppliers/manufacturers provide sufficient information to permit the determination of normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy.
Responses to the importer RFI are due by March 17, 2025. Importers are cautioned that new normal values and amounts of subsidy when issued, may be higher than those currently in effect and that this could result in additional assessments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties. Importers are also cautioned that unless an exporter co-operates in the review and receives specific normal values and amounts of subsidy and at their conclusion, subsequent imports of subject goods from that exporter will be assessed anti-dumping and countervailing duties base on the ministerial specifications indicated above.
All parties are cautioned that where there are increases in domestic prices, and/or costs, the export price for sales to Canada should be increased accordingly to ensure that any sale made to Canada is not only above the normal value but at or above selling prices and full costs and profit of the goods in the exporter’s domestic market. If exporters did not adjust export prices accordingly, retroactive assessments of anti-dumping duty may be warranted.
Source: CBSA
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