WASHINGTON, April 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a victory for U.S. intermodal container chassis manufacturers, the U.S. World Business Fee (ITC or Fee) on Friday, April 11, discovered an affordable indication that the U.S. intermodal container chassis trade is materially injured through chassis imports from Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The Fee’s vote comes based on petitions filed through the U.S. Chassis Producers Coalition on February 26, 2025. The instances allege that immense volumes of unfairly dumped and backed imports of Mexican, Thai, and Vietnamese chassis are injuring the home trade.
“American chassis producers are suffering as a result of dumped and subsidized imports from Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam, which have devastated the U.S. market,” stated Robert E. DeFrancesco, suggest to the Coalition and a spouse within the International Trade Practice at Wiley. “We commend this vote by the Commission, which allows the industry’s efforts to restore a level playing field to proceed and supports American manufacturers and American workers.”
On March 18, 2025, the U.S. Segment of Trade introduced the starting of antidumping (AD) and countervailing accountability (CVD) investigations into matter imports. The dumping margins are alleged to be as prime as 32.37% for Mexican imports, 181.57% for Thai imports, and 302.52% for Vietnamese imports.
The Fee’s agreed initial trauma resolution paves the way in which for the Trade Segment to journey ahead with its investigations. Trade is predicted to factor its initial CVD resolution in Would possibly 2025 (which may well be prolonged till July 2025) and its initial AD resolution in August 2025 (which may well be prolonged till September 2025). If Trade additionally reaches agreed initial determinations in those instances, provisional AD and CVD tasks might be amassed from importers in line with the initial margins calculated.
If each businesses in the end succeed in agreed ultimate determinations, AD and CVD orders on chassis from Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam might be issued, enforcing tasks at the unfairly traded imports for at least 5 years. Tasks should be paid through the U.S. importer, and accountability evasion, absorption, and circumvention are strictly unlawful.
For more info, please touch:
Robert E. DeFrancesco, III
202-719-7473
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SOURCE Wiley Rein LLP
