The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that it has initiated an antidumping duty reinvestigation to update the normal values and export prices respecting certain concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) originating in or exported from China, South Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Taiwan, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Portugal and Spain and a countervailing duty reinvestigation to update the amounts of subsidy of certain rebar originating in or exported from China. It is anticipated that this reinvestigation will be concluded by May 4, 2018.

The reinvestigation is part of the ongoing enforcement of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s (CITT) threat of injury finding issued on January 9, 2015, for imports from China, South Korea and Turkey and the CITT’s injury finding issued on May 3, 2017, for imports from Belarus, Taiwan, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Portugal and Spain.

Normal values and amounts of subsidy established during this reinvestigation will be effective for the subject goods released from the CBSA on or after the date of the conclusion of the reinvestigation.

The products in question currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7213.10.00.00, 7214.20.00.00, 7215.90.00.90 and 7227.90.00.90.