The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that it has concluded a reinvestigation to update the normal values and export prices respecting rebar originating in or exported from China, South Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Taiwan, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Japan, Portugal and Spain, and the amounts of subsidy of certain rebar originating in or exported from China.

Accordingly, the CBSA stated that specific normal values for future shipments of certain rebar have been determined for all exporters, including Turkey-based Colakoglu Metalurji A.S., İçdas Çelik Enerji Tersane ve Ulasim A.S., Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. ve Kroman Çelik Sanayii A.S., that submitted a complete response to the requests for information  effective May 4. For all other exporters of subject goods originating in or exported from China, South Korea and Turkey including Habas and Diler Holding), normal values will be determined by ministerial specification, which are calculated by advancing the export price of the goods by 41 percent.

Meanwhile, specific normal values for future shipments of certain rebar have been determined for Belarus-based OJSC Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ), Taiwan-based Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corporation, Portugal-based Metalurgica Galaica, S.A. and Spain-based Celsa Atlantic, S.L. and Nervacero, S.A. effective May 4. For all other exporters of subject goods originating in or exported from Belarus, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Portugal and Spain, normal values will be determined by ministerial specification, which are calculated by advancing the export price of the goods by 108.5 percent.
In addition, the CBSA stated that nor any exporters/manufacturers in China provided a response to the subsidy requests for information, an amount of subsidy for all exporters of goods originating in or exported from China will be determined by ministerial specification and is equal to RMB 469/mt.

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.