As Chilean price distortion commission, CNDP, has less than 30 days to decide whether it will keep existing AD duties over Mexican rebar, a representative of the North American country said it could appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the duties continue.
“The definitions of the definite AD measures [by Chile] should violate the rules of the WTO,” said Fabela Legaspi, a secretary for the Mexican embassy in Chile.
“By not meeting the minimum requisites which are indispensable to initiate an AD investigation, these deficiencies become vices of origin that couldn’t be solved,” Legaspi said.
According to the Mexican government, CNDP hasn’t defined the analyzed period for determining whether there were damages to the Chilean domestic market. Additionally, the Mexican government argued the period used to determine alleged dumping prices aren’t comparable.
Chile’s price distortion commission, CNDP, is currently reviewing an existing provisional, ad valorem duty already applied to the imports of Mexican rebar. Depending on the outcome of CNDP’s meeting, Chile could extend the tariff for one more year or longer.
Currently, Mexican rebar is subject to a provisional antidumping (AD) tariff of 11 percent, which was reduced from 13.1 percent, following a resolution published at the nation’s official gazette, Diario Oficial, in late September.
The products subject to the 11 percent provisional, ad valorem tariff currently fall under the following HTS codes 7213.1000, 7214.2000, 7227.9000 and 7228.3000.