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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Transformer Fair Trade Coalition supports the U.S. Department of Commerce ("Commerce") preliminary determination that imports of liquid dielectric large power transformers ("LPTs") from Korea are being dumped in the United States at average dumping margins of 21.79 percent for Hyundai Heavy Industries ("Hyundai") and 38.07 percent for Hyosung Corporation ("Hyosung"). The average dumping margin for all other Korean...

Obama Administration Needs to Clarify U.S. Rights within WTO WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), today issued a positive but cautious reaction to the signing of understandings reached by the U.S. with the European Union, and separately with Japan, in long running trade disputes over antidumping methodology called 'zeroing.' (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) "USW...

<dir> <dir> WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The European Commission and the United States today solved one of their most longstanding WTO disputes concerning the U.S. calculation practice of so-called "zeroing" in anti-dumping investigations. They signed a roadmap which sets out the steps the U.S. will take to comply with WTO rulings in the future calculation of duties when the U.S. authorities find that some imported products from a particular...

CELAYA, Mexico, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V. ("Bachoco" or "the Company") (NYSE: IBA; BMV: Bachoco), Mexico's leading producer and processor of poultry and other food products, announced today that on July 2, 2010, Bachoco, S.A. de C.V. (main subsidiary of Industrias Bachoco, S.A.B. de C.V.), Productos Agropecuarios de Tehuacan, S.A. de C.V. ("Patsa") and Buenaventura Grupo Pecuario, S.A. de C.V. ("Buenaventura"), appeared before the Mexican Ministry of...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW), today confirmed the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted 6-0 to continue tariffs on cut-to-length steel plate (CTLP) imports from Korea, India and Indonesia for another five years, while revoking the orders for plate from Japan and Italy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) According to the ITC, the existing antidumping and...

BEIJING, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- On December 2, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) made its determination in the preliminary phase antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells from China, finding a reasonable indication that the U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports from China. The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME) hereby...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Imports of seamless stainless steel pipe and tube are up substantially in 2011 over the same period in 2010. Total imports of small diameter seamless pipe and tubing are up by nearly 40 percent through August, 2011, lead by substantial increases from Japan (up 350 percent) and China (up 56 percent). "Members of the Stainless Steel Tube Trade Advancement Committee (SSTTAC) commented in late 2010 that an antidumping case filed in the...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Commerce Department issued today a preliminary determination finding that foreign producers in South Korea and Mexico - including Samsung Electronics (Samsung) and LG Electronics (LG) - violated United States and International trade laws by dumping bottom-mount refrigerators in the United States. "The Commerce Department's preliminary finding of dumping validates the legal actions we are taking to protect our 23,000 employees in...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics and its affiliates will aggressively contest the dumping allegations and the methodologies used by the U.S. Department of Commerce in its preliminary determinations in the ongoing antidumping duty investigations of bottom mount refrigerator-freezers imported from Korea and Mexico. In those determinations, the Commerce Department preliminarily found that LG Electronics USA, Inc. (LGEUS) and its affiliates LG Electronics, Inc. (LGE)...

RIDGEFIELD, N.J., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Samsung is disappointed with the U.S. Department of Commerce's preliminary findings regarding a segment of the refrigerator market, bottom-mount refrigerators, produced by Samsung in Korea and Mexico. Samsung disagrees with the preliminary findings, and is confident that once the full investigation is concluded, the Department of Commerce will determine that Samsung is in compliance with U.S. trade laws. The Department of Commerce...