12/9/2009
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McGrath at NIFS/West: ‘Kiss Your Importer’ For Stopping Tariffs
Trade attorney Matthew McGrath at NIFS/West.
The unanimous U.S. International Trade Commission vote to end the antidumping investigation into standard fastener imports “is very rare in a preliminary investigation,” trade attorney Matthew McGrath told attendees of a National Industrial Fastener Show/West conference in Las Vegas.
The ITC unanimously rejected Nucor Fastener’s claims that standard fastener imports from China and Taiwan were being dumped domestically.
McGrath credited 11 importers who “took a stand and threw their best case at the ITC.”
“Kiss your importer,” McGrath, who represented a coalition of U.S. importers, told a crowd of 200 conference attendees. “These are the folks that really put an effort in this case.”
Importers successfully attacked the scope of the case, forcing Nucor Fastener to amend its petitions twice.
While Nucor Fastener has been criticized for seeking tariffs on low-carbon standard fasteners that haven’t been produced in the U.S. since the 1960s, McGrath noted that it’s legal for a company to list products that it doesn’t make so long as those products fall within the petition’s spectrum of goods. ©2009 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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Related Links:
• U.S. ITC
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