U.S. International Trade Commission Schedules Expedited Review of Steel Wire Rod Orders
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The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has announced it will conduct expedited five-year reviews of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from China. The notice was issued on September 24, 2025, in the Federal Register (Volume 90, Number 183).
The purpose of these reviews is to determine if removing the current duty orders would likely lead to a continuation or recurrence of material injury to the U.S. industry within a reasonably foreseeable time.
The decision to proceed with expedited reviews comes after the USITC found that the group response from domestic interested parties was adequate. The response from the respondent interested party group was found to be inadequate. As a result, the Commission did not identify any reason to conduct full reviews. However, Commissioner Johanson voted to conduct full reviews.
The reviews are being conducted according to the Tariff Act of 1930, section 751(c)(3), and under relevant sections of the Code of Federal Regulations (19 CFR parts 201 and 207).
A staff report with details about the reviews has been placed in the nonpublic record. It will be made available on October 3, 2025, to those listed on the Administrative Protective Order service list. A public version will be issued later.
Parties that have supplied individually adequate responses to the notice of institution, or parties other than interested parties, may submit written comments by October 9, 2025. These comments may not include new factual information. If the Department of Commerce extends the time limit for completing its final results, any comments regarding those results are due within three business days after Commerce issues its results.
Only comments from Charter Steel, Commercial Metals Company (CMC), Liberty Steel USA, Nucor Steel, and Optimus Steel LLC will be accepted. These were found to be individually adequate responses. Comments from other interested parties will not be accepted.
All documents submitted as part of the reviews must be served to all other parties and must include a certificate of service. Documents without the certificate will not be accepted.
The Commission has determined that these reviews are extraordinarily complicated. Therefore, the review period may be extended by up to 90 days, following 19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(5)(B).
These reviews are conducted under the authority of Title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 and published according to Section 207.62 of the Commission’s rules.
The notice was signed by Sharon Bellamy, Supervisory Hearings and Information Officer, and issued on September 22, 2025.
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