US includes aluminium solar racking rails into final antidumping duty determinations

In the final determinations concerning the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations for aluminium extrusion imports, the U.S. Department of Commerce has named fourteen countries that have sold, dumped, and subsidised aluminium extrusions into the United States, violating international trade rules. Those countries include China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and the United Arab Emirates.

For violating trade rules, all the countries above have faced antidumping duties at rates ranging from 2.02 per cent to 376.85 per cent and countervailing duties at rates ranging from 1.44 per cent to 168.81 per cent. The duties are imposed on aluminium extruded products, including solar panel racking rails, aluminium solar panel mounting systems, and solar tracker assemblies. Electric vehicle battery trays and charging station parts or assemblies have also encountered antidumping and countervailing duties.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has imposed these duties after conducting antidumping and countervailing investigations based on the cases filed on behalf of the U.S. Aluminium Extruders Coalition, a coalition of 14 aluminium extruders in the United States.

“These final determinations are another key step in remedying the harm caused by illegal dumping by foreign producers of aluminium extrusions, many of which have also benefited from unfair subsidies,” said Robert DeFrancesco, trade counsel to the U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coaltion and the USW, and a partner in the International Trade Practice at Wiley Rein LLP. “The U.S. industry looks forward to relief from these unfairly traded imports when the U.S. International Trade Commission issues its final determination in November 2024.”

These new antidumping/countervailing duties will receive a final assessment within a year following the department’s final determinations last week.