Refractory group RHI AG’s Mexican subsidiaries have been denied a panel review of the antidumping duties they - and numerous Chinese refractory producers - must pay, following the US International Trade Commission’s antidumping probe into magnesia carbon (MgO-C) brick imports.
Lawyers for the petitioner, US-based Resco Products Inc., reported that Mexico-based producers RHI-Refmex SA de CV and Veitsch Radex America Inc. requested a North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel review in October 2010, in response to the ITC’s antidumping determinations.
Yet the request was reportedly deemed to be “untimely filed” and was refused by the US Department of Commerce in November.
The denied NAFTA panel leaves RHI with no alternative route for review, according to law firm Doyle, Barlow and Mazard PLLC, meaning the group’s antidumping margin of 57.9% remains in place on any MgO-C bricks it exports to the USA....