The U.S. Commerce Dept. placed preliminary countervailing duties on imports of fabricated structural steel from China and Mexico but also found that those from Canada were not sufficiently subsidized to harm U.S. fabricators.
该行动源于美国钢铁建设研究所所带来的芝加哥贸易集团代表国内钢制造商的案件。
由于初步确定，中国的制造商将不得不将其产品和墨西哥制造商偿还高达177％的职责，高达74％。
Canadian imports were found to be subsidized less than 1%, which is in theDE MINEIS.该部门的补贴规则的范围，这意味着美国海关和边境保护不会收取任何职责。
Commerce affirmed in its statement that, in 2018, imports of fabricated structural steel from Canada, China, and Mexico were valued at an estimated $722.5 million, $897.5 million, and $622.4 million, respectively.
"I think there's still a path forward to getting affirmative determination with Canada between now and the final determination, so we're hoping that plays out," says Brian Raff, AISC director of communications and public affairs.
该部门表示，直至11月19日，该部门不会对来自所有三个国家的进口进行最终裁决，并补充说，它已启动了172项新的反倾销和反补贴税项调查。
Cowen和Co.副总裁兼金属和矿业股权研究分析师泰勒·肯尼昂表示，虽然这种情况遵循了AISC，调查和决心的传统过程，由该部门，特朗普行政之间的持续高层讨论特别是中国可能对它产生影响。
墨西哥是唯一批准新美国 - 墨西哥加拿大贸易协定的国家，肯尼昂表示，持续贸易会谈与加拿大和墨西哥有可能影响本案件的贸易会谈。
“随着这些更大的，更广泛的贸易交易有可能在这个制造的结构钢贸易案件中增加更多的轴承，而不是目前正在进行的现有调查，”“肯尼昂说。
Raff says AISC believes that this case is separate from other steel tariff issues being discussed, some of which have had deadlines for compliance announced via President Donald Trump's Twitter account, with tariff removals revealed the same way.
“我真的不确定，我认为这是一个完全分开的问题，来自任何正在发生的其他政治动机，”拉夫说。“这只是一个在自己的世界中存在的案例，没有其他关税问题或国际贸易问题真正与在这种情况下发生的事情的直接联系。这种情况是非常程序性的，它是由法律的束缚，真的不应该受到任何正在发生的事情的影响。“
