No Exceptions to Aluminum Foil AD/CVD Scope for Household, Thin-Gauge Foil, Commerce Says

The Commerce Department will not modify the scope of its ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum foil from Armenia, Brazil, Oman, Russia and Turkey in preliminary AD duty determinations now imminent in the cases, Commerce said in a preliminary scope memorandum issued April 27. The agency ruled against requests from respondents to the investigations to exclude household aluminum foil and thin-gauge foil (with a thickness less than 7 microns), deferring to petitioners’ wishes not to exclude the products. Both products are covered by the scope of the AD/CVD investigations as currently written.

Commerce is now set to publish its preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on the five countries in the coming days. The agency announced April 28 that it had calculated AD duty rates of 188.84% for all Armenian exporters, 13.87% to 63.05% for Brazilian exporters, 4.03% for all Omani exporters, and 62.18% for all Russian exporters. Commerce reached a negative preliminary determination for Turkey.