Artwork Display Kits Not Covered by AD/CVD on Chinese-Origin Aluminum Extrusions
Suspended cable display kits and mounted cable display kits imported by MBS, a stainless steel company, aren’t covered by antidumping duty or countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, the Commerce Department said in a Feb. 13 scope ruling. The products are “finished good kits” that are exempt, it explained.
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The merchandise on which Commerce ruled are cable systems used to display media such as photographs and artwork -- suspended systems are anchored into a ceiling or wall at one end of a steel cable, and mounted systems are anchored at both ends, the ruling said. They are sold as kits, and they have both aluminum and non-aluminum extrusion components, it said.
The orders cover “shapes and forms, produced by an extrusion process, made from aluminum alloys having metallic elements corresponding to the alloy series designations published by The Aluminum Association commencing with the numbers 1, 3, and 6.” Covered products include parts intended for further assembly, after importation, into a wide range of items. Excluded from the orders, however, are “aluminum extrusions that are entered unassembled in a ‘finished goods kit.’”
No party from the domestic industry opposed a finding that MBS’ products were out-of-scope. Commerce said it reached its determination based on the language of the orders: Because the systems are sold as complete kits, they meet the requirements of the scope exclusion for “finished good kits.” It said it agreed with MBS that the visual media the products are intended to support don’t need to be imported along with the kits to make them “finished.”