On June 23, 2020, The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation (AD) and anti-subsidy (CVD) investigation on Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
 
Relevant information:
 
1. Initiated date: June 23, 2020;
 
2. Products under investigation: Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires – HS Code: 4011.90.10.10, 4011.90.10.50, 4011.90.20.10, 4011.90.20.50, 4011.90.80.10, 4011.90.80.50, 8708.70.45.30, 8708.70.45.46, 8708.70.45.48, 8708.70.45.60, 8708.70.60.30, 8708.70.60.45, and 8708.70.60.60
 
3. Investigation period: the period of investigation (POI) for the Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan investigations is April 1, 2019 through March 31, 2020, and the POI for the Vietnam investigation is October 1, 2019 through March 31, 2020

4. Preliminary decision:
On December 30, 2020, DOC issued preliminary decision. Accordingly, the majority of enterprises (accounting for 95.5% of Vietnam's total tire exports to the United States) were not imposed anti-dumping tariffs. The remaining businesses are charged a tax rate of 22.30%.

Meanwhile, the anti-subsidies tariff rates is determined for Vietnamese enterprises ranging from 6.23% to 10.08%.

5. Final decision:
On May 24, 2021, DOC issued the final decision to keep the decision on anti-dumping as announced in the preliminary decistion. In terms of anti-subsidies tariffs, the anti-subsidies rates determined for Vietnamese enterprises is set at 6.23% to 7.89%.

This decision will be applied from May 27, 2021 until further notice.

Case calendar:

Time	Event
23/06/2020	Initiation of an anti-dumping investigation (AD) and anti-subsidy (CVD) investigation
30/12/2020	DOC issues affirmative preliminary antidumping duty determinations
24/05/2021	DOC issues final decision

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