Nucor Corporation has filed a circumvention allegation against Deacero SAPI de CV and Deacero USA Inc. regarding wire rod with an actual diameter of 4.4 mm to 4.75 mm.

In 2012, the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) ruled in a previous circumvention investigation that wire rod with an actual diameter of 4.75 mm to 5.00 mm produced in Mexico by Deacero was circumventing the antidumping (AD) order.

Nucor claims that “Deacero appears to be engaging in gamesmanship, altering its wire rod in minor respects by further reducing the diameter of its wire rod by a mere 0.35 mm solely to circumvent the {AD} Order.”  Nucor further asserts that Commerce should “find that all wire rod regardless of minimum diameter that otherwise satisfies the scope definition of wire rod and produced by Deacero is . . . subject to the Order.”

Commerce plans to make a decision whether to initiate a circumvention investigation by January 29, 2018.