Eighteen companies lose their separate antidumping rate on Chinese aluminium extrusions, and the list carries the SAIC Volkswagen and Assa Abloy names

Read the appendix before the rate.

The Commerce Department filed final results on Friday in the antidumping review of aluminium extrusions from China covering May 2024 through April 2025, and the eighteen companies it places inside the China-wide entity are not the anonymous list that phrase usually produces. Three of them trade under the Assa Abloy name, in Zhongshan, Suzhou and Shanghai. One is SAIC Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. Also there are Citic Dicastal, Damco China Limited Ningbo Branch, Ewellix Motion Technologies in Pinghu, and a run of automotive component makers in Suzhou and Shanghai.

Money & World has not established what corporate relationship any of those entities has with the group whose name it carries, and the notice states none.

What the finding is

Commerce treats China as a non-market economy, so an exporter is presumed to be under state control unless it shows otherwise. The eighteen did not provide the documentation that showing requires. That is the whole finding, and it is narrower than it sounds: nobody has determined that these companies sold below fair value at 86.01 percent, or at any other number. They were not looked at individually, so there is no individual number.

The rate they take instead belongs to the entity, not to them.

Why 86.01 percent did not move

Two reasons, both procedural. No party requested a review of the China-wide entity, and Commerce no longer treats that entity as an exporter conditionally subject to administrative reviews, so its margin was never in play. And nobody commented on the preliminary results published in April, which is why those results were adopted unchanged and why no decision memorandum accompanies the notice. Commerce also discloses no calculations, for the plain reason that it performed none.

The dates

The results were filed on Friday for publication on Monday, and the cash deposit requirement bites on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after that publication date. Assessment is slower. Commerce says it intends to instruct Customs and Border Protection no earlier than 35 days after publication, and a timely summons at the Court of International Trade holds liquidation open beyond that.

Importers get the usual reminder about the reimbursement certificate. Failing to file one can raise a presumption that the exporter reimbursed the duty, and the remedy for that is to charge it twice.

One other line in the record

On June 5 Commerce notified Customs and Border Protection that evasion of antidumping duties may be occurring on imports of subject merchandise. That sentence attaches to the merchandise covered by the order. It names no company, it sits in the background section rather than in the findings, and the notice draws no connection between it and the eighteen in the appendix.

The order underneath all of this was published on May 26, 2011. It is in its sixteenth year.