The United States Commerce Department has made a final determination to apply anti-dumping duty at 12.27% on silicon metal imports from Malaysia, a much-anticipated decision in a case that has helped to push the price of silicon in the US toward a 10-year high.
The rate, announced on Thursday June 17, falls far short of the 50%-plus duty that domestic US producers recently told Fastmarkets they were seeking for Malaysia-origin material.Other duties in this case, which involved four nations, extended to what is understood to be an unprecedented 160%. Commerce raised its duty determination on...