Commerce continues antidumping and countervailing duty orders on non-oriented electrical steel

The Commerce Department has continued antidumping and countervailing duty orders on non-oriented electrical steel from Sweden, Germany, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, extending longstanding trade restrictions after the required sunset review process.

The action was published in the Federal Register on May 18, 2026. It follows final results Commerce issued on April 16 and a separate April 29, 2026, determination by the U.S. International Trade Commission that revoking the orders would likely lead to continued or recurring material injury to U.S. industry.

Sunset reviews are conducted under U.S. trade law to determine whether antidumping and countervailing duty orders should remain in place. In this case, the review process ended with both agencies supporting continuation.

The notice means the duties stay in effect for imports of non-oriented electrical steel from the six named countries. Commerce’s decision does not add new measures, but it preserves the existing trade remedies that have been in place under the orders.

The development is a routine but consequential trade-policy action for a specialty steel product used in electrical equipment and related applications. The next expected step is administrative follow-through under the existing orders, while any future review would depend on the statutory timetable.