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id='sectionTitle'> <a href='wrtag-about'>Trade Analytics Group</a> </div> <h1 id='pageTitle'>Case Studies / Success</h1> </div> <div id='content'>  <main id='mainContent'> <table border="0" style="width: 98.1873%; height: 874px; border-style: none;" height="150" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="15"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 784px;"> <td valign="top" style="width: 24.8845%; height: 784px;"><img src="assets/htmlimages/hardwood_plywood.png" width="187" height="157" alt="" /></td> <td style="width: 75.1155%; height: 784px;"> <h2>Hardwood Plywood - China</h2> <p><strong>Situation:</strong> Faced with relentless price undercutting by Chinese producers, the U.S. hardwood plywood industry was experiencing large losses in its market share and dwindling profits. To combat this unfair competition, Wiley brought a trade case, which required us to find dumping margins against China that reflected their low prices. The Chinese exporters countered by submitting data that resulted in zero percent margins. We needed a data-driven strategy to counter their abnormally low costs.</p> <p><strong>Solution:</strong> Wiley’s Trade Analytics Group’s (TAG) extensive research uncovered an affiliation with U.S. importers complicit in the price undercutting for one respondent.  At the preliminary determination, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) assigned this company the petition rate of 82% for not accurately explaining its corporate affiliation. However, Commerce preliminarily calculated a zero percent margin for the other company being investigated based on abnormally low log input prices. As a result of TAG’s data-based analysis, Wiley was able to develop and argue for the adoption of an “intermediate input methodology” – a seldom used practice – to discredit those low inputs and establish the value hardwood plywood starting with the veneer inputs. </p> <p><strong>Result:</strong> Our data-driven strategy resulted in final margins of 183.36% for all Chinese producers and stimulated a resurgence of the U.S. industry.</p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 24.8845%; height: 18px;"> </td> <td style="width: 75.1155%; height: 18px;"> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td valign="top" style="width: 24.8845%; height: 18px;"><img src="assets/htmlimages/tg.jpg" width="240" height="144" alt="" /></td> <td style="width: 75.1155%; height: 18px;"> <h2>OCTG - Korea</h2> <p><strong>Situation:</strong> Korean producers of oil country tubular goods were routinely receiving modest dumping margins in Commerce proceedings with minimal prospects of increasing them because of below-market-priced inputs.</p> <p><strong>Solution:</strong> Through complex data analysis, TAG determined the increase in production costs necessary to bring the foreign producers’ dumping margins in line with their market prices of OCTG. Wiley used this analysis and recent change in the law with respect to the Particular Market Situation to demonstrate the level of subsidization and distortion in the Korean hot-rolled coil market. </p> <p><strong>Result:</strong> For the first time, Commerce applied the Particular Market Situation provision of the law and the dumping margins increased drastically for all Korean exporters of OCTG. Wiley also successfully applied the same strategy in several other cases, including the Korean line pipe case, which increased the dumping margins by three to five times their investigation rates for all Korean exporters.</p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 24.8845%; height: 18px;"> </td> <td style="width: 75.1155%; height: 18px;"> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td valign="top" style="width: 24.8845%; height: 18px;"><img src="assets/htmlimages/wire_rod.png" width="240" height="176" alt="" /></td> <td style="width: 75.1155%; height: 18px;"> <h2>Wire Rod - Mexico</h2> <p><strong>Situation:</strong> In a revised submission, the respondent substantially reduced its cost of production data for many U.S. products – resulting in the drastic lowering of its dumping margin – and described the change as a “minor” correction.</p> <p><strong>Solution:</strong> TAG was able to analyze the data and pinpoint the respondent’s change as a complete reallocation of scrap costs for a significant number of U.S. sales. We were also able to challenge the respondent’s claim that the change was minor by demonstrating the magnitude and scope of the revision.</p> <p><strong>Result:</strong> Commerce agreed that the revised cost data was unsupported and rejected all the data submitted by the respondent. In a final ruling, Commerce applied an adverse finding to the respondent and increased its margin from 3% to 40%.</p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 24.8845%; height: 18px;"> </td> <td style="width: 75.1155%; height: 18px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 24.8845%;"><img src="assets/htmlimages/steal_flanges.jpg" width="200" height="117" alt="" /></td> <td style="width: 75.1155%;"> <h2>Stainless Steel Flanges – China and India</h2> <p><strong>Situation:</strong> The U.S. stainless steel flange industry was suffering significant financial deterioration, declining production, depressed prices, and lost sales from unfairly traded imports. Faced with the possibility of shuttering its U.S. manufacturing facilities, the Coalition of American Flange Producers sought trade relief from dumped and subsidized imports.</p> <p><strong>Solution:</strong> TAG played a critical role in bringing the cases before the ITC and Commerce. TAG performed a comprehensive pre-petition analysis, assisted in responding to agency questionnaires, and testified before the ITC. TAG’s strategic data analysis proved that low-priced imports from China and India had directly caused deteriorating production, sales, profits, and employment levels in the U.S. industry.</p> <p><strong>Result:</strong> The ITC found that American manufacturers suffered material injury caused by dumped and subsidized imports from China and India. As a result, based on affirmative findings of dumping and improper subsidization by Commerce, orders were issued at combined rates of up to 400%. 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