On October 30, 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a preliminary anti-dumping preliminary ruling on Carton-Closing Staples,which imported from China . This case involves the products that the United States coordinated tariff 8305.20.00.00 and 7317.00.65.60. The U.S. Department of Commerce is expected to finalize the anti-dumping case on March 13, 2018.
On March 31, 2017, the U.S. companies, North American Steel & Wire, Inc. and ISM Enterprises, submitted anti-dumping investigations filing to China to the US International Trade Commission (USITC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce. April 21, 2017, the United States Department of Commerce issued a public notice on the import of sealing spikes from China initiated anti-dumping investigation. On May 12, 2017, the US International Trade Commission affirmed the initial injunction against the industrial damage caused by the import of sealing spikes from China. According to the statistics released by the United States, the total value of U.S. imports from China in 2016 was about 73.2 million U.S. dollars.
