Import Administration
Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from South Korea (A-580-878)

Scope Description:

The products covered by these orders are certain flat-rolled steel products, either clad,
plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-,
nickel- or iron-based alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished, laminated, or
coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances in addition to the metallic coating. The
products covered include coils that have a width of 12.7 mm or greater, regardless of form of coil
(e.g., in successively superimposed layers, spirally oscillating, etc.). The products covered also
include products not in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and a
width that is 12.7 mm or greater and that measures at least 10 times the thickness. The products
covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75 mm or
more and a width exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least twice the thickness. The products
described above may be rectangular, square, circular, or other shape and include products of
either rectangular or non-rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., products which have been “worked after rolling” (e.g.,
products which have been beveled or rounded at the edges). For purposes of the width and
thickness requirements referenced above:

(1) where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is within the scope if
application of either the nominal or actual measurement would place it within the
scope based on the definitions set forth above, and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product (e.g., the thickness of
certain products with non-rectangular cross-section, the width of certain products
with non-rectangular shape, etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness
applies.

Steel products included in the scope of these orders are products in which: (1) iron
predominates, by weight, over each of the other contained elements; (2) the carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and (3) none of the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by
weight, respectively indicated:

• 2.50 percent of manganese, or
• 3.30 percent of silicon, or
• 1.50 percent of copper, or
• 1.50 percent of aluminum, or
• 1.25 percent of chromium, or
• 0.30 percent of cobalt, or
• 0.40 percent of lead, or
• 2.00 percent of nickel, or
• 0.30 percent of tungsten (also called wolfram), or
• 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
• 0.10 percent of niobium (also called columbium), or
• 0.30 percent of vanadium, or
• 0.30 percent of zirconium

Unless specifically excluded, products are included in this scope regardless of levels of boron
and titanium.

For example, specifically included in this scope are vacuum degassed, fully stabilized
(commonly referred to as interstitial-free (IF)) steels and high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels.
IF steels are recognized as low carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as
titanium and/or niobium added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are
recognized as steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as chromium, copper, niobium,
titanium, vanadium, and molybdenum.

Furthermore, this scope also includes Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) and Ultra
High Strength Steels (UHSS), both of which are considered high tensile strength and high
elongation steels.

Subject merchandise also includes corrosion-resistant steel that has been further
processed in a third country, including but not limited to annealing, tempering, painting,
varnishing, trimming, cutting, punching and/or slitting or any other processing that would not
otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the orders if performed in the country of
manufacture of the in-scope corrosion resistant steel.

All products that meet the written physical description, and in which the chemistry
quantities do not exceed any one of the noted element levels listed above, are within the scope of
these orders unless specifically excluded. The following products are outside of and/or
specifically excluded from the scope of these orders:
 Flat-rolled steel products either plated or coated with tin, lead, chromium,
chromium oxides, both tin and lead (“terne plate”), or both chromium and
chromium oxides (“tin free steel”), whether or not painted, varnished or coated with
plastics or other non-metallic substances in addition to the metallic coating;
 Clad products in straight lengths of 4.7625 mm or more in composite thickness and
of a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness; and
 Certain clad stainless flat-rolled products, which are three-layered corrosionresistant
flat-rolled steel products less than 4.75 mm in composite thickness that
consist of a flat-rolled steel product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-
60%-20% ratio.

The products subject to the orders are currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (“HTSUS”) under item numbers: 7210.30.0030, 7210.30.0060,
7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0091, 7210.49.0095, 7210.61.0000, 7210.69.0000,
7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000,
7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090, 7212.30.3000, 7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7212.50.0000, and 7212.60.0000.

The products subject to the orders may also enter under the following HTSUS item
numbers: 7210.90.1000, 7215.90.1000, 7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500,
7217.30.1530, 7217.30.1560, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, 7217.90.5090,
7225.91.0000, 7225.92.0000, 7225.99.0090, 7226.99.0110, 7226.99.0130, 7226.99.0180,
7228.60.6000, 7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000.

The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and customs purposes
only. The written description of the scope of the orders is dispositive.