Mississippi Silicon Announces Formation of Domestic Trade Coalition on Sunset Review

BURNSVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi Silicon LLC (“MS”) announced today that it has formed an ad hoc trade coalition in the United States with Globe Specialty Metals, Inc. (“Globe) a subsidiary of Ferroglobe PLC. The two U.S. merchant producers of silicon metal have agreed to form a coalition to address international trade regulatory issues related to unfair import competition which affect both companies.

Going forward, MS and Globe have agreed that they will work together in opposing the revocation of the current anti-dumping duty order on silicon metal from Russia in the full sunset review of the order that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently determined to conduct.

See https://www.usitc.gov/trade_remedy/731_ad_701_cvd/investigations/2019/Silicon%20metal%20from%20Russia%20/Full%20Review/explanation_of_adq.pdf. The ITC is expected to issue the schedule for the sunset review soon.

The two companies are concerned about the serious adverse impact that unfairly traded imports have on the U.S. silicon metal market and the domestic silicon metal industry.