U.S. Issues Final Countervailing Duty Order on Algerian Steel Wire Rod at 73.33% – What It Means for Coiled Bar, Cold-Drawn Stock and Machined Steel Components

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On September 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce published the final affirmative countervailing duty (CVD) determination and the countervailing duty order on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Algeria (Doc 2026-19107, 91 FR 59107). Commerce assigned an estimated countervailable subsidy rate of 73.33% ad valorem to the sole investigated respondent, SPA Algerian Qatar Steel, and the same 73.33% to all other producers and exporters. The order is applicable from September 18, 2026.

Wire rod is not a finished machined part, but it is the first link in a chain that many precision buyers depend on. Coiled wire rod is drawn, descaled and straightened into cold-drawn bar, wire and screw-machine stock, which is then turned, milled, threaded, headed and formed into fasteners, pins, shafts, studs and connectors. A duty that changes the landed cost and the available supply of ordinary coiled carbon and alloy rod will show up, with a lag, in what a machine shop pays for drawn stock and in how reliably it can be sourced.

The Final Determination, as Published

  • Case number: C-721-003, applicable September 18, 2026.
  • Period of investigation: January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
  • Rate: SPA Algerian Qatar Steel at 73.33%; all-others rate 73.33%.
  • Method: the respondent did not participate and the Government of Algeria did not provide requested information, so Commerce relied on facts available with adverse inferences and conducted no verification. No interested party filed comments, so Commerce adopted its July 8, 2026 preliminary determination (91 FR 42178) unchanged.
  • Injury test: no U.S. International Trade Commission material-injury determination was required because the U.S. Trade Representative determined that Algeria is not a “Subsidies Agreement country” (90 FR 34334, July 21, 2025). Commerce therefore issued the order directly under section 705(c)(2).
  • Liquidation: Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to continue suspending liquidation and to require cash deposits at the rates above for entries on or after the publication date.

What the Scope Actually Covers – and What It Leaves Out

The scope is narrow enough that many buyers will not be touched, and it is worth reading before reacting. The order covers hot-rolled carbon steel and alloy steel products in coils of approximately circular cross section, less than 19.00 mm in actual solid cross-sectional diameter. That is the ordinary coiled wire rod that feeds drawing and cold-forming operations.

Explicitly excluded are stainless steel, tool steel, high nickel steel, ball bearing steel, and concrete reinforcing bars and rods. Also excluded is free-cutting (free-machining) steel that meets defined element thresholds – by weight, 0.1% or more lead, 0.05% or more bismuth, 0.08% or more sulfur, more than 0.04% phosphorus, more than 0.05% selenium, or more than 0.01% tellurium. The exclusions matter because the grades most often reserved for high-volume screw-machine work are frequently free-cutting or stainless, while the grades drawn into general-purpose cold-drawn bar and fastener stock are ordinary carbon and alloy steel – and those are in scope.

The merchandise is classified principally under HTSUS subheadings in the 7213.91.30xx, 7213.91.4500, 7213.91.6000, 7213.99.0030, 7227.20.0030, 7227.20.0080 and 7227.90.6010 through 7227.90.6035 ranges, with 7213.90.0090 and 7227.90.6090 also potentially included where the physical description is met. Commerce notes that the written scope description controls, not the tariff numbers.

Why This Reaches a Machine Shop

These three effects are the ones a sourcing or engineering team can actually act on:

  • Cold-drawn and drawn stock history. Ordinary coiled carbon and alloy wire rod is the input to much of the cold-drawn bar and drawing-quality wire used across fasteners, turned parts and formed components. A supplier that loses an Algerian rod source, or reprices it, passes a share of that through into drawn stock pricing and lead time.
  • Origin documentation is now a purchasing step. Where a component’s steel is drawn from wire rod, the mill and country of melt and pour belong in the purchase file alongside the mechanical property certificate. A country-of-origin statement is not a formality when the upstream material carries an order at this rate.
  • Quotation assumptions age faster. When an upstream input can carry a duty measured in tens of percent, a quote on a cold-formed or turned steel part has a shorter shelf life than the machining cycle time suggests. Buyers should agree how raw-material movement is handled between quote and order.

Practical Actions for Buyers

  • Check whether your stock is in scope. Confirm the physical form (coiled rod under 19 mm, carbon or alloy steel) and rule out the listed exclusions for each purchased line, rather than treating “steel” as one category. Stainless, tool steel and free-cutting grades sit outside this particular order.
  • Trace the mill and the country of origin. Record the producing mill, country of melt and pour, and exporter of record for each heat of wire rod or drawn bar. The RFQ validation checklist is a reasonable place to hold the material evidence you will need if origin is questioned.
  • Qualify a second supply route before you need it. A documented supplier qualification record should capture the mill of origin and the current raw-material channel, so re-sourcing does not start from zero under time pressure.
  • Budget for documentary latency. New certificates and re-qualified origin statements cost weeks before the first chip is cut. Buyers re-routing supply to avoid a duty should build that time into the programme schedule.
  • Watch the pattern, not just the line item. The same September 18, 2026 publication carried final antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt and Vietnam. Two long-steel product families, four countries and rates from 34% to over 130% in a single day is a signal to review origin and documentation across all steel line items, not only the ones named in a specific notice.

Limited Conclusions

What is established and dated: on September 18, 2026, Commerce published the final affirmative CVD determination and the CVD order on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Algeria (91 FR 59107, Doc 2026-19107, Case C-721-003), with an all-others rate of 73.33% and cash deposits required on entry. The order followed a preliminary determination of July 8, 2026 and required no ITC injury finding because Algeria is not a Subsidies Agreement country.

For precision manufacturing buyers, the practical message is narrower than the headline rate. Most machined components will not contain in-scope Algerian wire rod, and several common grades are excluded by the scope itself. But the upstream rod market is shared across drawn bar, wire and cold-formed stock, and trade-remedy exposure attaches to the producer, the exporter and the country of origin – not to the shop that machines the final part. Keeping origin, certificate and material documentation aligned with the drawing remains the least expensive control in steel-based sourcing.

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