Project Summary

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security
Section 232 Investigation on the Effect of Imports of
Laminations for Stacked Cores for Incorporation into Transformers,
Stacked Cores for Incorporation into Transformers,
Wound Cores for Incorporation into Transformers,
Electrical Transformers, and Transformer Regulators
Overview: Section 232 Investigation on the Effect of Imports of
Electrical Steel and Transformer Products on the National
Security
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Office of Technology Evaluation (OTE), is conducting
a survey of the U.S. titanium sponge industry. The resulting data will be used to support an ongoing
electrical steel and transformer products investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion
Act of 1962, as amended. The investigation was initiated by the U.S. Department of Commerce,
based on inquiries from multiple members of Congress, a Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel (GOES)
manufacturer, and producers of power and distribution transformers.
The principal goal of this survey is to assist BIS in determining whether electrical steel and
transformer products are being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such
circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security. The survey will also assist in
determining the overall health and competitiveness of the industry in the United States.
Information collected will include facility information, production & inventory, suppliers and
customers, financial information, national defense and critical infrastructure support, competition
and trade, and COVID-19 impacts. The resulting data will provide BIS with information that is
otherwise not available and needed to conduct its investigation.
Your organization has been identified as a manufacturer, distributor, and/or end-user of electrical
steel and transformer products with one or more facilities in the United States. Your participation
in this survey is vital to ensure a comprehensive dataset for the assessment. BIS has worked in
successful partnership with other U.S. industry sectors and we anticipate similar cooperation from
your organization on this effort.
Legal Protections and Requirements
The information collected from survey respondents may be used publicly only in aggregated form,
meaning at no time will such reporting identify your specific organization by name nor disclose
proprietary information. All information submitted to BIS is protected as confidential under
provisions of the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950, as amended. Survey response
information, including your participation in the data collection, is exempt from Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests.
BIS Industrial Base Assessment Program
Since 1986, BIS has completed over 60 industrial base surveys and assessments covering a broad
number of critical technologies and industry sectors. To view previous BIS reports and surveys,
please visit our website at http://www.bis.doc.gov/dib.
Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to working with you.