The European Union (EU) has extended the antidumping (AD) duty on imports of steel ropes and cables originating from China to products shipped through South Korea following an anti-circumvention investigation.
The European Commission (EC) imposed duties up to 60.4 percent on steel ropes and cables originating from China since 1999 through EC Regulation No. 1858/2005.
In a notice published in the EU's Official Gazette, the EU's executive body said, "It was concluded that the definitive antidumping duty imposed on imports of SWR (steel wire rope) originating in China was circumvented by transhipment via the Republic of Korea."
"The measures in force on imports of the product concerned originating in the PRC [People's Republic of China] should be extended to imports of the same product consigned from the Republic of Korea, whether declared as originating in the Republic of Korea or not," the EU Commission said in the document.
The EU took a similar step against Morocco in 2004.