Eurasian customs union starts AD probe on ex-Ukraine steel bar imports

The Eurasian Economic Commission has launched an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding hot rolled steel bar imports from Ukraine into the member countries of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, according to local Russian and Ukrainian media reports.
 
The investigation was initiated following a complaint made by Russian steelmakers EVRAZ Consolidated West Siberian Metallurgical Plant, Nizhneserginsky Metalware and Metallurgical Plant, Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, Severstal, and MMK, which collectively accounted for an average of 65.9 percent of the total production of metal bars in Russia from 2010 to the first half of 2013.