It has been reported that the European Commission plans to revise the antidumping duties it imposed on ferrosilicon imports from China, Egypt, Kazakhstan, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Russia in August 2007.
The actual imposed AD duties and the proposed new rates for FeSi imports from the five countries in question are presented as follows:
Country | Company | Imposed AD duty | Proposed AD duty |
Erdos Xijin Kuangye Co., Ltd, Qipanjing Industry Park | 2.8% | 15.6% | |
Lanzhou Good Land Ferroalloy Factory Co., Ltd Xicha Village | 33.7% | 29% | |
All other companies | 35.5% | 31.2% | |
The Egyptian Ferroalloys Company, Cairo | 20.4% | 15.4% | |
Egyptian Chemical Industries KIMA, Cairo | 18% | 18% | |
All other companies | 20.4% | 18% | |
All other companies | 33.9% | 33.9% | |
FYR of Macedonia | Silmak Dooel Export Import, Jegunovce | 5.4% | 5.4% |
All other companies | 5.4% | 5.4% | |
Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Integrated Plant, Chelyabinsk and Kuznetsk Ferroalloy Works, Novokuznetsk | 22.8% | 22.7% | |
| Bratsk Ferroalloy Plant, Bratsk | 18.8% | 17.8% |
| All other companies | 25.5% | 22.7% |
The EC is planning to vote on the proposed revision of the AD duty rates on January 15, 2008.