The European Commission has initiated an investigation on the possible circumvention of the antidumping duties imposed on certain corrosion resistant steels from China.
The commission stated that it has sufficient evidence that existing antidumping duties on imports of the product concerned from China are being circumvented by slight modifications of the product.
As previously reported by SteelOrbis, in February 2018 the commission decided to impose antidumping duty on the product mentioned from China, with antidumping rates ranging between 17.2 percent and 27.9 percent for Chinese companies, after the investigation it conducted as of December 9, 2016, following a complaint by the European Steel Association (EUROFER).
The products subject to the investigation on possible circumvention of the antidumping duty currently fall within CN codes ex 7210 41 00, ex 7210 49 00, ex 7210 61 00, ex 7210 69 00, ex 7212 30 00, ex 7212 50 61, ex 7212 50 69, ex 7225 92 00, ex 7225 99 00, ex 7226 99 30 and ex 7226 99 70.