The European Commission has announced that it has ordered the registration of certain heavy plate of non-alloy or other alloy steel from China for the purpose of ensuring that, should its current investigation result in findings leading to the imposition of an antidumping (AD) duty, this duty can, if the necessary conditions are fulfilled, be levied retroactively on the registered imports.
According to the commission’s statement, the registration request was made by the European Steel Association (EUROFER), which requested that imports of the product concerned are made subject to registration so that measures may subsequently be applied against those imports from the date of such registration. EUROFER estimated in its complaint dumping margins of 28 percent to 73 percent for imports of the product concerned from China, while it also stated that since the initiation of the proceeding in February this year, a further increase of approximately 15 percent for China is observed.
The antidumping investigation was launched in February this year following the application lodged by EUROFER and covers the period from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
The products in question currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7208 51 20, 7208 51 91, 7208 51 98, 7208 52 91, 7208 90 20, 7208 90 80, 7225 40 40, 7225 40 60 and 7225 99 00.