The European Commission has announced that it has ordered the registration of cold rolled (CR) flat steel product imports from Russia and China, highlighting the possibility of imposing antidumping and countervailing duties for both import sources.
The investigation was launched following the application lodged by the European Steel Association (EUROFER) in April this year.
The European Commission stated that imports of the product concerned should be made subject to registration for the purpose of ensuring that, should the investigation result in findings leading to the imposition of antidumping duties, those duties can be levied retroactively on the registered imports. According to the European Commission, EUROFER further claimed that Russian and Chinese imports are causing injury to the European steel industry and that there was a substantial increase in the level of these imports, a further increase of approximately 33 percent for China and 45 percent for Russia, even following the investigation period.
The products in question currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7209 15 00, 7209 16 90, 7209 17 90, 7209 18 91, 7209 18 99, 7209 25 00, 7209 26 90, 7209 27 90, 7209 28 90, 7211 23 30, 7211 23 80, 7211 29 00, 7225 50 80 and 7226 92 00.