China's steel face Europe and the United States anti-dumping "two-pronged"
China's steel face Europe and the United States anti-dumping "two-pronged"
Local time on October 6, EU Council of Ministers announcement that ruled China seamless steel pipe exports to the EU constitute a threat of injury to EU industry, decided to levy a 17.7% ~ 39.2% of the final anti-dumping duties.
The following day, the Commerce Department also announced that China's exports will be seamless standard pipe, plumbing pipe and pressure pipe to start anti-dumping and countervailing investigations.
On behalf of the interests of domestic steel mills in China Iron and Steel Industry Association ("CISA") said it will actively communicate with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, strongly urge the Chinese government to take legal means to intervene, did not rule out the case to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.
EU "unwarranted" reasons
The EU anti-dumping duties of seamless steel pipe products, mainly circular cross section and not more than 406.4 mm outside diameter seamless steel tubes.
According to wto provisions, if the product is identified as a country dumping, the premise is required to produce evidence of dumping, as well as domestic companies are directly caused by the sharp drop in sales of the evidence.
And the European steel companies of anti-dumping grounds that: "Although there is no evidence that their sales are affected in the past, but under the conditions of economic crisis, future sales may be a serious blow, it must raise import tariffs."
For this to "threat of injury" to determine the dumping of rare cases, head of the Ministry of Commerce Office of Fair Trading told Xinhua news agency countered that the Chinese side with a large amount of data and facts prove that China is completely seamless steel pipe exports to the EU market demand decision, not the formation of the EU industry, the impact of EU industry, key indicators are normal, and did not suffer the "threat of harm."
Local time on October 6, EU Council of Ministers announcement that ruled China seamless steel pipe exports to the EU constitute a threat of injury to EU industry, decided to levy a 17.7% ~ 39.2% of the final anti-dumping duties.
The following day, the Commerce Department also announced that China's exports will be seamless standard pipe, plumbing pipe and pressure pipe to start anti-dumping and countervailing investigations.
On behalf of the interests of domestic steel mills in China Iron and Steel Industry Association ("CISA") said it will actively communicate with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, strongly urge the Chinese government to take legal means to intervene, did not rule out the case to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.
EU "unwarranted" reasons
The EU anti-dumping duties of seamless steel pipe products, mainly circular cross section and not more than 406.4 mm outside diameter seamless steel tubes.
According to wto provisions, if the product is identified as a country dumping, the premise is required to produce evidence of dumping, as well as domestic companies are directly caused by the sharp drop in sales of the evidence.
And the European steel companies of anti-dumping grounds that: "Although there is no evidence that their sales are affected in the past, but under the conditions of economic crisis, future sales may be a serious blow, it must raise import tariffs."
For this to "threat of injury" to determine the dumping of rare cases, head of the Ministry of Commerce Office of Fair Trading told Xinhua news agency countered that the Chinese side with a large amount of data and facts prove that China is completely seamless steel pipe exports to the EU market demand decision, not the formation of the EU industry, the impact of EU industry, key indicators are normal, and did not suffer the "threat of harm."
wanghao - 6. Apr, 09:27
