UPDATED: India may implement export duty on electrodes and likely to review the antidumping duty

In the new budget for 2018-19, the Indian government has made it possible to collect a 20 percent export tax on graphite electrodes to improve domestic supplies and promote the electric arc furnace (EAF) route of steelmaking in the country, however the export duty on the product in question remains nil for the time being. The 20 percent export tax might become effective anytime... Read More

Short Range Outlook : February 2018

Global supply-demand balance for long products still looks good but caution needed on supply side While the supply and demand balance in the global long steel products market still looks good, the supply side is gearing up. Supply pressure is not expected to create big problems in the short run but may be an issue in the medium term if demand is not able to cope with it. Even Chinese... Read More

Australia terminates the dumping investigation on two Indonesian exporters

Australia’s Antidumping Commission has announced that within the scope of its antidumping duty investigation regarding reinforcing bar imports from Greece, Indonesia, Spain (by Nervacero S.A), Taiwan (by Power Steel Co. Ltd) and Thailand, it has decided to terminate the investigation in relation to Indonesian exporters PT Ispat Panca Putera and PT Putra Baja Deli since the dumping... Read More

Mexico lifts CVD on graphite electrode imports from China and UK

Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has announced that it has lifted the definitive countervailing duties (CVD) on the imports of graphite electrodes for electric arc furnaces (EAFs) from China and the UK. The duties were first imposed in September 2015. CVD rates for Chinese producers/exporters were as follows: M. Brashem Inc                              ... Read More

US DOC announced final antidumping duty on wire rod imports from S. Africa and Ukraine

The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced that it has imposed final antidumping duty on imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod from South Africa and Ukraine. Accordingly, the US DOC has calculated the following dumping rates: South Africa ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited                                                      ... Read More

Short Range Outlook : January 2018

Very positive prospects for global long steel market in 2018 The supply and demand balance in the global long steel products market has improved and may now be described as excellent. Demand remains strong almost everywhere and sentiment is also very good. It seems that 2018 will be a replica of 2017 as the prospects are very positive. China has been the main story in 2017 China... Read More

Turkey cancels import duty on rebar

Turkey has officially cancelled the customs duty on imports of reinforcing bars effective from January 1st, 2018. The Turkish authorities had reduced the customs duty on imports of reinforcing bar to 10 percent on July 28th last year, on the back of complaints by the domestic construction industry. The customs duty on rebar imports to Turkey used to be 30 percent before then.  Read More

Ukraine imposes antidumping duty on imports of rebar and wire rod from Russia

The Ukrainian Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade has announced that it has imposed a definitive antidumping (AD) duty on imports of reinforcing bar and wire rod from Russia for a period of five years. The decision will come into effect 60 days after the official publication of the decision. The antidumping duty rates are announced as follows: Reinforcing bar (diameter 6... Read More

US ITC affirms antidumping duties for wire rod imports from Belarus, Russia and UAE

The United States International Trade Commission (US ITC) today affirmed the US Department of Commerce’s (US DOC) final determinations in the investigation of imports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Belarus, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. As a result of the US ITC’s affirmative determinations, the US DOC will issue antidumping duty orders on imports of... Read More

Algeria abolishes import license system

Algerian trade minister Mohamed Benmeradi has announced the abolition of the import license system in the country as of January 1, 2018, for all products, except for imports of vehicles.  It was declared that the system “has shown its limits”, it was a bureaucratic system that “lacked transparency”, and sometimes it has caused supply problems, leading to... Read More