Canada will move forward with antidumping case against rebar from six countries
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today determined that there is a reasonable indication that the alleged injurious dumping of certain concrete reinforcing bar originating or exported from the Belarus, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal and Spain has caused injury or is threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry. The Tribunal’s preliminary injury inquiry was conducted pursuant to subsection 34(2) of the Special Import Measures... Read More
Chile reviewing duties on rebar imports from Mexico
Chile’s price distortion commission, CNDP, expects to review on Friday an existing provisional, ad valorem duty already applied to the imports of Mexican origin rebar. Depending on the outcome of CNDP’s meeting, Chile could extend the tariff for one more year or longer. Currently, Mexican rebar pays a provisional antidumping (AD) tariff of 11 percent, which was reduced from 13.1 percent, following a resolution published at the nation’s official... Read More
Australia starts antidumping review on rebar from Celsa (Spain)
Australia’s Antidumping Commission has announced that it has initiated a review of the antidumping measures applying to certain reinforcing bar imports from Spain. The review will be limited to examining whether the variable factors relevant to the taking of the antidumping measures as they affect the Spanish steel producer Celsa should be varied. Currently, the antidumping duty stands at three percent for Celsa and the duty was originally imposed... Read More
IREPAS in Vienna: Global longs market focuses on challenges amid signs of stabilization
The 75th meeting of IREPAS (International Rebar Exporters and Producers Association) was held in Vienna, Austria on September 25-27, 2016. There were 94 producer representatives among the 285 registered delegates from 33 different countries. There were also 44 registrations representing 30 different raw material suppliers. On the last day of the conference, producers of long steel products and steel billets, as well as traders and raw material suppliers,... Read More
US rebar coalition files AD/CVD petition against imports from Turkey, Japan and Taiwan
The Rebar Trade Action Coalition (RTAC), a coalition of US rebar producers, filed petitions asking the US Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to conduct antidumping investigations into imports of rebar from Japan, Taiwan, and Turkey , and a countervailing duty investigation into imports of rebar from Turkey. The petitions demonstrate that Japanese, Taiwanese, and Turkish rebar producers are dumping their product into the... Read More
Short Range Outlook : September 2016
Increased stability and reduced price spreads in global long steel market The global long steel products market has seen some stability over the last few weeks as the increase in Chinese origin offer prices halted the weakening of global long product prices. The spread between Chinese and Turkish origin reinforcing bar prices has narrowed significantly and is becoming even narrower. Likewise, the price spread between the most expensive FOB or ex-works... Read More
Chinese miners back down on AD probe against iron ore imports
The vice chairman of the Metallurgical Miners’ Association of China (MMAC) Mr Lei Pingxi has told local media that the Chinese miners has not officially requested an antidumping probe against the huge volume of low-priced iron ore imports from Brazil and Australia, but it was rather a suggestion. The vice president pointed out that this suggestion from the miners was published on the MMAC only website by mistake. Read More
Short Range Outlook : August 2016
Global long steel products market still in critical situation despite greater price stability The global long steel products market is still in a critical situation as market activity has been pretty slow for a long time. Demand in the market has softened but supply remains the same. Buyers have been receiving offer alternatives but they are not in a hurry to buy. As such, sizable purchases have not been observed over the past two months. Under these... Read More
EU imposes definitive antidumping duty on HFP rebar imports from China
The European Commission (EC) has announced that it has imposed definitive antidumping duty on high fatigue performance (HFP) rebar imports from China. The final antidumping duties are as follows: 48.1 percent for Jiangsu Yonggang Group Co., Ltd, Jiangsu Lianfeng Industrial Co., Ltd, Zhangjiagang Hongchang High Wires Co., Ltd and Zhangjiagang Shatai Steel Co., Ltd, 62.1 percent for Jiangyin Xicheng Steel Co., Ltd, Jiangyin Ruihe Metal Products Co.,... Read More
Mexico sets CVD margins on Chinese wire rod imports
Mexico’s economy secretariat, concluded its investigation over the imports of Chinese wire rod this week, dropping the antidumping portion of the probe and applying a definite countervailing duty (CVD) of $0.49 per kilogram for the purchases of the product. Domestic producers ArcelorMittal, Deacero and Ternium requested an antidumping probe into the imports of Chinese wire rod in July 2015; and Mexico’s economy secretariat launched the investigation... Read More