The EU Decided To Imposed Anti-Dumping Duty on Seamless Steel Pipe and Aluminum from China

Decision of the European Union on the 24th, on the production of seamless steel pipe and aluminum foil from China imposed a period of 5 years of formal anti-dumping duty tax rates were as high as 39.2% and 30%.

A formal anti-dumping duty applicable to non-circular cross-section and an external diameter of more than 406.4 millimeters of seamless steel pipe, in addition to aluminum products involved. Formal anti-dumping duty is a period of 6 months after the expiry of the temporary tariff applied, the decision will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union with effect from the date of the relevant publication will be published before October 8.

In addition, the European Union has also decided on the production of aluminum foil from Brazil and Armenia impose a period of five years of formal anti-dumping duty tax rates were 17.6% and 13.4%.

While the EU leaders had repeatedly promised against protectionism, but this year after another since the European Union imports from China of steel wire rod, glucose, sodium, seamless steel tubes and aluminum foil and other commodities to implement so-called anti-dumping actions. The Chinese government expressed strong opposition.

      as early as April 8 this year, the EU issued a public notice of the seamless steel tubes made in China, imposed provisional anti-dumping duties, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce officials said the April 9, the European Union on grounds of threat of injury only made in China, no Steel Pipe impose provisional anti-dumping duty is to the industry sent a wrong signal to the hope that the EU as soon as possible termination of seamless steel tubes made in China, the anti-dumping investigations. The World Trade Organization Anti-Dumping Agreement to the threat of injury is very strict, and based on facts, rather than based only on allegation, conjecture, and a very small possibility of damage must be clearly foreseen and imminent. China opposes EU's threat of injury to the standards are free to use trade remedy investigations.