Australia’s Anti-Dumping Commission has recommended that the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology reject a request to exempt certain goods from its duties on Chinese, Korean, Malaysian and Taiwanese hollow structural sections. It has also delayed its review of rebar duties, Kallanish notes.

Australian consumer JG Thomas had applied for exemptions on circular hollow conduit steel ERW pipe, pre-galvanised or hot dip galvanized and meeting Australian Standard AS/NZS 61386.21. The commission however found that the same product was available from domestic suppliers and so there was no justification for a duty exemption.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties were first imposed in 2012 and re-imposed in 2017. Antidumping duties were imposed on all suppliers, while countervailing duties were imposed for all Chinese exporters except Dalian Steelforce Hi-Tech, Huludao City Steel Pipe Industrial and Qingdao Xianxing Steel Pipe.

The commission has also decided that it needs time before it issues its final report on its reviews of anti-dumping duties on rebar imported from Taiwan and Korea. It said this was due to the complexity of submissions received from related parties.