#Steel Commission launches new anti-dumping investigations into several steel products

The European Commission today opened new anti-dumping investigations to determine whether imports of three steel products have been dumped on the EU market. If this is found to be the case, the Commission will take measures to protect the European industry from damaging effects of unfair trade.

All three steel products subject to these investigations – seamless pipes, heavy plates and hot-rolled flat steel – originate in China.

In addition to these three new investigations, in another ongoing case concerning a steel product, the Commission decided to impose as of today provisional anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled flat steel from China and Russia. This follows other provisional anti-dumping measures adopted recently, on so called ‘high fatigue performance rebars’ from China, imposed on 29 January.

EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said: "The steel sector currently faces a range of challenges. EU trade defence instruments cannot on their own solve all those problems, but the European Commission is acting and applying the instruments at its disposal to support and ensure a level-playing field.We cannot allow unfair competition from artificially cheap imports to threaten our industry. I am determined to use all means possible to ensure that our trading partners play by the rules. We have so far put in place trade defence measures for more than 30 different types of steel products, and we will continue to effectively address legitimate concerns of our industry."

For the full press release see here.

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