BEIJING: The Ministry of Commerce said here the other day that the European Commission had issued a “notice of initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of high fatigue performance steel concrete reinforcement bars” originating in China.
This is the first anti-dumping probe by the European Union into Chinese products this year, said the ministry.
A complaint was lodged on March 17 by the European Steel Association on behalf of producers representing over 25 percent of the total EU output of high fatigue performance steel concrete reinforcement bars.
The probe will decide “whether the product under investigation originating in the country concerned is being dumped and whether the dumped imports have caused injury to the Union industry,” the notice said.
The investigation will last 15 months, and the EU may impose provisional measures no later than nine months from the publication of the notice.
