EC imposes antidumping duties

摘要

The European Commission has announced that it will impose heavy provisional anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) from China of certain iron and steel seamless pipes and tubes commonly used by the oil and gas sector. These have a circular cross section of an external diameter exceeding 406.4 mm. The duties range up to 81.1%, charged on exporters not cooperating with Commission investigations into the problem. There are some lower rates for companies supplying information -namely Yangzhou Lontrin Steel Tube Co Ltd (43.5%); Yangzhou Chengde Steel Pipe Co Ltd (45.4%); Hengyang Valin MPM Co Ltd (73.3%); and Hubei Xinyegang Special Tube Co Ltd (79%).