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Ref. : EIC 294/3
3 March 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 110/2023 of 3 February 2023, the UK Government published Trade Remedies Notice 2025/5 on 20 February 2025 to vary the definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain corrosion resistant iron and steel products originating in the Mainland of China following the transition review. The Trade Remedies Notice is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-remedies-notices-anti-dumping-duty-on-corrosion-resistant-iron-and-steel-from-china/trade-remedies-notice-20255-anti-dumping-duty-on-corrosion-resistant-iron-and-steel-originating-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china.
2.Salient points of the notice are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Flat-rolled products of iron or alloy steel or non-alloy steel; plated or coated by hot dip galvanisation with zinc and/or aluminium and/or magnesium, whether or not alloyed with silicon; chemically passivated; with or without any additional surface treatment such as oiling or sealing; containing by weight: not more than 0.5% of carbon, not more than 1.1% of aluminium, not more than 0.12% of niobium, not more than 0.17% of titanium and not more than 0.15% of vanadium; presented in coils, cut-to-length sheets and narrow strips, currently falling under UK Global Tariff commodity codes 72 10 41 00 30, 72 10 49 00 30, 72 10 61 00 30, 72 10 69 00 30, 72 10 90 80 92, 72 12 30 00 30, 72 12 50 61 30, 72 12 50 69 30, 72 12 50 90 14, 72 12 50 90 92, 72 25 92 00 30, 72 25 99 00 22, 72 25 99 00 23, 72 25 99 00 41, 72 25 99 00 93, 72 26 99 30 30, 72 26 99 70 13, 72 26 99 70 93, 72 10 41 00 20, 72 10 49 00 20, 72 10 61 00 20, 72 10 69 00 20, 72 12 30 00 20, 72 12 50 61 20, 72 12 50 69 20, 72 25 92 00 20, 72 25 99 00 92, 72 26 99 30 10, 72 26 99 70 94. The following products are excluded: those of stainless steel, of silicon-electrical steel, and of high-speed steel; not further worked than hot-rolled or cold-rolled (cold-reduced) |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 27.9% of the net, free-at-the-frontier price, before other amounts of import duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 17.2% to 27.8%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 20 February 2025 |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact ZHENG Jingmin, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 86 20 3881 9797. The Division is responsible for, among others, guiding and coordinating enterprises in Guangdong Province in responding to anti-dumping investigations against products from the province.
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Jenny MOK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.