• Australia initiates probes on China's railway wheels Apr 20, 2018

  Australia's Anti-Dumping Commission has initiated an anti-dumping and countervailing investigation on certain railway wheels imported from China, according to an announcement on its official website released on April 18.

• Taiwan initiate probes into steel imports from China Apr 18, 2018

  Taiwan has decided to initiate anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into steel imports from China including stainless hot-rolled steel products and specific carbon cold-rolled steel products, according to a post released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) in Taipei on April 17.

• MoC: China to slap tariffs on more US imports Apr 04, 2018

  China will impose 25% tariffs on $50 billion worth of imported goods from the US such as aircraft, China's Ministry of Commerce (MoC) announced late on April 4. The move was Beijing's response to the announcement of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) the previous day that Washington intends to apply tariffs of 25% to some 1,300 Chinese industrial products.

• China wary of EC global safeguard probe on steel Mar 27, 2018

  China's Ministry of Commerce (MoC) Monday expressed concern at the decision of the European Commission to launch an investigation to determine whether safeguard measures need to be applied to protect the community's steelmakers from an increase in imports as a consequence of Washington's 25% tariff.

• China's steel industry wins Section 337 investigation Mar 21, 2018

  The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) announced on March 19 it was terminating its investigation of antitrust claims against China-origin steel products, a decision which delighted the Chinese side having successfully argued all three claims in the Section 337 probe.

• China Feb steel exports up 4.2% on month to 4.85 mln t Mar 08, 2018

  China's February finished steel exports rebounded by 197,000 tonnes or 4.2% month on month to 4.85 million tonnes, according to the latest statistics released by China's General Administration of Customs on March 8.

• EU rolls over AD duty on China's stainless seamless pipes Mar 07, 2018

  The European Commission (EC) has finished its review investigation concerning imports of seamless pipes and tubes of stainless steel originating from China, and decided to extend the existing anti-dumping measures for another five years.

• U.S. launches trade probe into stainless steel flanges from China, India Sep 07, 2017

  The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday launched anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations against imports of stainless steel flanges from China and India, the latest trade protectionist move by the Trump administration.

• U.S. industry association proposes anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese and Indian stainless steel flanges Aug 18, 2017

  The Coalition of American Flange Producers and its individual members, Core Pipe Products, Inc. and Maass Flange Corporation, on August 16, 2017, filed antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions on stainless steel flanges from China and India.