UPDATE: Vietnam imposes provisional anti-circumvention duty on wide HRC from China

Vietnam has decided to impose a provisional anti-circumvention duty of 27.83% on imports of hot-rolled coil (HRC) from China in widths from 1,880 mm to 2,300 mm and from 1.2 mm to 25.4 mm thick, according to an official document signed in Hanoi on April 2.

According to the document, the Vietnamese authorities determined that the wide-width China-origin HRC had circumvented existing anti-dumping (AD) duties on narrower hot coils of a width no more than 1,880 mm. The provision remedy measure is intended to prevent further circumvention practices and to protect the domestic steel industry from potential injury caused by