South Korea launches AD probe into Chinese tinplate, TFS imports

South Korea's fair-trade monitor, the Korea Trade Commission (KTC), has begun its long-anticipated investigation into imported tin mill products from China, it announced last Friday. The two-pronged investigation is to determine whether the tin mill products are being dumped in the Korean market and whether the imports have caused injury to domestic makers.

The announcement from the KTC, under Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources, was in response to a petition filed only a few weeks earlier on June 19 by South Korean tinplate makers TCC Steel and Shin Hwa Dynamics. The AD probe covers tinplate and tin-free steel (TFS) produced by plating