Vietnam imposes more anti-dumping duty on cold rolled stainless steel from China

For the time being, the first inspection result has been released by MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE OF VIETNAM, concerning anti-dumping duty on cold rolled stainless steel from China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan. Accordingly, anti-dumping rate has been increased from 4.64%-6.87% to 17.47%-25.35% for China and from 3.07% to 3.03% for Indonesia. In the meantime, the rate has been decreased a little about 1.16% for Malaysia, while the rate remains the same for Taiwan this time. The performance time of the latest anti-dumping rate starts from May 14th 2016 to Oct. 6th 2019.

Currently, anti-dumping investigations have been conducted only on imported cold rolled stainless steel and galvanized sheets. The investigation on galvanized sheet is still in its early stage and new anti-dumping rate has not emerged so far. 

According to the final Vietnam customs data in 2015, a large amount of steel products from China were imported into Vietnam, which accounted for about 61% of the steel imports. We, Shanghai Metal Corporation attributed to a significant proportion of that figure last year. The increased anti-dumping rate obviously has a certain impact on our export volume to Vietnam, but we do have the confidence to gradually improve the situation through self-enhancement in the following years.