EU Imposes Antidumping Duty on Chinese Aluminum Products, Suspends It For 9 Months
The European Union implemented a definitive antidumping duty on aluminum flat-rolled products from China, the European Commission said. After receiving a petition from industry producers, the commission imposed the AD duty on "aluminum products, flat rolled, whether or not alloyed, whether or not further worked than flat rolled, not backed, without internal layers of other material." The scope of the duties was also modified to include aluminum products "in coils or in coiled strips, in cut-to-length sheets, or in the form of circles; of a thickness of 0,2 mm or more but not more than 6 mm; in plates, of a thickness of more than 6 mm; in coils or in coiled strips, of a thickness of not less than 0.03 mm but less than 0.22 mm."
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The following rates of the antidumping duty apply: Jiangshu Alcha Aluminum Group Co., Ltd. at 14.3%; Nanshan Group at 19.1%; Xiamen Xiashun Aluminum Foil Co., Ltd. at 21.4%; other cooperating companies (listed in the notice's annex) at 19.0%; and all other companies at 24.6%.
The EU then suspended these duties due to "the existence of temporary and exceptional changes in market circumstances that occurred after the investigation period," the European Commission said. The investigation was initiated in August 2020, leading to the implementation of the provisional antidumping duty in April. In July, certain industry producers told the commission that market changes occurred and that a suspension of the AD duties would be justified. The commission indicated Sept. 1 that it was considering suspending the duties for nine months. After investigation, the commission found that the market condition changes were temporary rather than structural, without a serious likelihood that such changes would recur. So, the commission implemented the duty suspension for a period of nine months after hearing comments from interested parties.