China is beginning a sunset review of its antidumping duties on imports of polyphenylene sulfide from the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Nov. 30, according to an unofficial translation. The measures, which were scheduled to expire at the end of November, have imposed tariffs between 23.3% and 220.9% across the four countries exporting polyphenylene sulfide, which Beijing said is a “high-performance engineering thermoplastic” used in the textile, auto, aerospace and electronics industries. China said it will continue to impose the duties during the sunset review period, which should last one year. Comments are due to the ministry within 20 days.
The U.K. on Nov. 25 extended the antidumping duties on ceramic tableware and kitchenware from China for an additional five years, pushing them to July 16, 2029, at existing AD rates. Guangxi Sanhuan Enterprise Group Holding will be subject to a 13.1% rate; Hunan Hualin China Industry and its affiliates will be subject to an 18.3% rate; and all other overseas exporters will receive a 36.1% rate. Various other respondents are subject to a rate of either 17.6% or 17.9%, according to a list of those separate companies found on the U.K. Department for International Trade's website.
The U.K. added two new subsidiaries to the scope of a general license that authorizes certain transactions with sanctioned Russian oil firm Lukoil's Bulgarian subsidiaries. The license, which took effect Nov. 14 and expires Feb. 14, now covers Lukoil Aviation Bulgaria EOOD and Lukoil Bunker Bulgaria EOOD. The license previously only covered Lukoil Bulgaria EOOD and Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD.
China requested dispute consultations at the World Trade Organization last week with India, regarding the latter's incentives in the automotive and renewable energy sectors, the WTO announced.
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel found last week that Colombia has failed to comply with the findings of an arbitration panel regarding the nation's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
The European Commission on Oct. 23 imposed antidumping duties on screws without heads from China. The duties range from 54.7% to 72.3% and follow from an investigation that found that Chinese headless screws were injuring the EU industry. In the EU, the industry for this product is located in Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland.
The European Commission imposed antidumping duties Oct. 20 on steel track shoes from China, the Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security announced. The AD rate is 62.5% and is imposed following the imposition of provisional duties, which have been collected since April 22. Steel track shoes are used as parts for tracked equipment that's used in the construction and mining sectors.
A World Trade Organization dispute panel on Oct. 2 found that the EU violated its WTO commitments in its antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings on stainless steel cold-rolled flat products from Indonesia. Specifically, the dispute panel rejected the European Commission's attempt to countervail Chinese transnational subsidies in the Indonesian steel sector.
The EU will appeal a World Trade Organization panel report in Indonesia's case against the EU's countervailing duties on Indonesian biodiesel to the defunct Appellate Body, the EU reported at the Sept. 26 meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body. The appeal effectively ends the dispute, since there's no Appellate Body division that will be able to hear the case due to vacancies on the Appellate Body.
The European Commission on Sept. 26 imposed antidumping duties on hot-rolled flat products of iron, and non-alloy or other-alloy steel from Egypt, Japan and Vietnam. The duties will apply for five years at rates of 11.7% for Egypt, 6.9% to 30% for Japan, and 12.1% for Vietnam. The duties that were provisionally imposed since April 7, 2024, "will not be collected retroactively," the commission said. In the AD investigation, goods from India also were also investigated, but the probe was "terminated without the imposition of duties, because it was not established that Indian imports were dumped."