Europe imposes anti-dumping duties on hot-rolled steel from Vietnam

(Chinhphu.vn) - Based on business data and the implementation of adjustments according to regulations, the EC has concluded that the official dumping margin for Vietnamese businesses is from 0% to 12.1%. This result remains the same as the preliminary conclusion issued in April 2025.

EC concludes official dumping margin for Vietnamese enterprises from 0%-12.1%

The Department of Trade Remedies ( Ministry of Industry and Trade ) said that the European Commission (EC) has issued a notice of applying official anti-dumping measures on some hot-rolled steel products imported from Egypt, Japan and Vietnam into the European Union (EU). The investigation was initiated on August 8, 2024. The plaintiff is the European Steel Association. The goods under investigation are hot-rolled steel (the product's CN code is some products in groups 7208, 7211, 7225, 7226).

The notice stated that some of the excluded goods include stainless steel or grain-oriented silicon electrical steel; tool steel and special high-hardness tool steel; steel not in coil form, without relief pattern, with a thickness greater than 10 mm and a width of 600 mm or more; steel not in coil form, without relief pattern, with a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm and a width of 2050 mm or more. The anti-dumping investigation period is from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024. The injury investigation period is from January 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024.

Based on the data provided by enterprises and the implementation of the required adjustments, the EC concluded that the official dumping margin for Vietnamese enterprises is from 0% to 12.1%. This result remains the same as the preliminary conclusion issued in April 2025. At the same time, the EC concluded that the EU hot-rolled coil industry has suffered significant injury, reflected in factors such as market share, price impact, profits, investment and employment.

Regarding the plaintiff's allegation that Vietnam's export tax policy has reduced the prices of iron ore and coal - input materials for the production of hot-rolled steel (accounting for 30-40% and 26-39% of the cost of producing hot-rolled steel, respectively), creating an advantage for dumped exports to the EU, the EC concluded that there was insufficient evidence for this allegation. During the investigation period, Vietnamese companies imported iron ore and coking coal from many countries around the world because domestic raw materials were not guaranteed in terms of quantity and quality. Therefore, the price of input materials did not depend on the domestic raw material market.

Anh Tho

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