China conducts anti-dumping investigation on imported stainless steels in Indonesia and other places : Since the release date, the Ministry of Commerce has conducted anti-dumping investigations on imported stainless steel billets and stainless steel hot-rolled sheets/coils originating in the EU, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. The dumping investigation period determined in this investigation is January 1, 2017 As of December 31, 2017, the industrial damage investigation period is from January 1, 2014 to March 31, 2018. It was originally an anti-dumping investigation on stainless steel from 4 countries, but the focus of the industry is mainly Indonesian stainless steel. In fact, since the beginning of the year, the anti-dumping voice has never ceased, so after the news was released, the industry generally had an expected gesture. Data show that in the first quarter of this year, imports from Indonesia continued to surge to 445,218 tons, accounting for 86% of China's total imports in the quarter. Due to low cost, a large amount of stainless steel imported from Indonesia has a huge impact on the same type of resources in the industry. The influence of Indonesian resources on the stainless steel market is more obvious to the industry, which is why the target of anti-dumping is clearly four, but many people directly ignore the other three. As of the end of September, in addition to the TISCO stainless steel that initiated the anti-dumping investigation application, Jiugang, Ansteel Lianzhong, Beihai Chengde and other supporting companies have formally submitted a questionnaire. At the same time, except for the industry-related anti-dumping target companies that did not participate, Baosteel Stainless, which originally supported the applicants, did not submit a questionnaire. According to industry sources, it may be related to the reason why Huadian intends to plan to build a ferronickel plant in Indonesia. According to the news, after submitting the questionnaire and according to the fact investigation, within the scope of the conditions, more than 20% of the temporary tariffs may be initiated at any time.
