Australia's Antidumping Commission has announced its preliminary decisions regarding the antidumping (AD) duty investigation on certain chromium-plated circular solid steel bars (chrome bars) imported from Romania and Italy. Accordingly, the commission has decided to impose a preliminary AD duty on certain chrome bars imported from Romania since the commission’s assessments show that exports of chrome bars from Romania in the investigation period were at dumped prices and the volume and dumping margins of the dumped goods were not negligible. However, the commission stated that chrome bars imported from Italy have not been at dumped prices.
The preliminary AD duty rate stands at 22.4 percent for Romanian exporter Cromsteel and 78.2 percent for all the other exporters in Romania.
The investigation was launched in November 10, 2015 upon the application lodged domestic producer Milltech Pty Ltd. The investigation covers the period between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015.
The products subject to preliminary AD duty currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7215.90.00, 7215.50.90, 7228.30.10, 7228.60.10 and 7228.60.90.