Chilean price distortion commission, CNDP, has started a new anti-dumping (AD) investigation into the imports of Mexican rebar. The CNDP said the investigation will cover the full year of 2017.
The local authority said the Mexican products subject to the probe fall under the Chilean HS codes 7213.1000, 7214.2000, 7227.9000 and 7228.3000. Steelmaker Deacero is Mexico’s only rebar exporter to Chile.
Chilean steelmakers CAP Acero and the former Gerdau business in Chile, Gerdau AZA, which is now owned by Chilean family groups Matco and Ingenieria e Inversiones, filed a request for an AD probe on January 12 this year. The steelmakers ask for a 38.2 percent AD duty.
In late 2016, CNDP had set a definite anti-dumping (AD) duty over the Mexican imports of rebar. The products subject to the duties at the time are the same the Chilean authority is investigating now. At the time, Mexican imports of rebar paid an ad-valorem, definite tariff 9.8 percent for a one-year period from September 17, 2016. The AD duties set in 2016 replaced a previous resolution in which Mexican rebar was paying a provisional ad-valorem 11 percent tariff.