On Friday 25 January, the European Commission announced the opening of a review regarding the expiry of the anti-dumping duties on the imports of certain iron or steel tube and pipe fittings from Turkey, Russia, South Korea and Malaysia.
The Commission is thus responding to the request lodged in October 2017 by the Defence Committee of the Seamless Steel Tube Industry of the European Union in the name of producers representing over 51% of the EU's total production of these tube and pipe fittings. The fittings are used, among other things, for butt welding.
The measures currently in force consist of definitive anti-dumping duties set up in 2013 on the imports of these products from Russia and Turkey, and in 2014 on those from South Korea and Malaysia.
Measures are also in force on products from China and they have been extended to Taiwan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
Asserting that the expiry of the measures in force would probably lead to the continuation and/or re-appearance of the dumping and harm caused to the EU industry, the applicant calls for the existing protection measures to be maintained. (Original version in French by Emmanuel Hagry)