HÀ NỘI — The European Commission (EC) has announced the launch of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tax investigations into cold-rolled stainless steel products imported from Việt Nam, Taiwan (China) and Turkey, according to the Trade Remedies Authority under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The investigations are being conducted at the request of the European Steel Association (EUROFER). The products concerned by the possible circumvention are flat-rolled products of stainless steel, not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced) under CN codes 7219 31 00, 7219 32 10, 7219 32 90, 7219 33 10, 7219 33 90, 7219 34 10, 7219 34 90, 7219 35 10, 7219 35 90, 7219 90 20, 7219 90 80, 7220 20 21, 7220 20 29, 7220 20 41, 7220 20 49, 7220 20 81, 7220 20 89, 7220 90 20 and 7220 90 80 and originating from Indonesia. The evidence provided by the applicant shows that such assembly/completion operations, starting from stainless steel slabs and/or stainless steel hot-rolled flat products originating in Indonesia, constitute circumvention as the operations started or have substantially increased since the initiation of the original anti-subsidy investigation. The stainless steel slabs and/or stainless steel hot-rolled flat products originating in Indonesia constitute above 60 per cent of the total value of the parts of the assembled product and the value added during the assembly/completion operations is lower than 25 per cent of the manufacturing cost.
