Vietnam’s steel manufacturing in a whirlwind of lawsuitsVietNamNet Bridge - At least half of the current trade remedy, anti-countervailing and anti-dumping investigations are on products in the steel manufacturing sector. Vietnam's steel manufacturing is on the whirlwind of lawsuitsChu Thang Trung, deputy head of the Trade Remedies Department, said at a recent workshop that of 78 anti-dumping lawsuits in the last two years against Vietnam’s products, 37 had relations with the steel sector. There has been no official explanation why steel manufacturing accounts for 50 percent of total lawsuits. Of 78 anti-dumping lawsuits in the last two years against Vietnam’s products, 37 had relations with the steel sector. On May 21, the US Department of Commerce released its final decision after an anti-subsidy probe against Vietnam’s galvanized steel and cold rolled steel sourced from Chinese HRC (hot rolled coil).

Source: VietNamNet News August 18, 2018 09:33 UTC