综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

Economy

Steel industry condemns punitive US trade measure

By Ding Qingfen (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-12-31 07:08
Large Medium Small

The Chinese steel industry has strongly condemned a US move to slap preliminary anti-dumping duties on steel gratings imports, and is likely to appeal against the measure.

The US Commerce Department said on Tuesday that it would impose duties of as high as 145.18 percent on imports of steel gratings from China, in a bid to offset "unfairly low" prices and help American counterparts become more competitive.

The Department is expected to take a final decision on the matter next April.

Related readings:
Steel industry condemns punitive US trade measure US sets preliminary duties on Chinese steel grating
Steel industry condemns punitive US trade measure China opposes EU's extension of anti-dumping duties on footwear
Steel industry condemns punitive US trade measure China to review anti-dumping measures on chloroform
Steel industry condemns punitive US trade measure US to continue anti-dumping probe on copper pipe

The US government has accused Chinese producers of dumping steel gratings at comparatively lower prices in the US market over the past few years. This has hurt the local industry, it said.

The US imported 60,000 tons of steel gratings worth $91 million in 2008, up from 9,337 tons valued at $9 million in 2006, the Commerce department statistics showed.

Chinese government data, however, indicated that the country exported no more than 20,000 tons of steel gratings, worth around $20 million, to the US in 2008.

"The US measure is unreasonable. The figures they provided are incorrect," said Wang Jianguo, a spokesperson of the Ningbo-based Jiulong Machinery Manufacturing, a leading steel gratings producer. "It's nothing but trade protectionism. They are making up a story to convince the world, but they are wrong."

The company is set to appeal against the US government decision in January, although its spokesperson gave no further details.

Jiulong is the largest exporter of steel gratings, and a significant part of that goes to the US, Wang said.

In fact, Jiulong and Sinosteel are the only two companies to have actively responded to the US government investigation. They were slapped with much lower anti-dumping duties - of 14.36 percent - by the US.

Since steel gratings do not form a big chunk of the exports of steel producers, "the impact (of the measure) on Chinese exporters of steel gratings is not that big," said Yu Liangui, vice-director of the Shanghai-based MySteel Research Institute, a major steel consultancy. "But the concern is, many other (cases) will follow suit," Yu said.

The US-based Alabama Metal Industries and Fisher & Ludlow had asked the US government to investigate the matter in May this year.

Trade remedy cases against China have touched a record this year. By the end of November, a total of 19 nations and regions had initiated 103 cases against Chinese imports, involving a total value of $12 billion.

The Chinese government too has more actively responded to the measures, appealing to the World Trade Organization on some issues. This year, the nation initiated eight anti-dumping and three anti-subsidy investigations against other economies.

浦东新区| 建始县| 收藏| 玉龙| 镇原县| 蒙城县| 外汇| 武平县| 和林格尔县| 舒城县| 金平| 北海市| 姚安县| 右玉县| 遂昌县| 白朗县| 鸡东县| 蓬溪县| 都匀市| 铜川市| 海晏县| 滨海县| 阿图什市| 五大连池市| 中江县| 襄樊市| 福建省| 商洛市| 城口县| 临高县| 聊城市| 册亨县| 东乡族自治县| 沙湾县| 望谟县| 桑植县| 长葛市| 四子王旗| 台前县| 伊宁市| 桐城市|