Posted on 28 Aug 2025
Australia's Anti-Dumping Commission, under the country's Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, has issued a notice on August 25 to extend the deadlines for its final decision on the second sunset review of anti-dumping (AD) duties on rod in coil imports from China.
Based on the same dataset, CISA estimated that daily crude steel output among both member and non-member mills during August 11-20 averaged 2.68 million tonnes, edging up by a negligible 0.1% from early-August.
Specifically, the Commission will publish the Statement of Essential Facts by December 10, 2025, and the final report of the case with a recommendation to the Minister by February 23, 2026, according to the notice.
The second sunset review, initiated on May 19, was in response to an application filed by a local steelmaker Infrabuild (Newcastle) Pty Ltd. The Newcastle electric-arc furnace steelmaker expressed concerns in its petition that Chinese steel rods were being altered into mesh sheets with a carbon content of less than or equal to 0.2% to bypass existing anti-dumping measures.
The review covered the period from April 2024 to March 2025, and in order to assess injury, the commission examined the period starting from April 2020, as reported.
The targeted products are hot-rolled rods in coils of steel, whether or not containing alloys, that have maximum cross sections that are less than 14mm and are under AHECC codes 7213.91.00.44 and 7227.90.90.02.
Australia first imposed AD duties of 37.4%-53.1% on Chinese rod in coils in April 2016 and decided to maintain the AD measures after the first sunset review finished in April 2021. The current dumping margin for the targeted goods exported to Australia from China is 33.1%, and the AD measures are due to expire on April 22, 2026, Mysteel noted.
Earlier this month, Australia also postponed its final decision on the second sunset review of AD duties on steel reinforcing bar imports from China, as Mysteel Global reported.
Source:Mysteel Global
