Posted on 19 Aug 2026
Australia's Anti-Dumping Commission, under the country's Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, is terminating part of its anti-dumping (AD) investigation into imports of China-originated freight railway wheels, according to the latest release published by the commission on August 14.
Commissioner David Latina said in the release that he had been convinced that no dumping of the subject items produced by the Baowu Group Masteel Rail Transit Materials Technology Company Ltd (Masteel) had occurred during the investigation period. Consequently, the probe into that company's exports has been discontinued.
However, the commission will continue to conduct AD investigations into other exporters and pursue countervailing investigations against all exporters including Masteel, the release noted.
The investigation was initiated in October 2025 in response to an application lodged by Commonwealth Steel Company Pty Ltd (Comsteel), a major manufacturer of railway wheels headquartered in Newcastle, eastern Australia.
Comsteel had alleged that the Australian industry producing railway wheels had suffered material injury caused by railway wheels exported to Australia from China at dumped and subsidized prices, the release stated.
The commission decided to levy provisional AD duties on the product effective from December 22 2025 in the form of security deposits, with the rate set at 36.9% for all exporters, another official release indicated.
The targeted products are railway wheels of forged and rolled high carbon steel, with an outside diameter from 27.5 inches to 37.5 inches (699 mm to 953 mm), whether or not including alloys, which are classified under the AHECC code 8607.19.00.20, the release said.
The investigation period spans July 2024 to June 2025, and in order to assess injury, the commission is examining the period from July 2021 to June 2025, the announcement said.
Although removed from the ongoing AD probe, Masteel, together with all other Chinese companies exporting railway wheels to Australia, is still subject to another effective AD measure, Mysteel Global notes.
In April 2017, the Anti-Dumping Commission began an AD and CVD investigation into China-origin railway wheels in response to an earlier petition lodged by Comsteel. The targeted products were forged and rolled railway wheels with high hardness and nominal 38-inch (or 966 mm to 970 mm) diameter, alloy or non-alloy, which are mainly used on rail carriages to transport iron ore, as Mysteel Global reported at the time.
The commission made an affirmative ruling in July 2019 on that case and after the first sunset review extended the penalty for another five years to July 17 2029. The duty rate is set at 13.3%, as reported.
Source:Mysteel Global
