The investigation covers steel tubes and pipes with an external diameter exceeding 406.4 millimetres, commonly known as Electric Resistance Welded (ERW) pipes and Spiral Welded Pipes or Submerged Arc Welded (SAW) pipes. The products are classified under tariff subheading 7305.19.
South Africa’s trade authorities have moved to impose provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of certain steel pipes from Mozambique after finding evidence that the products were being dumped into the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) market, causing material injury to local manufacturers.
In a preliminary determination, the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) concluded that imports of large-diameter welded steel tubes and pipes from Mozambique were being sold in the SACU market at dumped prices, “causing material injury and a threat of material injury to the SACU industry.”
The Commission has recommended that the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (Sars) impose provisional anti-dumping duties of 28.86% on imports of the affected products from Mozambican producer ETG Steel Solutions Limitada, as well as all other producers and exporters from Mozambique, for a period of six months.
