The European Commission has published definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of cold-rolled flat steel from India, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam, after a 10-month long investigation, according to a General Disclosure document dated Aug. 6 seen by Platts, part of S&P Global Energy.
The definitive duties are as follows:
| European Commission duties on cold-rolled flat steel: | ||
| Country | Company | Definitive anti-dumping duty |
| India | JSW Steel Limited
JSW Steel Coated Products Limited |
9.5% |
| Tata Steel India* | 9.5% | |
| All Other imports originating in India | 9.5% | |
| Japan | Nippon Steel Corporation
Daido Steel Co., Ltd. |
28% |
| JFE Steel Corporation*
Proterial, Ltd.* |
28% | |
| All other imports originating in Japan | 28% | |
| Taiwan | China Steel Corporation
Chung Hung Steel Corporation |
20.7% |
| Synn Industrial Co., Ltd.* | 20.7% | |
| All other imports orignating in Taiwan | 27% | |
| Turkey | Borçelik Çelik Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş. | 9.7% |
| Tatmetal Çelik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. | 5.6% | |
| Erdemir Group*
ATAKAŞ ÇELİK SANAYİ VE TİCARET ANONİM ŞİRKETİ* Yıldız Entegre Ağaç Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.* Gazi Metal Mamülleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş* |
7.3% | |
| All other imports originating in Turkey | 9.7% | |
| Vietnam | POSCO VIETNAM CO., LTD | 16% |
| CÔNG TY CỔ PHẦN CHINA STEEL & NIPPON STEEL VIỆT NAM
Công ty Cổ phần Tập đoàn Hoa Sen |
16% | |
| All other imports originating in Vietnam | 16% | |
| *Exporting producers not sampled in the investigation | ||
| Source: European Commission | ||
The margins are expressed as a percentage of the CIF Union frontier price, duty unpaid.
The investigation was initiated on Sept. 18, 2025, following a complaint lodged by the European Steel Association, or EUROFER.
It was also noted in the document that as provisional measures were not imposed during the original investigation, the definitive anti-dumping duties would not be retroactively applied to imports.
Throughout the investigation, buy-side participants have remained hesitant to import cold-rolled material, citing potential further cost disruptions and the additional uncertainty posed by the EC’s revised safeguard mechanism and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.
The EC also sought to address concerns raised during the investigation that any imposed anti-dumping duty, alongside the new safeguard measures — implemented July 1, 2026 — could lead to a potential supply shortage and higher prices for CRC given a lack of domestic capacity and higher processing costs.
Platts, part of S&P Global Energy, last assessed domestic CRC in Northern Europe at €825/metric ton ex works Ruhr on Aug. 6, stable day over day, but up €105 from Jan. 2.
Within the document, the EC said “any prospective horizontal trade policy measures concerning steel served distinct legal purposes and pursued different objectives; one addresses unfair trading practices causing injury to the domestic industry while the other seeks to address the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity,” and were not substitutes for each other.
Furthermore, the EC also highlighted that underselling and undercutting caused by dumped imports was occurring regardless of total import volumes, and that buyers would continue to have a breadth of supply options in the domestic market, despite EU capacity utilization sitting at about 72% over the investigated period.
Platts assessed imported CRC in Northern Europe at €655/mt CIF Antwerp on Aug. 6, stable day over day, and up €30 since Jan. 2.
The European Commission was contacted for comment, but had not replied at the time of publication.
Author: Charles Thompson, Riley Waters, Euan Sadden
