EU drops steel ‘hollow sections’ dumping probe

In Brief : OMK Steel, Anadolu Boru, IGM Trade and other steelmakers have dodged EU dumping tariffs, MLex has learned. EU investigators will close a probe into “hollow section” products from Turkey, Russia and Macedonia, despite calls from ArcelorMittal and Tata Steel for the measures. The products are used for transporting and drilling for oil and gas, among other industrial applications.

OMK Steel, Anadolu Boru, IGM Trade and other steelmakers have dodged EU dumping tariffs, MLex has learned. EU investigators will close a probe into “hollow section” products from Turkey, Russia and Macedonia, despite calls from ArcelorMittal and Tata Steel for the measures.

Last September, the European Commission opened the dumping investigation into welded tubes and pipes and hollow profiles of cross sections, which are used for transporting and drilling for oil and gas. They’re also used in construction, building ships and cranes, trailers, trucks, cars, machinery, metal furniture, sports equipment and windows.

The probe came at the request of subsidiaries of ArcelorMittal and Tata Steel, including ArcelorMittal Tubular Products, Alessio Tubi, Arvedi Tubi Acciaio, Marcegaglia Carbon Steel, Gazoldo, Marcegaglia Poland Praszka, and Tata Steel Nederland Tubes and Tata Steel UK.

The EU was meant to impose provisional duties this month, but instead investigators will close the case as they found no dumping, MLex understands.

Exporting producers of the hollow sections include Anadolu Boru and Erciyas Çelik Boru in Turkey; IGM Trade and FZC 11 Oktomvri in Macedonia, as well as OMK Steel’s Almetyevsk Pipe Plant and Severstal-TPZ Sheksna in Russia.