Australian Commission decides to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese aluminium extrusions yet again

The Australian Anti-dumping Commission has reportedly decided to impose anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties on China-origin aluminium extrusions. The news came on September 22, 2023, when the Australian Commission declared in Notice No. 2023/051 that the Australian Minister of Industry and Science and Technology approved the final recommendations of import duties on China. The measures came into effect from the date of announcement.

In June 2009, Australia first launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into aluminium profiles imports from China, which found a year later that the dumping margin of the products was 2.7 per cent to 25.7 per cent and the subsidy margin was 3.8 per cent to 18.4 per cent. Then four years later, the Australian Anti-dumping Commission issued Notice No 2014/31, announcing the launch of an anti-circumvention investigation on China-origin aluminium profiles to examine whether the products were sold at a loss to avoid anti-dumping and countervailing duties.

In April 2015, Australia launched anti-dumping and sunset review investigation on Chinese imports after discovering a circumvention of aluminium profile imports from Rongyang Aluminum (China) Limited. The dumping margin of the products was 57.6 per cent, the subsidy margin was 8.7 per cent, and the combined effective tax rate of dumping and subsidy was 57.6 per cent. Australia again launched an anti-dumping and sunset review investigation in October 2020.

In August 2022, the Australian Anti-dumping Commission again launched an investigation on aluminium profiles imported from China, in response to the application submitted by domestic enterprises like Capral Limited. The Australian Customs codes of the products involved were 7604.10.00.06, 7604.21.00.07, 7604.21.00.08, 7604.29.00.09, 7608.10.00.09, 7608.20.00.10, 7610.10. 00.12 and 7610.90.00.13.