US or anti-dumping duties on aluminum products in China

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced that 29 Chinese companies dumped about 500 million U.S. dollars worth of extruded aluminum profiles to the U.S. market last year. This is the latest trade friction between China and the United States. China has stated that the United States frequently initiates anti-dumping investigations that discriminate against Chinese exports and damage the interests of Chinese companies. According to U.S. media reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce launched an investigation into a series of aluminum products exported to the United States in April last year. Products surveyed include construction, automotive parts, furniture and other products.

The US Department of Commerce announced the results of this investigation in a statement on Tuesday. The statement pointed out that the extruded aluminum profiles in these products are sold to the United States at prices lower than the actual value of 32.79% to 33.28%. This conclusion may lead to the Chinese companies' products will be imposed the same degree of anti-dumping tariffs. The statement of the Ministry of Commerce is a victory for some American groups including the U.S. Steel Workers’ Union and some aluminum products companies in seeking fair trade.

However, this conclusion of the U.S. Department of Commerce does not mean that this tariff will be effective. The U.S. International Trade Commission must determine that China's dumping practices do harm to products made in the United States. The committee’s trade team will decide on this issue by May 12.

In recent years, the United States has repeatedly conducted anti-dumping investigations on Chinese exports. Yao Jian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, once said that these investigations are discriminatory against Chinese exports and damage the interests of Chinese companies.

Wang Zhenyu, an assistant professor of law at Taipei University, pointed out that many countries will conduct anti-dumping investigations on foreign exports, and China is no exception. Wang Zhenyu said: "The anti-dumping investigation is the exercise of the executive power of every country. For the United States, to protect its own industry or to cope with the pressure of lobbying, it will certainly make some more favorable judgments for its own industries. Whether in the United States or the European Union, Japan can happen. Mainland China will also investigate foreign products. If dumping does occur, tariffs will be levied on these products."

China began to challenge the unfavorable policies such as anti-dumping duties imposed on China by the United States and the EU from around 2008. In December last year, the World Trade Organization ruled that the anti-dumping measures imposed on China's screws, nuts, bolts, and other metal fasteners violated WTO regulations and ruled that China won the case. In March of this year, the WTO once again made a ruling in favor of China, arguing that the US’s simultaneous implementation of anti-dumping and countervailing sanctions against Chinese imports violated the WTO agreement.

Chinese media repeatedly reported high-profile reports that Chinese products do not have dumping problems, and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has repeatedly urged the US to implement the WTO's ruling in favor of China. However, some experts pointed out that China should not implement double standards and repeatedly delay those that are unfavorable to itself. ruling.