Australia’s Antidumping Commission has announced that it has further extended the antidumping (AD) duty investigation against rebar imports from South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey, to be able to conduct verification of exporters’ data,. The final decision now will be made on or before August 17, 2015. The investigation had already been extended in February.

The commission imposed a preliminary antidumping duty against rebar imports ranging from 2.2 percent to 25.5 percent for the seven countries in question in March.

The investigation was launched in October 2014 upon the application of domestic steel producer OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd (OneSteel).

The products subject to preliminary antidumping duty currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7214.20.00, 7228.30.90, 7213.10.00 and 7227.90.90.