Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry has announced that it will implement preliminary antidumping duties on rebar from Turkish firms, except Colakoglu Metalurji A.S., and on Singaporean firms. The ministry has assigned preliminary dumping rates in the range of 5.99-17.65 percent to Singaporean firms and preliminary dumping rates in the range of 3.35-20.09 percent for Turkish firms. The petitioner is the Malaysia Steel Association.

The Malaysian steel industry is threatened with material injury by imports of rebar from Turkey and Singapore that have been found to be sold in Malaysia at less than normal value, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry stated.

The products subject to investigation currently fall under the Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7214.10.11 00, 7214.10.19 00, 7214.10.21 00, 7214.10.29 00, 7214.20.31 00, 7214.20.39 00, 7214.20.41 00, 7214.20.49 00, 7214.20.51 00, 7214.20.59 00, 7214.20.61 00, 7214.20.69 00, 7214.30.10 00, 7214.30.90 00, 7214.99.11 00, 7214.99.19 00, 7214.99.91 00, 7214.99.92 00, 7214.99.93 00, 7214.99.99 00, 7228.10.10 00, 7228.10.90 00, 7228.20.11 00, 7228.20.19 00, 7228.20.91 00, 7228.20.99 00, 7228.30.10 00, 7228.30.90 00, 7228.40.10 00, 7228.40.90 00, 7228.50.10 00, 7228.50.90 00, 7228.60.10 00, 7228.60.90 00, 7228.80.11 00, 7228.80.19 00 and 7228.80.90 00.

The ministry is scheduled to announce the final determination on the antidumping duty relating to rebar from Turkey and Singapore within a period of 120 days from September 23, 2019.