Notice

Trade remedies notice 2021/03: Suspension of anti-dumping duty on welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus or Russia

Updated 29 June 2023

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

This public notice was revoked on 9 August 2021 by trade remedies notice 2021/09: anti-dumping duty on welded tubes and pipes from Belarus (suspension). It was originally published on 1 July 2021.

This public notice is made by the Secretary of State under regulation 94D(2) of the Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019[footnote 1] and suspends, in full or in part, the application of the anti-dumping duty on welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus or Russia in relation to welded tubes and pipes to which the tariff-rate quota on steel goods is also applicable.

Suspension of anti-dumping duty on welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus or Russia

Anti-dumping duty suspended

This notice relates to the additional amounts of import duty applicable to welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus or Russia under:

(a) Taxation Notice 2020/01: Anti-dumping duty on certain welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus, the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation (“TN 2020/01”); and

(b) Trade Remedies Notice 2021/01: Tariff-rate quota on steel goods (“TRN 2021/01”).

If welded tubes or pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus or Russia are subject to the additional amount of import duty under TRN 2021/01 (“safeguard duty”) because the welded tubes or pipes are imported outside of the quota allocated for goods category G (Gas pipe), the additional amount of import duty applicable to the welded tubes or pipes under TN 2020/01 (“anti-dumping duty”) is suspended to the extent set out below.

Origin country or territory Overseas exporter Additional code Anti-dumping duty before suspension (per cent ad valorem) Anti-dumping duty after suspension (per cent ad valorem)
Belarus All exporters 38.1% 13.1%
Russia TMK Group (Seversky Pipe Plant Open Joint Stock Company and Joint Stock Company Taganrog Metallurgical Works) A892 16.8% Nil
Russia OMK Group (Open Joint Stock Company Vyksa Steel Works and Joint Stock Company Almetjvesk Pipe Plant) A893 10.1% Nil
Russia All others A999 20.5% Nil

For reference, the welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel subject to additional amounts of import duty under both TN 2020/01 and TRN 2021/01 are set out below.

Goods description ‘UK Global Tariff’ commodity code ‘UK Global Tariff’ commodity code
Welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel 73 06 30 41 20 73 06 30 72 80
Welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel 73 06 30 49 20 73 06 30 77 80

NB: Welded tubes or pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in China to which the anti-dumping duty is applicable are excluded from the safeguard duty in accordance with the limited exclusion for steel goods originating in developing countries or territories set out in TRN 2021/01.

Duration unaffected

This notice does not suspend or otherwise affect the period for which TN 2020/01 has effect in relation to welded tubes or pipes of iron or non-alloy steel.

Revocation of Suspension notices 2020/01 to 2020/03

The following notices are revoked:

(a) Suspension Notice 2020/01: Anti-dumping duty on certain welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Belarus, the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation;

(b) Suspension Notice 2020/02: Anti-dumping duty on certain pre- and post-stressing wires and wire strands of non-alloy steel (PSC wires and strands) originating in the People’s Republic of China; and

(c) Suspension Notice 2020/03: Anti-dumping duty on wire rod originating in the People’s Republic of China.

The notices referred to in this notice have been published online at www.gov.uk/government/collections/trade-remedies-notices.

  1. S.I. 2019/450, amended by S.I. 2019/1076, S.I. 2019/1346, S.I. 2020/99, and S.I. 2020/730.