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Türkiye's Imports General Directorate (İthalat Genel Müdürlüğü) under the Ministry of Trade is the trade-remedy authority. Under the Türkiye Law on the Prevention of Unfair Competition in Imports (Law No. 3577) and Regulation on the Prevention of Unfair Competition in Imports, the IGM conducts dumping investigations and issues both provisional and definitive duties via Tebliğ (communiqué) instruments published in Resmî Gazete.
The investigation underlying Communiqué 2024/33 was opened on petition from TÇÜD (Türkiye Steel Producers' Association) representing the country's integrated flat-steel producers. The petition argued that hot-rolled coil from the four respondent countries — and Chinese mills in particular — was being sold to Türkiye below normal value, eroding domestic mill capacity utilisation and pricing power. The IGM's final determination established dumping margins consistent with the published duty range (6.10% on the lowest Russian named producer, 43.31% on residual Chinese producers).
Duty structure by origin:
36%; Qian'an Iron & Steel 23%; Rizhao Steel Holding 28%; Shanghai Meishan 15%; Shanxi Taigang 17%; Shougang Jingtang 24.6%; Zhangjiagang Hongchang 26.4%; all other Chinese producers 43.31% (residual). The wide dispersion reflects individual margins from cooperating producers vs. the punitive "all-others" rate applied to non-cooperating exporters under Article 17 WTO ADA / Article 21 of the Türkiye unfair-competition law.
Indian producers 9.0%.
(MMK) 6.10%; Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) 6.10%; all other Russian producers 9.0%.
Coverage spans approximately 90 customs tariff statistics positions under HS headings 7208 (hot-rolled flat non-alloy steel ≥600 mm width), 7211 (hot-rolled flat non-alloy steel <600 mm width), 7212 (clad/plated narrow strip), 7225 (hot-rolled flat alloy/stainless ≥600 mm) and 7226 (hot-rolled flat alloy/stainless <600 mm). Duties are payable at importation as a percentage of the CIF value, in addition to the existing MFN/AKÇT autonomous import duties (13–15% in the 2024 Import Regime for the affected steel HS codes).
The exemption for plate rolled in a dedicated plate mill (with TÇÜD/Producer-Certificate verification) preserves Türkiye's imports of heavy plate where there is no domestic substitute, particularly for shipbuilding and pressure-vessel grades that the country's HRC-based plate-stretching lines cannot produce.
market for Chinese HRC after the US Section 232 25% steel tariffs (2018, re-imposed 2025), EU safeguard 25% over-quota tariff and EU CBAM. With Türkiye now closing at 43.31% on residual Chinese producers, the diversion shifts further along the Mediterranean/MENA corridor — Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, GCC and African Continental Free Trade Area buyers are the likely next absorption points.
(OYAK), İsdemir, Çolakoğlu, Habaş and Tosçelik are the direct beneficiaries. The ad valorem 6–43% wedge over CIF Chinese/Indian/Russian HRC re-prices the domestic spot at a level consistent with Turkish mill cash costs plus a margin cushion. Listed proxy: Erdemir (EREGL.IS).
is the lowest individual rate in the table — well below the 9% Japanese rate. This pattern echoes Türkiye's broader reluctance to bind Russia under Western sanctions; the IGM determination preserves Russian HRC access at a near-symbolic duty for the named majors, with the residual 9.0% only bearing on smaller mills.
the first definitive HRC anti-dumping determination Türkiye has issued in the post-2024 China-overcapacity wave. Combined with the parallel cold-rolled stainless, tin-plate and downstream-steel cases working through the IGM pipeline, it signals a structural pivot from autonomous-tariff protection (Decree 8639, Import Regime 10790) to formal trade-remedy protection — bringing TR closer to the EU/US trade-defence posture.
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