Indonesia MOF/KADI — PMK No. 9/2025 Sunset-Review Extension of Anti-Dumping Duty on Hot Rolled Plate from China, Singapore, Ukraine

Mechanism

KADI (Komite Anti Dumping Indonesia, under the Ministry of Trade) conducted a sunset-review investigation into the definitive anti-dumping duty on Hot Rolled Plate (HRP) steel originally imposed via PMK 111/PMK.010/2019, which was due to lapse five years after its effective date. The review concluded that dumping by Chinese, Singaporean and Ukrainian exporters continued and that injury to Indonesia's domestic HRP industry would likely recur if the duty were allowed to expire. On that basis the Minister of Finance signed PMK No. 9 Tahun 2025 on 10 February 2025, giving legal effect (10 working days later, 22 February 2025) to a further five-year extension of the duty at the same rates as the prior instrument: China 10.47%, Singapore 12.50%, Ukraine 12.33% ad valorem, applied to HS 7208.51.00 (thickness >10mm) and 7208.52.00 (thickness 4.75–10mm), both hot-rolled, uncoated and unprocessed beyond hot-rolling, width ≥600mm.

HRP is a heavy-plate input used in shipbuilding, pressure vessels and structural fabrication — downstream of the flat-steel chokepoint China dominates as the world's largest exporter. The measure protects Indonesia's domestic plate mills (led by Krakatau Steel) from continued underpriced imports from the three named origins.

This is the first trade-remedy (anti-dumping/CVD/safeguard) action from Indonesia on the register; KADI/KPPI otherwise appear only via industrial-policy and export-control filings (nickel, tin, copper concentrate). It sits alongside a wave of 2025-26 Asian steel trade-remedy filings (Vietnam MOIT, Malaysia MITI, South Africa ITAC, South Korea KTC) capturing the region's response to Chinese flat-steel overcapacity.

Downstream implications

• Chinese, Singaporean and Ukrainian HRP exporters face another five years

of duty-inclusive pricing into Indonesia (through February 2030), likely sustaining the post-2019 trade diversion toward non-named origins (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) or non-dumped-margin suppliers.

• Domestic Indonesian plate consumers (shipbuilding, pressure-vessel and

structural fabricators) continue paying the duty-inclusive price, a standing input-cost tax that a sunset review chose to extend rather than let lapse.

• Confirms KADI as an active, multi-case AD/safeguard authority (see also

the companion 2026-05-25 provisional duty on Wuhan Iron & Steel HRC and the pending cotton-fabric/EPS-resin safeguard extensions in the filing queue) — a trade-defence lane structurally distinct from Indonesia's resource-nationalism (nickel/tin/copper export-control) filings.

Open questions

• Whether China, Singapore or Ukraine will challenge the sunset extension

at the WTO, as has occurred with other Indonesian AD measures.

• Whether the unchanged rates (matching the 2019 originals) reflect a

finding that dumping margins have not shifted, or methodological continuity in KADI's review.