The UAE Ministry of Economy & Tourism issued Directive No. (2) of 2025, implementing a GCC Ministerial Committee decision (dated 13 March 2025) to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on painted and/or coated, flattened or grained aluminium alloy plates, sheets, strips or coils of 0.2mm to 8mm thickness originating in or exported from China. The duties, ranging from 7.1% to 20% of CIF customs value depending on the producer/exporter, took effect 25 April 2025 across all GCC member states' customs territories, including the UAE.

Analyst notesShow

Mechanism

This is the UAE's national implementing instrument for a GCC-wide anti-dumping investigation concerning painted and/or coated, flattened or grained aluminium alloy plates, sheets, strips and coils (0.2mm–8mm thickness) from China — a distinct product scope and investigation from the earlier 2021 GCC-TSAIP order on unpainted aluminium alloy plates/sheets/strip (33% duty, HS 7606.12.00/7606.92.00; see 2021-06-15-gcc-tsaip-aluminium-alloy-plates-sheets-china-antidumping). The GCC Ministerial Committee approved the definitive measure on 13 March 2025; Directive No. (2) of 2025, published by the UAE Ministry of Economy & Tourism, is the domestic customs-enforcement instrument giving effect to that decision inside the UAE, alongside parallel implementing measures by Dubai Customs and the Saudi General Authority of Foreign Trade. The duties, set on a producer/exporter-specific basis between 7.1% and 20% of CIF value, entered into force 25 April 2025 across the GCC customs union.

Downstream implications

Raises landed cost for Chinese painted/coated aluminium coil imports into the UAE and

wider GCC market, protecting Gulf downstream coil-coating and building-facade fabricators from underpriced Chinese product.

Fills a confirmed register gap: prior to this filing the UAE had no national

trade-remedy action distinct from the bloc-wide 2021 GCC-TSAIP order, despite the UAE having 12+ other actions in the register across other action types.

Complements the 2021 unpainted-aluminium duty, extending GCC trade defence coverage

to the painted/coated downstream product tier.

Open questions

Which individual Chinese producers/exporters were assigned the 7.1% floor vs. the 20%

ceiling rate, and what residual/all-others rate applies to non-cooperating exporters?

Expiry/sunset date for the measure (GCC Common Law standard term is five years from

the imposed date, which would place a first sunset review window around 2030).

Sources

Primary: UAE Ministry of Economy & Tourism — Directive No. (2) of 2025 (Aluminium anti-dumping)

Secondary: PwC Middle East — GCC Countries Announce Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Semi-Finished Aluminium Products from China

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Mechanism

Downstream implications

Raises landed cost for Chinese painted/coated aluminium coil imports into the UAE and

wider GCC market, protecting Gulf downstream coil-coating and building-facade fabricators from underpriced Chinese product.

Fills a confirmed register gap: prior to this filing the UAE had no national

trade-remedy action distinct from the bloc-wide 2021 GCC-TSAIP order, despite the UAE having 12+ other actions in the register across other action types.

Complements the 2021 unpainted-aluminium duty, extending GCC trade defence coverage

to the painted/coated downstream product tier.

Open questions

Which individual Chinese producers/exporters were assigned the 7.1% floor vs. the 20%

ceiling rate, and what residual/all-others rate applies to non-cooperating exporters?

Expiry/sunset date for the measure (GCC Common Law standard term is five years from

the imposed date, which would place a first sunset review window around 2030).