Brazil Resolução Gecex nº 765/2025 — Definitive Anti-Dumping Duty on Chinese Carbon-Steel Sheets (<0.5 mm)
Tariff↓ Restrictive~🇧🇷 BR · GECEX/CAMEX (MDIC)✎ 2026-05-13
announced 28 Aug 2025
effective 29 Aug 2025
Status
effective 29 Aug 2025 · stage not filed
Sourcing
🟢 primary-OJ 2 primary
🇧🇷 BR issued this tariff measure targeting 1 jurisdiction, touching steel, metals. It reads as restrictive.
RBI 1quant 4 · $170B📌 stable
Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber (GECEX/CAMEX) imposed a five-year definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of carbon-steel metal sheets with thickness below 0.5 mm (alloy or non-alloy, any width; tin-plate, chromium-oxide-coated, and related surface finishes; NCMs 7210.12.00, 7210.50.00, 7212.10.00, 7212.50.90) originating in China. The measure was approved at the 228th ordinary GECEX meeting on 27 August 2025, signed on 28 August 2025, and entered into force upon DOU publication on 29 August 2025. Duties are levied as specific tariffs in USD per metric tonne, ranging from USD 284.34/mt (Baoshan/Wisco-Nippon) to USD 499.35/mt for the residual category, and run through approximately 28 August 2030, subject to sunset review.
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Mechanism
GECEX applied specific (USD/mt) anti-dumping duties following a DECOM (Departamento de Defesa Comercial) anti-dumping investigation. The provisional measure Gecex nº 649/2024 (issued October 2024) had established preliminary duties; Gecex 765/2025 converts those to a definitive five-year measure with revised rates.
Duty schedule:
| Exporter | Rate (USD/mt) |
|---|
| Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. | 284.34 |
| Wisco-Nippon Steel Tinplate Co., Ltd. | 284.34 |
| Handan Jintai Packing Material Co., Ltd. | 413.04 |
| 18 named exporters (incl. Hesteel Group Hengshui Strip Processing; Shandong Sino Steel) | 415.45 |
| Jiangsu Suxun New Material Co., Ltd. | 499.35 |
| All other producers/exporters (residual) | 499.35 |
The scope follows the product description — the NCM codes (7210.12.00 / 7210.50.00 / 7212.10.00 / 7212.50.90) are explicitly indicative, not binding.
Domestic complainants are Usiminas (Companhia Siderúrgica de Minas Gerais) and CSN, the two principal Brazilian producers of these thin-gauge coated steel sheets.
Downstream implications
- Chinese exporters face a cost uplift of USD 284–499/mt, effectively pricing most Chinese material above Brazilian domestic alternatives for buyers without contractual hedges.
- The differentiated exporter-specific schedule is consistent with GECEX's standard practice of segmenting cooperating from non-cooperating respondents; the residual rate is punitive by design.
- The measure runs in parallel with Brazil's broader anti-dumping posture under Lei 14.122/2021 (economic reciprocity law) and overlapping CAMEX investigations into other steel sub-categories.
- Usiminas and CSN, which supply the beverage-can, packaging, and automotive-stamping industries, benefit directly; downstream steel consumers face modestly higher input costs.
Open questions
- Sunset review timing (~2030): whether Chinese capacity rationalization or BRL/USD movement will reduce dumping margins before the five-year window closes.
- Whether Gecex 649/2024 provisional duties generated any retroactive refund or adjustment obligations for importers who paid the interim rate.