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Base rate computed from analyst-asserted responds_to: edges in the reverse direction (target-country → issuer-country) for prior issuer-actions on the same target. Modal type + lag percentiles only — not a model output. Treat as a historical anchor for sizing counter-response scenarios, not a forecast in itself.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1890 extends the anti-dumping duties on threaded cast iron pipe fittings from China and Thailand for a further five years following an expiry review investigation under Article 11(2) of the Basic Anti-Dumping Regulation (EU) 2016/1036. The original anti-dumping measure dates to 2013 and was renewed by a prior expiry review in 2019. This second renewal confirms continuing risk that dumping and material injury to EU producers would recur or persist if the duties lapsed.
The product scope covers threaded tube or pipe cast fittings of both malleable cast iron and spheroidal graphite (ductile) cast iron, classified under CN code ex 7307 19 10 (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 10 and 7307 19 10 20). These are standard plumbing and HVAC connection components used extensively in building construction, industrial piping networks, and gas/water distribution systems.
For China, normal value was constructed under Article 2(6a) of the Basic AD Regulation — the "significant distortions" provision — using Thailand itself as the representative country for cost benchmarking. The fact that Thailand is simultaneously a target country with a higher dumping margin (70% vs China's 65%) while also serving as the reference economy for Chinese cost construction is structurally notable: DG Trade found Thai domestic prices to be less distorted than Chinese domestic prices, yet still found Thai exports to be dumped into the EU at a 70% margin.
on standard fittings, maintaining a structural cost advantage for EU producers (Geberit, Viega, IBP-Conex/Aalberts, Crane Fluid Systems, Atusa) and non-targeted origin suppliers
Southeast Asia supply-chain substitution for EU buyers seeking lower-cost alternatives to China
investigations can use any third-country market (including simultaneously targeted countries) as a cost reference when Chinese domestic prices are deemed distorted
from China and Thailand, widening the product scope beyond this founding expiry-review measure
under Article 2(6a) will face WTO challenge analogous to the DS636 challenge to EU TiO2 duties
components to circumvent the TARIC codes (standard anti-circumvention watch item)