Canada CITT Final Injury Finding — Steel Strapping from China and Türkiye (SS 2025 IN)

Mechanism

CBSA initiated a combined dumping and subsidizing investigation into steel strapping (carbon or alloy steel strapping, with or without seals, nominal width 9.5mm–50.8mm, nominal thickness 0.38mm–1.12mm; 14 tariff classification numbers including HS 7212.20.00.30, 7212.30.00.10 and 7217.10.00.55) from China, South Korea, Türkiye and Vietnam on 12 May 2025, following a complaint from JEM Strapping Systems Inc. of Brantford, Ontario — Canada's only domestic steel strapping producer. CBSA made preliminary determinations of dumping (all four countries) and subsidizing (China only) on 16 September 2025, and provisional duties became payable on subject goods released from that date.

CBSA's final determination on 15 December 2025 found dumping margins for Chinese exporters ranging 7.0%–47.9% and a flat 47.9% margin for Türkiye; it also found a 6.5% subsidy margin (CNY 0.44/kg) across Chinese exporters. Two exporters — Sam Hwan Steel Co., Ltd (South Korea) and Sam Hwan Vina Co., Ltd (Vietnam) — were found not to be dumping and had their case terminated.

The CITT's injury inquiry concluded on 14 January 2026: the Tribunal found that dumping from Türkiye, and dumping and subsidizing from China, caused material injury to JEM, but that import volumes from South Korea and Vietnam were negligible, closing those two country inquiries with no measures imposed. Definitive anti-dumping duties of 47.9% and the CNY 0.44/kg countervailing duty on China now apply going forward, administered by CBSA.

Downstream implications

• Single-producer complaint (JEM Strapping Systems) succeeded in securing a

near-uniform ~48% duty wall against its two largest import sources by volume, illustrating how a small domestic producer can reshape a niche product's import mix via SIMA.

• South Korea and Vietnam exporters retain unrestricted access, creating a

likely trade-diversion channel for steel strapping sourcing away from China/Türkiye.

• Narrow product scope (a single fastening/packaging good) limits

macro-relevance but is a clean, fully quantified trade-remedy case for the register's magnitude backfill.

Open questions

• Whether Chinese or Turkish exporters seek judicial review of the CITT

finding or CBSA's margin calculations.

• Whether South Korean/Vietnamese steel strapping import volumes rise

materially post-finding, evidencing circumvention risk.