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This is a rare anti-circumvention (chống lẩn tránh) measure — a distinct trade-remedy instrument from standard AD/CVD/safeguard actions, and one the register has been thin on. TRAV's underlying definitive anti-dumping duty on HRC (Decision 1959/QĐ-BCT, 4 July 2025, case AD20) covers widths up to 1,880mm. TRAV's investigation (case AC03.AD20, initiated 27 October 2025 via Decision 3176/QĐ-BCT) found that Chinese exporters responded by shipping HRC coils widened just past that 1,880mm ceiling — a minor product modification with no meaningful technical or commercial rationale beyond escaping the duty. Decision 612/QĐ-BCT closes that loophole by provisionally extending the same 27.83% duty rate to coils in the 1,880-2,300mm range, carrying over the existing AD20 rate rather than calculating a new one.
Severity is set at 2 (moderate) — the duty extends an existing measure to a product-specification gap rather than opening a new trade-remedy front, and the affected width range is a narrower slice of the HRC market.
trade-remedy regime via product-specification loopholes, not just filing new AD/CVD cases — a compliance-enforcement signal for exporters structuring around existing Vietnamese duties.
Asian steel trade-remedy wave (Indonesia KADI, Malaysia MITI, Japan METI, India DGTR) that is closing off alternative China-steel absorption markets in Southeast/South Asia.
anti-circumvention case, which would typically follow within several months of the provisional measure.
workarounds (e.g., thickness or carbon-content adjustments) given the exemptions carved out above.