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Case 677 is a combined dumping-and-subsidy investigation opened by the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission on 30 May 2025, triggered by an application from Rondo Building Services Pty Ltd, a domestic steel-framing manufacturer. Following a preliminary affirmative determination (14 October 2025) and a Statement of Essential Facts (23 February 2026), the Commissioner found sufficient grounds for both a dumping duty notice and a countervailing duty notice. The final determination, published 8 May 2026, set a definitive 4.5% countervailing duty and a definitive 27.8% ad valorem dumping duty (non-cooperative exporters and all other Chinese suppliers) on steel corner/finishing beading and angles — metallic-coated, all angle types, base metal thickness up to 0.49mm — under HS codes 7216.61.00, 7216.69.00, 7216.91.00, 7216.99.00 and 7308.90.00. Plastic and stainless-steel corner beading, and external render/texture beading, are excluded.
This is the fourth ADC steel-building-products trade remedy against China logged in the register — following the strata steel bolts, flat-rolled steel, and light gauge steel stud/track (Case 679, also a Rondo application) countervailing/anti-dumping actions — continuing a pattern of Rondo-driven trade-remedy activity against Chinese steel-framing inputs.
countervailing + 27.8% dumping) on Chinese corner-bead/angle imports into the Australian construction supply chain, likely accelerating substitution toward domestic (Rondo) or non-Chinese sourcing.
China — see western-industrial-policy-stack theme for related actions (strata bolts, flat-rolled steel, LGST).
received individual (lower) dumping margins distinct from the 27.8% non-cooperative/residual rate.
has occurred with some prior Australian steel trade-remedy actions.