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ITAC opened the anti-dumping investigation into large-diameter (external diameter exceeding 406.4mm) welded steel tubes and pipes (HS 7305.19, excluding longitudinally submerged arc-welded and longitudinally welded pipes) from Mozambique in October 2025, following an application from Hall Longmore, identified by the Commission as the majority SACU-region producer of the product. The Commission found that Mozambican import volumes into the SACU market had surged from 1.48 million kg (2023) to 3.35 million kg (2024) to more than 12.2 million kg (2025) — with Mozambican-origin product accounting for 98% of all imports of the covered goods into SACU by 2025 — and made a preliminary finding of dumping and threat of material injury to the SACU industry.
ITAC calculated a dumping margin of 28.86% for the named Mozambican exporter, ETG Steel Solutions Limitada, and applied the same residual rate to all other Mozambican producers/exporters. SARS gave legal effect to the Commission's recommendation via Government Gazette 54854, Notice R.7606 (19 June 2026), amending Part 1 of Schedule No. 2 to the Customs and Excise Act, 1964. The provisional duty runs for six months, up to and including 18 December 2026, while ITAC completes its investigation toward a final/definitive determination.
The duty is implemented across the full SACU customs union (South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia), consistent with the common external tariff — GTA logs Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho as separate implementing jurisdictions alongside South Africa, but the legal instrument and enforcing authority are South African (ITAC/SARS).
This is the third ITAC steel trade-remedy action filed to the register in 2026 (following Report 767 flat-rolled steel and Report 759 structural steel, both against China/Japan/Taiwan/Thailand in March 2026), but the first targeting an African/regional exporter (Mozambique) rather than an Asian overcapacity origin — reflecting SACU industry sensitivity to nearby low-cost regional supply as well as China-routed trans-shipment risk.
feed water infrastructure, pipelines and heavy construction — a 28.86% provisional duty on a supplier that had captured 98% of SACU import volume will materially reprice or disrupt near-term supply for SACU fabricators and infrastructure projects reliant on Mozambican tube/pipe imports.
concentration of the trade flow (98% of imports from one origin) and Mozambique's proximity to South African and Chinese-linked steel capacity, watch for circumvention via product reclassification or trans-shipment through third countries once the duty beds in.
willing to apply the same AD toolkit used against Chinese/Asian overcapacity to a neighbouring SACU-adjacent trading partner, which may affect broader Southern African regional trade relations (Mozambique is a SADC member alongside SACU states).
the preliminary determination, given Mozambique's regional trade relationship with SACU under SADC.
provisional-duty expiry) confirms, raises, or narrows the 28.86% rate.
output or trans-shipped/finished-in-Mozambique material sourced from a third country (unconfirmed in current public reporting).