Gerdau Corsa, the Mexican unit of the Brazilian steel company Gerdau, is preparing an antidumping case before the Ministry of Economy against imports of steel beams to Mexico manufactured in Vietnam, said a company executive at a meeting of steelmakers.
“We are starting to make an antidumping case against Vietnam specifically for steel beams,” said the executive to the director of Canacero, Salvador Quesada, in a private meeting with members of the National Confederation of Steel Distributors (Conadiac) in November.
Quesada responded that Canacero has detected increases of 3,000 percent in imports from Malaysia and increases of 4,000 percent from Vietnam to Mexico. In some cases of long products, upon arrival in Mexico they show the name of the mills that manufactured them and which do not exist in those countries. The reason is that the product is manufactured in China, however some countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam operate as allies of China and take advantage of the tariff advantages they have with Mexico for being part of the free trade agreement: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).
Data from the Mexican government shows that there are antidumping duties on Vietnam on imports of coated flat steel, microwire for welding and cold rolled sheets.
In steel beams (I and H: 7216.32.01 and 7216.33.01) there are antidumping duties on imports from Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.