According to a warning released by Ministry of Commerce, after a half year investigation towards the imports of steel grating plate from China, the CBSA has decided to levy an ceiling antidumping and countervailing duty of 85% and 13.064 thousand yuan per metric t on the imports from China. Besides last year the US government had also imposed a ceiling antidumping and countervailing duty of 200% on China's steel grating plates. Therefore obviously China's steel grating plate exports to north America have encountered formidable difficulties. And some experts have advocated China should take proactive measures to explore the new market.
In addition the steel grating plates are mainly applied in the manufacturing and engineering sector. It is reported that after US imposing duties on the imports, the value for China's grating plate exports to US have decreased from $90.70 million to $78.10 million. Thus some insiders have proposed that China should take the preemptive measures to avert the trade friction and pay more attention to the emerging market such as India where lots of infrastructures have being launched.