China's Ministry of Commerce said that it will impose provisional anti-dumping cash deposits on imported alloy-steel pipes from the European Union, Japan and the United States.
Effective from December 17, the cash deposits will range from 11.4% to 44.2% for companies from the EU, 9.2% to 39% for US companies, and 36.6% on companies from Japan.
The ministry said a seven month investigation found that producers in the EU, Japan and the US had been dumping alloy-steel pipes onto the Chinese market, which had caused "substantial damage" to Chinese industry.
In May, the ministry launched anti-dumping probes on some alloy-steel seamless pipes imported from the European Union, the United States and Japan, to examine whether and to what extent such imports have hurt Chinese businesses.