Withdrawal of request for investigating of anti-dumping on welding material products originating from China, Thailand and Malaysia

Welding material is one of the most important industrial auxiliary sector, which is indispensable to fields such as: shipbuilding, cars and motorbikes production, other electronic industries. In the first 7 months 2019, Ministry of Industry and Trade carried out examination dossiers of 3 cases, one of them is dossier requesting to investigate to apply anti-dumping measure on welding material.

On Jun 28^th, 2019, Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (Investigating Body) received the Dossier requesting for investigating to apply anti-dumping measure on welding material products originating from People’s Republic of China, Kingdom of Thailand and Malaysia. This dossier is applied by companies representing the domestic industry (Requesting Party).

Requesting Party includes 01 company: Kim Tin Group Joint Stock Company. Kim Tin Group Joint Stock Company is a large enterprise in manufacturing and trading of welding materials: welding rods, welding wire, welding flux, color metal, steel nails, ligature, machines, devices, board of MDF, mineral exploitation and logistics service in Vietnam.

On Oct 28^th, 2019, Requesting Party fully submitted additional information at request.

On Nov 07^th, 2019, Investigating Body confirmed that Dossier was complete, valid according to regulations of law on trade remedies.

On Jan 25^th, 2020, Trade Remedies Authority received official dispatch of Requesting Party on withdrawing dossier requesting for investigating to apply anti-dumping measure on welding material products.

Due to Requesting Party’ s request for withdrawing dossier, Trade Remedies Authority informed that no investigation to apply anti-dumping measure on welding material products originating from People’s Republic of China, Kingdom of Thailand and Malaysia is initiated.

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