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New Zealand steel fabricator Integrator Maintenance Group has cut jobs, with dumped Chinese steel being blamed.

The United States’ commerce department found that Chinese companies had sold surplus steel below cost in the US, ordering import duty increases of 522 per cent for cold-rolled steel. Sky News reports that US steel industry representatives claim the market has been distorted by dumped products, and it has had to make 12,000 jobs redundant … Continue reading US applies 522 per cent duty on China steel after dumping ruling →

The Productivity Commission has released a report today arguing that anti-dumping measures consider only a narrow set of industries, discourages innovation, and don’t consider the overall cost to the economy.

Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten has urged the government to use local steel in public projects to assist in the survival of Arrium’s Whyalla steelworks.

An investigation by the Anti-Dumping Commission into imported Chinese solar photovoltaic modules has been reopened.

John Brumby has been appointed to investigate the feasibility of setting-up a Commonwealth agency to tackle anti-dumping.

The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) has developed an advisory service designed to help SME manufacturers who are suffering at the hands of ‘dumping’.