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MINISTRY OF
INDUSTRY AND TRADE
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
OF VIETNAM
Independence – Freedom – Happiness
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No.: 862/QD-BCT
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Hanoi, March 07,
2016
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DECISION
ON
APPLICATION OF TEMPORARY SAFEGUARD MEASURES
MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE
Pursuant to the Ordinance No.
42/2002/PL-UBTVQH10 dated May 25, 2002 of the Standing Committee of the
National Assembly on safeguards in the import of foreign goods into Vietnam;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 150/2003/ND-CP
dated December 08, 2003 detailing the implementation of the Ordinance on
safeguards in the import of foreign goods into Vietnam;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No.
95/2012/ND-CP dated November 12, 2012 defining functions, tasks, powers and organizational
structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade;
Pursuant to the Decision No. 848/QD-BCT dated
February 05, 2013 of the Minister of Industry and Trade defining functions,
tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Vietnam Competition Authority
(VCA);
At the request of the Director General of the
Vietnam Competition Authority,
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Article 1. Temporary
safeguard measures shall apply to the import of steel blanks and long steels
from different countries/territories into Vietnam with contents detailed in the
Notice enclosed to this Decision.
Article 2. Procedures for
applying temporary safeguard measures shall comply with the law on safeguards
in the import of foreign goods into Vietnam.
Article 3. This decision
shall take effect after 15 days as of the signing date.
Article 4. The General
Director of Vietnam Competition Authority and Heads of relevant units/parties
are responsible for executing this Decision.
PP. MINISTER
DEPUTY MINISTER
Tran Quoc Khanh
NOTICE
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Pursuant to the Ordinance No. 42/2002/PL-UBTVQH10
dated May 25, 2002 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on
safeguards in the import of foreign goods into Vietnam and the Government’s
Decree No. 150/2003/ND-CP dated December 08, 2003 detailing the implementation
of the Ordinance on safeguards in the import of foreign goods into Vietnam, the
Ministry of Industry and Trade does announce detailed contents of applying
temporary safeguard measures against the import of steel blanks and long steels
with HS codes: 7207.11.00; 7207.19.00; 7207.20.29; 7207.20.99; 7224.90.00;
7213.10.00; 7213.91.20; 7214.20.31; 7214.20.41; 7227.90.00; 7228.30.10;
9811.00.00 into Vietnam. To be specific:
1. Basic
information
On December 25, 2015, the Ministry of Industry and
Trade has promulgated the Decision No. 14296/QD-BCT on investigation into the
safeguard measures against the import of steel blanks and long steels from
different countries/territories into Vietnam.
2. Imported products against
which temporary safeguard measures are applied
Imported products against which temporary safeguard
measures are applied include alloy and non-alloy steel blanks, and alloy and
non-alloy long steel products, including coils and bars of steel that are made
of steel blanks, imported into Vietnam with the following HS codes: 7207.11.00;
7207.19.00; 7207.20.29; 7207.20.99; 7224.90.00; 7213.10.00; 7213.91.20;
7214.20.31; 7214.20.41; 7227.90.00; 7228.30.10; 9811.00.00.
Steel blanks and long steel products that have the
following specifications shall not apply temporary safeguard measures:
(1) Alloy steel blanks, which are not stainless steel,
do not have rectangular (and square) cross-section, have a width exceeding
twice of the thickness and average dimensions of width and thickness not
exceeding 100mm or exceeding 180mm;
(2) Alloy steel blanks, which are not stainless
steel containing one of the following elements in the specified proportions (%)
as follows: C > 0.37%; Si > 0.60%; Cr > 0.60%; Ni > 0.60%; Cu >
0.60%;
(3) Plain round bars of steel whose nominal
diameter exceeds 14 mm;
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For being exempted from temporary safeguard
measures, importers of steel blanks and long steel products must provide
documents proving that their imported products have satisfied specifications
for being exempted from temporary safeguard measures as stated above to the
customs authorities.
3. Temporary
safeguard tax rates
The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall impose
temporary safeguard measures under form of import surcharges on imports into
Vietnam, against which temporary safeguard measures are applied with specific
tax rates as follows:
3.1. Temporary safeguard tax rate applicable
to steel blanks
The temporary safeguard tax rate imposed on steel
blanks shall be 23.3% and apply under form of import surcharges to
products imported to Vietnam with specific HS codes as follows:
No.
HS code
Description
7207
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1
7207.11.00
- - Of rectangular
(including square) cross-section, the width measuring less than twice the
thickness
2
7207.19.00
- - Other
7207.20
- Containing by weight 0.25%
or more of carbon
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- - - - Other
4
7207.20.99
- - - - Other
7224
Other alloy steel in ingots or other primary
forms; semi-finished products of other alloy steel.
5
7224.90.00
- Other
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The temporary safeguard tax rate applicable to long
steel products shall be 14.2% and apply under form of import surcharge
to products imported to Vietnam with specific HS codes as follows:
No.
HS code
Description
7213
Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound
coils, of iron or non-alloy steel.
1
7213.10.00
- Containing indentations,
ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process
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7213.91.20
- - - Of a kind used
for concrete reinforcement (rebars)
7214
Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel,
not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but
including those twisted after rolling.
7214.20
- Containing indentations,
ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or
twisted after rolling:
- - Containing by weight
less than 0.6% of carbon:
- - - Of circular cross-section:
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- - - - Of a kind used for concrete reinforcement
(rebars)
4
7214.20.41
- - - - Of a kind used for concrete reinforcement
(rebars)
7227
Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound
coils, of other alloy steel.
5
7227.90.00
- Other
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Other and rods of other alloy steel; angles, shapes
and sections, of other alloy steel; hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or
non-alloy steel
7228.30
- Other bars and rods, not
further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded:
6
7228.30.10
- - Of circular
cross-section
9811
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Alloy steel containing Boron and/or Chromium,
other than categories of flat-rolled steel products that are hot-rolled.
4. Countries/territories that
are exempted from temporary safeguard measures
Pursuant to Article 13 of the Government’s Decree
No. 150/2003/ND-CP dated December 08, 2003 detailing the implementation of the
Ordinance on safeguards in the import of foreign goods into Vietnam, temporary
safeguard measures shall be imposed on products imported from all
countries/territories to Vietnam, except for developing countries and
less-developed countries whose quantity of products exported to Vietnam does
not exceed 3% of total quantity of products imported to Vietnam from all
countries/territories. List of countries/territories that are exempted from
temporary safeguard measures is stated in the Annex 1 of this Notice.
For being exempted from temporary safeguard
measures as stated above, importers of steel blanks and long steel products
must provide the documents proving origin of their imported products to the
customs authorities, including:
- Certificate of Origin, in
which imported products are specified to have origin from countries/territories
stated in the Annex 1 of this Notice;
- Mill-test certificate issued
by the manufacturer whose production activities occur in countries/territories
stated in the Annex 1 of this Notice.
5. Effective
date of temporary safeguard measures
Temporary safeguard measures shall begin to take
effect after 15 days from the date on which the Ministry of Industry and Trade
made the decision on application of temporary safeguard measures; in other
words, from March 22, 2016.
6. Duration of temporary
safeguard measures
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In case the final decision granted by the Minister
of Industry and Trade defines that the application of temporary safeguard
measures is unnecessary or the last safeguard tax rate is lower than the
applied safeguard tax rate, the different amount of such tax shall be returned
to the taxpayers as regulated by laws.
7. Grounds
for applying temporary safeguard measures
Based on the information provided by relevant
parties and the aforesaid analysis on this matter, the investigation authority gives
assessments as follows:
- Domestic production sector
that is composed of domestic manufacturers of steel blanks and long steel
products holds more than 50% of total output of the whole sector.
- Domestically produced goods
are like imported products.
- Quantity of steel blanks and
long steel products imported to Vietnam manifests the increase in both absolute
and relative terms during the investigation.
- Domestic production sector
has incurred serious damage such as reduction of market share, capacity,
revenue, profit and workforce and increase of inventories in the period 2012 -
2015, especially in 2015.
- The increase of import
volume of goods causes serious damage to the domestic production sector.
- The China’s economic crisis
during the past period and the excess of production capacity and real output
associated with the large amount of Chinese steel inventories; and the event
that some countries apply safeguard measures against imported steel blanks and
long steel products are considered as “unforeseen developments" and causes
of sudden increase of the import volume into Vietnam.
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8. Subsequent
procedures
For the purpose of bringing this matter into a
conclusion, the investigation authority shall continue to work with relevant
parties to collect more evidence and documents for carrying out a general
assessment on this matter. The investigation authority shall conduct a public
hearing with parties related to this matter before the investigation comes into
an end. Time of the public hearing shall be informed to concerned parties by 30
days before such public hearing takes place. Concerned parties must send
letters of registration for participating in the public hearing to the
investigation authority within 10 days before the conducting date of such
public hearing, in which questionable matters and written arguments thereof
must be specified.
Concerned parties may be absent from the public
hearing. If either party is absent from the public hearing, such party’s
benefits that accrue from safeguard measures are still ensured.
9. Contact
information
The information about the decision on application
of temporary safeguard measures against the import of steel blanks and long
steel products is available at the website of the Ministry of Industry and
Trade (http://www.moit.gov.vn) and the website of the Vietnam Competition Authority
(http://www.vca.gov.vn or http://www.qlct.gov.vn).
Concerned information and comments should be sent
to:
The Trade Remedies Investigation Division - the
Vietnam Competition Authority - the Ministry of Industry and Trade
Address: 25 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District,
Hanoi City, Vietnam
Tel.: (+84 4) 222.05002 (Ext. 1035) (Ms. Phan Mai
Quynh)
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ANNEX 1
(Enclosed to the
Notice of the enforcement of temporary safeguard measures
Enclosed to the
Decision No. 862/QD-BCT dated March 07, 2016 of the Minister of Industry and
Trade)
1. Sub-Saharan Africa
Angola
Madagascar
Nigeria
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Malawi
Rwanda
Botswana
Mali
Sao Tome and
Principe
Burkina Faso
Mauritania
Senegal
Burundi
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Sierra Leone
Cabo Verde
Mozambique
Somalia
Cameroon
Namibia
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Chad
Gabon
Sudan
Comoros
Gambia, The
Swaziland
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Ghana
Tanzania
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Togo
Cote d'Ivoire
Guinea-Bissau
Uganda
Eritrea
Kenya
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Zimbabwe
Liberia
2. Asia Pacific
American Samoa
Myanmar
Cambodia
Palau
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Papua New Guinea
Indonesia
Philippines
Kiribati
Samoa
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Solomon Islands
Lao PDR
Thailand
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Timor-Leste
Marshall Islands
Tonga
Micronesia, Fed.
Sts.
Tuvalu
Mongolia
Vanuatu
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Moldova
Azerbaijan
Montenegro
Belarus
Romania
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Serbia
Bulgaria
Tajikistan
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Turkey
Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Kosovo
Ukraine
Kyrgyz Republic
Uzbekistan
4. Latin America and
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Belize
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Bolivia
Haiti
Brazil
Honduras
Colombia
Jamaica
Costa Rica
Mexico
Cuba
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Dominica
Panama
Dominican Republic
Paraguay
Ecuador
Peru
El Salvador
St. Lucia
Grenada
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Guatemala
Suriname
5. Middle East and North
Africa
Algeria
Libya
Djibouti
Morocco
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Syrian Arab
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Tunisia
Iraq
West Bank and Gaza
Jordan
Yemen, Rep.
Lebanon
6. South Asia
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Bangladesh
Nepal
Bhutan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
ANNEX 2
(Enclosed to the
Notice of the enforcement of temporary safeguard measures
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PRELIMINARY
REPORT
(Public summary)
1. Overview
On December 15, 2015, the Vietnam Competition
Authority (referred to as the investigation authority) – the Ministry of
Industry and Trade has received the applications for imposition of safeguard
measures on the import of steel blanks and long steel products into Vietnam
(referred to as the application) with the following HS codes: 7207.11.00;
7207.19.00; 7207.20.29; 7207.20.99; 7224.90.00; 7213.10.00; 7213.91.20;
7214.20.31; 7214.20.41; 7227.90.00; 7228.30.10; 9811.00.00 (referred to as products
under investigation), submitted by 4 domestic steel manufacturers, including
Hoa Phat Steel Joint Stock Company, Southern Steel Company (SSC), Thai Nguyen
Iron and Steel Joint Stock Corporation (TISCO) and Vietnam Italy Steel Joint
Stock Company.
On December 18, 2015, the investigation
authority has promulgated the Official Dispatch No. 1120/QLCT-P2 to confirm
that the application is sufficient and valid.
On December 25, 2015, the Minister of
Industry and Trade has signed the Decision No. 14296/QD-BCT to carry out the
investigation into safeguard measures against products under investigation.
On December 30, 2015, the investigation authority
has sent questionnaires to concerned parties. Time-limit for answering the
questionnaire is 30 days as of the sending date of questionnaires; in other
words, by 17:00 o'clock on January 29, 2016. Moreover, based on suggestions of
certain concerned enterprises, the investigation authority has given extension
for answering questionnaire to each specific enterprise.
The investigation authority has conducted the
on-spot investigation into domestic producers of like and directly competing
products from January 29, 2016 to February 23, 2016 on the grounds of
consideration and study on information included in questionnaires provided by
concerned parties.
Enterprises that have received questionnaires but
failed to answer or partially answered the questionnaire are considered as
uncooperative as regulated. The investigation authority did not consider
information provided by concerned parties who fail in cooperation or give
partial cooperation.
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For the purpose of carrying out the analysis on effects
on price of imported products, the investigation authority has calculated and
compared the selling price of imported products on the Vietnam’s market with
that of domestically produced goods (ex-factory price) on the grounds of
figures provided by the General Department of Vietnam Customs and questionnaire
responses of importers and domestic producers.
The selling price of imported products shall be
calculated by adding the average import price (including import tax) and import
expenses provided by importers. The investigation authority has considered
figures of volume and value of imported goods (including import tax amount)
provided by the General Department of Vietnam Customs to work out the average
import price of products under investigation. The investigation has carried out
the analysis on effects on price of steel blanks and long steel products on the
grounds of the aforesaid methods of calculation. To be specific:
2.1. Steel blanks
In terms of price squeeze, the selling price
of domestic goods trended to decline at gradual rate in 3 years from 2012 to
2014. In 2014, the selling price of domestic goods trended to keep stable price
and slightly declined while the selling price of imported products trended to
decline rapidly. Therefore, the selling price of imported products in 2014
started to be lower than that of domestic goods although the selling price of
imported products was still higher than that of domestic goods in 2012 and in
2013.
However, the selling price of imported products in
2015 suddenly and rapidly declined by almost 30% (the fastest rate of decline
in the period 2012 – 2015) and resulted in causing high pressure on the selling
price of domestic goods. Though the domestic selling price in 2015 has
significantly declined under the pressure of imported products, it was still
higher than the selling price of imported products. Such facts demonstrated
that imported products put a squeeze on the selling price of domestic goods.
In terms of price manipulation, the domestic
selling price has changed according to the general trend in which production
costs trended to decline at a more rapid rate compared to that of the domestic
selling price in 3 years from 2012 to 2014. However, this trend has suddenly
changed in 2015. Though domestic production costs only declined in a slight
rate compared to that in 2014, the domestic selling price deeply nosedived.
Such rate of decline showed that there was a very little difference between the
domestic selling price and production costs in 2015, and domestic producers
almost earned no profit. Such facts caused the influence on business results of
domestic production sector in 2015. Based on the aforesaid analysis, the
investigation authority uncovered the manipulation of the price of domestic
goods.
2.2. Long steel products
Until 2015, the selling price of imported products
suddenly dropped down by more than 20% and this was the fastest rate of decline
in the period 2012 – 2015. Under the high pressure of imported products in
2015, the domestic selling price also declined significantly to compete with
imported products. However, the selling price of domestic goods was still
higher than that of imported products. Such facts demonstrated that imported
products put a squeeze on the selling price of domestic goods.
In terms of price manipulation, the domestic
selling price has changed according to the general trend in which production
costs trended to decline at a more rapid rate compared to that of the domestic
selling price in 3 years from 2012 to 2014. Contrary to this trend, domestic
production costs in 2015 only declined in a slight rate compared to that in
2014 and the domestic selling price deeply nosedived by nearly 25%. The fact
that the rate of decline of the selling price was more rapid than that of
production costs showed that the domestic production sector was facing
difficulties and pressure on competition with imported products.
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In terms of absolute increase, based on import
figures provided by the General Department of Vietnam Customs, the volume of
imported steel blanks into Vietnam continuously increased from 348,872 metric
tons in 2013 to 592,033 metric tons in 2014 (increased by 69.70%) and reached
1,885,981 metric tons in 2015 (increased by 218% compared to that in 2014 and
by 440% compared to that in 2013). The volume of imported long steel products
into Vietnam also continuously increased from 387,448 metric tons in 2012 to
665,679 metric tons in 2013, and reached 872,119 metric tons in 2014 and
1,282,090 metric tons in 2015 (increased by 231% compared to that in 2012).
In terms of relative increase, the rate of increase
of the volume of imported steel blanks was always higher than that of domestic
producers’ sales in the domestic market in the period 2013 – 2015. Especially
in 2015, the volume of steel blanks imported from countries/territories
increased by 218% while domestic producers’ total sales in the local market
only increased by [5-10] % compared to that of the previous year, leading to
the relative increase of imported products by more than 200% compared to that
of domestic producers' sales in the domestic market.
The rate of increase of the volume of imported long
steel products was always higher than that of domestic producers’ sales in the
domestic market in the period 2013 – 2015. The highest rate of increase of
domestic producers’ sales in the domestic market reached [15-25] % in 2015
compared to that of 2014 while total volume of imported long steel products in
2015 increased by 47.01% compared to that of 2014, leading to the relative
increase of imported products by more than 20% compared to that of domestic
producers' sales in the domestic market.
4. Preliminary conclusion
on damage of domestic production sector
The investigation authority has carried out
assessment on all factors, including market share, changes of sales,
production, capacity, capacity utilization, profit, loss and employment while
the investigation authority carried out the assessment on serious damage or
threats causing serious damage to domestic production as regulated in Article
4.2 of the Agreement on safeguard measures. After considering and analyzing the
aforesaid factors, the investigation authority came to the preliminary
conclusion as follows:
- The price of imported
products caused the squeeze and curb on the price of domestic like products;
- The production output of
steel blanks increased slightly in 2015 but the growth rate thereof declined
considerably compared to that of previous years.
- Steel blank production
increased in the period 2012 – 2014 but significantly declined in 2015;
- Sales of steel blanks
increased in 2015 but this rate of increase was still lower than the growth
rate of total domestic demand.
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- Buildup of unsold steel
blanks and long steel products in 2015 is very serious. Buildup of unsold steel
blanks in 2015 increased by 37% compared to that of 2014 while buildup of
unsold long steel products increased by 39% compared to that of 2014,
accounting for nearly 10% of total production output of the whole sector in
2015.
- The market share of steel
blanks and long steel products continuously declined in the period 2013-2015
and fell to the bottom in 2015. But the market share of imported products
continuously increased in the period 2012-2015.
- Although domestic producers’
sales of steel blanks and long steel products increased in 2015, sales in 2015
declined in comparison with that in 2014.
- In terms of profits,
producers of steel blanks sustained heavy loss in 2015 although they still
earned profits in 2014. Profits on long steel products in 2015 significantly
declined in comparison with that in 2014 as well as that in the period 2012 –
2014.
- The number of workers
increased from 2012 to 2014 but it started to decline slightly in 2015 in the
whole sector of steel blanks and long steel products.
- Additionally, certain
indexes did not show heavy damage or threads causing serious damage to domestic
production sector, including: production output of long steel products, long
steels production and wage index.
Thus, in general, business activities of domestic
production sector underwent insignificant progress and were relatively stable
in the period 2011 - 2014. However, the analysis on indexes for assessing
damage demonstrated that all business activities of domestic production sector
in 2015 started to decline considerably. This fact showed that the domestic
production was facing serious damage.
5. Preliminary conclusion
on relationship between cause and effect
The information and evidence collected by the
investigation authority and aforesaid analysis and assessment demonstrated the clear
relationship between the sudden increase of the volume of imported products and
serious damage to the domestic production. To be specific:
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- The quantity demanded of the
whole market increased in the period 2012-2014 and significantly increased in
2015. However, the domestic production output of long steel products only
increased in proportion to an increase in quantity demanded though the
increased of the domestic production output of steel blanks was even lower than
that of total demand, proving that the quantity demanded in the market did not
cause damage to the domestic production;
- In the period 2012 – 2015,
the labour productivity in the production of both steel blanks and long steel
products considerably increased, proving that damage to the domestic production
were not caused by the poor labour productivity;
- Domestic steel producers’
export volume was relatively stable in the period 2012-2015 and only held about
[3-6] % of revenue of all domestic producers. Thus, the export did not cause
damage to domestic production;
- Other factors such as
science, technology and product quality, etc. of domestic producers were stable
during the past period and caused no damage to the domestic production.
As a result, sudden and rapid increase of imported
products was the main cause of serious damage to the domestic producers of both
steel blanks and long steel products.
6. Preliminary conclusion
on unforeseen developments
The China’s economic crisis during the past period
and the excess of production capacity and real output associated with the large
amount of Chinese steel inventories;
In 2015, the Central Bank of China has continuously
devalued the renminbi to enhance the export of China. The price of exported
products of China was also relatively cheaper than that of other countries,
leading to difficulties of our production industry in general and the steel
industry in particular in competition with exported steel products of China.
Additionally, the event that some countries applied
safeguard measures against imported steel blanks and long steel products was
also considered as “unforeseen developments" and causes of sudden increase
of the volume of imported products into Vietnam.
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According to the information stated in the above
parts, the increase of imported products has caused serious damage to domestic
producers. This was proved by the decline of the market share, profit,
capacity, workforce and the increase of steel inventories. Especially, this
decline was significant in 2015 and trended to be more considerable in the next
period. If this situation continues, the market share held by domestic
producers of steel blanks and long steel products shall continuously fall down,
leading decline of revenue and profits and bring production to a standstill.