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1.Demand for Flat Products Improves in Brazil
UMETAL-CHINA, According to the Inda, the Brazilian steel distributors' association, Brazil shipped 353 thousand tonnes of flat products in Feb, down by 1% month-on-month, while daily shipment rose by 6%.
By the end of Feb, the distributors had bought 352 thousand tonnes of flat products for restocking, and their inventories remained at 1.01 million tonnes, equaling to 2.8 months' shipment and close to a 3-month high. Specifically, stockpiles for HRC, medium plate and CRC reached 464 thousand tonnes, 185 thousand tonnes and 183 thousand tonnes respectively.
The distributors' purchases and delivery are to rise by 10% in Mar, the Inda predicted.
The data above shows a demand pick-up in Brazil, but the swinging exchange rate and pressures from imported products are still noticeable.
2.Taiwan to start AD investigation in steel products from four countries
According to the announcement of Taiwan¡¯s Ministry of Finance, it decided to start the antidumping investigation in carbon steel plates imported from South Korea and India, cold rolled (CR) carbon steel products from China and South Korea and the non-oriented electrical steel from Japan, in response to the submission from China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest steelmaker in Taiwan.
The Ministry of Finance plans to launch the initial result in the end of July or the early August and it will determine whether to impose the antidumping margin on those steel products for five-year period by January, 2014. The margin rate may be at 17.12%~38.35%.
According to CSC¡¯s submission, the dumping margin rates for the carbon steel plates from India and South Korea are at 38.35% and 35.89% respectively; that for CR carbon steel products from China and South Korea is at 34.16% and 30.28% and that for non-oriented electrical steel from Japan is at 17.12%. The above products have caused huge damages to Taiwanese steel industry.