The National Tariff Commission (NTC) has extended its existing anti-dumping duty of 40.47 percent to imports of Galvalume steel coils and sheets from China, according to an official notification. An anti-dumping duty is an extra charge on certain imports, used to shield domestic producers from goods that harm them. The NTC anti-dumping duty now applies to this aluminium-zinc coated product, placing it under the same protection that already covers Chinese galvanized steel.
What the investigation found
The decision follows an anti-circumvention investigation, which is a probe into whether exporters are getting around an existing duty by changing a product slightly. The NTC concluded that Chinese exporters had modified galvanized steel just enough to shift their exports into Galvalume, weakening the earlier duties. The probe began after International Steels Limited and Aisha Steel Mills Limited, Karachi, both domestic makers of galvanized coils and sheets, applied in June 2024. The Commission started the investigation on August 24, 2024, and issued its final determination on June 27, 2025.
The Commission sent questionnaires to Chinese exporters and producers, but none of them cooperated or provided the required information. It also sought views from Pakistani importers and user industries, including makers of pre-engineered steel buildings, and used import statistics from Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited and the Pakistan Single Window database. The Commission found that the two products had the same essential characteristics and were used as substitutes in several applications.
Galvanized coils and sheets from China have been subject to definitive anti-dumping duties ranging from 6.09 percent to 40.47 percent since February 8, 2017. Those duties were extended for another five years from February 8, 2022, after a sunset review, which is a periodic check on whether a duty should continue. Under the original determination, Angang Steel Company Limited faced 40.47 percent, while Bengang Steel Plates Company Limited faced 9.13 percent, Hebei Iron & Steel Company Limited 13.31 percent and Maanshan Iron & Steel Company Limited 6.09 percent. All other Chinese producers and exporters faced 40.47 percent.
Scope and exemptions
Galvalume, also called Alu-zinc or Zinc-Aluminium steel, is a flat-rolled product coated by hot-dip galvanisation using mainly aluminium and zinc. The product examined in the investigation contained about 43.5 percent zinc, 55 percent aluminium and 1.5 percent silicon, along with other metals in small amounts. The duty covers goods under Pakistan Customs Tariff (PCT) headings 7210.6110, 7210.6190, 7210.6910 and 7210.6990, which are the codes used to classify goods at the border. It will remain in force for the same period as the galvanized steel duty.
The duty is charged in addition to other taxes and duties leviable under any other law, and it is collected in the same manner as customs duty under the Customs Act, 1969. It does not apply to Galvalume imports from sources other than China. It also does not apply to imports used as inputs in products destined solely for export or for foreign grant-in-aid projects, where those imports fall under schemes exempting customs duties.
Why the Commission acted
The Commission said the measure is meant to stop Chinese exporters from bypassing trade protection through product modification. It also aims to restore the effectiveness of anti-dumping measures that protect domestic steel manufacturers against injurious imports. The NTC anti-dumping duty, in the Commission's view, was necessary because the change in trade between China and Pakistan had insufficient economic justification other than the existing duties. The Commission also found that the circumvention had undermined the effect of those duties on prices and quantities of the domestic product.
Aasan alfaaz mein
NTC ne China se aane wale Galvalume steel coils aur sheets par 40.47 percent anti-dumping duty laga di hai. Yeh faisla isliye hua kyunki investigation mein paya gaya ke exporters galvanized steel par duty se bachne ke liye product mein thori tabdeeli kar rahe thay. Jo log imported steel kharidte hain, unke liye is cheez ki qeemat barh sakti hai. Local galvanized steel banane walon ko is faisle se tahaffuz mila hai.
