Aluminium sector frustrated by lack of protection as cheap Chinese imports flood market
Cheap Chinese imports are continuing to cause problems for our aluminium industry.
Hollow extrusion imports are now up 192%, while reported values are down 31%.
Commerce Minister Cameron Bewer has declined to introduce safeguards for the industry, instead telling it to file a new application and go down the anti-dumping route.
McKechnie Aluminium Solutions Ltd's Dave Slomp told Mike Hosking the reason they were advised not to go down that route in the first place is because it can be quite hard to prove.
New construction has fallen around 70% in China since 2021, and they'd have to prove it's being sold in New Zealand for a lower price than in China.
He says proving it to be dumping might be extraordinarily difficult, and they'd also have to get the details on what it's being sold for from Chinese manufacturers.
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