U.S. levy anti-dumping taxes on China Refractories

U.S. Department of Commerce preliminary ruling made ​​by the first half of last year, China's exports to the U.S. decision to impose refractories ~ 91.16% 84.89% anti-dumping duty. The U.S. Commerce Department's announcement that day showed specific products being taxed at least 90% of silica containing silica brick.

This acid refractory is mainly used for masonry coke ovens, blast furnaces, glass kilns and other high-temperature furnaces.

Chinese exports to the U.S. silica brick case began in November 2012. Utah, a refractory company complaint, claiming that Chinese companies of dumping in the United States, asked the U.S. Department of Commerce initiated anti-dumping investigation, the dumping margin was made ​​up 118.47% ~ 290.12%.

U.S. Department of Commerce statistics show that in 2011 Chinese exports to the U.S. totaled about $43,240,000 silica brick, but in 2012 the total value of exports to the U.S. fell to $25.7 million sharply, a decline of nearly 40%.

For the United States frequently waving "trade stick", Chinese Ministry of Commerce has repeatedly stressed that trade protectionism is not only unfair to him, the country, there is no advantage to domestic companies, do not want the United States to measure high-sounding but actually with a strong political background to implementation of trade protectionism, but should abide by its commitment to oppose trade protectionism, with a more rational approach to properly handle trade frictions