Pursuant to section 13B(4)(b) of the Trade (Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties) Act 1988 (“Act”), I hereby give notice that I have changed the period of suspension of the imposition of anti-dumping duty, as notified in the Notice of Determinations in Step 2 Dumping Investigation into Aluminium-Zinc Coated Steel from Korea dated 28 March 2022 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 1 April 2022, Notice No. 2022-ln1228.

The change in the period of suspension of the imposition of the anti-dumping duty is to extend the suspension until 31 December 2022. I consider that users of the subject goods which are described in Schedule 1, and which are subject to an anti-dumping duty at the rates set out in Schedule 2, continue to be significantly impacted by an emergency, namely the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Schedule 1

Goods Subject to Investigation

Country of Origin

Republic of Korea

Description of Goods

The subject goods that this notice applies to are described as:

Flat rolled iron and steel products (whether or not containing alloys), plated or coated with principally aluminium-zinc alloys (but the plating or coating may contain other alloys), not painted, and whether or not including resin coating or other surface treatment.

The subject goods exclude:

• Painted goods.
• Goods for which there is no aluminium in the coating.
• Goods for which there is no zinc in the coating (e.g. aluminised steel).
• Goods with coatings where zinc is the predominant or only element, whether or not aluminium is included, and whether electrolytically coated or hot dipped.
• Goods with coatings which include magnesium alloyed with aluminium and zinc.
• Goods for which there is no coating at all.
• Goods of a thickness of 2mm or more.

Notes

The goods are currently classified under tariff headings 7210.61, which covers flat-rolled products of non-alloy steel plated or coated with aluminium-zinc alloys, of width of 600mm or more; 7212.50 which covers flat-rolled products of non-alloy steel, otherwise plated or coated, not exceeding 600mm in width; and 7225.99 and 7226.99 which cover flat-rolled products of other alloy steel, and potentially of coatings of aluminium-zinc alloys. These classifications are provided for convenience and Customs purposes only, the written description being dispositive.

Schedule 2

Rate of Anti-dumping Duty

The rates of anti-dumping duty imposed on the subject goods imported or intended to be imported into New Zealand from the Republic of Korea shall be the rates listed below, calculated as a percentage of the declared New Zealand Customs value for duty of the subject goods.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of September 2022.

Hon Dr DAVID CLARK, Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.