Market reacts to Brazil’s anti-dumping duties on steel imports

Fastmarkets02-26 13:00

Key takeaways: Brazil imposed three anti-dumping measures on steel imports in 2026, primarily targeting Chinese shipments with duties ranging from $284.98 to $709.63 per tonne Market participants are...

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Even so, most agreed that alternative supply sources were available, Fastmarkets was told on Tuesday February 24.\n“Now the market will be less apprehensive, so to speak. Everyone already knows what level of dumping duty will have to be paid. And now, for sure, it will no longer be viable to import steel from China,” a trader source told Fastmarkets.\n“People used to think that Vietnam and South Korea were expensive,” the same source added. “But once you factor-in the dumping duties, Vietnam is now seen as quite competitive.”\nSo far, anti-dumping duties have been approved for pre-painted steel imported from China and India, for cold-rolled coil imported from China and for coated steel imported from China. The duties ranged at levels between $284.98 and $709.63 per tonne, which was considered very high by the market.\nFastmarkets’ steel price assessments\nFastmarkets’ assessment of the price for steel cold-rolled coil, import, cfr main ports South America, was $610-630 per tonne on February 20, narrowing upward by $20 per tonne from $590-630 per tonne a week earlier.\nThe corresponding assessment of the price for steel hot-dipped galvanized coil, import, cfr main ports South America, was $660-700 per tonne on Friday, up by $10-30 per tonne from $630-690 per tonne a week before.\nAnd the price assessment for steel coil Galvalume, import, cfr main ports South America, was $770-820 per tonne on Friday, up by $20 per tonne from $750-800 per tonne a week earlier.\nThe aggressive protective reaction of the Brazilian government initially surprised market participants, since most of them did not expect the measures to be approved – especially at such high levels – because China is Brazil’s main economic partner.\nWith the duties now in place, however, market participants believed that the separate dumping cases still under investigation were also likely to result in anti-dumping measures.\nThe remaining Brazilian dumping investigations on steel concerned:\n\nTinplate from Germany, Japan and the Netherlands\nHot-rolled flat steel from China\nSteel wire rod from China and Russia\nHot-rolled stainless flat steel from China, India and Indonesia\nSeamless tube from Ukraine (review), India, Malaysia and Thailand.\n\nIn addition to the measures already in force, there were also anti-dumping duties on tinplate from China in place since October 17, 2024, as well as on heavy plate from China, South Africa, South Korea and Ukraine, and on stainless flat steel from China and Taiwan. These were extended and expanded in September 2025, with the duties increased by 200%.\n“This is what needed to be done, as we have always said. We are not against imports, only against dumping imports, which forces domestic mills to compete under unfair conditions,” a Brazilian distributor representative said. “We had been waiting for this for a long time. They used the maximum deadline [for the investigations], but in the end they approved them.”\nThe distributor recalled the recent decline in imports, which it said showed that traders and importers were already anticipating the anti-dumping measures.\nImports of flat steel products dropped significantly in December 2025, to 205,700 tonnes, down by 22.6% from 265,900 tonnes in November. Nevertheless, imports remained considerably higher year on year, rising by 66.6% compared with 123,500 tonnes in December 2024. The figures included heavy plate, hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated products.\n“We are very optimistic about the application of anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled and coated steel products coming from China. We expect this to happen either in January or, at the latest, in February 2026,” Carlos Loureiro, executive president of Brazil’s National Institute of Steel Distributors (INDA), said in January.\nThe anticipation of the measures also prompted some market participants to seek alternative origins for imported material. Expecting that they would have to choose between China and other suppliers, they began to build business relationships with producers in other countries.\n“All of this is linked to the visit we made to Vietnam last year, anticipating what is happening now,” a second trader source said. “The market will start to look for new supply origins. Some companies moved earlier, while others waited because they believed the duty would not be so high – and now they are rushing. This has opened space for Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan and possibly India.”\nEnd of Brazil-China steel relationship?\nThe general view was that trade between the two countries in the products subject to the duties has effectively come to a halt – at least, for as long as the measures remain in force.\n“If Chinese mills tried to absorb the full cost of these duties, it would be impossible,” the distributor source said. “In most cases, the duties are higher than the current value of the material per tonne. That is why importers have already raised prices by almost 1,000 Reais [about $193] per tonne.”\nThere was also concern that, in some sectors, such as pre-painted steel, the market could come to a complete standstill.\n“That is what happened with heavy plate,” a third trader source said. “The market is destroyed. There used to be a heavy plate market in Brazil and, surprisingly, it was driven by imports because market participants were active. When imports ended and local prices remained high, the market collapsed. Other supplying countries then raised prices to levels that made imports impossible.”","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"-1","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.36.2","shortVersion":"4.36.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2614004173","isCrawlerRequest":true}