Ann Joo seeks Miti's help to fight cheap steel imports from China

PETALING JAYA: Ann Joo Resources Bhd is seeking the intervention of the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) to prevent what it describes as dumping activities by steel millers from China.

Although Miti has imposed a 25% anti-dumping duty on wire rods from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Indonesia, Ann Joo group managing director Datuk Lim Hong Thye said that some Chinese players were circumventing the system by declaring their exports into Malaysia as alloy steel instead of carbon steel.