Harder battles in China

摘要

China, Japan's third best market after the USA and Korea, is also making exports harder. At the beginning of December anti-dumping action began against Japanese CR coil. Japanese exporters have done exceptionally well this year. CR exports over the January-October period reached 776,000 tonnes, nearly two-and-a-half times the level in the same period in 1999. They hope to head off substantive action by being exceptionally well-behaved in current negotiations, quoting prices of