On May 10, Australian Anti-Dumping Commission has completed an exemption inquiry concerning certain precision pipe and tube steel exported to Australia from China and South Korea subject to anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) measures.

According to the result, the goods the subject of the exemption inquiry (the exemption goods) are curtain rods that have a 16 mm outside diameter and a 0.4 mm gauge/wall thickness. They come in powder-coated colors – White, Ivory, and Black. The curtain rods come in lengths of 1 meter and 3.5 metres and are individually heat/shrink wrapped and labelled. The curtain rods are made of A class hot-rolled strip metal comprising of 0.12% carbon and are made using a roll forming process and a longitudinal welding technique.