The General Court of the European Union (Ninth Circuit) found Sept. 2 that the 13.6% final antidumping duty applied by the European Commission to bulb flat steel imports was lawful and rejected an annulment case filed by Turkish steel producer Ozkan Demir Celik Sanayi AS.

The commission initiated an AD investigation on imports of bulb flat steel originating in Turkey and China in November 2022 and imposed definitive duties on imports from these countries of 13.6% and 23%, respectively, in January 2024.

The AD duties concerned non-alloy steel bulb flats up to 204 millimeters in width, falling under CN code ex 7216 50 91 (TARIC code 7216 50 91 10).

The General Court dismissed the Ozkan case in its entirety in its Sept. 2 verdict, confirming the legality of the duties and ordering the Turkish company to bear all litigation costs, according to the court decision.

The judgment reinforces that standard industry commercial tolerances do not negate the purchase order date as the appropriate date of sale for currency conversions.

Additionally, exporters seeking quarterly dumping calculations must provide fully complete, verified quarterly Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (SG&A) and production data; otherwise, the commission is fully entitled to maintain an annual weighted average even during hyperinflationary periods, according to the judicial precedent.

Turkey’s overall iron and non-alloy sections under HS code 7216 declined 11% year over year to 147,000 metric tons in the first seven months of 2026, amid slow demand in the EU and global markets, according to Turkish Statistical Institute data.