Brazil's Foreign Trade Commission announced on December 23th, to impose provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of high carbon steel wire ropes from China, for six months period. The provisional anti-dumping duties were US$351.3~562.7/ton.

The anti-dumping investigation period was from January to December 2016, the injury investigation period was from January 2011 to December 2015.

The dumping margin was 118.7% for involved Chinese enterprises according to reported.