The interagency commission for international trade after considering the materials from the Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine has decided to prolong antidumping measures concerning imports of asbestos cement corrugated sheets from Russia for 5 years, reads a report of the commission published in the Uriadovy Kurier publication on April 27th 2013.

The report said that the suspension of antidumping measures could result in the continuation of dumping and causing losses to domestic producers.

Reads the report of the commission, "The state of exporters and their economic conditions are so that new types of dumping could appear, which could cause damage to national producers."

After studying the materials, the commission established that in the period when the antidumping duties were in effect, imports of Russian asbestos cement corrugated sheets was at dumping prices, and the size of the dumping margin was from 10.6% to 49.3%.

The report said that as a part of the investigation no producer or exporter of Russian asbestos-cement corrugated sheets wanted to cooperate with the commission.

As reported, in April 2012, the commission decided to revise antidumping measures concerning imports of asbestos-cement corrugated sheets from Russia, following the consideration of materials submitted by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry.

Ukraine on April 20th 2007 introduced antidumping measures concerning slate imports from Russia for 5 years. The size of the final antidumping duty rate is 21.8%.

Ukraine on May 17th 2006 initiated an antidumping investigation into slate imports after the consideration of a claim from the Ukrainian Chrysotile Association, which was filed on behalf of Ivano-Frankivsk Cement, Volyn-Slate, Kramatorsk Slate and Tekhprom.