🚨 Vietnam Just Imposed 23.1%-27.8% Tariff on Chinese HRC – Your Hot Rolled Steel Orders Just Got More Expensive

The trade walls against Chinese steel keep rising. On July 6, 2026, Vietnam officially imposed final anti-dumping duties of 23.1% to 27.8% on Chinese hot-rolled steel (HRC), effective for five years. The investigation, initiated in July 2024 following a petition by Hoa Phat Dung Quat and Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh, found that Chinese HRC exports were causing material injury to Vietnam‘s domestic industry. This follows Vietnam’s earlier anti-dumping duties on coated steel, which reached up to 37.13%.

Hot-rolled steel is the base material for downstream products like cold-rolled steel (CR), galvanized steel (GI), galvalume (GL), and pre-painted steel (PPGI). Every time a tariff hits HRC, it sends cost ripples through the entire steel supply chain.

And Vietnam is not alone. Just in the past month:

 imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of 50.1%-55.3% on Chinese hot-dip galvanized steel (effective August 8 – December 7, 2026)

 imposed final anti-dumping duties of 28.16%-33.10% on Chinese carbon and alloy steel hot-rolled plates and coils (effective June 23)

 expanded its high-carbon wire rod duties to 15.04%-36.79%

 – Steel quotas cut 47%, over-quota tariffs doubled to 50% (effective July 1)

 launched an anti-dumping investigation on welded carbon steel pipes (July 6)

 launched both an anti-dumping investigation and a safeguard investigation on cold-rolled flat products (July 10)

If you source hot-rolled, cold-rolled, galvanized, or pre-painted steel from China, your cost structure is changing by the week. Tariffs are accumulating, markets are closing, and the window to lock in current pricing is closing fast.

📩 Contact CNB Group today. We offer stable supply of HRC, CR, GI, GL, PPGI, and ZAM steel – backed by 20,000+ tons of daily stock. Get a firm quotation before the next tariff hits.