TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan confirmed final dumping margins on beer and hot-rolled steel from China on Wednesday.

The Customs Administration set dumping margins at 19.13%–51.94% for beer and 16.1%–20.15% for certain hot-rolled steel, and said provisional anti-dumping duties are now being collected at those final margins pending the definitive decision, per Liberty Times. 

Budweiser-linked entities are set at 31.3%, Kirin (Zhuhai) at 19.13%, and non-cooperating or unspecified brewers at 51.94%, per UDN and Yahoo.

“Dumping” refers to exporting goods at below market value prices, generally to cause injury to another country’s industry. Anti-dumping duties aim to offset that price gap, while a dumping margin is the percentage gap between a product’s expected market value and its export price.

Customs began levying provisional anti-dumping duties on July 3. From Wednesday, ports will collect at the final margins while the case moves toward a definitive decision. Deposits posted since July will be reconciled according to the outcome, the agency said.

Whether some beer imports are hit with up to 90 days of retroactive duties now turns on the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ final injury finding and an overall public-interest check. Customs said evidence suggests certain importers “knew or should have known” of dumping and brought in large volumes in a short period — the statutory trigger for retroactive collection.

Once notified, the economics ministry has 40 days to issue its final injury and public-interest determination, and the Ministry of Finance then has 10 days to send the case to the Tariff Rate Review Committee for a vote on definitive duties and any retroactivity.