We have received several emails from American customers who would like to import our centrifugally cast tubes.  They had the same questions such as “Do you know the latest tariff for the stainless steel centrifugally cast tubes ?” “Any changes of the tariff of centrifugally cast tubes if we import LAWAI’s centrifugal castings?”

Although they are Americans, they are still very confused about the Trump’s new tariff. 

Regarding the confusing tariff that is reciprocal tariff, the stainless steel products were not categorized in this one. The tariff of stainless steel centrifugal castings and special alloy centrifugal castings was imposed by 25% with the baseline tariff 10% now.  However, the policy may be changed. ( If you have the concerns regarding the American tariff, please email us to confirm )

For 25% tariff, it has been implemented for Taiwan since 2018. Therefore, the American customers have experienced the high tariff that importing our centrifugal castings for several years. Apparently, LAWAI’s centrifugally cast products were competitive even though the American government did not give us the preferential duty. 

The flexibility of manufacturing arrangement and the ability of self alloy composition for centrifugal castings are the key reasons why customers still purchased our products no matter how high the tariff for steel was.

LAWAI is the boutique-sized centrifugal casting foundry. Therefore, the MOQ for each centrifugally cast product is not as strict as large-scale companies. The customers saved stock costs. And we remelt the new raw materials and recyclable scraps well to face the problem of the sparse metals nowadays.

Said by the CEO of LAWAI, CHIH-KUANG TSAI. 

In the south sphere, it’s another story. 

For the potential customers in Australia and New Zealand, the duty rates for importing LAWAI’s centrifugal castings is 4~5%. Also, the time difference is few hours or none ( For example, Perth in western Australia).  Therefore, it is convenient for Antipodean customers work with us and discuss the projects relating centrifugal castings. 

Due to the security of the country and anti-dumping, the duty to import LAWAI’s centrifugal castings is high for several countries.  

No matter how hard to build the international business relationship, LAWAI still grew up with customers step by step. 

Centrifugal castings are the high value-added materials used in various industries, the long lifetime and the irreplaceable strength are the reasons why they are regarded as the priority for purchasers, designers and engineers. If you are interested in knowing other reasons that centrifugal casting is the luxury in the casting field, the previous article could be the reference. 

Made in Taiwan, made at LAWAI represents “ Good enough for all the applications”