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DOC Issues Preliminary AD Determinations on Carbon Steel Pipe and Tubes
Written by Sandy Williams
February 22, 2016
The Department of Commerce has announced affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping investigations of imports of heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey. The investigations cover heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes, which are rectangular (including square) welded carbon steel pipes and tubes that have a wall thickness of 4 mm or greater. The products are used for support for construction, farm, transportation, and material handling equipment and are commonly referred to as structural tubing.
The petitioners for these investigations are Atlas Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group (IL); Bull Moose Tube Company (MO); EXLTUBE1 (MO) (except in investigation involving Mexico); Hannibal Industries, Inc. (CA); Independence Tube Corporation (IL); Maruichi American Corporation (CA); Searing Industries (CA); Southland Tube (AL); and Vest, Inc. (CA).
Commerce preliminarily determined that heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey have been sold in the United States at dumping margins ranging from 2.53 percent to 3.81 percent, 3.99 percent to 16.31 percent, and 0.00 percent to 14.48 percent, respectively.
The detailed preliminary dumping margins are as follows:
Korea:
Dong-A Steel Company – 2.53%
HiSteel Co., Ltd. – 3.81%
All others – 3.31%
Mexico:
Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. – 3.99%
Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. – 16.31%
All others – 13.65%
Turkey (Note: due to concurrent CVD investigation, preliminary cash deposit rates are adjusted by amount of the CVD export subsidies.):
MMZ Boru Profil Uretim Sanayi Ve Tic. A.S. – 14.48%, cash deposit 14.48%
Ozdemir Boru Profil San. Ve Tic. Ltd. Sti. – 0.00%
All others – 14.48%, cash deposit 14.24%
In 2014, imports of heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey were valued at an estimated $50.5 million, $53.7 million, and $41.9 million, respectively.
Next Steps
Commerce has extended the final determination dates in these investigations and will announce them on or about July 13, 2016.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is scheduled to make its final injury determinations in September 2016 if the Commerce final decision is affirmative.
Commerce will issue AD orders in September if its final determination is affirmative and the ITC finds that imports of heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and/or Turkey materially injure, or threaten material injury to, the domestic industry. If either Commerce or ITC makes a negative final determination, no AD orders will be issued.
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