Commerce Adjusts Pipe and Tube Antidumping Duties

OCTG

Commerce set a 1.59% weighted-average dumping margin for the Interpipe group of companies in the preliminary results of an administrative review looking at OCTG imports from Ukraine during the one-year period ended June 30, 2021. The all-others rate remains set at 7.47%. Commerce intends to issue the final results of that administrative review in mid-January.

Commerce has also adjusted antidumping duties on OCTG imports from South Korea after the CIT remanded the results of specific administrative reviews.

For the one-year period ended Aug. 31, 2017, Commerce amended the AD duties on OCTG imports to 9.77% for South Korea’s Nexteel Co., to 5.28% for SeAH Steel Corp., and to 7.53% for non-examined companies. These rates are lower than the duties previously set at 32.24% for Nexteel, 16.73% for SeAH, and 24.49% for non-examined companies.

Commerce also adjusted SeAH Steel’s OCTG AD rate for the period Sept. 1, 2017 through Aug. 31, 2018, after a CIT remand determination. For that period of review, SeAH’s weighted-average dumping margin was adjusted to 0%.

Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube

Commerce set preliminary AD duty rates on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube imports from China for the Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, period of review. A dumping margin of 45.02% was set for Hangzhou Ailong Metal Products Co. The margin for the China-wide entity was unchanged from 255.07%.

For light-walled rectangular pipe and tube imported from Mexico during the same period of review, Commerce set preliminary dumping rates of 3.11% for Maquilacero, 4.47% for Regiomontana de Perfiles y Tubos, and 3.79% for Perfiles LM and Productos Laminados de Monterrey (Prolamsa). The review was rescinded for 14 individual companies, and the all-others rate continues to be 3.76%.

By Laura Miller, Laura@SteelMarketUpdate.com