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Commerce adjusts duties on large OD welded P&T
Written by Laura Miller
October 23, 2024
The US Department of Commerce is conducting annual administrative reviews of antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders on certain imports of steel pipe and tube.
Rectangular P&T from Mexico
For its review of the AD on Mexican heavy walled rectangular welded pipe and tube, Commerce is considering the one-year period ended Aug. 31, 2023.
The agency this week preliminarily determined higher dumping margins for three Mexican companies.
The weighted-average dumping margin for Maquilacero SA de CV/Tecnicas de Fluidos SA de CV was raised to 7.22% vs. 5.06% in the prior review.
The rate for Productos Laminados de Monterrey SA de CV (Prolamsa) was also increased from 1.61% previously to 8.13%.
Commerce will issue the final results of this administrative review in late February.
Welded structural pipe from Turkey
Commerce also recently finalized an administrative review of the subsidies received by Turkish companies shipping large diameter welded structural pipe to the US in 2022.
The final CVD rate for Çimtaş Boru Imalatari Ticaret was lowered from 3.72% previously to 2.18% for 2022, while HDM Çelik Boru Sanayi Ve Ticaret’s rate was increased from 3.72% to 6.31%.
Of note: A five-year sunset review of this CVD order and the correlating AD order is currently underway to determine if the duties should be allowed to expire. These duties were first instituted in 2019, making this their first sunset review.
Commerce completed its expedited CVD review earlier this year. It found that Turkish manufacturers would still receive countervailable subsidies of 3.72% if the order is revoked.
The International Trade Commission opted for full sunset reviews of the duties and won’t issue its final injury determination until April 2025.
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