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Commerce to Investigate Oil Country Tubular from P.R. China
Apr. 30, 2009 The U.S. Department of Commerce announced it will initiate antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of oil country tubular goods from P.R. China.
Dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a product in the United States at less than normal value.
Subsidies are financial assistance from foreign governments that benefit the production, manufacture, or exportation of goods.
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The Commerce Department’s antidumping and countervailing duty investigations covers oil country tubular goods (OCTG), including oil well casing and tubing, made from iron (other than cast iron) or steel (both carbon and alloy). Product may be seamless or welded, and may have any type of end finish, including plain, threaded, or threaded and coupled. Product may or may not conform to American Petroleum Institute (API) or non-API Specifications.
Product may be finished (including limited service OCTG products) or unfinished (including green tubes and limited service OCTG products), and may or may not have thread protectors attached.
The scope of these investigations also covers OCTG coupling stock. However, casing or tubing containing 10.5% or more by weight of chromium, drill pipe, unattached couplings and unattached thread protectors is excluded from the scope of the investigations.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination on or about May 26. If the ITC determines that there is a reasonable indication of real or threatened material injury to the domestic industry due to these imports, the Commerce Department’s investigations will continue, and Commerce will be scheduled to make its preliminary countervailing duty determination on July 2, and its preliminary antidumping determination on September 15.
Petitioners for these investigations include Maverick Tube Corp, Texas; United States Steel Corp., Pa.; TMK Ipsco, Ill.; V&M Star LP, Texas; V&M TCA, Texas; Wheatland Tube Corp., Pa.; Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, Colo.; and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, Pa.