The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced the final determinations in its antidumping (AD) duty investigation of certain welded large diameter (LD) carbon and alloy steel line pipe originating in or exported from China and Japan and in its countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of the abovementioned goods originating in or exported from China.
Accordingly, the final antidumping margins stand at 95 percent for China and 22.1 percent for Japanese steel producer Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., 43.1 percent for Japan-based Metal One Corporation, 44.6 percent for Japan-based Sumitomo Corporation and 95 percent for all other exporters in Japan. Meanwhile, the CBSA has calculated a final subsidy rate of 30.3 percent for China.
The CBSA stated that the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) is continuing its inquiry into the question of injury to the domestic industry and will announce its decisions by October 20, 2016. Provisional duties will continue to apply on imports of subject goods from China and Japan until the date of the CITT’s order or finding.
The products in question currently fall under the Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7305.11.0021, 7305.11.0029, 7305.12.0020, 7305.19.0021 and 7305.19.0029.