On Tuesday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) formally initiated its antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from India, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Vietnam.
If the US International Trade Commission (ITC) makes affirmative preliminary injury determinations in these investigations on December 5, the DOC will continue its full-scale investigations of these countries.
In the initiation notice, the DOC noted that the estimated dumping margins--which are based on the US industry's petition--are 22.88 percent to 48.43 percent for India, 2.89 percent to 19.33 percent for Oman, 6.23 percent to 11.71 percent for the UAE and 20.47 percent to 27.96 percent for Vietnam.
The DOC did not quantify estimated countervailing duty margins.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, the AD/CVD petitions were filed on October 26 by Allied Tube and Conduit, JMC Steel Group, Wheatland Tube, a division of the JMC Steel Group and United States Steel Corporation.