Canadian ITT issues final AD and CVD determinations on OCTG from China

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:49:28 (GMT+2)

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (ITT) on March 23 found that the dumping and subsidizing of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China that are coupling stock had not caused injury or retardation and were not threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry. As a result, antidumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) will not be collected by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on these goods.

The Tribunal also found that the dumping and subsidizing of OCTG from China that are casing and tubing had caused injury to the domestic industry, and so antidumping and countervailing duties will therefore be collected by the CBSA on these goods. The Tribunal excluded pup-joints, welded or seamless, heat-treated or not heat-treated, in lengths of up to 3.66 m (12 feet), from its injury finding.

The Tribunal will issue the reasons for its findings on April 7, 2010. No duty margins were mentioned in the initial announcement.

The complainants in this case were Evraz Inc. NA Canada of Regina, Saskatchewan, Lakeside Steel Corporation of Welland, Ontario, and Tenaris Canada (including Prudential Steel Inc., Tenaris Global Services (Canada) Inc. and Tenaris Algoma Tubes) of Calgary, Alberta.

As SteelOrbis previously reported, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on February 22 made their final determinations in the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China.

The final dumping margins as a percentage of the export price for the Chinese exporters of OCTG to Canada were as follows: 

Faray Petroleum Steel Pipe Co., Ltd, 106.43%; Shandong Molong, 90.69%; Freet Petroleum Equipment Company, Zibo Branch, 86.81%; Jiangsu Changbao Steel Tube, 86.33%; Shengli Oilfield Freet Petroleum Company, 86.28%; Huludao City Steel Pipe Industrial Co. Ltd., 83.16%; Shengli Oilfield Shengji Petroleum Equipment Co., Ltd., 81.91%; Tianjin Tiangang Special Petroleum Pipe Manufacture Co., Ltd., 76.46%; Jiangsu Chengde Steel Tube, 75.54%; Shengli Oilfield Freet Petroleum Steel Pipe Co., 49.75%; Heng Yahg Group, 48.15%; Tianjin Pipe (Group) Corporation, 30.00%; SB International (USA), 13.85%, and all other exporters (of subject goods originating in or exported from China), 166.9%.

The goods in question are commonly classified under the following Harmonized System classification numbers: 7304.29.00.31, 7304.29.00.39, 7304.29.00.51, 7304.29.00.59, 7304.29.00.61, 7304.29.00.69, 7304.29.00.71, 7304.29.00.79, 7304.39.10.00, 7304.59.10.00, 7306.29.10.11, 7306.29.10.19, 7306.29.10.21, 7306.29.10.29, 7306.29.10.31, 7306.29.10.39, 7306.29.10.41, 7306.29.10.49, 7306.29.90.11, 7306.29.90.19 and 7306.29.90.21.

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