The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has decided to initiate an antidumping (AD) reinvestigation to prolong the antidumping measures on imports of casing, tubing, oil and gas and general purpose hot-deformed steel pipes with diameter up to 820 mm, originating from Ukraine.
The reinvestigation has been started in accordance with federal law No. 165-FZ entitled "On special protective, antidumping and countervailing measures on import of goods," dated December 8, 2003, and following the request of the main domestic pipe producers, Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ), Pervouralsky Novotrubny Works (PNTZ), OMK's Vyksa Steel Works, and TMK and its three subsidiaries, namely, Volzhsky Pipe Plant, Sinarsky Pipe Plant (SinTZ) and Seversky Tube Works (STZ).
By the government's decision dated December 29, 2005, Russia imposed for a five-year period an 11.4 percent AD duty on Ukrainian imports of casing, an 18.1 percent AD duty on imports of tubing, and an 8.9 percent AD duty on imports of oil and gas and general purpose hot-deformed pipes from Ukraine with diameter up to 820 mm, excluding imports of the Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol, for which the duty was set at zero percent. The AD duties became effective from January 31, 2006.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, at the end of December last year the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade launched an AD re-investigation on imports of the products in question, in order to review the extent of the existing AD measures.
According to data from the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, in the 2005-2009 period imports of casings originating from Ukraine went up by 22.1 percent, with the weighted-average price for Ukrainian casings increasing by 2.1 percent, while the imports of tubing from Ukraine rose by 38.1 percent, with the weighted-average price for Ukrainian tubing decreasing by 14 percent. On the other hand, between 2005 and 2009, imports of oil and gas and general purpose hot-deformed pipes from Ukraine went down by 57.3 percent, while the weighted-average price for these Ukrainian products rose by 11.5 percent.