On Friday, February 27, the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the final results of its changed circumstances antidumping (AD) duty review of certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Thailand.
On July 6, 1992, the DOC published an antidumping duty order on pipe fittings from Thailand in which it stated that Awaji Sangyo (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (AST) was excluded from the order due to its de minimis margin in the less-than-fair-value investigation.
On November 18, 2008, the DOC received a request for a changed circumstances review of this order from Awaji Materia (Thailand) Co., Ltd (AMT) to determine if, for purposes of the AD law, AMT is the successor-in-interest to AST. On January 14, 2009, the DOC published the notice of initiation for this changed circumstances review and preliminarily found that AMT is the successor-in-interest to AST and should be treated as such for antidumping purposes.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated in the preliminary results, the DOC determined that AMT is the successor-in-interest to AST and, as a result, should be accorded the same treatment previously accorded to AST with respect to the antidumping duty order on certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Thailand.