On Wednesday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) published its amended preliminary determination in the antidumping (AD) investigation of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China in the Federal Register. According to the DOC, it made certain significant errors in calculating the preliminary margins that were published on November 17, and those errors required the recalculation of the preliminary margins for one mandatory respondent and for the exporters eligible for a separate rate.
The DOC has calculated the following amended preliminary dumping margins for the mandatory respondents: 0.00 percent for Changbao Steel Tube Co. Ltd. (exporter) and Jiangsu Changbao Steel Tube Co. Ltd. and Jiangsu Changbao Precision Steel Tube Co. Ltd. (producers) (unchanged from November 17 notice); and 96.51 percent for Tianjin Pipe International Economic and Trading Corporation (exporter) and Tianjin Pipe (Group) Corporation (producer) (compared to 36.53 percent from the November 17 notice). The DOC has also determined an amended preliminary dumping margin of 96.51 percent for the 37 separate rate respondents (compared to 36.53 percent from the November 17 notice). The preliminary dumping margin of 99.14 percent for all other Chinese exporters and producers is unchanged from the earlier announcement.
Accordingly, effective Wednesday, December 30, 2009, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will require the deposit of dumping duties or the posting of a bond at the abovementioned margins.
The DOC is scheduled to make its final dumping determination by April 1, 2010.