On Monday, June 14, 2010, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) will officially announce the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order against welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube from India.
The review covers several producers/exporters during the period from May 1, 2008 through April 30, 2009.
The DOC has determined the following preliminary margins:
- Lloyds Metals & Engineers Limited - 10.29 percent.
- Jindal Pipes Limited - 10.29 percent.
- Maharashtra Seamless Limited - 10.29 percent.
- Ratnamani Metals Tubes Ltd. - 10.29 percent.
The DOC found that Lloyds Steel Industries Limited and Universal Tube and Plastic Ind. made no shipments of the subject merchandise during the period of review.
However, the DOC found that Makalu Trading Pvt. Ltd., Ushdev International Ltd. and Uttam Galva Steels Ltd. were resellers of standard pipe produced by Lloyds Metals & Engineers Limited. Because Lloyds Metals & Engineers Limited knew that its sales to these companies were destined for the United States, the DOC will not assign individual margins to the three trading companies because, in its view, these companies did not have shipments of their own subject to review. Instead, the DOC will apply the margin for Lloyds Metals & Engineers Limited to the US sales of these companies.
The DOC actually investigated only one of the companies subject to review- Lloyds Metals & Engineers Limited. It assigned the margin for Lloyds to the other three companies with individual margins.
The DOC plans to complete this administrative review by October 2010. Until that time, the current dumping duty deposit rates will remain in effect. Any change in the deposit rates as a result of this review will become effective only once the DOC's final results are published in the Federal Register.
In the meantime, the current dumping duty deposit rates for the companies subject to this review are as follows: Lloyds Metals & Engineers Limited - 0.00 percent, Jindal Pipes Limited - 77.32 percent. All others: Maharashtra Seamless Limited, Ratnamani Metals Tubes Ltd., Lloyds Steel Industries Limited, Universal Tube and Plastic Ind., Trading Pvt. Ltd., Ushdev International Ltd., and Uttam Galva Steels Ltd. are at 7.08 percent.