The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced preliminary determinations in its antidumping (AD) duty investigation of certain welded large diameter (LD) carbon and alloy steel line pipe originating in or exported from China and Japan and in its countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of the abovementioned goods originating in or exported from China.
Accordingly, the preliminary antidumping duty rates stand at 96.7 percent for China and 20.1 percent for Japanese steel producer Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., 46.2 percent for Japan-based Metal One Corporation, 43 percent for Japan-based Sumitomo Corporation and 96.7 percent for all other exporters in Japan. Meanwhile, the CBSA has calculated a preliminary countervailing duty (CVD) margin of 30.3 percent for China.
The products in question currently fall under the Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7305.11.0021, 7305.11.0029, 7305.12.0020, 7305.19.0021 and 7305.19.0029.