China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced preliminary antidumping determinations against certain alloy steel seamless tubes and pipes for high-temperature and high-pressure applications from the European Union, Japan and the US, citing the substantial damage caused by such imports to the Chinese domestic industry.
The MOC has calculated the following preliminary weighted-average dumping margins: as regards EU companies,it has calculated 17.8 percent for Vallourec Deutschland GmbH and Vallourec Tubes France, 11.4 percent for Italy-based IBF S.P.A, and 44.2 percent for all others; the margin for Japanese companies (Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, JFE Steel Corporation and all others) is 36.6 percent; while the MOC has calculated a 9.2 percent margin for US-based Wyman-Gordon Forgings, Inc. and 39 percent for all other US companies.
The products subject to the antidumping duty currently fall within CN codes 73045110, 73045190, 73045910 and 73045990 (other steel pipes and tubes under these codes which do not match the description of the investigated products did not fall within the scope of the investigation).