Upon the requests filed on June 25, 2007 and on August 20, 2007 by the Defence Committee of the Welded Steel Tubes Industry of the European Union (the complainant), the European Commission (EC) on September 26 2007 initiated an expiry review for the antidumping duty orders on certain welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel from Thailand, Turkey, and Ukraine, and also initiated an antidumping investigation into welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, and Russia.
As a result of its investigations, the EC has decided to impose antidumping (AD) duties on imports of welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel from Belarus, China, and Russia, so as to prevent the EU industry from losing market shares, to help it regain lost sales and return to adequate profitability. The imposed AD duties for the countries in question are as follows:
Country |
Company |
AD duty |
All companies |
90.6% |
|
TMK Group (Seversky Pipe Plant Open Joint Stock Company and Joint Stock Company Taganrog etallurgical Works) |
16.8% |
|
OMK Group (Open Joint Stock Company Vyksa Steel Works and Joint Stock Company Almetjvesk Pipe Plant) |
10.1% |
|
All other companies |
20.5% |
|
All companies |
38.5% |
In addition, the EC has decided to maintain the measures on imports of welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel from Thailand and Ukraine, excepting OJSC Interpipe, as follows:
Country |
Company |
AD duty |
Saha Thai Steel Pipe Co. Ltd |
21.7% |
|
|
All other companies |
35.2% |
OJSC Interpipe Nizhnedeneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant and OJSC Interpipe Novomoskovsk Pipe Production Plant |
10.7% |
|
All other companies |
44.1% |
Moreover, following the decision of the EC, the antidumping proceedings concerning imports of welded tubes and pipes of iron or non-alloy steel from Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina have been terminated.