The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Bureau of Technical Secretariat of Anti-Injurious Practices in International Trade has announced that it has imposed preliminary antidumping (AD) duty on imports of seamless pipe from China.
Accordingly, the preliminary antidumping duties for Chinese companies stand at 95.4 percent for Valin Steel, 33.5 percent for Tianjin Pipe Corporation, 30.5 percent for Anhui Tianda Oil Pipe Company, 38.5 percent for cooperative companies and 103 percent for other companies in China.
The investigation was launched in April this year against imports of seamless pipes, with an external diameter not exceeding 16 inches (406.4 mm) used for oil and gas exploration, from China.
The products in question currently fall under Customs Tariff Statistics Position Numbers 7304.19 and 7304.29.