Russia is currently conducting negotiations for the reduction of the 2009 quotas for duty-free imports of pipes into Russia by subsidiaries of Ukrainian pipe producer Interpipe.
On December 29, 2005, the government of the Russian Federation imposed a five-year antidumping (AD) duty on imports of pipes from Ukraine. However, within the framework of a special agreement, five companies, which are all currently subsidiaries of Interpipe, received the right to duty-free imports up to a certain quota.
For 2009, the Interpipe subsidiaries' quota for pipes exports to Russia stands at 427,000 metric tons.