Boomerang Tube LLC and US Steel appealed a decision from the US Court of International Trade (CIT), which affirmed the US Department of Commerce’s (DOC) final determination in an antidumping investigation which excluded Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Energy Services (Jesco) from OCTG antidumping duties. On May 8, 2017, the court struck down the appeal efforts noting the parties failed to exhaust their arguments before the DOC and CIT.
The DOC originally published its final determination in July 2014, concluding that Saudi Arabian OCTG imports were being dumped in the US and calculated the antidumping duty margin of 2.69 percent ad valorem. Jesco challenged the calculations to a “de minimis” value of 1.37 percent. Upon review, the DOC issued an amended negative final determination that imposed no antidumping duties on imports of OCTG from Saudi Arabia and terminated its investigation.
Boomerang and US Steel appealed the DOC’s final determination to the CIT, which affirmed the DOC’s determination, resulting in an appeal to the US Court of Appeals in the Federal Circuit.