The US International Trade Commission (ITC) today announced its injury determinations in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations concerning large diameter welded (LDW) pipe from China and India that the US Department of Commerce (DOC) has determined are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value.
Four Commissioners identified three like products and one Commissioner identified two like products in these investigations.
LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe (line pipe): The ITC made an affirmative determination in its antidumping duty investigation of line pipe from China. Chairman David S. Johanson and Commissioners Irving A. Williamson and Rhonda K. Schmidtlein voted in the affirmative; Commissioner Meredith M. Broadbent voted in the negative.
All four Commissioners voted to terminate the countervailing duty investigation of line pipe from China.
The ITC made affirmative determinations in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of line pipe from India. Chairman Johanson and Commissioners Williamson and Schmidtlein voted in the affirmative; Commissioner Broadbent voted in the negative.
LDW carbon and alloy steel structural pipe (structural pipe): The ITC made affirmative determinations in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of structural pipe from China. Chairman Johanson and Commissioners Williamson, Schmidtlein, and Broadbent voted in the affirmative.
All four Commissioners voted to terminate the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of structural pipe from India.
LDW stainless steel pipe (stainless steel pipe): The ITC made negative determinations in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of stainless steel pipe from China and India. Chairman Johanson and Commissioners Williamson, Schmidtlein, and Broadbent voted in the negative.
Commissioner Jason E. Kearns voted in the affirmative with respect to LDW carbon and alloy steel pipe from China and India and concurred with the majority in voting in the negative with respect to LDW stainless steel pipe from China and India.
As a result of the ITC’s affirmative determinations, the DOC will issue antidumping duty orders on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe from China and India and a countervailing duty order on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe from India, and antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel structural pipe from China.