Canadian Agency Finds Threat of Injury from Standard Pipe Imports
12/14/2012 - The Canadian International Trade Tribunal found that the dumping and subsidization of standard pipe imports from a host of countries was threatening to cause injury to the domestic injury. As a result, import duties will be applied.
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal found that the dumping of carbon steel welded pipe, commonly identified as standard pipe, originating in or exported from Chinese Taipei, the Republic of India, the Sultanate of Oman, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates and the subsidizing of the aforementioned goods originating in or exported from the Republic of India had not caused injury, but were threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry. Antidumping and countervailing duties will therefore be collected by the Canada Border Services Agency. The complainants in this case were Novamerican Steel Inc. of Montréal, Quebec, and Bolton Steel Tube Co. Ltd. of Bolton, Ontario.
The subject pipe includes standard pipe in the nominal size range from 1/2 inch up to and including 6 inches (12.7 mm to 168.3 mm in outside diameter) inclusive, in various forms and finishes, usually supplied to meet ASTM A53, ASTM A135, ASTM A252, ASTM A589, ASTM A795, ASTM F1083 or Commercial Quality, or AWWA C200-97 or equivalent specifications, including water well casing, piling pipe, sprinkler pipe and fencing pipe, but excluding oil and gas line pipe made to API specifications exclusively.
The Tribunal will issue the reasoning for its findings on or before 27 December 2012.
