Commerce to Issue Duties on Rectangular Pipe, Tube from Three Countries
07/18/2008 - The U.S. Department of Commerce will issue a countervailing duty order on imports of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China, and antidumping duty orders on imports of these products from China, Korea, and Mexico.
The U.S. Department of Commerce will issue a countervailing duty order on imports of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China, and antidumping duty orders on imports of these products from China, Korea, and Mexico.
The action follows the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC’s) finding of material injury to a U.S. industry due to imports of these products from China that are the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are subsidized, and imports of those products from China, Korea, and Mexico that the Commerce Department has determined are sold in the United States at less than fair value.
The investigation had covered welded carbon-quality light-walled rectangular steel pipe and tube with a wall thickness of less than 4 mm. Petitioners for this case included:
- Allied Tube and Conduit, Harvey, Ill.
- Atlas Tube, Plymouth, Mich.
- Bull Moose Tube, Inc., Chesterfield, Mo.
- California Steel and Tube, City of Industry, Calif.
- EXL Tube, Kansas City, Mo.
- Hannibal Industries, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Leavitt Tube Co. LLC, Chicago, Ill.
- Maruichi American Corp., Sante Fe Springs, Calif.
- Searing Industries, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
- Southland Tube, Birmingham, Ala.
- Vest Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.
- Welded Tube, Concord, Ont., Canada
- Western Tube and Conduit, Long Beach, Calif.
Chairman Shara L. Aranoff, Vice Chairman Daniel R. Pearson, and Commissioners Deanna Tanner Okun, Charlotte R. Lane, and Irving A. Williamson voted in the affirmative. Commissioner Dean A. Pinkert did not participate in these investigations.
Because the Commerce Department previously made affirmative critical circumstances determinations regarding imports of this product from China, the Commissioners who made an affirmative injury determination are required to find whether these imports are likely to undermine seriously the remedial effect of the countervailing duty and antidumping duty orders Commerce will issue.
All five participating Commissioners made negative findings with regard to critical circumstances in this investigation. As a result, the countervailing duty and antidumping duty orders concerning these imports will not apply to goods that entered the United States from China prior to January 30, 2008, the date of the Department of Commerce's affirmative preliminary determination.
