USITC to Uphold Antidumping Orders on Seamless Pipe from Japan, Romania
09/12/2011 - Existing antidumping duty orders on imports of carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from Japan and Romania following the USITC’s determination that revoking the existing antidumping duties on these products would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has determined that revoking the existing antidumping duties on carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from Japan and Romania would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
As a result of the Commission's affirmative determinations, existing antidumping duty orders on imports of these products from Japan and Romania will remain in place.
Vice Chairman Irving A. Williamson and Commissioners Charlotte R. Lane, Shara L. Aranoff, and Dean A. Pinkert voted in the affirmative with respect to all orders. Chairman Deanna Tanner Okun and Commissioner Daniel R. Pearson made affirmative determinations with respect to large diameter pipe and small diameter pipe from Japan; they made a negative determination with respect to small diameter pipe from Romania.
The review and ITC decision regarding continuation or recurrence of material injury comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which requires the Department of Commerce to revoke an antidumping or countervailing duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless the Department of Commerce and the USITC determine that such action would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping or subsidies (Commerce) and of material injury (USITC) within a reasonably foreseeable time.
The five-year (sunset) reviews concerning Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from Japan and Romania were instituted on April 1, 2011. The Commission voted on July 5, 2011, to conduct expedited reviews, as all six Commissioners concluded that the domestic group response for this review was adequate and the respondent group responses were inadequate.
