China Seamless Pipe: ITA Amends Final AD Determination, Issues AD Order
The International Trade Administration is amending its final antidumping duty determination and issuing an AD duty order on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe (seamless pipe) from China (A-570-956).
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The ITA is amending its final AD determination to correct certain ministerial errors in its calculation of the AD margins for TPCO and Hengyang, which also affects the estimated AD duty rate for the separate rate respondents.
Combination Rates
The ITA has calculated combination rates for respondents that are eligible for a separate rate in this AD investigation. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/11/05 news, 05041110, for BP summary of 2005 policy bulletin outlining this change in practice with regard to AD combination rates for non-market economies (NMEs).)
AD Liquidation, Cash Deposits Refunded Prior to Final ITC Determination
Because the International Trade Commission's final injury determination is based on the threat of material injury and is not accompanied by findings that injury would have resulted, but for the imposition of suspension of liquidation of entries since the preliminary determination, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is required to release any bond or other security, and refund any cash deposit of estimated AD duties posted from the ITA's preliminary determination until the publication of the ITC's final determination of threat of material injury.
Therefore, the ITA will instruct CBP to terminate the AD suspension of liquidation for entries of seamless pipe from China with a time of entry prior to November 10, 2010 (the date of publication of the ITC’s final injury determination).
The ITA will also instruct CBP to refund any AD cash deposits made and release any bonds posted between the publication of the ITA’s preliminary determination on April 28, 2010 through November 9, 2010 for TPCO and the separate rate companies; and on January 28, 2010 through November 9, 2010 for Hengyang and the China-wide entity (as critical circumstances were previously found for these companies).
AD Suspension of Liquidation for Nov 10 and After
The ITA will direct CBP to require AD suspension of liquidation for all entries of subject merchandise from China with a time of entry on or after November 10, 2010 (the publication date of the ITC’s final threat of injury determination).
Estimated AD Cash Deposits Effective Nov 10 (to be Adjusted for Subsidies)
The ITA will also instruct CBP to require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, estimated AD cash deposits on entries of subject merchandise from China with a time of entry on or after November 10, 2010 at the following revised estimated AD duty rates1.
| Exporter | Producer |
|---|---|
| Tianjin Pipe International Economic and Trading Corporation (TPCO) | Tianjin Pipe (Group) Corporation |
| Hengyang Steel Tube Group Int’l Trading Inc. | Hengyang Valin Steel Tube Co., Ltd., and Hengyang Valin MPM Tube Co., Ltd. |
| Xigang Seamless Steel Tube Co., Ltd. | Xigang Seamless Steel Tube Co., Ltd., and Wuxi Seamless Special Pipe Co., Ltd. |
| Jiangyin City Changjiang Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. | Jiangyin City Changjiang Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. |
| Pangang Group Chengdu Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. | Pangang Group Chengdu Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. |
| Yangzhou Lontrin Steel Tube Co., Ltd. | Yangzhou Lontrin Steel Tube Co., Ltd. |
| Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube Co., Ltd. | Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube Co., Ltd. |
| China-wide entity | 98.74% (unchanged) |
1Because the ITA has determined that that TPCO’s and Hengyang’s merchandise benefitted from export subsidies, their AD duty rates, as well as the rates for the separate rate respondents, will be reduced for the export subsidy portion of the rate determined in the amended final countervailing duty determination. (See future issue of ITT for the adjusted rates pursuant to the ITA’s CBP instructions.)
(See ITA notice for additional information, including the scope of the order, etc.
See today's ITT, 10111012, for BP summary of the companion amended final CV duty determination and order.
See ITT’s Online Archives or 09/21/10 news, 10092108, for BP summary of the original final AD duty determination.)
Contact -- Magd Zalok (202) 482-4162
(FR Pub 11/10/10, ITA Case No. A-570-956)
The ITC’s final threat of injury determination (FR Pub 11/10/10) is available here.