CIT Decision Could Bring Back AD/CV Duties on Circular Welded Pipe From India, Oman and UAE

A decision on whether to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from India, Oman and the United Arab Emirates again appears to be up in the air, after the Court of International Trade ordered the International Trade Commission to reconsider aspects of its negative final injury determination in a decision issued Oct. 15 and made public on Oct. 27 (here). The AD/CVD investigations had ended in December 2012 with no duties imposed because of the ITC’s finding of no injury to domestic industry (see 12111505). However, CIT now wants the ITC to reconsider certain evidence, including whether a recovering economy post-2008 may have masked the ill effects of dumping and illegal subsidization on domestic producers.