The Wheatland Tube division of Zekelman Industries has filed a request for the US Department of Commerce to conduct an ant circumvention inquiry regarding circular welded pipe that is completed in Oman and the United Arab Emirates using hot-rolled steel manufactured in India. The request seeks to have Commerce issue a determination that such merchandise is circumventing the existing antidumping duty order on CWP from India and, therefore, should be covered by that order. The request filed today at Commerce seeks a ruling that Indian hot-rolled steel that is processed into CWP in Oman and the UAE constitutes merchandise "completed or assembled" in those countries for purposes of circumvention of the India CWP order under U.S. law. If Commerce issues an affirmative ruling, the antidumping duties now applicable to CWP from India would apply to imports of the relevant merchandise from Oman and the UAE. The antidumping duty rates on CWP from India range from nearly 12 percent to over 87 percent. Wheatland Tube was joined in the request by co-petitioners Bull Moose Tube Company, Nucor Tubular Products, and the United Steelworkers. CWP products are also commonly referred to as standard pipe, and these products are used in plumbing and heating, air conditioning, automatic sprinkler, and fencing systems. In recent years, Indian producers and exporters have been shipping ever-increasing volumes of hot-rolled steel to Oman and the UAE to be processed into CWP in those countries and avoid paying the high antidumping duties in place on imports of CWP from India. In fact, US imports of CWP from Oman and the UAE have increased by roughly 35 percent from 389,477 metric tons in the four-year period from 2013 to 2016 to 525,412 metric tons in the four-year period from 2017 to 2020. During this same period, exports of hot-rolled steel from India into Oman and the UAE have also increased dramatically. The filing was prepared by Schagrin Associates, a Washington DC based international trade law firm that also was counsel to Wheatland Tube in the original antidumping investigation. Wheatland Tube, a division of Zekelman Industries, produces a wide range of steel tubular products, including standard steel pipe, galvanized mechanical tubing, fence framework, fire sprinkler pipe, electrical conduit, elbows, couplings and nipples.
The Wheatland Tube division of Zekelman Industries has filed a request for the US Department of Commerce to conduct an ant circumvention inquiry regarding circular welded pipe that is completed in Oman and the United Arab Emirates using hot-rolled steel manufactured in India. The request seeks to have Commerce issue a determination that such merchandise is circumventing the existing antidumping duty order on CWP from India and, therefore, should be covered by that order. The request filed today at Commerce seeks a ruling that Indian hot-rolled steel that is processed into CWP in Oman and the UAE constitutes merchandise "completed or assembled" in those countries for purposes of circumvention of the India CWP order under U.S. law. If Commerce issues an affirmative ruling, the antidumping duties now applicable to CWP from India would apply to imports of the relevant merchandise from Oman and the UAE. The antidumping duty rates on CWP from India range from nearly 12 percent to over 87 percent. Wheatland Tube was joined in the request by co-petitioners Bull Moose Tube Company, Nucor Tubular Products, and the United Steelworkers. CWP products are also commonly referred to as standard pipe, and these products are used in plumbing and heating, air conditioning, automatic sprinkler, and fencing systems. In recent years, Indian producers and exporters have been shipping ever-increasing volumes of hot-rolled steel to Oman and the UAE to be processed into CWP in those countries and avoid paying the high antidumping duties in place on imports of CWP from India. In fact, US imports of CWP from Oman and the UAE have increased by roughly 35 percent from 389,477 metric tons in the four-year period from 2013 to 2016 to 525,412 metric tons in the four-year period from 2017 to 2020. During this same period, exports of hot-rolled steel from India into Oman and the UAE have also increased dramatically. The filing was prepared by Schagrin Associates, a Washington DC based international trade law firm that also was counsel to Wheatland Tube in the original antidumping investigation. Wheatland Tube, a division of Zekelman Industries, produces a wide range of steel tubular products, including standard steel pipe, galvanized mechanical tubing, fence framework, fire sprinkler pipe, electrical conduit, elbows, couplings and nipples.
