PIPE AND TUBE FROM ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, INDIA, KOREA, MEXICO, TAIWAN, THAILAND, AND TURKEY
ITC MAKES DETERMINATIONS IN FIVE-YEAR (SUNSET) REVIEWS CONCERNING CERTAIN PIPE AND TUBE FROM ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, INDIA, KOREA, MEXICO, TAIWAN, THAILAND, AND TURKEY
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC or Commission) today determined that revoking the existing countervailing duty order on circular welded pipe and tube from Turkey; the existing antidumping duty orders on circular welded pipe and tube from Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey; and the existing antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Taiwan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. The Commission further found that revoking the existing antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Argentina would not 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 and Commerce’s recent affirmative findings, the existing orders on imports of circular welded pipe and tube from Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey and on imports of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Taiwan will remain in place. The existing order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Argentina will be revoked.
Chairman Daniel R. Pearson, Vice Chairman Shara L. Aranoff, and Commissioners Jennifer A. Hillman and Deanna Tanner Okun voted in the affirmative with respect to circular welded pipe and tube from Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey and light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Taiwan; they voted in the negative with respect to light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Argentina. Commissioners Stephen Koplan and Charlotte R. Lane voted in the affirmative with respect to all products from all countries.
Today’s action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. See the attached page for background on these five-year (sunset) reviews.
The Commission’s public report Certain Pipe and Tube from Argentina, Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey (Inv. Nos. 701-TA-253 and 731-TA-132, 252, 271, 409-410, 532-534, and 536 (Second Review)), USITC Publication 3867, July 2006) will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the reviews.
Copies may be requested after July 28, 2006, by calling 202-205-1809 or by contacting the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may be made by fax at 202-205-2104.
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BACKGROUND
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act 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 ITC determine that revoking the order or terminating the suspension agreement would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping or subsidies (Commerce) and of material injury (ITC) within a reasonably foreseeable time.
The Commission’s institution notice in five-year reviews requests that interested parties file responses with the Commission concerning the likely effects of revoking the order under review as well as other information. Generally within 95 days from institution, the Commission will determine whether the responses it has received reflect an adequate or inadequate level of interest in a full review. If responses to the ITC’s notice of institution are adequate, or if other circumstances warrant a full review, the Commission conducts a full review, which includes a public hearing and issuance of questionnaires.
The Commission generally does not hold a hearing or conduct further investigative activities in expedited reviews. Commissioners base their injury determination in expedited reviews on the facts available, including the Commission’s prior injury and review determinations, responses received to its notice of institution, data collected by staff in connection with the review, and information provided by the Department of Commerce.
The five-year (sunset) reviews concerning Certain Pipe and Tube from Argentina, Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey were instituted on July 1, 2005.
On October 4, 2005, the Commission voted to conduct full reviews. With respect to welded carbon steel pipe and tube from Turkey and circular welded nonalloy steel pipe from Mexico, all six Commissioners concluded that both the domestic and respondent group responses were adequate and voted for full reviews. With respect to welded carbon steel pipe and tube from Thailand and India, small diameter carbon steel pipe and tube from Taiwan, and circular welded nonalloy steel pipe from Brazil, Korea, and Taiwan, all six Commissioners concluded that the domestic group responses were adequate and the respondent group responses were inadequate, but that circumstances warranted full reviews. With respect to light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Argentina and Taiwan, Chairman Stephen Koplan and Commissioners Charlotte R. Lane and Shara L. Aranoff concluded that the domestic group responses were adequate and the respondent group responses were inadequate, but that circumstances warranted full reviews; Vice Chairman Deanna Tanner Okun and Commissioners Jennifer A. Hillman and Daniel R. Pearson concluded that the domestic group responses were adequate and the respondent group responses were inadequate and voted for expedited reviews.
Information concerning the reasons for the Commission’s vote to conduct full reviews was published in the Federal Register on October 17, 2005. That notice and a record of the Commission’s vote is posted on the ITC’s Internet site at http://info.usitc.gov/oinv/sunset.NSF (under “Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe – Turkey (CVD) (2nd Review),” “Small Diameter Carbon Steel Pipe – Taiwan (2nd Review),” “Welded Carbon Steel Pipe – Thailand (2nd Review),” “Welded Carbon Steel Pipe – India (2nd Review),” “Welded Carbon Steel Pipe – Turkey (AD) (2nd Review),” “Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe – Argentina (2nd Review),” “Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe – Taiwan (2nd Review),” “Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe – Brazil (2nd Review),” “Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe – Korea (2nd Review),” “Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe – Mexico (2nd Review),” and “Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe – Taiwan (2nd Review)”).
In addition, a record of the Commission’s vote to conduct full reviews is available from the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may be made by telephone by calling 202-205-1802.