DOC Finding: China and India Subsidized Tubing Exports to the US

Falls Church, VA (AIIS) - The Department of Commerce announced affirmative preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigations of imports of cold-drawn mechanical tubing from China and India.

“The merchandise covered by these investigations is cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel (cold-drawn mechanical tubing) of circular cross-section, in actual outside diameters less than 331 mm, and regardless of wall thickness, surface finish, end finish or industry specification,” the agency explained.

Subsidy rates for China ranged from 33.31-35.69 percent, while subsidy rates for India were from 3.04-8.09 percent.

The Commerce Department is expected to make final determinations in the cases by Dec. 4. If those determinations are positive, the International Trade Commission will then determine if domestic manufacturers suffered material injury as a result of the subsidies.

Courtesy: AIIS