Trade Cases

Commerce to lower import duties on welded pipe from UAE

January 9, 2024

The US Department of Commerce will likely be lowering the antidumping duty (AD) rates on imports of welded pipe from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to a Federal Register filing.

Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) is conducting an administrative review of the AD order on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe imports from the UAE.

In the review, the ITA preliminarily determined that the UAE made sales of the subject pipe in the US at prices below normal value during the period of review, Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.

The ITA set initial weighted-average dumping margins of 0.96% for the UAE’s Conares Metal Supply and 1.09% for Universal Tube and Plastic Industries, THL Tube and Pipe Industries, and KHK Scaffolding and Framework. Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes, KD Industries, and TSI Metal Industries were assigned margins of 1.06%.

These preliminary rates are lower than the ones the companies received in the prior one-year period of review: 5.06% for Ajmal; 2.63% for Universal, THL, and KHK; and 3.63% for Conares, KD, and TSI.

The agency is asking interested parties to submit comments by Feb. 7. It intends to make its final determination in this review by May 7.

A sunset review of these duties was completed in 2022. It was determined that the duties should remain in place for another five years on the pipe imports from the UAE, Oman, and Pakistan.

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. Since 2007, she has held various editorial and marketing positions with steel industry publications, associations, and mills. In 2021, after a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel trade journalism, joining SMU in 2022. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.