AD: Argentina Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release stating that on June 29, 2006, a majority of the six Commissioners voted to revoke the existing antidumping (AD) duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Argentina (A-357-802).
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The majority determined that revocation of the existing AD duty order on subject merchandise from Argentina would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
However, all six ITC Commissioners determined that revoking the existing countervailing (CV) duty order on circular welded pipe and tube from Turkey; the existing AD duty orders on circular welded pipe and tube from Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey; and the existing AD 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. As a result, these AD and CV duty orders will remain in place.
(This action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which according to 19 CFR 351.218(a), requires the International Trade Administration (ITA) to revoke an AD or CV duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless it is found that revocation would be likely to lead to both (1) a continuation or recurrence of dumping or a countervailable subsidy and (2) material injury to a U.S. industry within a reasonably foreseeable time.
A negative determination either by the ITA with respect to (1) above or by the ITC with respect to (2) above results in the revocation of the AD and/or CV duty order.)
(See ITT's Online Archives or 07/14/05 news, 05071430, for BP summary of the ITA and ITC's initiation and scheduling of these investigations.)
ITC Contact - Peg O'Laughlin (202) 205-1819
ITC Press Release (06-063, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-253 and 731-TA-132, 252, 271, 409-410, 532-534, and 536 (second review), dated 06/29/06) available athttp://www.usitc.gov/ext_relations/news_release/2006/er0629dd2.htm