CIT Finds Indonesian OCTG Made From Chinese Green Tubes Not Subject to AD Duties on China

Oil country tubular goods manufactured in Indonesia using Chinese green tubes as an input are not subject to antidumping duties on oil country tubular goods from China, the Court of International Trade said (here) as it sustained a Commerce Department scope ruling. Commerce had originally ruled the Indonesian finishing operations do not substantially transform the goods, saying they remain subject to duties on OCTG from China (see 14021124). However, the court found that logic to be unjustified in previous court rulings, and Commerce in its redetermination found that nothing in the scope of the China OCTG order covers OCTG from third countries. CIT also sustained Commerce’s decision that the OCTG from Indonesia are not circumventing AD duties because the finishing process in Indonesia is not minor or insignificant.