UK Makes Changes to Antidumping Duties on Welded Tubes and Pipes From Belarus, China
The United Kingdom removed the antidumping duty on welded tubes and pipes from Russia as part of changes made to the duties in two trade remedies notices published Aug. 9. The changes also varied the AD duties on the subject…
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goods from Belarus and China, in line with the Trade Remedies Authority's recommendations on the duties. The new rates of the AD duties applicable to the net, free-at-the-frontier price before other import duties of welded tubes and pipes is 38.1% from Belarus and 90.6% from China. However, neither of these is the actual dumping rate, since the U.K. accompanied this change with a partial suspension of the AD duties on welded tubes and pipes from Belarus to avoid double trade barriers. The payable duty rate on the covered goods from Belarus is 13.1%. The suspension does not cover Chinese products that were already granted an exception to the tariff-rate quota on steel goods.