Seamless Pipe: Details of AD/CV Duty Orders for South Korea, Russia and Ukraine
The Commerce Department Aug. 20 released antidumping duty orders on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from South Korea, Russia and Ukraine (A-580-909, A-821-826, A-823-819), and countervailing duty orders on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from South Korea and Russia (C-580-910, C-821-827). The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CV duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
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The orders detail a “gap period” of no CV duty liability for subject merchandise entered April 10, 2021, through Aug. 19, 2021, and of no AD duty liability for subject merchandise entered Aug. 9-19, 2021. Commerce may only suspend liquidation for a four-month period after its preliminary CV duty determination, issued Dec. 11, 2020, and for six months after its preliminary AD duty determinations, issued Feb. 10, 2021, without an International Trade Commission final affirmative injury determination in place. Commerce will order CBP to liquidate, without regard to AD or CV duties, any entries during these respective gap periods.
Subject merchandise entered during the CV duty gap period but outside the AD duty gap period (i.e., April 10, 2021, through Aug. 8, 2021) will only be assessed AD duties.
Commerce also recently issued an AD duty order following a concurrent investigation on seamless pipe from the Czech Republic (see 2104230036).
AD/CV Suspension of Liq Instructions
Suspension of liquidation resumes for all entries of subject merchandise entered on or after Aug. 20, the date that the final ITC affirmative injury determination was published.
CV Cash Deposit Instructions
Beginning Aug. 20, Commerce will require importers to pay CV duty cash deposits for all entries at the following rates:
Russia
| Producer/Exporter | CV Rate |
|---|---|
| PAO TMK / Volzhsky Pipe Plant Joint Stock Co. | 48.38% |
| All Others | 48.38% |
South Korea
| Producer/Exporter | CV Rate |
|---|---|
| Iljin Steel Corp. | 1.78% |
| All Others | 1.78% |
AD Cash Deposit Instructions
An AD cash deposit requirement is also in effect for subject merchandise entered on or after Aug. 20, equal to the rates listed below:
South Korea
| Company | AD Rate | Adjusted* |
|---|---|---|
| ILJIN Steel Corp. | 4.48% | 4.44% |
| All Others | 4.48% | 4.44% |
*As adjusted for export subsidies found in the concurrent CV duty investigation. This adjusted rate is currently not in effect because the CV duty investigation is in a “gap period,” but it will serve as the AD duty cash deposit rate when and if CV duty cash deposit requirements resume following issuance of a CV duty order.
Russia
| Company | AD Rate |
|---|---|
| PAO TMK / Volzhsky Pipe Plant Joint Stock Co. | 209.72% |
| All Others | 209.72% |
Ukraine
| Company | AD Rate |
|---|---|
| Interpipe Ukraine LLC / PJSC Interpipe Niznedneprovksy Tube Rolling Plant / LLC Interpipe Niko Tube | 23.75% |
| All Others | 23.75% |
(See the notices for additional details, including the full scope description, etc. See 2107010035 and 2107010024 for a summary of the final AD and CV duty determinations.)