The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has determined preliminary dumping margins for welded line pipe imports from Korea and Turkey. The DOC reviewed the one-year period ended 30 September 2014, Kallanish notes.

For Korean producers and exporters, the DOC assigned preliminary weighted-average dumping margins of 2.52% for Hyundai Hysco, 2.67% for SeAH Steel, and 2.6% for all others.

For Turkey, the preliminary margins assigned were: 9.85% for the Borusan group, 9.71% for Çayirova, 3.11% for Tosçelik Profil, and 3.29% for all other producers and exporters. Several of the Turkish companies involved in the investigation requested an extension of the case. Therefore, the DOC is postponing making its final determination until October.

According to US government data analysed by Kallanish, welded line pipe shipments during the period of review totalled 674,900 tonnes from Korea and 64,800 tonnes from Turkey.

The imports covered in this investigation include carbon and alloy welded line pipe used for oil and gas pipelines, not more than 24 inches in outside diameter, regardless of wall thickness, length, surface finish, end finish or stencilling.

The antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty cases against these imports were originally filed in 2014.  The complainants were US line pipe producers American Cast Iron Pipe, Energex, Maverick Tube, Northwest Pipe, Stupp Corp, Tex-Tube, TMK Ipsco, and Welspun Tubular. US Steel also supported the case.