India is set to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on some seamless pipe imports from China following a Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) recommendation.

The products in question are carbon steel seamless pipe below 355.6mm in outside diameter. A full list of product specifications and Chinese exporters affected can be found on DGAD’s website. The duty amounts to the difference between the landed value of the subject products and $961.33-1,610.67/tonne, provided the landed value is less.

The provisional AD duty on these products was imposed last May following an investigation initiated in July 2015 (see Kallanish 20 May).

Among those excluded are cast iron and stainless steel pipe, alloy steel pipe and ASTM A213/ASME SA 213 or ASTM A335/ ASME SA 335 grade tube or hollow sections, and high-pressure seamless pipe used for manufacturing gas cylinders.

The probe found that in calendar-year 2014 Indian domestic demand for the investigated products was 535,264 tonnes compared to 626,818t in the fiscal year through March 2014. Imports from China were at 230,850t compared to 281,931t, same basis. Domestic industry’s production was 266,992t versus 268,756t.