Ukraine OCTG: Amended Final Results of AD Admin Review

The Commerce Department has published amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Ukraine (A-823-815) originally published Feb. 10, 2022. In that review, covering entries from the only company under review, Interpipe, from July 10, 2019, through June 30, 2020, Commerce set an AD rate of 27.8%. Interpipe consists of Interpipe Europe S.A./ Interpipe Ukraine LLC / PJSC Interpipe Niznedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant (aka Interpipe NTRP) / LLC Interpipe Niko Tube.

After the final results were published, Interpipe filed a lawsuit challenging the results in the Court of International Trade. A settlement in the suit was reached last week, on April 30, and CIT issued its order of judgment by stipulation May 2. Settlement terms include that the new rate calculated for the final results in that review for Interpipe is 0.01%, or de minimis, which is equivalent to zero percent. Because Interpipe’s weighted average dumping margin is zero, Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.

But the amended results won't change the current cash deposit rate for Interpipe, because Interpipe has a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there have been final results published in a subsequent administrative review. Commerce won't issue revised cash deposit instructions to CBP.

(The review period is 07/10/19 - 06/30/20. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope of the order, detailed cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc. See 2202090040 for a summary of the original final results and 2108060049 for a summary of the preliminary results of this review.)