Steel pipes from Viet Nam do not circumvent U.S. trade remedy measures

According to the final determination issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), certain imported products from Viet Nam do not evade the anti-dumping and countervailing duties that the U.S. is applying to similar items from Taiwan due to the fact that these products do not use hot-rolled steel (HRS) sourced from Taiwan.

For the remaining steel pipe products from Viet Nam also under investigation for trade circumvention initiated on July 29, 2022, the DOC announced an extension of the deadline for the issuance of the final determination until November 2, 2023, instead of August 4, 2023 as previously declared.

Previously, on April 6, the DOC issued preliminary findings suggesting that there was evidence of Vietnamese enterprises evading the anti-dumping/countervailing duties imposed by the U.S. on China, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, and India.

However, the department allowed Vietnamese exporters to participate in the self-certification mechanism to confirm that they do not use HRS originating from China, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, and India to be exempt from the measures./.