Canada imposes anti-dumping tax on oil pipelines from Vietnam

Canada has just announced the final conclusion in its re-investigation of oil pipeline products from a number of countries, including Vietnam.

The Competition Management Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) said that on December 14, 2015, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced the final conclusion in the re-investigation of the anti-dumping investigation on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) imported from Vietnam to re-determine the normal value and export price.

CBSA concluded that, because Vietnamese exporters did not provide sufficient information to the investigating agency, CBSA decided to classify Vietnamese exporters as other exporters and subject them to an anti-dumping duty of 37.4%. (The duty rate applied in the original investigation was also 37.4%).

Vietnamese oil pipelines imported into Canada are subject to an anti-dumping tax of 37.4%. (Photo: VCA).

Previously, according to the CBSA's announcement, the re-investigation program aims to strengthen the investigation agency's conclusion on April 2, 2015, regarding injury to Canada's domestic manufacturing industry.

During the investigation, CBSA requested information from the applicant and exporters regarding the need to update normal value for future shipments.

As for Vietnam, within the framework of this re-investigation, CBSA has collected information related to section 20 of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) to assess the market economy issue for the Vietnamese steel industry (including oil pipelines).

However, CBSA was unable to make a final conclusion regarding this issue, due to not receiving complete information from Vietnamese export enterprises./.

According to VOV.VN