Duties weighed on pipe product from Canada

WASHINGTON - It’s the latest incoming trade salvo from the United States: the U.S. is considering punitive duties on pipeline material from a half-dozen countries including Canada.

The duties being sought for large-diameter welded pipe from Canada are more than 50 per cent. Canada supplies about US$66 million of pipe annually to the U.S. for use in oil and gas pipelines.

The allegation from U.S. private industry is that foreign competitors from Canada, China, India, Greece, Korea and Turkey use unfairly dumped product. The U.S. Department of Commerce is now weighing the case and could make final determinations on anti-dumping and countervailing duties in July and September.

That’s if the U.S. International Trade Commission finds in March that the case has enough merit to proceed.