OCTG antidumping duty: Commerce sets 47.21% to 68.88% preliminary margins on Austrian, Taiwanese and UAE oil country tubular goods

The Commerce Department opened the midterm election morning with three antidumping preliminary determinations on oil country tubular goods, or OCTG, the well casing and tubing used in oil and gas drilling. The notices, published in the November 4 Federal Register at pages 69528 to 69541, preliminarily find the pipe was sold at less than fair value from Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates, and they assign estimated dumping margins from 47.21 percent to 68.88 percent that importers must now secure with cash deposits at the border.

This is the first time the department has put preliminary margins on these three suppliers in this round of investigations. The cases share one proceeding, i…