SeAH Steel Challenges U.S. Oil Pipe Antidumping Duties

South Korean manufacturer SeAH Steel Corp. is challenging the U.S. duty rate on certain of its steel pipes at the U.S. Court of International Trade.

The U.S. maintains antidumping duties on Korean “oil country tubular goods,” a type of welded steel pipe used in oil and gas production. The U.S. imported an estimated $812 million worth of OCTG from South Korea in 2013, before the duties were put in place, according to the Commerce Department.

Commerce recently completed a periodic duty review covering OCTG that entered the U.S. between September 2017 and August 2018. The department calculated a dumping margin ...