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The Commerce Department intends to make a company eligible for a certification process that would allow some oil country tubular goods it exports from Brunei and the Philippines to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties on OCTG from China (A-570-943/C-570-944), the agency said in a notice Feb. 14 announcing the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. Commerce says HLDS (B) Steel Sdn Bhd and its affiliate HLD Clark Steel Pipe Co., Inc. have now developed a system to identify which OCTG that they make in Brunei and the Philippines, respectively, are produced from non-Chinese origin hot-rolled steel.
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Under a ruling issued in November that found OCTG made in Brunei and the Philippines made from Chinese hot-rolled steel are circumventing AD/CV duties on OCTG from China (see 2111240039), all imports of OCTG from Brunei or the Philippines are considered to be subject to AD/CV duties because no companies had at the time of the ruling been able to differentiate OCTG made from Chinese-origin inputs.