CANADIAN INVESTIGATION FINDS DUMPED AND SUBSIDIZED IMPORTS OF CHINESE PILING PIPE
Harrow, Ontario, August 2, 2012 - Atlas Tube Canada Inc., Harrow, Ontario, is pleased with Canada Border Services Agency’s preliminary determination on imports of dumped and subsidized piling pipe from China.
The Agency has found substantial dumping margins, ranging from 78.4% to 96.2% and additional subsidy amounts ranging from 8.2% to 13.9% on these imports. Provisional duties are now being applied to these goods. The duties will be finalized after the Canadian International Trade Tribunal confirms Atlas’ position that these imports have been injuring the company’s operations and threatening Canadian jobs.
As a major Canadian producer of piling pipe and an employer of hundreds of persons at its Harrow, Ontario, plant, Atlas filed a complaint with the Canadian government earlier this year to combat a continuous flood of low-priced Chinese pipe into Western Canada. This was done to protect Atlas’ manufacturing operations and safeguard the jobs of its employees from the injurious effect of this unfair pricing of Chinese-origin products.
Atlas anticipates that the final stage in this process will lead to the curtailment of this injurious activity through the application of permanent anti-dumping and countervailing duties to the imports concerned.
About Atlas Tube
Atlas Tube, a division of the JMC Steel Group, was founded in Harrow, Ontario in 1984 and has been manufacturing Hollow Structural Sections (HSS) for over three decades. It is the largest HSS producer in North America, sizes from 1” – 20” round, up to 16” square, and up to 20” x 12” rectangles. Atlas Tube has five state-of-the-art production facilities in Chicago, Illinois; Plymouth, Michigan; Blytheville, Arkansas; Harrow, Ontario; and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Today, its steel tubing products are used in some of the most demanding applications, including commercial and industrial building columns, solar support structures, sports stadiums, bridges, mobile construction equipment, railcars and oil rigs.
For more information about Atlas Tube, and its HSS products, go to www.atlastube.com, email sales@atlastube.com, or call 800-265-6912.
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