The United Steelworkers (USW) today called for a final countervailing duty and a preliminary anti-dumping duty to be placed on dumped and subsidized Chinese pipe imports commonly known as oil country tubular goods (OCTG) before the six-member U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).

USW International President Leo W. Gerard said that the future of 6,000 workers employed by seven OCTG pipe producers and their communities are at stake in an industry segment where nearly half of the domestic workforce has been laid off at different times since the case was jointly filed in April by the USW and the participating companies. The pipe imports case is the largest in U.S. history with imports valued at $2.6 billion in 2008.

“Between the end of 2008 and September 2009, this industry lost 2,421 workers,” Gerard said ... more