HCMC - The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has slapped an anti-dumping tariff of 37.4% on products which oil country tubular goods (OCTG) producers in Vietnam and other markets export to the North American market, according to the Vietnam Competition Authority.

CBSA on December 14 announced a final conclusion on the anti-dumping re-investigation into OCTG imports from Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and Ukraine.

The authority under the Ministry of Industry and Trade cited the CBSA’s announcement as saying that the re-investigation was aimed at reinforcing the conclusions of the investigating authorities dated April 2, 2015 on injury to Canada’s domestic industry.

For Vietnam, CBSA said it conducted procedures related to Section 20 of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) for information about Vietnam's steel industry. However, due to a lack of cooperation from Vietnam as well as exporters based in Vietnam, the agency put Vietnamese exporters in the list of other exporters subject to the anti-dumping tax rate of 37.4% as applied as a result of the initial investigation.

Earlier on July 21 last year, CBSA announced anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probes into oil country tubular goods (OCTG) imports from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam, as well as anti-dumping investigations into the OCTG imports from Taiwan.

The investigation decision of CBSA came after two Canadian steel firms, Tenaris Canada and Evraz North America Inc., sent their petitions to the agency in April last year.