Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Circumvention Inquiry on the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration [A-570-943, C-570-944] AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: In response to a request from the Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports Subcommittee for OCTG (the CPTI OCTG Subcommittee) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (USW) (collectively, the requestors), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating a country-wide circumvention inquiry to determine whether imports of seamless oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from the People's Republic of China (China) which are completed in Thailand from steel billets produced in China are circumventing the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on OCTG from China. DATES: Applicable December 18, 2024. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barb Rawdon, AD/CVD Office of Policy, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0474. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On July 18, 2024, pursuant to section 781(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.226(i) , the requestors  [ 1 ] filed a circumvention inquiry request alleging that OCTG completed in Thailand using steel billets manufactured in China, is circumventing the AD and CVD orders on OCTG f…