Turkey Pipe AD/CVD Orders: Commerce Recognizes Borusan Mannesmann's Name Change
The Commerce Department is recognizing a Turkish company’s name change for the purposes of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products (standard pipe), welded line pipe (WLP), certain oil tubular goods (OCTG), and large diameter welded pipe (LDWP) from Turkey (A-489-501/C-489-502, A-489-822/C-489-823, A-489-816/C-489-817, A-489-833/C-489-834). Commerce confirmed the preliminary results of the AD and CVD changed circumstances reviews in the final results, determining that Borusan Birlesik Boru Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Borusan Boru) is the successor-in-interest to Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (BMB).
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Commerce found that Borusan Boru operates as materially the same business entity as BMB with respect to the production and sale of subject merchandise. It said there was no change to the material facts from the preliminary investigation, that Borusan Boru terminated its partnership with Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH in 2023, and that was part of the reason for the name change. Commerce said Borusan Boru reported that the only change to its board of directors was to replace the Salzgitter-appointed directors. With regard to the CVD order, Commerce said there was no evidence of significant changes between BMB and successor in interest Borusan Boru’s "operations, ownership or corporate or legal structure during the look back period which could have impacted the successor in interest company’s subsidy levels."
Commerce will assign Borusan Boru the cash deposit rates currently applicable to BMB pursuant to the standard pipe AD and CVD orders, welded line pipe AD and CVD orders, and the OCTG CVD order; and will continue to exclude it from OCTG AD order and LDWP AD and CVD orders. The reassignment of the rates is effective Nov. 13, 2023.
(See 2409090027 for a summary of the preliminary results of these reviews.)