Tariffs & HTS
UAE welded steel pipe: final U.S. dumping rates for 2023–2024
Commerce's final antidumping review of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates, covering December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2024, sets margins of 3.15% for Conares Metal Supply Limited and 5.11% for the Universal group (THL Tube and Pipe Industries LLC, KHK Scaffolding and Formwork LLC and Universal Tube and Pipe Industries FZE). Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes, K.D. Industries Inc. and TSI Metal Industries L.L.C., which were not individually examined, receive 4.68%. From October 6, 2026, cash deposits follow these rates; all other producers and exporters keep the 5.95% all-others rate.
What changed
After the preliminary results of June 3, 2026, Commerce changed the margin calculations for the Universal group in response to comments; the Issues and Decision Memorandum covers the two-percent threshold of the price difference test, international freight in Universal's freight revenue cap, the cap on its cutting revenue and the matching of prime and non-prime sales.
The 4.68% rate for the non-examined companies is the weighted average of the Conares and Universal margins, weighted by their publicly ranged sales values.
For the review period, CBP assesses duties using importer-specific rates based on the dumping found on each importer's examined sales; entries with a zero or de minimis rate are liquidated without antidumping duties, and entries that Conares or Universal did not know were bound for the United States are liquidated at the investigation's all-others rate if the intermediary has no rate.
Assessment instructions come no earlier than 35 days after publication, and a timely Court of International Trade summons delays liquidation. Importers must file the reimbursement certificate under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) before liquidation or risk a double assessment. The written scope is in the memorandum.
What an import team should check
- Match each UAE pipe supplier to the final table: Conares 3.15%, the Universal group 5.11%, and Ajmal, K.D. Industries and TSI Metal 4.68%, and apply those deposit rates to shipments entered for consumption from October 6, 2026.
- Keep the 5.95% all-others deposit for any other UAE producer or exporter, unless it has a company-specific rate from an earlier segment of the proceeding.
- For unliquidated entries from December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024, ask your broker which importer-specific assessment rate will apply and file the reimbursement certificate before liquidation.