Senators call for OCTG duty enforcement

Dec 12, 2012 | 03:43 PM | Samuel Frizell

Tags  oil country tubular goods, OCTG, anti-dumping, countervailing, Sherrod Brown, Rob Portman, Commerce Department, samuel frizzel

NEW YORK — Ten senators led by Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and Rob Portman (R., Ohio) have endorsed a letter urging the U.S. Commerce Department to "extend all efforts" to better enforce anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese shipments of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).

"These orders have been undermined by a variety of schemes designed to weaken them," the senators said in the letter. "Chinese actions will result in further injury to thousands of American workers and businesses as well as the weakening of U.S. trade law."....





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