Copper Pipe Fitting, Inquiry No. NQ-2017-004

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal), pursuant to the provisions of section 42 of the Special Import Measures Act, has conducted an inquiry to determine whether the dumping and subsidizing of pressure pipe fittings and drainage, waste and vent pipe fittings, made of cast copper alloy, wrought (or “wrot”) copper alloy or wrought copper for use in heating, plumbing, air conditioning and refrigeration applications, originating in or exported from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, restricted to the products enumerated in the attached Appendix, have caused injury or are threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry.

This inquiry follows the issuance by the President of the Canada Border Services Agency of a preliminary determination dated January 25, 2018, and of a final determination dated April 25, 2018, that the above-mentioned goods have been dumped and subsidized.

Further to the Tribunal’s inquiry, the Tribunal hereby finds, pursuant to subsection 43(1) of the Special Import Measures Act, that the dumping and subsidizing of the above-mentioned goods originating in or exported from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have caused injury to the domestic industry.

Finding issued Friday, May 25, 2018
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