OCTG Antidumping and Countervailing Orders Continue

OCTG antidumping duties remain a significant landed-cost and compliance concern for U.S. energy supply chains. The continued orders covering oil country tubular goods from India, Korea, Turkiye, Vietnam, and Ukraine require importers and customs brokers to maintain disciplined scope, cash-deposit, classification, and drawback controls.

What the Continued OCTG Orders Mean for Importers

The antidumping duty orders on certain oil country tubular goods from India, Korea, Turkiye, Vietnam, and Ukraine remain in effect following the second sunset reviews. Countervailing duty orders also continue for covered OCTG from India and Turkiye. The continuation became effective September 29, 2026.

Most of the underlying antidumping and countervailing duty orders date to September 10, 2014. The Ukraine antidumping order was issued in 2019 after termination of the applicable suspension agreement. Although these measures have been in place for years, continuation preserves substantial financial and operational exposure for affected importers.

Existing Cash-Deposit Rates Continue

U.S. Customs and Border Protection generally continues collecting AD/CVD cash deposits at the rates in effect when merchandise enters. Importers should not replace existing deposit rates with the dumping or subsidy figures developed during the sunset reviews.

The sunset review findings identified dumping margins likely to prevail if the orders were revoked, including margins of up to:

• 11.24 percent for India
• 6.49 percent for Korea
• 35.86 percent for Turkiye
• 111.47 percent for Vietnam
• 7.47 percent for Ukraine

The countervailing duty review identified likely subsidy rates for India ranging from 13.87 percent to 27.77 percent, depending on the producer or exporter, and a 2.87 percent rate for the reviewed Turkish producer group and all other Turkish companies.

These figures support the continuation analysis. They are not automatically new cash-deposit rates. The operative deposit rate generally depends on the exporter, producer, applicable administrative review results, and entry date. Customs brokers should therefore validate the current company-specific or all-others rate rather than relying on a sunset figure, a commercial invoice notation, or a rate stored in an older product master.

Determining Whether OCTG Falls Within Scope

Scope analysis is often the most consequential step in OCTG compliance. A product may be commercially described as casing, tubing, unfinished pipe, green tube, or coupling stock and still fall within an order. Conversely, classification under a tariff provision associated with OCTG does not by itself establish that merchandise is covered.

The continued orders generally cover certain casing and tubing used as oil country tubular goods. Coverage can include seamless or welded products, carbon or alloy steel, finished or unfinished merchandise, green tubes, and OCTG coupling stock. The scope may apply even when further processing will occur after importation.

Exclusions Require Product-Level Support

The scope excludes several categories, including casing or tubing containing 10.5 percent or more chromium, drill pipe, unattached couplings, and unattached thread protectors. Importers relying on an exclusion should maintain evidence that directly supports the relevant technical characteristic or product configuration.

For the chromium exclusion, useful records may include mill test certificates, heat chemistry, production specifications, purchase documents, and traceability records linking the imported item to the test results. A generic catalog description or supplier statement may not provide sufficient support if the entry is examined.

Relevant tariff classifications generally fall within headings 7304, 7305, and 7306 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. These headings are useful screening indicators, but the written scope is dispositive. Classification and scope should therefore be evaluated as separate, connected questions.

Customs brokers should request enough technical data to identify the manufacturing method, grade, dimensions, chemistry, intended use, finishing status, and connection configuration. Importers should also review mixed shipments carefully. Finished casing, green tubes, excluded drill pipe, and unattached accessories may require different treatment even when purchased from the same supplier or shipped under the same commercial invoice.

When coverage remains uncertain, the importer should consider whether a formal scope determination or other specialist analysis is appropriate. That decision should occur before repeated entries create a material deposit or liquidation exposure.

Managing Landed Cost, Entry Data, and Drawback

Continued AD/CVD orders affect more than the entry summary. Deposits can materially change inventory valuation, customer pricing, sourcing decisions, working-capital requirements, and contract terms. The effect is particularly significant when antidumping and countervailing duties apply cumulatively to the same Indian or Turkish merchandise.

Importers should include the applicable deposits in landed-cost models while recognizing that cash deposits are not necessarily the final duty liability. Administrative reviews can produce final assessment rates that differ from deposit rates. Depending on the results and liquidation instructions, an importer may owe additional duties or become eligible for a refund.

Entry Controls Should Preserve Rate and Scope Evidence

A durable OCTG control framework generally records the producer, exporter, country of origin, order case, deposit rate, scope rationale, tariff classification, entry date, and supporting product specifications. Producer and exporter identity should be verified rather than inferred from a purchase order or broker database.

Related operational controls should include:

• Checking current producer-specific and exporter-specific deposit instructions
• Separating antidumping duties, countervailing duties, and ordinary customs duties in accounting records
• Reconciling entry data against invoices, mill certificates, and receiving records
• Monitoring administrative review periods and liquidation status
• Testing whether related-party, reseller, or third-country transactions change reporting requirements
• Preserving records that connect imported pipe to later exports, destruction, or manufacturing activity

AD/CVD Amounts Must Be Excluded From Drawback

Antidumping and countervailing duties are not eligible for duty drawback under 19 U.S.C. 1677h. Importers and drawback filers should not include those amounts in the recoverable duty pool, even when the underlying OCTG is later exported or destroyed.

Ordinary customs duties paid on the same entry may still qualify for drawback when the applicable statutory and operational requirements are satisfied. Eligibility may arise through direct identification, substitution, manufacturing drawback, or another permitted claim structure, depending on the facts.

This distinction makes duty-type segregation essential. Entry records should separately identify ordinary duty, antidumping deposits, countervailing deposits, merchandise processing fees, and other charges. If systems combine these amounts into a single landed-duty field, drawback calculations can overstate the refund and create avoidable compliance risk. Brokers filing drawback should also confirm that imported and exported merchandise records preserve the data needed to support eligibility without carrying prohibited AD/CVD amounts into the claim.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Countries Remain Subject to the OCTG Orders?

The antidumping orders continue for covered oil country tubular goods from India, Korea, Turkiye, Vietnam, and Ukraine. Countervailing duty orders continue for covered OCTG from India and Turkiye. Goods from India or Turkiye may therefore be subject to both antidumping and countervailing duty deposits.

Did the Sunset Reviews Create New Cash-Deposit Rates?

No. The margins and subsidy rates developed for the sunset analysis represent rates considered likely to prevail if the orders were revoked. They do not automatically replace existing cash-deposit rates. The applicable rate generally comes from the most recent completed segment and depends on the producer, exporter, and entry circumstances.

Does an HTSUS Classification Determine Scope Coverage?

No. Headings 7304, 7305, and 7306 can help identify entries that warrant review, but tariff classification is not conclusive. The written scope controls. Importers should compare the product's physical characteristics, chemistry, manufacturing method, finishing status, and configuration against the complete scope language and exclusions.

Can Ordinary Duties on OCTG Be Recovered Through Drawback?

Potentially. AD/CVD duties cannot be recovered through drawback, but ordinary customs duties paid on the same entry may qualify when the merchandise is exported, destroyed, or used to manufacture exported goods and all other requirements are met. Claim calculations must segregate ordinary duties from prohibited AD/CVD amounts.

When Will the OCTG Orders Be Reviewed Again?

Sunset reviews generally operate on a five-year cycle. Commerce is expected to initiate the next reviews no later than 30 days before the fifth anniversary of the latest injury determinations. Importers should not assume that the orders will expire automatically at that point, since continuation depends on the results of the next review process.

How Stable Software Can Help

Build a Controlled Drawback Process

Continued OCTG orders make accurate duty segregation especially important. Customs brokers must prevent antidumping and countervailing duty amounts from entering drawback claims while preserving potentially eligible ordinary customs duties associated with exported or destroyed merchandise.

DrawbackAI is flat-license duty drawback software that U.S. customs brokers can white-label for importer clients and use to file under their own filer code. Stable Software charges a flat software license and never takes a percentage of the refund. Brokers evaluating OCTG-related drawback opportunities can use the platform as part of a controlled filing process that keeps the economics of each valid recovery with the broker and importer.

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