Product description: Stainless-Steel Seamless Tubes and Pipes with diameter up to and including 6 NPS, or comparable thereof in other unit of measurement, whether manufactured using hot extrusion process or hot piercing process and whether sold as hot finished or cold finished pipes and tubes, including subject goods imported in the form of defectives, non-prime or secondary grades.

Product Concerned: The application was filed for exclusion of threaded product from the scope of the product under consideration.

HS Codes: The product under consideration is classified under Chapter 73 under tariff headings 7304.

Country involved: China

Applicant: Vedanta Limited

Domestic industry: Jindal Saw Limited

Date of Initiation: 26^th June 2025

Key findings:

1. The applicant sought exclusion of “Casing & Tubing with premium threading (OCTG) manufactured using Seal-Lock XD process” from the scope of the duty and alleged that the product concerned is not covered under the scope of the product under consideration.
2. The product under consideration defined in the original investigation does not distinguish between threaded and non-threaded product.
3. The domestic industry has produced and sold the product concerned in the domestic market in the period of investigation of the original investigation as well as in the current period.
4. The domestic producer holds a license from Hunting PLC for threading and has produced identical article to that imported into India.
5. There is no difference between the applications considered for the product under consideration at the time of the original investigation and the applications listed by the applicant for the product concerned.
6. Product concerned is only a product type of the product under consideration. There are multiple producers of the product under consideration in India.
7. Merely because one product grade is priced higher than average price of imports in India, does not mean that the same is not being dumped in India.
8. The HS Code pertaining to the product concerned is already included in the HS Codes on which anti-dumping duty has been imposed.
9. There is no need to change the scope of the product under consideration as considered in the original investigation and product concerned is covered within the scope of the product under consideration.