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The development history of seamless steel pipe:
Overseas development
United States Department of Commerce announced on February 24, 2010, levied on seamless steel pipe imported from China a countervailing duties range from 11.06% to 12.97%. A statement made by United States Department of Commerce said that from 2006 to 2008, the imported seamless steel pipe imported from China was increased by 131.52%, amounts to about $ 382 million. In October 2011, the United States Department of Commerce United States Steel Corporation placed a case on file for the anti-subsidy of seamless steel as the instance of V&M Star, TMK IPSCO companies as well as the United States Steelworkers Union. At that time, the Chinese Commerce Ministry officials had said that China was firmly opposes to the blind accused of dumping or subsidies in Chinese imports which lack of factual basis.

Early November 2011, the United States International Trade Commission has issued preliminary determinations. Schedule display that in May 2011, the United States Department of Commerce will make its final judge and the United States International Trade Commission's final judge will take place in June. Adversely affected by the financial crisis and economic downturn, since 2009 the United States frequently used trade remedies. A recent report was provided to Xinhua Newspaper by a senior economist who in charge of international trade research in World Bank. According to the report, in 2009, the global implementation of countervailing, anti-dumping, special protection, and other restrictions on trade policy has an increase of of 29.5% compared with 2008. Trade protectionism has become important world economic recovery vulnerability. So did it to the export of seamless black steel pipe.

Domestic development
Since March, there was an overall rise in domestic steel seamless steel pipe production. On October 2012, domestic seamless steel tube production was 2.48 million tons, representing an increase of 8.6%; from January to October, the national cumulative production of seamless steel tubes was 22.859 million tons, accumulated an increase of 6.9%. According to the “Investment Forecast of Production and Sale of Seamless Steel Pipe Industry in China ”, in November 2012,the production of domestic seamless steel pipes is 2.572 million tons, added 299,000 tons during the same period compared to last year, achieved an increase of 13.2%, sequential growth is 3.71%; 25.635 million tons in January-November National cumulative production of seamless steel pipes, accumulated an increase of 8.2%.