14 August 2007

Seamless Carbon or Alloy Steel Oil and Gas Well Casing Preliminary Injury Inquiry No. PI-2007-001

Notice of Commencement of Preliminary Injury Inquiry

Notice was received by the Secretary of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) on August 13, 2007, from the Director General of the Trade Programs Directorate at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) stating that the President of the CBSA had initiated an investigation into a complaint respecting the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of seamless carbon or alloy steel oil and gas well casing, whether plain end, beveled, threaded or threaded and coupled, heat-treated or non-heat-treated, meeting American Petroleum Institute specification 5CT, with an outside diameter not exceeding 11.75 inches (298.5 mm), in all grades, including proprietary grades, originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China.

Pursuant to subsection 34(2) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), the Tribunal has initiated a preliminary injury inquiry to determine whether the evidence discloses a reasonable indication that the dumping and subsidizing of the subject goods have caused injury or retardation or are threatening to cause injury, as these words are defined in SIMA.

The Tribunal’s inquiry will be conducted by way of written submissions. Each person or government wishing to participate in the inquiry must file a notice of participation with the Secretary at the following address on or before August 24, 2007. Each counsel who intends to represent a party in the inquiry must file a notice of representation, as well as a declaration and undertaking, with the Secretary on or before August 24, 2007.

The Secretary
Canadian International Trade Tribunal
Standard Life Centre
333 Laurier Avenue West
15th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0G7
Telephone: 613-993-3595
Fax: 613-990-2439
E-mail: [email protected]

The notice in its entirety is available on the CITT website at: http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/dumping/preinq/notices/pi2h001_e.asp.