CITT Extends Anti-Dumping Order on Oil Country Tubular Goods Through 2030

CITT Renews OCTG Order for Another Five Years

On December 1, 2025, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated expiry review RR-2025-ER on oil country tubular goods subject to dumping duties since 2015. The original order covered seamless carbon or alloy steel casing, tubing, and coupling stock originating in or exported from Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Hyundai Steel (South Korea) remains exempt.

If you’ve been filing CADs on OCTG imports under this order, nothing changes immediately. The Tribunal’s expiry review process typically runs six to nine months; expect a final determination by mid-2026. If the order is renewed, the anti-dumping margins stay in force through December 2030. If it lapses, the CBSA will stop collecting provisional duties within thirty days of the CITT’s rescission notice.

Most expiry reviews result in renewal. The Tribunal has to be satisfied that rescinding the order would likely resume material injury to the domestic industry. Given that Canadian producers filed for the review and that global steel overcapacity hasn’t disappeared, the order is almost certain to extend.

What Changes for Importers in Q1 2026

If the order renews, CBSA will publish updated Normal Value (NRM) tables in early 2026. Those tables reset the per-tonne anti-dumping margin for each exporter and product specification. Your broker will adjust the CAD filing to reflect the new margin, and the RPP bond calculation will shift if your typical shipment size or landed value changes.

Two filing details to watch:

HS classification precision matters more under SIMA. The order covers seamless OCTG, so any welded pipe is out of scope. If CBSA flags your entry for verification and you can’t prove seamless origin with mill certs, you’ll owe the margin retroactively plus interest. We’ve seen importers assume all carbon steel pipe over a certain wall thickness is OCTG; it isn’t. Read the product exclusions in the original CITT order before you assume coverage.

Country of origin versus country of export. The order applies to goods originating in the nine named territories. If your Indonesian mill ships through Singapore, the goods are still subject. If your Thai supplier sources tube blanks from Malaysia and finishes them in Thailand, you need a paper trail proving substantial transformation. CBSA runs origin verifications on SIMA goods more aggressively than on routine commercial imports. Missing mill certs or vague commercial invoices will trigger a thirty-day RFI, and if you can’t close it, CBSA assesses the highest applicable margin from the NRM table.

SIMA Margins and the RPP Bond

Anti-dumping duties are provisional at the time of import. CBSA collects them as security, then finalizes the amount after the annual re-determination or at the end of the order period. That provisional character affects your Release Prior to Payment bond.

The RPP bond has to cover duties, GST, and any SIMA or CARM provisional amounts for goods released before final accounting. If you import twenty containers of OCTG per month and the anti-dumping margin is CAD 150 per tonne, your bond floor rises by the value of thirty days’ worth of provisional AD duty. Most importers undershoot the bond when SIMA goods enter the mix, then get surprised by a bond-call letter from CBSA three months later.

We size RPP bonds using actual trailing import volume, not guesses. If your bond sizing hasn’t been updated since CARM go-live in May 2024, and you’re importing subject goods under an active SIMA order, you’re probably under-bonded. CBSA’s K84 monthly statement will show the shortfall, and you’ll have fifteen days to top up or risk suspension of release privileges.

For help running the bond math on SIMA imports, our compliance team does this every week.

Why Expiry Reviews Happen

SIMA orders don’t sunset automatically. Every five years, the CITT reviews whether the original conditions, material injury to Canadian producers, still apply. Domestic mills can request continuation by filing an expiry review application. Foreign exporters or Canadian importers can argue for rescission by proving that dumping has ceased or that the domestic industry is no longer at risk.

In practice, rescission is rare. The Tribunal’s test is prospective: would injury likely resume if the order lapsed? Global steel capacity, particularly in Asia, remains high. Prices for seamless OCTG in the nine subject territories are still below Canadian production cost in most product categories. Unless a foreign exporter can show a sustained shift in pricing behavior or market conditions, the Tribunal will renew.

For importers, the expiry review is mostly wait-and-see. You can file submissions with the CITT if you have evidence that rescission wouldn’t harm the domestic industry, but the evidentiary bar is high and the process is expensive. Most importers let the mills and the foreign exporters fight it out.

Filing Changes to Expect

Once the CITT issues its final order in 2026, CBSA will update the SIMA Reference Document (SRD) and issue a new Customs Notice (D-series memo, likely a revision to D14-1-3). Your broker will adjust the CAD to reference the renewed order number and apply the updated NRM margin.

If you’ve been filing under the 2020 order and your supplier hasn’t changed, the transition is administrative. If you’ve switched suppliers or added new product specs since 2020, confirm with your broker that the new goods fall within the order’s scope. The product description in the CITT order is binding; the HS classification is illustrative. CBSA interprets scope questions narrowly, and if there’s ambiguity, you can request an advance ruling.

For advance ruling requests or scope interpretation, start the conversation with your brokerage team at least sixty days before you commit to a new supplier. CBSA’s advance ruling unit runs eight to twelve weeks on SIMA queries.

What Happens If You Miss the Margin

If you file a CAD without applying the SIMA margin, CBSA will catch it on the backend and issue a re-determination notice. You’ll owe the shortfall plus interest, calculated from the original release date. If the underpayment was due to misclassification or missing origin documentation, AMPS penalties apply.

The penalty for incorrect valuation or classification under AMPS is tiered: CAD 200 for a first infraction if it’s corrected voluntarily, up to CAD 25,000 for repeat or egregious cases. SIMA misclassification tends to fall into the higher tier because CBSA assumes commercial knowledge. If you’re in the oil and gas supply chain and you’re importing seamless pipe from Thailand, the expectation is that you know the SIMA order exists.

We see importers try to avoid the margin by reclassifying OCTG as general-purpose pipe or by routing shipments through non-subject countries without proof of substantial transformation. Both strategies fail. CBSA has ten years to audit and re-assess. The margin plus interest plus penalties will cost more than paying it correctly up front.

If your CAD history on OCTG looks messy and you want a clean-sheet review before the new order takes effect, that’s a Q4 2025 project. Contact us and we’ll pull your release history from the CARM portal.

Source: CSCB