The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced it concluded undertaking reviews in relation to certain sucker rods from exporting parties Metalmecanica S.A. from Argentina, Confab Industrial S.A. from Brazil, and Tubos de Acero de Mexico S.A. from Mexico.
The undertakings have now been renewed for a period of not more than five years. Consequently, the CBSA will continue to suspend the collection of provisional duties with respect to the subject goods and suspend the investigation for as long as the undertakings are in force.
Back in December 2019, following a complaint by a Canadian manufacturer, the CBSA and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal had determined that certain sucker rods from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico were dumped and that the dumping caused injury to the domestic industry.
Then, in March 2020 the CBSA accepted undertakings from the exporting parties from the named countries and suspended the investigation. An undertaking is an offer made voluntarily by an exporter to the President of the CBSA to increase the selling price of goods so that the margin of dumping or the injury to Canadian industry is eliminated.
The undertaking reviews were initiated on October 30, 2024.