The US Department of Commerce has opened a probe into allegations that India and eight other countries are illegally selling steel pipe at an unfairly low prices in America.

“Domestic steel pipe producers are being crippled by an onslaught of foreign competitors illegally dumping imports in the United States,” Senator Sherrod Brown said, days after the Commerce Department launched a probe against South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Ukraine of unfair and illegal trade practises.

Brown and Senator Rob Portman yesterday called on the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to protect domestic producers of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) from foreign competitors that use unfair and illegal trade practises.