Companies from Russia and other countries from Oct. 1, 2012 to Feb. 1, 2013 jointly supplied 89.64% of Ukraine's import quota for steel seamless casing and compressor pipes set for the period from October 1, 2012 to Sept. 30, 2013, and gained licenses to supply 15,769 tonnes of pipes, with the annual quota being 17,591 tonnes.
The Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry gave Interfax-Ukraine pipe import data as of Feb. 1, 2013.
The ministry said that Russian companies used up 99.91% of their quota, receiving licenses to supply 12,495 tonnes of pipes, with the quota being 12,506 tonnes.
Austrian companies received licenses to supply 1,636 tonnes of pipes, or 63.48% of the quota of 2,577 tonnes.
Polish companies used 66.34% of their quota of 1,158 tonnes to supply 768.16 tonnes, Romanian companies used 86.82% of their quota of 220 tonnes to supply 191 tonnes, and Chinese companies used 95.68% of their quota of 51 tonnes to supply 48.797 tonnes
At the same time, Slovakian companies (180 tonnes) and Indian ones (76 tonnes) did not receive licenses.
Other companies used 76.53% of their quota of 823 tonnes to supply 629.856 tonnes.
As reported, Ukraine on Sept. 30, 2011 prolonged the quotas it imposed in 2008 on the import of steel seamless casing and compressor pipes, irrespective of the country of origin, with the annual expansion of quotas being 5%.
According to the decision, during the first year of the re-imposed quotas (until Sept. 30, 2012), the total quota for pipe exports amounted to 16,753 tonnes, while the figure in the third year was 18,471 tonnes.
In June 2008, the interagency commission for international trade decided to impose special three-year quotas on the import of steel seamless casing and compressor pipes, irrespective of the country of origin. The investigation was started under an appeal of Dnipropetrovsk-based opened joint-stock company Interpipe Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Plant and closed joint-stock company Interpipe Nikopol Seamless Pipe Plant Niko Tube in Dnipropetrovsk region.
