The ITC has the final say in whether imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from nine countries including South Korea will face hefty anti-dumping duties after a complaint by local producers about cheap imports undercutting prices. United States Steel Corp, pipe specialist Tenaris subsidiary Maverick Tube Corporation; Boomerang Tube; Energex Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group ; Northwest Pipe Company ; Tejas Tubular Products; Russia's TMK IPSCO and France's Vallourec Star lodged the complaint last year after a surge in imports. Maverick Tube director Brad Lowe said the company had been forced to cut prices, cut back on staff and keep factory capacity idle as a result of cheap imports. "Without relief from unfair imports, Maverick will be forced to lay off more workers," he told the ITC.