PURPOSE: To allow the complete removal of a residual lubricant and high-carbon concn. layer and to inexpensively produce the austenitic stainless seamless steel pipe without generating rolling defects and flaws by removing the inside surface of a blank pipe for finish rolling right after mandrel mill rolling by a specific size in the thickness direction, then subjecting the blank pipe to finish rolling.

CONSTITUTION: The blank pipe 4B for finish rolling stretched by the mandrel mill is treated in a pickling tank 9 or grinding machine 10 and the inside surface of the pipe is removed by ≥20μm and ≤50μm in the thickness direction. The product which has excellent grain boundary corrosion resistance performance, has the fold depth on the inside surface within a negligible range and obviates the generation of the pitting on the inside surface is thus obtd.