80_FR_61563 80 FR 61366 - Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value

80 FR 61366 - Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 197 (October 13, 2015)

Page Range61366-61368
FR Document2015-25980

The Department of Commerce (the Department) determines that welded line pipe from the Republic of Korea (Korea) is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV), as provided in section 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). The period of investigation (POI) is October 1, 2013, through September 30, 2014. The final dumping margins of sales at LTFV are listed below in the ``Final Determination'' section of this notice.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 197 (Tuesday, October 13, 2015)
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-876]


Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Final Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) determines that 
welded line pipe from the Republic of Korea (Korea) is being, or is 
likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV), 
as provided in section 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act). The period of investigation (POI) is October 1, 2013, 
through September 30, 2014. The final dumping margins of sales at LTFV 
are listed below in the ``Final Determination'' section of this notice.

DATES: Effective Date: October 13, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Goldberger or Ross Belliveau, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4136 or (202) 482-
4952, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 22, 2015, the Department published the Preliminary 
Determination of sales at LTFV of welded line pipe from Korea.\1\ For a 
history of events following the publication of the Preliminary 
Determination, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum,\2\ which is 
hereby adopted by this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a 
public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and 
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic 
Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at 
https://access.trade.gov and it is available to all parties in the 
Central Records Unit, room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce 
building. In addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum can be accessed directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed Issues and Decision Memorandum and 
electronic version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical 
in content.
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    \1\ See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of 
Final Determination, 80 FR 29620 (May 22, 2015) (Preliminary 
Determination).
    \2\ See Memorandum entitled ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for 
the Final Affirmative Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value 
Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea,'' 
dated concurrently with this notice (Issues and Decision 
Memorandum).
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Scope of the Investigation

    The scope of the investigation covers welded line pipe, which is 
carbon and alloy steel pipe of a kind used for oil and gas pipelines, 
not more than 24 inches in nominal outside diameter. For a complete 
description of the scope of the investigation, see Appendix I.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties in 
this investigation are addressed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum,\3\ which is hereby adopted by this notice. A list of the 
issues raised is attached to this notice as Appendix II.
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    \3\ See Id.
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Verification

    As provided in section 782(i) of the Act, during the period June 
through August 2015, we verified the sales and cost information 
submitted by HYSCO and SeAH for use in our final determination. We used 
standard verification procedures, including an examination of relevant 
accounting and production records, and original source documents 
provided by HYSCO and SeAH.\4\
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    \4\ See Memoranda to the File entitled ``Verification of the 
Cost Response of SeAH Steel Corporation in the Antidumping Duty 
Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from Korea,'' and ``Verification 
of the Cost Response of Hyundai HYSCO Co. Ltd. in the Antidumping 
Duty Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from South Korea,'' dated 
July 31, 2015; Memorandum to the File entitled ``Verification of the 
Sales Responses of Hyundai HYSCO (HYSCO),'' dated August 18, 2015; 
and Memorandum to the File entitled ``Verification of the Sales 
Responses of SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH) and Pusan Pipe America 
(PPA),'' dated August 24, 2015.
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Changes Since the Preliminary Determination

    Based on our analysis of the comments received and our findings at 
verification, we made certain changes to the margin calculations for 
HYSCO and SeAH. For a discussion of these changes, see the ``Margin 
Calculations'' section of the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

All-Others Rate

    Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that the estimated all-
others rate shall be an amount equal to the weighted-average of the 
estimated weighted-average dumping margins

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established for exporters and producers individually investigated 
excluding any zero or de minimis margins, and margins determined 
entirely under section 776 of the Act. In this investigation, we 
calculated weighted-average dumping margins for both mandatory 
respondents that are above de minimis and which are not based on 
section 776 of the Act. However, because there are only two relevant 
weighted-average dumping margins for this final determination, using a 
weighted-average of these two rates risks disclosure of business 
proprietary data. Therefore, the Department assigned a margin to the 
all-others rate companies based on the simple average of the two 
mandatory respondents' rates.\5\
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    \5\ See Memorandum to the File entitled ``Calculation of the 
All-Others Rate for the Final Determination in the Antidumping Duty 
Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea,'' 
dated concurrently with this memorandum.
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Final Determination

    The final weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                               Weighted
                                                                Average
                    Exporter/Manufacturer                       dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Hyundai HYSCO\6\............................................        6.19
SeAH Steel Corporation......................................        2.53
All-Others..................................................        4.36
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Disclosure

    We will disclose the calculations performed within five days of the 
date of any public announcement of this notice to parties in this 
proceeding in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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    \6\ See discussion in footnote 2 above.
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department 
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to 
suspend liquidation of all appropriate entries of welded line pipe from 
Korea, as described in Appendix I of this notice, which were entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 22, 2015, 
the date of publication of the preliminary determination of this 
investigation in the Federal Register.
    Further, the Department will instruct CBP to require a cash deposit 
equal to the amount by which normal value exceeds U.S. price as 
follows: (1) For the mandatory respondents listed above, the cash 
deposit rate will be equal to the dumping margin which the Department 
determined in this final determination adjusted, as appropriate, for 
export subsidies found in the final determination of the companion 
countervailing duty investigation; \7\ (2) if the exporter is not a 
mandatory respondent identified in this investigation, but the producer 
is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the producer 
of the subject merchandise; and (3) the cash deposit rates for all 
other producers or exporters will be 4.36 percent. The suspension of 
liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.
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    \7\ In this case, although the product under investigation is 
also subject to a countervailing duty investigation, the Department 
found no countervailing duty determined to constitute an export 
subsidy. Therefore, we did not offset the cash deposit rates shown 
above for purposes of this determination.
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ITC Notification

    In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we will notify the 
ITC of the final affirmative determination of sales at LTFV. Because 
the final determination in this proceeding is affirmative, in 
accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will make its 
final determination as to whether the domestic industry in the United 
States is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by 
reason of imports of welded line pipe from Korea no later than 45 days 
after our final determination. If the ITC determines that material 
injury or threat of material injury does not exist, the proceeding will 
be terminated and all cash deposits will be refunded. If the ITC 
determines that such injury does exist, the Department will issue an 
antidumping duty order directing CBP to assess, upon further 
instruction by the Department, antidumping duties on all imports of the 
subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the effective date of the suspension of 
liquidation.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders (APO)

    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to APO of their 
responsibility concerning the disposition of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 
notification of the return or destruction of APO materials, or 
conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure 
to comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a 
sanctionable violation.
    This determination and this notice are issued and published 
pursuant to sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated; October 5, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

Scope of the Investigation

    The merchandise covered by this investigation is circular welded 
carbon and alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipe of a kind 
used for oil or gas pipelines (welded line pipe), not more than 24 
inches in nominal outside diameter, regardless of wall thickness, 
length, surface finish, end finish, or stenciling. Welded line pipe 
is normally produced to the American Petroleum Institute (API) 
specification 5L, but can be produced to comparable foreign 
specifications, to proprietary grades, or can be non-graded 
material. All pipe meeting the physical description set forth above, 
including multiple-stenciled pipe with an API or comparable foreign 
specification line pipe stencil is covered by the scope of this 
investigation.
    The welded line pipe that is subject to this investigation is 
currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS) under subheadings 7305.11.1030, 7305.11.5000, 
7305.12.1030, 7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.5000, 
7306.19.1010, 7306.19.1050, 7306.19.5110, and 7306.19.5150. The 
subject merchandise may also enter in HTSUS 7305.11.1060 and 
7305.12.1060. While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the 
scope of this investigation is dispositive.

Appendix II

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

General Comments

1. Differential Pricing Analysis
2. Other Issues Related to Differential Pricing Analysis
3. Selection of Additional Mandatory/Voluntary Respondents
4. Consolidation of Grade Codes
5. Reasonableness of the Reported Costs

Company-Specific Comments

HYSCO

6. HYSCO's Classification of Certain ``Local Sales'' as Home Market 
Sales
7. Sales of Non-Prime Merchandise
8. Revision of Certain Home Market Shipment and Sales Dates
9. Allocation of Full Costs to the Production of Non-Prime Products
10. Alleged Errors Relating to the Major Input Analysis
11. Revision of G&A Expenses
12. Financial Expense Ratio
13. Constructed Value Profit
14. Affiliated Processors' Cost Data and Adjustments to the Toll 
Processing Costs
15. Adjustment to Steel Costs to Reflect Yield Loss
16. Unreconciled Cost Difference
17. Adjustment for Certain Fees Paid to Affiliates

SeAH

18. Domestic Inland Freight

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19. U.S. Credit Expenses
20. U.S. Indirect Selling Expenses
21. Affiliated Party Purchases
22. G&A Expenses
23. Production Costs of the Pohang Plant
24. Financial Expenses

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                                                  with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely                       DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE                                addition, a complete version of the
                                                  written notification of the return/                                                                           Issues and Decision Memorandum can
                                                  destruction of APO materials or                         International Trade Administration                    be accessed directly at http://
                                                  conversion to judicial protective order is              [A–580–876]                                           enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html.
                                                  hereby requested. Failure to comply                                                                           The signed Issues and Decision
                                                  with the regulations and terms of an                    Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of                 Memorandum and electronic version of
                                                  APO is a violation which is subject to                  Korea: Final Determination of Sales at                the Issues and Decision Memorandum
                                                  sanction.                                               Less Than Fair Value                                  are identical in content.
                                                    This determination is issued and                      AGENCY:  Enforcement and Compliance,                  Scope of the Investigation
                                                  published pursuant to sections 705(d)                   International Trade Administration,                      The scope of the investigation covers
                                                  and 777(i) of the Act.                                  Department of Commerce.                               welded line pipe, which is carbon and
                                                    Dated: October 5, 2015.                               SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce                   alloy steel pipe of a kind used for oil
                                                  Paul Piquado,                                           (the Department) determines that                      and gas pipelines, not more than 24
                                                  Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and                 welded line pipe from the Republic of                 inches in nominal outside diameter. For
                                                  Compliance.                                             Korea (Korea) is being, or is likely to be,           a complete description of the scope of
                                                                                                          sold in the United States at less than fair           the investigation, see Appendix I.
                                                  Appendix I
                                                                                                          value (LTFV), as provided in section                  Analysis of Comments Received
                                                  Scope of the Investigation                              733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
                                                                                                          amended (the Act). The period of                        All issues raised in the case and
                                                     The merchandise covered by this
                                                                                                          investigation (POI) is October 1, 2013,               rebuttal briefs by parties in this
                                                  investigation is circular welded carbon and
                                                  alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipe of        through September 30, 2014. The final                 investigation are addressed in the Issues
                                                  a kind used for oil or gas pipelines (welded            dumping margins of sales at LTFV are                  and Decision Memorandum,3 which is
                                                  line pipe), not more than 24 inches in                  listed below in the ‘‘Final                           hereby adopted by this notice. A list of
                                                  nominal outside diameter, regardless of wall            Determination’’ section of this notice.               the issues raised is attached to this
                                                  thickness, length, surface finish, end finish,                                                                notice as Appendix II.
                                                                                                          DATES: Effective Date: October 13, 2015.
                                                  or stenciling. Welded line pipe is normally                                                                   Verification
                                                  produced to the American Petroleum                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                  Institute (API) specification 5L, but can be            David Goldberger or Ross Belliveau,                     As provided in section 782(i) of the
                                                  produced to comparable foreign                          AD/CVD Operations, Office II,                         Act, during the period June through
                                                  specifications, to proprietary grades, or can           Enforcement and Compliance,                           August 2015, we verified the sales and
                                                  be non-graded material. All pipe meeting the            International Trade Administration,                   cost information submitted by HYSCO
                                                  physical description set forth above,                   U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401                     and SeAH for use in our final
                                                  including multiple-stenciled pipe with an               Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC                 determination. We used standard
                                                  API or comparable foreign specification line            20230; telephone: (202) 482–4136 or                   verification procedures, including an
                                                  pipe stencil is covered by the scope of this            (202) 482–4952, respectively.                         examination of relevant accounting and
                                                  investigation.                                                                                                production records, and original source
                                                                                                          SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                     The welded line pipe that is subject to this
                                                                                                                                                                documents provided by HYSCO and
                                                  investigation is currently classifiable in the          Background                                            SeAH.4
                                                  Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
                                                  States (HTSUS) under subheadings                           On May 22, 2015, the Department
                                                                                                                                                                Changes Since the Preliminary
                                                  7305.11.1030, 7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030,               published the Preliminary
                                                                                                                                                                Determination
                                                  7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.5000,               Determination of sales at LTFV of
                                                  7306.19.1010, 7306.19.1050, 7306.19.5110,               welded line pipe from Korea.1 For a                     Based on our analysis of the
                                                  and 7306.19.5150. The subject merchandise               history of events following the                       comments received and our findings at
                                                  may also enter in HTSUS 7305.11.1060 and                publication of the Preliminary                        verification, we made certain changes to
                                                  7305.12.1060. While the HTSUS subheadings               Determination, see the Issues and                     the margin calculations for HYSCO and
                                                  are provided for convenience and customs                Decision Memorandum,2 which is                        SeAH. For a discussion of these
                                                  purposes, the written description of the                hereby adopted by this notice. The                    changes, see the ‘‘Margin Calculations’’
                                                  scope of this investigation is dispositive.             Issues and Decision Memorandum is a                   section of the Issues and Decision
                                                                                                          public document and is on file                        Memorandum.
                                                  Appendix II
                                                                                                          electronically via Enforcement and                    All-Others Rate
                                                  List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and              Compliance’s Antidumping and
                                                  Decision Memorandum                                     Countervailing Duty Centralized                         Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act
                                                  I. Summary                                              Electronic Service System (ACCESS).                   provides that the estimated all-others
                                                  II. Background                                          ACCESS is available to registered users               rate shall be an amount equal to the
                                                  III. Scope of the Investigation                         at https://access.trade.gov and it is                 weighted-average of the estimated
                                                  IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available                    available to all parties in the Central               weighted-average dumping margins
                                                  V. Subsidies Valuation
                                                                                                          Records Unit, room B8024 of the main
                                                  VI. Analysis of Programs                                                                                        3 See  Id.
                                                  VII. Analysis of Comments                               Department of Commerce building. In                     4 See  Memoranda to the File entitled
                                                     1. Electricity for Less Than Adequate                                                                      ‘‘Verification of the Cost Response of SeAH Steel
                                                                                                            1 See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of
                                                        Remuneration (LTAR)                                                                                     Corporation in the Antidumping Duty Investigation
                                                                                                          Korea: Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less     of Welded Line Pipe from Korea,’’ and ‘‘Verification
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                                                     2. Unreported Subsidies
                                                                                                          Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final             of the Cost Response of Hyundai HYSCO Co. Ltd.
                                                     3. Specificity of RSTA Tax Programs                  Determination, 80 FR 29620 (May 22, 2015)             in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Welded
                                                     4. Special Rural Development Tax                     (Preliminary Determination).                          Line Pipe from South Korea,’’ dated July 31, 2015;
                                                     5. Husteel as a Mandatory or Voluntary                 2 See Memorandum entitled ‘‘Issues and Decision     Memorandum to the File entitled ‘‘Verification of
                                                        Respondent                                        Memorandum for the Final Affirmative                  the Sales Responses of Hyundai HYSCO (HYSCO),’’
                                                  VIII. Recommendation                                    Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value             dated August 18, 2015; and Memorandum to the
                                                                                                          Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from the            File entitled ‘‘Verification of the Sales Responses of
                                                  [FR Doc. 2015–25967 Filed 10–9–15; 8:45 a.m.]           Republic of Korea,’’ dated concurrently with this     SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH) and Pusan Pipe
                                                  BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P                                  notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).              America (PPA),’’ dated August 24, 2015.



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                                                  established for exporters and producers                 determined in this final determination                     Dated; October 5, 2015.
                                                  individually investigated excluding any                 adjusted, as appropriate, for export                     Paul Piquado,
                                                  zero or de minimis margins, and                         subsidies found in the final                             Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
                                                  margins determined entirely under                       determination of the companion                           Compliance.
                                                  section 776 of the Act. In this                         countervailing duty investigation; 7 (2) if
                                                                                                                                                                   Appendix I
                                                  investigation, we calculated weighted-                  the exporter is not a mandatory
                                                  average dumping margins for both                        respondent identified in this                            Scope of the Investigation
                                                  mandatory respondents that are above                    investigation, but the producer is, the                     The merchandise covered by this
                                                  de minimis and which are not based on                   cash deposit rate will be the rate                       investigation is circular welded carbon and
                                                  section 776 of the Act. However,                        established for the producer of the                      alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipe of
                                                  because there are only two relevant                     subject merchandise; and (3) the cash                    a kind used for oil or gas pipelines (welded
                                                  weighted-average dumping margins for                                                                             line pipe), not more than 24 inches in
                                                                                                          deposit rates for all other producers or
                                                                                                                                                                   nominal outside diameter, regardless of wall
                                                  this final determination, using a                       exporters will be 4.36 percent. The                      thickness, length, surface finish, end finish,
                                                  weighted-average of these two rates                     suspension of liquidation instructions                   or stenciling. Welded line pipe is normally
                                                  risks disclosure of business proprietary                will remain in effect until further notice.              produced to the American Petroleum
                                                  data. Therefore, the Department                                                                                  Institute (API) specification 5L, but can be
                                                                                                             ITC Notification                                      produced to comparable foreign
                                                  assigned a margin to the all-others rate
                                                  companies based on the simple average                         In accordance with section 735(d) of               specifications, to proprietary grades, or can
                                                  of the two mandatory respondents’                          the Act, we will notify the ITC of the                be non-graded material. All pipe meeting the
                                                                                                             final affirmative determination of sales              physical description set forth above,
                                                  rates.5                                                                                                          including multiple-stenciled pipe with an
                                                                                                             at LTFV. Because the final
                                                  Final Determination                                                                                              API or comparable foreign specification line
                                                                                                             determination in this proceeding is                   pipe stencil is covered by the scope of this
                                                     The final weighted-average dumping                      affirmative, in accordance with section               investigation.
                                                  margins are as follows:                                    735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will make                  The welded line pipe that is subject to this
                                                                                                             its final determination as to whether the             investigation is currently classifiable in the
                                                                                                  Weighted   domestic industry in the United States                Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
                                                                                                  Average    is materially injured, or threatened with             States (HTSUS) under subheadings
                                                        Exporter/Manufacturer                     dumping                                                          7305.11.1030, 7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030,
                                                                                                   margin    material injury, by reason of imports of
                                                                                                                                                                   7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.5000,
                                                                                                  (percent)  welded line pipe from Korea no later                  7306.19.1010, 7306.19.1050, 7306.19.5110,
                                                                                                             than 45 days after our final                          and 7306.19.5150. The subject merchandise
                                                                       6
                                                  Hyundai HYSCO .......................                 6.19 determination. If the ITC determines
                                                                                                                                                                   may also enter in HTSUS 7305.11.1060 and
                                                  SeAH Steel Corporation .............                  2.53 that material injury or threat of material
                                                                                                                                                                   7305.12.1060. While the HTSUS subheadings
                                                  All-Others ....................................       4.36
                                                                                                             injury does not exist, the proceeding                 are provided for convenience and customs
                                                                                                             will be terminated and all cash deposits              purposes, the written description of the
                                                  Disclosure                                                                                                       scope of this investigation is dispositive.
                                                                                                             will be refunded. If the ITC determines
                                                     We will disclose the calculations                       that such injury does exist, the                      Appendix II
                                                  performed within five days of the date                     Department will issue an antidumping
                                                  of any public announcement of this                                                                               List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and
                                                                                                             duty order directing CBP to assess, upon              Decision Memorandum
                                                  notice to parties in this proceeding in                    further instruction by the Department,
                                                  accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).                         antidumping duties on all imports of the              General Comments
                                                  Continuation of Suspension of                              subject merchandise entered, or                       1. Differential Pricing Analysis
                                                                                                             withdrawn from warehouse, for                         2. Other Issues Related to Differential Pricing
                                                  Liquidation                                                                                                           Analysis
                                                                                                             consumption on or after the effective
                                                     In accordance with section                              date of the suspension of liquidation.                3. Selection of Additional Mandatory/
                                                  735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department                                                                               Voluntary Respondents
                                                  will instruct U.S. Customs and Border                      Notification Regarding Administrative                 4. Consolidation of Grade Codes
                                                  Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend Protective Orders (APO)                                                  5. Reasonableness of the Reported Costs
                                                  liquidation of all appropriate entries of                     This notice serves as a reminder to                Company-Specific Comments
                                                  welded line pipe from Korea, as                            parties subject to APO of their                       HYSCO
                                                  described in Appendix I of this notice,                    responsibility concerning the                         6. HYSCO’s Classification of Certain ‘‘Local
                                                  which were entered, or withdrawn from disposition of proprietary information                                          Sales’’ as Home Market Sales
                                                  warehouse, for consumption on or after                     disclosed under APO in accordance                     7. Sales of Non-Prime Merchandise
                                                  May 22, 2015, the date of publication of with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely                                       8. Revision of Certain Home Market
                                                  the preliminary determination of this                      notification of the return or destruction                  Shipment and Sales Dates
                                                  investigation in the Federal Register.                     of APO materials, or conversion to                    9. Allocation of Full Costs to the Production
                                                     Further, the Department will instruct                   judicial protective order, is hereby                       of Non-Prime Products
                                                  CBP to require a cash deposit equal to                                                                           10. Alleged Errors Relating to the Major Input
                                                                                                             requested. Failure to comply with the                      Analysis
                                                  the amount by which normal value                           regulations and the terms of an APO is                11. Revision of G&A Expenses
                                                  exceeds U.S. price as follows: (1) For the a sanctionable violation.                                             12. Financial Expense Ratio
                                                  mandatory respondents listed above, the                       This determination and this notice are             13. Constructed Value Profit
                                                  cash deposit rate will be equal to the                     issued and published pursuant to                      14. Affiliated Processors’ Cost Data and
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                                                  dumping margin which the Department sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.                                         Adjustments to the Toll Processing Costs
                                                                                                                                                                   15. Adjustment to Steel Costs to Reflect Yield
                                                     5 See Memorandum to the File entitled                  7 In this case, although the product under                  Loss
                                                  ‘‘Calculation of the All-Others Rate for the Final      investigation is also subject to a countervailing duty   16. Unreconciled Cost Difference
                                                  Determination in the Antidumping Duty                   investigation, the Department found no                   17. Adjustment for Certain Fees Paid to
                                                  Investigation of Welded Line Pipe from the              countervailing duty determined to constitute an               Affiliates
                                                  Republic of Korea,’’ dated concurrently with this       export subsidy. Therefore, we did not offset the
                                                  memorandum.                                             cash deposit rates shown above for purposes of this
                                                                                                                                                                   SeAH
                                                     6 See discussion in footnote 2 above.                determination.                                           18. Domestic Inland Freight



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                                                  61368                        Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 197 / Tuesday, October 13, 2015 / Notices

                                                  19. U.S. Credit Expenses                                Scope of the Order                                     Department will instruct U.S. Customs
                                                  20. U.S. Indirect Selling Expenses                                                                             and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate
                                                  21. Affiliated Party Purchases                            The merchandise subject to the
                                                                                                          Order 2 is OBAs and is currently                       all appropriate entries for TFM without
                                                  22. G&A Expenses                                                                                               regard to antidumping duties.
                                                  23. Production Costs of the Pohang Plant                classifiable under subheadings
                                                                                                          3204.20.8000, 2933.69.6050,                               Consistent with the Department’s
                                                  24. Financial Expenses
                                                                                                          2921.59.4000 and 2921.59.8090 of the                   assessment practice, for entries of
                                                  [FR Doc. 2015–25980 Filed 10–9–15; 8:45 am]                                                                    subject merchandise during the POR
                                                                                                          Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
                                                  BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
                                                                                                          United States (HTSUS). While the                       produced by TFM for which it did not
                                                                                                          HTSUS numbers are provided for                         know that the merchandise was
                                                                                                                                                                 destined for the United States, we will
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE                                  convenience and customs purposes, the
                                                                                                                                                                 instruct CBP to liquidate un-reviewed
                                                                                                          written product description remains
                                                                                                                                                                 entries at the all-others rate if there is no
                                                  International Trade Administration                      dispositive.3
                                                                                                                                                                 rate for the intermediate company(ies)
                                                                                                          Analysis of the Comments Received                      involved in the transaction.5
                                                  [A–583–848]                                                                                                       We intend to issue instructions to
                                                                                                             All issues raised in the case brief
                                                                                                          submitted in this review are addressed                 CBP 15 days after publication of the
                                                  Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening                                                                          final results of this review.
                                                  Agents From Taiwan: Final Results of                    in the Issues and Decision
                                                  Antidumping Duty Administrative                         Memorandum, which is hereby adopted                    Cash Deposit Requirements
                                                  Review; 2013–2014                                       with this notice. A list of the issues                    The following cash deposit
                                                                                                          raised is attached as an Appendix to this              requirements will be effective upon
                                                  AGENCY:   Enforcement and Compliance,                   notice. The Issues and Decision                        publication of the notice of final results
                                                  International Trade Administration,                     Memorandum is a public document and                    of administrative review for all
                                                  Department of Commerce.                                 is on file electronically via Enforcement              shipments of OBAs from Taiwan
                                                  SUMMARY: On June 5, 2015, the                           and Compliance’s Antidumping and                       entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
                                                  Department of Commerce (the                             Countervailing Duty Centralized                        for consumption on or after the date of
                                                  Department) published the preliminary                   Electronic Service System (ACCESS).                    publication as provided by section
                                                  results of the administrative review of                 ACCESS is available to registered users                751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit
                                                  the antidumping duty order on certain                   at http://access.trade.gov and it is                   rate for TFM will be 0.00 percent, the
                                                  stilbenic optical brightening agents                    available to all parties in the Central                weighted average dumping margin
                                                  (OBAs) from Taiwan.1 The period of                      Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main                   established in the final results of this
                                                  review (POR) is May 1, 2013, through                    Department of Commerce building. In                    administrative review; (2) for other
                                                  April 30, 2014. The review covers one                   addition, a complete version of the                    manufacturers and exporters covered in
                                                  producer/exporter of the subject                        Issues and Decision Memorandum can                     a prior segment of the proceeding, the
                                                  merchandise, Teh Fong Ming                              be accessed directly at http://                        cash deposit rate will continue to be the
                                                  International Co., Ltd. (TFM). For the                  enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html.                  company-specific rate published for the
                                                  final results, we find that TFM has not                 Changes Since the Preliminary Results                  most recently completed segment of this
                                                  sold subject merchandise at less than                                                                          proceeding; (3) if the exporter is not a
                                                                                                            Based on our analysis of the                         firm covered in this review, a prior
                                                  normal value.
                                                                                                          comments received, we made certain                     review, or the original investigation, but
                                                  DATES:   Effective Date: October 13, 2015.              changes to the Preliminary Results. For                the manufacturer is, the cash deposit
                                                  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                        a discussion of these changes, see Issues              rate will be the rate established for the
                                                  Catherine Cartsos or Minoo Hatten, AD/                  and Decision Memorandum.                               most recently completed segment of this
                                                  CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement                   Final Results of Review                                proceeding for the manufacturer of
                                                  and Compliance, International Trade                                                                            subject merchandise; and (4) the cash
                                                                                                            As a result of this review, we
                                                  Administration, U.S. Department of                                                                             deposit rate for all other manufacturers
                                                                                                          determine that a weighted-average
                                                  Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution                                                                         or exporters will continue to be 6.19
                                                                                                          dumping margin of 0.00 percent exists
                                                  Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;                                                                              percent, the all-others rate established
                                                                                                          for TFM for the period May 1, 2013,
                                                  telephone: (202) 482–1757, and (202)                                                                           in the less than fair value investigation.6
                                                                                                          through April 30, 2014.
                                                  482–1690, respectively.                                                                                        These cash deposit requirements, when
                                                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                                                                          Assessment                                             imposed, shall remain in effect until
                                                                                                            In accordance with 19 CFR 351.212                    further notice.
                                                  Background                                              and the Final Modification,4 the                       Notification to Importers
                                                    On June 5, 2015, the Department                                                                                 This notice serves as a final reminder
                                                                                                            2 See Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents
                                                  published the Preliminary Results of                                                                           to importers of their responsibility
                                                                                                          From Taiwan: Amended Final Determination of
                                                  this review in the Federal Register. We                 Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping          under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a
                                                  invited parties to comment on the                       Duty Order, 77 FR 27419 (May 10, 2012) (Order).        certificate regarding the reimbursement
                                                  Preliminary Results. On July 20, 2015,                    3 A full description of the scope of the Order is
                                                                                                                                                                 of antidumping duties prior to
                                                  TFM submitted a case brief. No other                    contained in the memorandum to Paul Piquado,
                                                                                                          Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and                liquidation of the relevant entries
                                                  party submitted case or rebuttal briefs.                Compliance, from Christian Marsh, Deputy               during this review period. Failure to
                                                  No party requested a hearing. The                       Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and                comply with this requirement could
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                                                  Department conducted this review in                     Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Certain Stilbenic
                                                                                                                                                                 result in the Secretary’s presumption
                                                  accordance with section 751(a)(2) of the                Optical Brightening Agents from Taiwan: Issues and
                                                                                                          Decision Memorandum for Final Results of
                                                  Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).               Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013–          Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102
                                                                                                          2014’’ dated concurrently with and hereby adopted      (February 14, 2012) (Final Modification).
                                                    1 See Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents    by this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).         5 For a full discussion, see Antidumping and

                                                  From Taiwan: Preliminary Results of Antidumping           4 See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of        Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of
                                                  Duty Administrative Review; 2013–2104, 80 FR            the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and                Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
                                                  32085 (June 5, 2015) (Preliminary Results).             Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Duty              6 The all-others rate established in the Order.




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Document Created: 2018-02-27 08:48:03
Document Modified: 2018-02-27 08:48:03
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
DatesEffective Date: October 13, 2015.
ContactDavid Goldberger or Ross Belliveau, AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4136 or (202) 482- 4952, respectively.
FR Citation80 FR 61366 

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