81_FR_15277 81 FR 15222 - Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination

81 FR 15222 - Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 55 (March 22, 2016)

Page Range15222-15225
FR Document2016-06486

The Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') preliminarily determines that certain hot-rolled steel flat products (``hot-rolled steel'') from Japan are being, or are 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 July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015. The estimated weighted-average dumping margins of sales at LTFV are shown in the ``Preliminary Determination'' section of this notice. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 55 (Tuesday, March 22, 2016) 
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-874]


Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of 
Final Determination

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') preliminarily 
determines that certain hot-rolled steel flat products (``hot-rolled 
steel'') from Japan are being, or are 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 July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015. The 
estimated weighted-average dumping margins of sales at LTFV are shown 
in the ``Preliminary Determination'' section of this notice. Interested 
parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.

DATES: Effective Date: March 22, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jun Jack Zhao or Myrna Lobo, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
1396 or (202) 482-2371, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department published the notice of initiation of this 
investigation on September 9, 2015.\1\ For a complete description of 
the events that followed the initiation of this investigation, see the 
memorandum that is dated concurrently with this determination and 
hereby adopted by this notice.\2\ A list of topics included in the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as Appendix II to this 
notice. The Preliminary 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 to all parties in the Central Records Unit, room B8024 of the main 
Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be found at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
and the electronic version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 
identical in content.
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    \1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, 
Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic 
of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-
Value Investigations, 80 FR 54261 (September 9, 2015) (``Initiation 
Notice'').
    \2\ See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to 
Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, 
``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Determination in the 
Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 
Products from Japan'' (``Preliminary Decision Memorandum''), dated 
concurrently with this notice.
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Scope of the Investigation

    The product covered by this investigation is certain hot-rolled 
steel flat products from Japan. For a full description of the scope of 
this investigation, see the ``Scope of the Investigation,'' in Appendix 
I.

Scope Comments

    In accordance with the preamble to the Department's regulations,\3\ 
the Initiation Notice set aside a period of time for parties to raise 
issues regarding product coverage (i.e., ``scope'').\4\ Certain 
interested parties commented on the scope of the investigation as it 
appeared in the Initiation Notice. For a summary of the product 
coverage comments and rebuttal responses submitted to the record for 
this preliminary determination, and accompanying discussion and 
analysis of all comments timely received, see the Preliminary Scope 
Decision Memorandum.\5\ The Department is preliminarily not modifying 
the scope

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language as it appeared in the Initiation Notice.
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    \3\ See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 62 FR 27296, 
27323 (May 19, 1997).
    \4\ See Initiation Notice, 80 FR at 54261.
    \5\ See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, 
``Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, Brazil, 
Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic of 
Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Scope Comments Decision Memorandum 
for the Preliminary Determinations,'' dated concurrently with this 
preliminary determination.
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Postponement of Deadline for Preliminary Determination

    The Department published the notice of postponement of preliminary 
determination of this investigation on November 25, 2015.\6\ Pursuant 
to sections 733(c)(1)(B)(i) and (ii) of the Act, we postponed the 
preliminary determination by 50 days.\7\ As a result of the 
postponement, the revised deadline for the preliminary determination of 
this investigation was March 8, 2016. However, as explained in the 
memorandum from the Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, the Department has exercised its discretion to toll all 
administrative deadlines due to the recent closure of the Federal 
Government. All deadlines in this investigation have been extended by 
four business days.\8\ The revised deadline for the preliminary 
determination of this investigation is now March 14, 2016.
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    \6\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, 
Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic 
of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Postponement of Preliminary 
Determinations of Antidumping Duty Investigations, 80 FR 73702 
(November 25, 2015).
    \7\ Id.
    \8\ See Memorandum to the Record from Ron Lorentzen, Acting A/S 
for Enforcement and Compliance, regarding ``Tolling of 
Administrative Deadlines As a Result of the Government Closure 
During Snowstorm Jonas,'' dated January 27, 2016.
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Methodology

    The Department is conducting this investigation in accordance with 
section 731 of the Act. Export prices (EP) have been calculated in 
accordance with section 772(a) of the Act. Constructed export prices 
(CEP) have been calculated in accordance with section 772(b) of the 
Act. Normal value (NV) is calculated in accordance with section 773 of 
the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
preliminary conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Single Entity Treatment

    For the reasons set forth in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
and in accordance with 19 CFR 351.401(f) and the Department's practice, 
we are treating Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Nippon 
Steel & Sumikin Bussan Corporation (Nippon Group) as a single entity 
for the purposes of this preliminary determination. Additionally, we 
are treating JFE Steel Corporation and JFE Shoji Trade Corporation (JFE 
Group) as a single entity for the purposes of this preliminary 
determination.\9\
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    \9\ See ``Single Entity Analysis'' section of the Preliminary 
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All-Others Rate

    Consistent with sections 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) and 735(c)(5) of the Act, 
the Department also calculated an estimated 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 established for exporters and 
producers individually investigated, excluding any zero and de minimis 
margins, and any margins determined entirely under section 776 of the 
Act. Where the rates for investigated companies are zero or de minimis, 
or based entirely on facts otherwise available, section 
705(c)(5)(A)(ii) of the Act instructs the Department to establish an 
``all others'' rate using ``any reasonable method.''
    In this investigation, we calculated weighted-average dumping 
margins for the JFE Group and the Nippon Group, that are above de 
minimis and which are not based on total facts available. We 
preliminarily calculated the all-others rate using weighted-average of 
the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents using each 
company's publicly-ranged values for the merchandise under 
consideration.\10\
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    \10\ With two respondents, we normally calculate (A) a weighted-
average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory 
respondents; (B) a simple average of the dumping margins calculated 
for the mandatory respondents; and (C) a weighted-average of the 
dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents using each 
company's publicly-ranged values for the merchandise under 
consideration. We would compare (B) and (C) to (A) and select the 
rate closest to (A) as the most appropriate rate for all other 
companies. See Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof From France, Germany, 
Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Reviews, Final Results of Changed-Circumstances 
Review, and Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 
(September 1, 2010). See Memorandum to the File, ``Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from Japan: Calculation of the Margin for All Others 
Rate for the Preliminary Determination,'' dated March 14, 2016.
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Preliminary Determination

    The Department preliminarily determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margins exist:
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    \11\ In this investigation, the Department found that Nippon 
Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation/Nippon Steel & Sumikin Bussan 
Corporation are a single entity. See ``Methodology'' section above; 
see also the ``Single Entity Analysis'' section of the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.
    \12\ In this investigation, the Department found that JFE Steel 
Corporation and JFE Shoji Trade Corporation are a single entity. See 
``Single Entity Treatment'' section above; see also the ``Single 
Entity Analysis'' section of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                    Exporter/manufacturer                       dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation/Nippon Steel &           11.29
 Sumikin Bussan Corporation\11\.............................
JFE Steel Corporation/JFE Shoji Trade Corporation\12\.......        6.79
All Others..................................................       10.24
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Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 733(d)(2) of the Act, we are directing 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to suspend liquidation of 
all entries of hot-rolled steel from Japan, as described in the Scope 
of the Investigation in Appendix I, entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of this 
notice in the Federal Register. Section 733(e)(2) of the Act provides 
that, given an affirmative determination of critical circumstances, any 
suspension of liquidation shall apply to unliquidated entries of 
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after the later of (a) the date which is 90 days before the date on 
which the suspension of liquidation was first ordered, or (b) the date 
on which notice of initiation of the investigation was published. 
Because we have preliminarily found that critical circumstances exist 
with regard to imports produced and exported by the mandatory 
respondents the JFE Group and the Nippon Group,\13\ we will instruct 
CBP to suspend liquidation of all entries of hot-rolled steel flat 
products from Japan, as described in the scope of the investigation, 
from the mandatory respondents that are entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date that is 90 days prior 
to the date on which suspension of liquidation is first ordered (e.g., 
the date of publication of this notice).
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    \13\ See Antidumping Duty Investigations of Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products From Australia, Brazil, Japan, and the 
Netherlands and Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Hot-
Rolled Steel Flat Products From Brazil: Preliminary Determinations 
of Critical Circumstances, 80 FR 76444 (December 9, 2015).
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    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(d), the Department will instruct 
CBP to require a cash deposit equal to the preliminary weighted-average 
amount by which normal value exceeds U.S. price, as indicated in the 
chart above.\14\ These suspension of

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liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.
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    \14\ See Modification of Regulations Regarding the Practice of 
Accepting Bonds During the Provisional Measures Period in 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations, 76 FR 61042 
(October 3, 2011).
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Disclosure

    We will disclose the calculations performed to interested parties 
in this proceeding within five days of the date of announcement of this 
preliminary determination in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Verification

    As provided in section 782(i) of the Act, we intend to verify 
information relied upon in making our final determination.

Public Comment

    Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary 
determination. Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted 
to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than 
seven days after the date on which the final verification report is 
issued in this proceeding, and rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 
raised in case briefs, may be submitted no later than five days after 
the deadline date for case briefs.\15\ Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) 
and (d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 
proceeding are encouraged to submit with each argument: (1) A statement 
of the issue; (2) a brief summary of the argument; and (3) a table of 
authorities.
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce. 
All documents must be filed electronically using ACCESS. An 
electronically-filed request must be received successfully in its 
entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, within 30 days after the 
date of publication of this notice.\16\ Requests should contain the 
party's name, address, and telephone number, the number of 
participants, and a list of the issues to be discussed. If a request 
for a hearing is made, the Department intends to hold the hearing at 
the U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time and date to be determined. Parties 
should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing 
two days before the scheduled date.
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    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional 
Measures
    Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides that a final determination 
may be postponed until not later than 135 days after the date of the 
publication of the preliminary determination if, in the event of an 
affirmative preliminary determination, a request for such postponement 
is made by exporters who account for a significant proportion of 
exports of the subject merchandise, or in the event of a negative 
preliminary determination, a request for such postponement is made by 
Petitioners. 19 CFR 351.210(e)(2) requires that requests by respondents 
for postponement of a final antidumping determination be accompanied by 
a request for extension of provisional measures from a four-month 
period to a period not more than six months in duration.
    On March 10, 2016, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii) and 19 CFR 
351.210(e)(2), the JFE Group requested that, contingent upon an 
affirmative preliminary determination of sales at LTFV, the Department 
postpone the final determination and that provisional measures be 
extended to a period not to exceed six months.\17\
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    \17\ See Letter to the Secretary of Commerce from JFE regarding, 
``Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Revised Request 
to Postpone Final Determination'' (March 10, 2016).
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    In accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.210(b)(2)(ii), because (1) our preliminary determination is 
affirmative; (2) the exporter accounts for a significant proportion of 
exports of the subject merchandise; and (3) no compelling reasons for 
denial exist, we are postponing the final determination and extending 
the provisional measures from a four-month period to a period not 
greater than six months. Accordingly, we will make our final 
determination no later than 135 days after the date of publication of 
this preliminary determination, pursuant to section 735(a)(2) of the 
Act.\18\
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    \18\ See also 19 CFR 351.210(e).
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International Trade Commission (``ITC'') Notification

    In accordance with section 733(f) of the Act, we are notifying the 
ITC of our affirmative preliminary determination of sales at LTFV. If 
our final determination is affirmative, the ITC will determine before 
the later of 120 days after the date of this preliminary determination 
or 45 days after our final determination whether these imports are 
materially injuring, or threaten material injury to, the U.S. industry.
    This determination is issued and published in accordance with 
sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(c).

    Dated: March 14, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

    The products covered by this investigation are certain hot-
rolled, flat-rolled steel products, with or without patterns in 
relief, and whether or not annealed, painted, varnished, or coated 
with plastics or other non-metallic substances. The products covered 
do not include those that are clad, plated, or coated with metal. 
The products covered include coils that have a width or other 
lateral measurement (``width'') of 12.7 mm or greater, regardless of 
thickness, and regardless of form of coil (e.g., in successively 
superimposed layers, spirally oscillating, etc.). The products 
covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in straight 
lengths) of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm and a width that is 
12.7 mm or greater and that measures at least 10 times the 
thickness. The products described above may be rectangular, square, 
circular, or other shape and include products of either rectangular 
or non-rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieve 
subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., products which have been 
``worked after rolling'' (e.g., products which have been beveled or 
rounded at the edges). For purposes of the width and thickness 
requirements referenced above:
    (1) where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is 
within the scope if application of either the nominal or actual 
measurement would place it within the scope based on the definitions 
set forth above unless the resulting measurement makes the product 
covered by the existing antidumping \19\ or countervailing duty \20\ 
orders on Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products 
From the Republic of Korea (A-580-836; C-580-837), and
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    \19\ Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From France, India, 
Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585 
(February 10, 2000).
    \20\ Notice of Amended Final Determinations: Certain Cut-to-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From India and the Republic of 
Korea; and Notice of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From France, India, Indonesia, 
Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000).
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    (2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product 
(e.g., the thickness of certain products with non-rectangular cross-
section, the width of certain products with non-rectangular shape, 
etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies.
    Steel products included in the scope of this investigation are 
products in which: (1) iron predominates, by weight, over each of 
the other contained elements; (2) the carbon content is 2 percent or 
less, by weight; and

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(3) none of the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by 
weight, respectively indicated:
     2.50 percent of manganese, or
     3.30 percent of silicon, or
     1.50 percent of copper, or
     1.50 percent of aluminum, or
     1.25 percent of chromium, or
     0.30 percent of cobalt, or
     0.40 percent of lead, or
     2.00 percent of nickel, or
     0.30 percent of tungsten, or
     0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
     0.10 percent of niobium, or
     0.30 percent of vanadium, or
     0.30 percent of zirconium.
    Unless specifically excluded, products are included in this 
scope regardless of levels of boron and titanium.
    For example, specifically included in this scope are vacuum 
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-
free (IF)) steels, high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels, the 
substrate for motor lamination steels, Advanced High Strength Steels 
(AHSS), and Ultra High Strength Steels (UHSS). IF steels are 
recognized as low carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of 
elements such as titanium and/or niobium added to stabilize carbon 
and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are recognized as steels with 
micro-alloying levels of elements such as chromium, copper, niobium, 
titanium, vanadium, and molybdenum. The substrate for motor 
lamination steels contains micro-alloying levels of elements such as 
silicon and aluminum. AHSS and UHSS are considered high tensile 
strength and high elongation steels, although AHSS and UHSS are 
covered whether or not they are high tensile strength or high 
elongation steels.
    Subject merchandise includes hot-rolled steel that has been 
further processed in a third country, including but not limited to 
pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing, tempering, temper rolling, 
skin passing, painting, varnishing, trimming, cutting, punching, 
and/or slitting, or any other processing that would not otherwise 
remove the merchandise from the scope of the investigation if 
performed in the country of manufacture of the hot-rolled steel.
    All products that meet the written physical description, and in 
which the chemistry quantities do not exceed any one of the noted 
element levels listed above, are within the scope of this 
investigation unless specifically excluded. The following products 
are outside of and/or specifically excluded from the scope of this 
investigation:
     Universal mill plates (i.e., hot-rolled, flat-rolled 
products not in coils that have been rolled on four faces or in a 
closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not exceeding 1250 
mm, of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm, and without patterns in 
relief);
     Products that have been cold-rolled (cold-reduced) 
after hot-rolling; \21\
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    \21\ For purposes of this scope exclusion, rolling operations 
such as a skin pass, levelling, temper rolling or other minor 
rolling operations after the hot-rolling process for purposes of 
surface finish, flatness, shape control, or gauge control do not 
constitute cold-rolling sufficient to meet this exclusion.
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     Ball bearing steels; \22\
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    \22\ Ball bearing steels are defined as steels which contain, in 
addition to iron, each of the following elements by weight in the 
amount specified: (i) Not less than 0.95 nor more than 1.13 percent 
of carbon; (ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent of 
manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03 percent of sulfur; (iv) 
none, or not more than 0.03 percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than 
0.18 nor more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than 1.25 
nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii) none, or not more than 
0.28 percent of nickel; (viii) none, or not more than 0.38 percent 
of copper; and (ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of 
molybdenum.
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     Tool steels; \23\ and
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    \23\ Tool steels are defined as steels which contain the 
following combinations of elements in the quantity by weight 
respectively indicated: (i) More than 1.2 percent carbon and more 
than 10.5 percent chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon 
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent chromium; or 
(iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon and 1 percent to 1.8 
percent, inclusive, manganese; or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent, 
inclusive, chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive, 
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less 
than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi) not less than 0.5 percent 
carbon and not less than 5.5 percent tungsten.
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     Silico-manganese steels; \24\
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    \24\ Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels containing by 
weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or 
more but not more than 1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6 
percent or more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
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    The products subject to this investigation are currently 
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS) under item numbers: 7208.10.1500, 7208.10.3000, 
7208.10.6000, 7208.25.3000, 7208.25.6000, 7208.26.0030, 
7208.26.0060, 7208.27.0030, 7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030, 
7208.36.0060, 7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060, 7208.38.0015, 
7208.38.0030, 7208.38.0090, 7208.39.0015, 7208.39.0030, 
7208.39.0090, 7208.40.6030, 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000, 
7208.54.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7211.14.0030, 
7211.14.0090, 7211.19.1500, 7211.19.2000, 7211.19.3000, 
7211.19.4500, 7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560, 
7211.19.7590, 7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000, 7225.30.3050, 
7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000, 7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000, 
7226.11.9030, 7226.11.9060, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000, 
7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, and 7226.91.8000. The products subject 
to the investigation may also enter under the following HTSUS 
numbers: 7210.90.9000, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 
7212.50.0000, 7214.91.0015, 7214.91.0060, 7214.91.0090, 
7214.99.0060, 7214.99.0075, 7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000, 
7226.99.0180, and 7228.60.6000.
    The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and 
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of 
the investigation is dispositive.

Appendix II

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Period of Investigation
IV. Postponement of Final Determination and Extension Of Provisional 
Measures
V. Preliminary Determination of Critical Circumstances
VI. Scope of the Investigation
VII. Scope Comments
VIII. Single Entity Analysis
IX. Discussion of The Methodology
X. Facts Available and Adverse Facts Available
XI. Date Of Sale
XII. Product Comparisons
XIII. Export Price And Constructed Export Price
XIV. Normal Value
XV. Currency Conversion
XVI. Conclusion

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ACCESS is available to registered users • Up to 70% of the fuels less than 3 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE at https://access.trade.gov, and to all inches in diameter would be consumed parties in the Central Records Unit, while retaining a minimum of 50% soil International Trade Administration room B8024 of the main Department of cover. Commerce building. In addition, a • Ladder fuels would be reduced in [A–588–874] complete version of the Preliminary an effort to increase canopy base height Decision Memorandum can be found at to 10 feet or greater. Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The • In shrub dominated areas, a mosaic from Japan: Preliminary Determination signed Preliminary Decision of age classes and diversity of species of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Memorandum and the electronic composition would be created. Postponement of Final Determination version of the Preliminary Decision Responsible Official AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, Memorandum are identical in content. International Trade Administration, Scope of the Investigation Forest Supervisor, Shasta-Trinity Department of Commerce. National Forest. The product covered by this SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce Nature of Decision To Be Made (the ‘‘Department’’) preliminarily investigation is certain hot-rolled steel determines that certain hot-rolled steel flat products from Japan. For a full The Forest Supervisor will decide flat products (‘‘hot-rolled steel’’) from description of the scope of this whether to implement the proposed Japan are being, or are likely to be, sold investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of the action/preferred alternative, take an in the United States at less than fair Investigation,’’ in Appendix I. alternative action that meets the purpose and need, or take no action. value (‘‘LTFV’’), as provided in section Scope Comments 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as Preliminary Issues amended (‘‘the Act’’). The period of In accordance with the preamble to Potentitial issues could be related to investigation (‘‘POI’’) is July 1, 2014, the Department’s regulations,3 the threatened and endangered species through June 30, 2015. The estimated Initiation Notice set aside a period of habitat, treatments within LSR and IRA, weighted-average dumping margins of time for parties to raise issues regarding and the private property surrounding sales at LTFV are shown in the product coverage (i.e., ‘‘scope’’).4 the project area. Access to the project ‘‘Preliminary Determination’’ section of Certain interested parties commented on site and proposed treatments may be an this notice. Interested parties are invited the scope of the investigation as it issue due to the amount of private to comment on this preliminary appeared in the Initiation Notice. For a property located within and determination. summary of the product coverage surrounding the project area. Potential comments and rebuttal responses DATES: Effective Date: March 22, 2016. submitted to the record for this issues will be addressed within the project design. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jun preliminary determination, and Jack Zhao or Myrna Lobo, AD/CVD accompanying discussion and analysis Scoping Process Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and of all comments timely received, see the This notice of intent initiates the Compliance, International Trade Preliminary Scope Decision scoping process, which guides the Administration, U.S. Department of Memorandum.5 The Department is development of the environmental Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution preliminarily not modifying the scope impact statement. The scoping Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; information and Notice for Public telephone: (202) 482–1396 or (202) 482– 2 See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy comment will be published in the Mt. 2371, respectively. Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, Shasta Herald and the Redding Record SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Searchlight. Background Compliance, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for the It is important that reviewers provide Preliminary Determination in the Antidumping their comments at such times and in The Department published the notice Duty Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan’’ (‘‘Preliminary Decision such manner that they are useful to the of initiation of this investigation on Memorandum’’), dated concurrently with this agency’s preparation of the September 9, 2015.1 For a complete notice. environmental impact statement. description of the events that followed 3 See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, Therefore, comments should be the initiation of this investigation, see 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 4 See Initiation Notice, 80 FR at 54261. provided prior to the close of the the memorandum that is dated 5 See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy comment period and should clearly concurrently with this determination Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and articulate the reviewer’s concerns and Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Certain Hot- contentions. 1 See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, Brazil, Comments received in response to Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the Republic of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: this solicitation, including names and United Kingdom: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Scope Comments Decision Memorandum for the addresses of those who comment, will Investigations, 80 FR 54261 (September 9, 2015) Preliminary Determinations,’’ dated concurrently be part of the public record for this (‘‘Initiation Notice’’). with this preliminary determination. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 55 / Tuesday, March 22, 2016 / Notices 15223 language as it appeared in the Initiation a single entity for the purposes of this Weighted- Notice. preliminary determination.9 average Exporter/manufacturer dumping Postponement of Deadline for All-Others Rate margin Preliminary Determination (percent) Consistent with sections The Department published the notice 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) and 735(c)(5) of the Act, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal of postponement of preliminary the Department also calculated an Corporation/Nippon Steel & determination of this investigation on estimated all-others rate. Section Sumikin Bussan Corporation11 11.29 November 25, 2015.6 Pursuant to 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that the JFE Steel Corporation/JFE Shoji sections 733(c)(1)(B)(i) and (ii) of the estimated all-others rate shall be an Trade Corporation12 ................ 6.79 amount equal to the weighted average of All Others .................................... 10.24 Act, we postponed the preliminary determination by 50 days.7 As a result the estimated weighted-average of the postponement, the revised dumping margins established for Suspension of Liquidation deadline for the preliminary exporters and producers individually In accordance with section 733(d)(2) determination of this investigation was investigated, excluding any zero and de of the Act, we are directing U.S. March 8, 2016. However, as explained minimis margins, and any margins Customs and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) in the memorandum from the Acting determined entirely under section 776 to suspend liquidation of all entries of Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and of the Act. Where the rates for hot-rolled steel from Japan, as described Compliance, the Department has investigated companies are zero or de in the Scope of the Investigation in exercised its discretion to toll all minimis, or based entirely on facts Appendix I, entered, or withdrawn from administrative deadlines due to the otherwise available, section warehouse, for consumption on or after recent closure of the Federal 705(c)(5)(A)(ii) of the Act instructs the the date of publication of this notice in Government. All deadlines in this Department to establish an ‘‘all others’’ the Federal Register. Section 733(e)(2) investigation have been extended by rate using ‘‘any reasonable method.’’ of the Act provides that, given an four business days.8 The revised In this investigation, we calculated affirmative determination of critical deadline for the preliminary weighted-average dumping margins for circumstances, any suspension of determination of this investigation is the JFE Group and the Nippon Group, liquidation shall apply to unliquidated now March 14, 2016. that are above de minimis and which are entries of merchandise entered, or not based on total facts available. We withdrawn from warehouse, for Methodology preliminarily calculated the all-others consumption on or after the later of (a) The Department is conducting this rate using weighted-average of the the date which is 90 days before the investigation in accordance with section dumping margins calculated for the date on which the suspension of 731 of the Act. Export prices (EP) have mandatory respondents using each liquidation was first ordered, or (b) the been calculated in accordance with company’s publicly-ranged values for date on which notice of initiation of the section 772(a) of the Act. Constructed the merchandise under consideration.10 investigation was published. Because export prices (CEP) have been Preliminary Determination we have preliminarily found that calculated in accordance with section critical circumstances exist with regard The Department preliminarily 772(b) of the Act. Normal value (NV) is to imports produced and exported by determines that the following weighted- calculated in accordance with section the mandatory respondents the JFE average dumping margins exist: 773 of the Act. For a full description of Group and the Nippon Group,13 we will the methodology underlying our 9 See ‘‘Single Entity Analysis’’ section of the instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of preliminary conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. all entries of hot-rolled steel flat Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 10 With two respondents, we normally calculate products from Japan, as described in the Single Entity Treatment (A) a weighted-average of the dumping margins scope of the investigation, from the calculated for the mandatory respondents; (B) a mandatory respondents that are entered, simple average of the dumping margins calculated For the reasons set forth in the for the mandatory respondents; and (C) a weighted- or withdrawn from warehouse, for Preliminary Decision Memorandum and average of the dumping margins calculated for the consumption on or after the date that is in accordance with 19 CFR 351.401(f) mandatory respondents using each company’s 90 days prior to the date on which and the Department’s practice, we are publicly-ranged values for the merchandise under suspension of liquidation is first consideration. We would compare (B) and (C) to (A) treating Nippon Steel & Sumitomo and select the rate closest to (A) as the most ordered (e.g., the date of publication of Metal Corporation and Nippon Steel & appropriate rate for all other companies. See Ball this notice). Sumikin Bussan Corporation (Nippon Bearings and Parts Thereof From France, Germany, In accordance with 19 CFR Group) as a single entity for the Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, Final 351.205(d), the Department will instruct purposes of this preliminary Results of Changed-Circumstances Review, and CBP to require a cash deposit equal to determination. Additionally, we are Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 the preliminary weighted-average treating JFE Steel Corporation and JFE (September 1, 2010). See Memorandum to the File, amount by which normal value exceeds Shoji Trade Corporation (JFE Group) as ‘‘Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Calculation of the Margin for All Others Rate for the U.S. price, as indicated in the chart Preliminary Determination,’’ dated March 14, 2016. above.14 These suspension of 6 See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 11 In this investigation, the Department found that Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation/ 13 See Antidumping Duty Investigations of Certain asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the Nippon Steel & Sumikin Bussan Corporation are a Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Australia, United Kingdom: Postponement of Preliminary single entity. See ‘‘Methodology’’ section above; see Brazil, Japan, and the Netherlands and Determinations of Antidumping Duty also the ‘‘Single Entity Analysis’’ section of the Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Hot- Investigations, 80 FR 73702 (November 25, 2015). Preliminary Decision Memorandum. Rolled Steel Flat Products From Brazil: Preliminary 7 Id. 12 In this investigation, the Department found that Determinations of Critical Circumstances, 80 FR 8 See Memorandum to the Record from Ron JFE Steel Corporation and JFE Shoji Trade 76444 (December 9, 2015). Lorentzen, Acting A/S for Enforcement and Corporation are a single entity. See ‘‘Single Entity 14 See Modification of Regulations Regarding the Compliance, regarding ‘‘Tolling of Administrative Treatment’’ section above; see also the ‘‘Single Practice of Accepting Bonds During the Provisional Deadlines As a Result of the Government Closure Entity Analysis’’ section of the Preliminary Measures Period in Antidumping and During Snowstorm Jonas,’’ dated January 27, 2016. Decision Memorandum. Continued VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:34 Mar 21, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22MRN1.SGM 22MRN1

15224 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 55 / Tuesday, March 22, 2016 / Notices liquidation instructions will remain in Postponement of Final Determination This determination is issued and effect until further notice. and Extension of Provisional Measures published in accordance with sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 Disclosure Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides CFR 351.205(c). that a final determination may be We will disclose the calculations postponed until not later than 135 days Dated: March 14, 2016. performed to interested parties in this after the date of the publication of the Paul Piquado, proceeding within five days of the date preliminary determination if, in the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and of announcement of this preliminary event of an affirmative preliminary Compliance. determination in accordance with 19 determination, a request for such Appendix I CFR 351.224(b). postponement is made by exporters who account for a significant proportion of The products covered by this investigation Verification are certain hot-rolled, flat-rolled steel exports of the subject merchandise, or in products, with or without patterns in relief, As provided in section 782(i) of the the event of a negative preliminary and whether or not annealed, painted, Act, we intend to verify information determination, a request for such varnished, or coated with plastics or other relied upon in making our final postponement is made by Petitioners. 19 non-metallic substances. The products determination. CFR 351.210(e)(2) requires that requests covered do not include those that are clad, by respondents for postponement of a plated, or coated with metal. The products Public Comment final antidumping determination be covered include coils that have a width or accompanied by a request for extension other lateral measurement (‘‘width’’) of 12.7 Interested parties are invited to mm or greater, regardless of thickness, and of provisional measures from a four- comment on this preliminary regardless of form of coil (e.g., in month period to a period not more than successively superimposed layers, spirally determination. Case briefs or other six months in duration. oscillating, etc.). The products covered also written comments may be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement On March 10, 2016, pursuant to 19 include products not in coils (e.g., in straight CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii) and 19 CFR lengths) of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm and Compliance no later than seven and a width that is 12.7 mm or greater and days after the date on which the final 351.210(e)(2), the JFE Group requested that, contingent upon an affirmative that measures at least 10 times the thickness. verification report is issued in this The products described above may be proceeding, and rebuttal briefs, limited preliminary determination of sales at rectangular, square, circular, or other shape to issues raised in case briefs, may be LTFV, the Department postpone the and include products of either rectangular or submitted no later than five days after final determination and that provisional non-rectangular cross-section where such the deadline date for case briefs.15 measures be extended to a period not to cross-section is achieve subsequent to the exceed six months.17 rolling process, i.e., products which have Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and been ‘‘worked after rolling’’ (e.g., products (d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or In accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR which have been beveled or rounded at the rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are edges). For purposes of the width and encouraged to submit with each 351.210(b)(2)(ii), because (1) our thickness requirements referenced above: argument: (1) A statement of the issue; preliminary determination is (1) where the nominal and actual (2) a brief summary of the argument; affirmative; (2) the exporter accounts for measurements vary, a product is within the and (3) a table of authorities. a significant proportion of exports of the scope if application of either the nominal or subject merchandise; and (3) no actual measurement would place it within Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), compelling reasons for denial exist, we the scope based on the definitions set forth interested parties who wish to request a are postponing the final determination above unless the resulting measurement hearing must submit a written request to and extending the provisional measures makes the product covered by the existing the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement antidumping 19 or countervailing duty 20 from a four-month period to a period orders on Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon- and Compliance, U.S. Department of not greater than six months. Quality Steel Plate Products From the Commerce. All documents must be filed Accordingly, we will make our final Republic of Korea (A–580–836; C–580–837), electronically using ACCESS. An determination no later than 135 days and electronically-filed request must be after the date of publication of this (2) where the width and thickness vary for received successfully in its entirety by preliminary determination, pursuant to a specific product (e.g., the thickness of ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, section 735(a)(2) of the Act.18 certain products with non-rectangular cross- within 30 days after the date of section, the width of certain products with publication of this notice.16 Requests International Trade Commission non-rectangular shape, etc.), the should contain the party’s name, (‘‘ITC’’) Notification measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies. address, and telephone number, the In accordance with section 733(f) of Steel products included in the scope of this number of participants, and a list of the the Act, we are notifying the ITC of our investigation are products in which: (1) iron issues to be discussed. If a request for affirmative preliminary determination of predominates, by weight, over each of the a hearing is made, the Department sales at LTFV. If our final determination other contained elements; (2) the carbon intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. is affirmative, the ITC will determine content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and Department of Commerce, 14th Street before the later of 120 days after the date and Constitution Avenue NW., of this preliminary determination or 45 19 Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations Washington, DC 20230, at a time and of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping days after our final determination Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES date to be determined. Parties should whether these imports are materially Steel Plate Products From France, India, Indonesia, confirm by telephone the date, time, and injuring, or threaten material injury to, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585 location of the hearing two days before the U.S. industry. (February 10, 2000). the scheduled date. 20 Notice of Amended Final Determinations: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 17 See Letter to the Secretary of Commerce from From India and the Republic of Korea; and Notice Countervailing Duty Investigations, 76 FR 61042 JFE regarding, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To- (October 3, 2011). Products from Japan: Revised Request to Postpone Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From France, 15 See 19 CFR 351.309. Final Determination’’ (March 10, 2016). India, Indonesia, Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 16 See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 18 See also 19 CFR 351.210(e). 65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000). 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 55 / Tuesday, March 22, 2016 / Notices 15225 (3) none of the elements listed below exceeds • Ball bearing steels; 22 V. Preliminary Determination of Critical the quantity, by weight, respectively • Tool steels; 23 and Circumstances indicated: • Silico-manganese steels; 24 VI. Scope of the Investigation • 2.50 percent of manganese, or The products subject to this investigation VII. Scope Comments • 3.30 percent of silicon, or are currently classified in the Harmonized VIII. Single Entity Analysis • 1.50 percent of copper, or Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) IX. Discussion of The Methodology • 1.50 percent of aluminum, or under item numbers: 7208.10.1500, X. Facts Available and Adverse Facts • 1.25 percent of chromium, or 7208.10.3000, 7208.10.6000, 7208.25.3000, Available • 0.30 percent of cobalt, or 7208.25.6000, 7208.26.0030, 7208.26.0060, 7208.27.0030, 7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030, XI. Date Of Sale • 0.40 percent of lead, or XII. Product Comparisons • 2.00 percent of nickel, or 7208.36.0060, 7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060, 7208.38.0015, 7208.38.0030, 7208.38.0090, XIII. Export Price And Constructed • 0.30 percent of tungsten, or 7208.39.0015, 7208.39.0030, 7208.39.0090, Export Price • 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or • 0.10 percent of niobium, or 7208.40.6030, 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000, XIV. Normal Value • 0.30 percent of vanadium, or 7208.54.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, XV. Currency Conversion • 0.30 percent of zirconium. 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0090, 7211.19.1500, XVI. Conclusion 7211.19.2000, 7211.19.3000, 7211.19.4500, [FR Doc. 2016–06486 Filed 3–21–16; 8:45 am] Unless specifically excluded, products are 7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560, included in this scope regardless of levels of BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 7211.19.7590, 7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000, boron and titanium. 7225.30.3050, 7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000, For example, specifically included in this 7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9030, scope are vacuum degassed, fully stabilized 7226.11.9060, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (commonly referred to as interstitial-free (IF)) 7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, and steels, high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels, 7226.91.8000. The products subject to the International Trade Administration the substrate for motor lamination steels, investigation may also enter under the Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS), and [A–421–813] following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000, Ultra High Strength Steels (UHSS). IF steels 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, are recognized as low carbon steels with Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 7212.50.0000, 7214.91.0015, 7214.91.0060, micro-alloying levels of elements such as 7214.91.0090, 7214.99.0060, 7214.99.0075, From the Netherlands: Affirmative titanium and/or niobium added to stabilize 7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7226.99.0180, Preliminary Determination of Sales at carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels and 7228.60.6000. Less Than Fair Value, Postponement are recognized as steels with micro-alloying The HTSUS subheadings above are of Final Determination and Extension levels of elements such as chromium, copper, provided for convenience and U.S. Customs of Provisional Measures niobium, titanium, vanadium, and purposes only. The written description of the molybdenum. The substrate for motor scope of the investigation is dispositive. AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, lamination steels contains micro-alloying International Trade Administration, levels of elements such as silicon and Appendix II Department of Commerce. aluminum. AHSS and UHSS are considered List of Topics Discussed in the SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce high tensile strength and high elongation Preliminary Decision Memorandum (the Department) preliminarily steels, although AHSS and UHSS are covered determines that certain hot-rolled steel whether or not they are high tensile strength I. Summary II. Background flat products (hot-rolled steel) from the or high elongation steels. Subject merchandise includes hot-rolled III. Period of Investigation Netherlands are being, or are likely to steel that has been further processed in a IV. Postponement of Final be, sold in the United States at less than third country, including but not limited to Determination and Extension Of fair value (LTFV), as provided in section pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing, Provisional Measures 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as tempering, temper rolling, skin passing, amended (the Act). The period of painting, varnishing, trimming, cutting, 22 Ball bearing steels are defined as steels which investigation (POI) is July 1, 2014, punching, and/or slitting, or any other contain, in addition to iron, each of the following through June 30, 2015. The estimated processing that would not otherwise remove elements by weight in the amount specified: (i) Not weighted-average dumping margins of the merchandise from the scope of the less than 0.95 nor more than 1.13 percent of carbon; sales are shown in the ‘‘Preliminary investigation if performed in the country of (ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent of manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03 Determination’’ section of this notice. manufacture of the hot-rolled steel. All products that meet the written physical percent of sulfur; (iv) none, or not more than 0.03 Interested parties are invited to percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than 0.18 nor comment on this preliminary description, and in which the chemistry more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than quantities do not exceed any one of the noted 1.25 nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii) determination. element levels listed above, are within the none, or not more than 0.28 percent of nickel; (viii) DATES: Effective: March 22, 2016. scope of this investigation unless specifically none, or not more than 0.38 percent of copper; and (ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: excluded. The following products are outside of and/or specifically excluded from the molybdenum. Dmitry Vladimirov, AD/CVD scope of this investigation: 23 Tool steels are defined as steels which contain Operations, Office I, Enforcement and the following combinations of elements in the Compliance, International Trade • Universal mill plates (i.e., hot-rolled, quantity by weight respectively indicated: (i) More flat-rolled products not in coils that have than 1.2 percent carbon and more than 10.5 percent Administration, U.S. Department of been rolled on four faces or in a closed box chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: exceeding 1250 mm, of a thickness not less chromium; or (iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon (202) 482–0665. than 4.0 mm, and without patterns in relief); and 1 percent to 1.8 percent, inclusive, manganese; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: • Products that have been cold-rolled asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent, inclusive, chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive, (cold-reduced) after hot-rolling; 21 Background molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi) The Department published the notice 21 For purposes of this scope exclusion, rolling not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less than 5.5 percent tungsten. of initiation of this investigation on operations such as a skin pass, levelling, temper rolling or other minor rolling operations after the 24 Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels September 9, 2015.1 For a complete hot-rolling process for purposes of surface finish, containing by weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent flatness, shape control, or gauge control do not of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or more but not more than 1 See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from constitute cold-rolling sufficient to meet this 1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6 percent or Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the exclusion. more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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DatesEffective Date: March 22, 2016.
ContactJun Jack Zhao or Myrna Lobo, AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482- 1396 or (202) 482-2371, respectively.
FR Citation81 FR 15222 
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