83 FR 26959 - Stainless Steel Flanges From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 112 (June 11, 2018)
International Trade Administration
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 112 (June 11, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 112 (Monday, June 11, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 26959-26962] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-12482] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A-570-064] Stainless Steel Flanges From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that stainless steel flanges from the People's Republic of China (China) are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is January 1, 2017, through June 30, 2017. The final dumping margins of sales at LTFV are listed below in the ``Final Determination'' section of this notice. DATES: Applicable June 11, 2018. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian Hamilton or Kabir Archuletta, AD/ CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4798 or (202) 482-2593, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background This final determination is made in accordance with section 735(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). On March 28, 2018, Commerce published the preliminary affirmative determination of sales at LTFV in the investigation of stainless steel flanges from China.\1\ We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Determination. We received no comments from interested parties. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 83 FR 13244 (March 28, 2018) (Preliminary Determination), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 26960]] Scope of the Investigation The products covered by this investigation are stainless steel flanges from China. For a complete description of the scope of this investigation, see the Appendix to this notice. Analysis of Comments Received As noted above, we received no comments in response to the Preliminary Determination. For the purposes of the final determination, Commerce has made no changes to the Preliminary Determination. Use of Adverse Facts Available We continue to find that the mandatory respondent in this investigation, Shanxi Guanjiaying Flange Forging Group Co., Ltd (GJY), did not provide requested information, withheld requested information, significantly impeded this investigation, and did not cooperate to the best of its ability to comply with Commerce's request for information in failing to submit a complete and reliable sales reconciliation, as detailed in the Preliminary Determination and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\2\ Accordingly, we continue to determine it appropriate to apply facts otherwise available, with an adverse inference, in accordance with sections 776(a)-(b) of the Act.\3\ As AFA, we have continued to apply the highest dumping margin contained in the Petition, 257.11 percent, as explained in the Preliminary Determination and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\4\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ See Preliminary Determination, 83 FR at 13244; see also Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 8-10. \3\ Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 10-15. \4\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from India and the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 82 FR 42649 (September 11, 2017); see also Petitioners' Letter, ``Stainless Steel Flanges from the People's Republic of China and India: Petitions for the Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties,'' dated August 16, 2017 (Petition); Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 13-15. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In accordance with the Preliminary Determination, we continue to grant GJY a separate rate because evidence on the record supports an absence of de jure and de facto government control.\5\ Hydro-Fluids Controls Limited (HFC), Songhai Flange Manufacturing Co., Ltd (Songhai), and Dongtai QB Stainless Steel Co., Ltd (Dongtai), were also selected as mandatory respondents, but withdrew from participation in this investigation and did not respond to requests for information.\6\ Thus, we continue to find that HFC, Songhai, and Dongtai did not demonstrate that they are eligible for a separate rate and are part of the China-wide entity. We also continue to find that, in addition to the mandatory respondents that did not respond to our requests for information, Commerce did not receive timely responses to its Quantity and Value (Q&V) questionnaire from numerous Chinese exporters and/or producers of the merchandise under consideration that were named in the Petition and to whom Commerce issued Q&V questionnaires.\7\ Because these companies, which comprise part of the China-wide entity, failed to submit the requested Q&V information, we determine that the China- wide entity did not cooperate to the best of its ability. Therefore, for this final determination, Commerce continues to find that the China-wide entity failed to provide necessary information, withheld information requested by Commerce, failed to provide information in a timely manner, and significantly impeded this proceeding by not submitting the requested information. As a result, Commerce continues to find that use of facts available, with an adverse inference, is warranted in determining the rate of the China-wide entity, pursuant to sections 776(a)(1), (a)(2)(A)-(C), and 776(b) of the Act.\8\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \5\ See Policy Bulletin 05.1, Separate-Rates Practice and Application of Combination Rates in Antidumping Investigations involving Non-Market Economy Countries, dated April 5, 2005, available at http://enforcement.trade.gov/policy/bull05-1.pdf. \6\ See HFC's Letter, ``Certain Stainless Steel Flanges from the People's Republic of China: Withdrawal from Active Participation by Hydro-Fluid Controls Limited,'' dated October 12, 2017; Songhai's Letter, ``Certain Stainless Steel Flanges from the People's Republic of China: Withdrawal from Active Participation by Songhai Flange Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,'' dated October 13, 2017; Dongtai's Letter, ``Certain Stainless Steel Flanges from the People's Republic of China: Withdrawal from Active Participation by Dongtai QB Stainless Steel Co., Ltd,'' dated November 28, 2017. \7\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 10; see also Petition; Memorandum, ``Quantity and Value Questionnaires Delivery Confirmation,'' dated September 20, 2017. \8\ See, e.g., Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Critical Circumstances and Postponement of Final Determination: Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 68 FR 4986, 4991-92 (January 31, 2003); unchanged in Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Affirmative Critical Circumstances: Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 68 FR 37116 (June 23, 2003). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- China-Wide Rate In selecting the AFA rate for the China-wide entity, Commerce's practice is to select a rate that is sufficiently adverse to ensure that the uncooperative party does not obtain a more favorable result by failing to cooperate than if it had fully cooperated. Specifically, it is Commerce's practice to select, as an AFA rate, the higher of: (a) the highest dumping margin alleged in the petition; or, (b) the highest calculated dumping margin of any respondent in the investigation. As AFA, Commerce has assigned to the China-wide entity the rate of 257.11 percent, which is the highest dumping margin alleged in the Petition. Combination Rates In the Initiation Notice, Commerce stated that it would calculate producer/exporter combination rates for the respondents that are eligible for a separate rate in this investigation.\9\ Because Commerce continues to use facts otherwise available with an adverse inference in determining the rate for the only respondent that demonstrated eligibility for a separate rate in this investigation, GJY, Commerce did not calculate producer/exporter combination rates for that company. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \9\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from India and the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 82 FR 42649, 42653 (September 11, 2017) (Initiation Notice). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Determination The final weighted-average dumping margins are as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weighted- average Exporter/producer dumping margins (percent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shanxi Guanjiaying Flange Forging Group Co., Ltd........ 257.11 China-wide Entity....................................... 257.11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Page 26961]] Disclosure Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations performed in connection with a final determination within five days of its public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However, because Commerce applied adverse facts available to the individually examined company participating in this investigation, in accordance with section 776 of the Act, and the applied adverse facts available rate is based solely on the Petition, there are no calculations to disclose. Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend liquidation of all appropriate entries of stainless steel flanges from China, as described in the Appendix to this notice, which were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after March 28, 2018, the date of publication in the Federal Register of the affirmative Preliminary Determination. Further, pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act, Commerce will also instruct CBP to collect a cash deposit as follows: (1) The rate for the exporters listed in the chart above will be the rate we have determined in this final determination; (2) for all Chinese exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own rate, the cash-deposit rate will be the China-wide rate; and (3) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own rate, the cash-deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the Chinese exporter/producer combination that supplied that non-Chinese exporter. These suspension-of-liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice. Because there has been no demonstration that an adjustment for domestic subsidies is warranted, Commerce has not made any such adjustment to the rate assigned to GJY or the China-wide entity. Additionally, Commerce is making no adjustments for export subsidies to the antidumping cash deposit rate in this investigation because we have made no findings in the companion countervailing duty investigation that any of the programs are export subsidies.\10\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \10\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Stainless Steel Flanges from the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination, 83 FR 15790 (April 12, 2018); see also, e.g., Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from Pakistan: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional Measures, 81 FR 36867 (June 8, 2016) and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 13. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Trade Commission Notification In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we will notify the U.S. International Trade Commission (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 stainless steel flanges from China no later than 45 days after this 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, Commerce will issue an antidumping duty order directing CBP to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties on all imports of the merchandise under consideration entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the effective date of the suspension of liquidation. Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to an administrative protective order (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. Notification to Interested Parties This determination is issued and published in accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.210(c). Dated: June 4, 2018. Gary Taverman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Appendix Scope of the Investigation The products covered by this investigation are certain forged stainless steel flanges, whether unfinished, semi-finished, or finished (certain forged stainless steel flanges). Certain forged stainless steel flanges are generally manufactured to, but not limited to, the material specification of ASTM/ASME A/SA182 or comparable domestic or foreign specifications. Certain forged stainless steel flanges are made in various grades such as, but not limited to, 304, 304L, 316, and 316L (or combinations thereof). The term ``stainless steel'' used in this scope refers to an alloy steel containing, by actual weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with or without other elements. Unfinished stainless steel flanges possess the approximate shape of finished stainless steel flanges and have not yet been machined to final specification after the initial forging or like operations. These machining processes may include, but are not limited to, boring, facing, spot facing, drilling, tapering, threading, beveling, heating, or compressing. Semi-finished stainless steel flanges are unfinished stainless steel flanges that have undergone some machining processes. The scope includes six general types of flanges. They are: (1) Weld neck, generally used in butt-weld line connection; (2) threaded, generally used for threaded line connections; (3) slip-on, generally used to slide over pipe; (4) lap joint, generally used with stub-ends/butt-weld line connections; (5) socket weld, generally used to fit pipe into a machine recession; and (6) blind, generally used to seal off a line. The sizes and descriptions of the flanges within the scope include all pressure classes of ASME B16.5 and range from one-half inch to twenty-four inches nominal pipe size. Specifically excluded from the scope of this investigation are cast stainless steel flanges. Cast stainless steel flanges generally are manufactured to specification ASTM A351. The country of origin for certain forged stainless steel flanges, whether unfinished, semi-finished, or finished is the country where the flange was forged. Subject merchandise includes stainless steel flanges as defined above that have been further processed in a third country. The processing includes, but is not limited to, boring, facing, spot facing, drilling, tapering, threading, beveling, heating, or compressing, and/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 stainless steel flanges. Merchandise subject to the investigation is typically imported under headings 7307.21.1000 and 7307.21.5000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). While HTSUS subheadings [[Page 26962]] and ASTM specifications are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope is dispositive. [FR Doc. 2018-12482 Filed 6-8-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
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Assessment Rates this review, a prior review, or the B. Level of Trade
original investigation but the producer C. Cost of Production
Upon completion of the final results, 1. Calculation of Cost of Production
Commerce shall determine and U.S. is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established for the most recent period 2. Test of Comparison Market Sales Prices
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 3. Results of the COP Test
shall assess antidumping duties on all for the producer of the merchandise; (4) D. Calculation of Normal Value Based on
appropriate entries. If Yücel’s weighted- the cash deposit rate for all other Comparison Market Prices
average dumping margin is above de producers or exporters will continue to VIII. Currency Conversion
minimis in the final results of this be 35.86 percent,8 the all-others rate IX. Recommendation
review, we will calculate an importer- established in the less-than-fair-value [FR Doc. 2018–12479 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am]
specific assessment rate on the basis of investigation, adjusted for the export- BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
the ratio of the total amount of subsidy rate established in the
antidumping duties calculated for each companion countervailing duty
importer’s examined sales and the total investigation. These cash deposit DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
entered value of the sales in accordance requirements, when imposed, shall
with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). If Yücel’s remain in effect until further notice. International Trade Administration
weighted-average dumping margin is Notification to Importers
zero or de minimis in the final results [A–570–064]
This notice serves as a preliminary
of review, we will instruct CBP not to reminder to importers of their
assess duties on any of its entries in Stainless Steel Flanges From the
responsibility under 19 CFR People’s Republic of China: Final
accordance with the Final Modification 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
for Reviews.7 Affirmative Determination of Sales at
regarding the reimbursement of Less Than Fair Value
For entries of subject merchandise antidumping duties prior to liquidation
during the POR produced by Yücel for of the relevant entries during this AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
which it did not know its merchandise review period. Failure to comply with International Trade Administration,
was destined for the United States, we this requirement could result in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
will instruct CBP to liquidate Secretary’s presumption that
unreviewed entries at the all-others rate SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
reimbursement of antidumping duties Commerce (Commerce) determines that
if there is no rate for the intermediate occurred and the subsequent assessment
company(ies) involved in the stainless steel flanges from the People’s
of double antidumping duties. Republic of China (China) are being, or
transaction. We are issuing and publishing these
For the companies which were not are likely to be, sold in the United States
results in accordance with sections at less than fair value (LTFV). The
selected for individual examination, 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19
Çayirova Boru San A.Ş., HG Tubulars period of investigation (POI) is January
CFR 351.221. 1, 2017, through June 30, 2017. The
Canada Ltd., and Yücelboru İhracat,
Ithalat, we will instruct CBP to apply Dated: June 5, 2018. final dumping margins of sales at LTFV
the rates listed above to all entries of Gary Taverman, are listed below in the ‘‘Final
subject merchandise produced and/or Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping Determination’’ section of this notice.
exported by these firms. and Countervailing Duty Operations, DATES: Applicable June 11, 2018.
performing the non-exclusive functions and
We intend to issue liquidation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian
duties of the Assistant Secretary for
instructions to CBP 15 days after Enforcement and Compliance. Hamilton or Kabir Archuletta, AD/CVD
publication of the final results of this Operations, Office V, Enforcement and
review. Appendix Compliance, International Trade
Cash Deposit Requirements List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Administration, U.S. Department of
Decision Memorandum Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
The following deposit requirements I. Summary NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
will be effective upon publication of the II. Background (202) 482–4798 or (202) 482–2593,
notice of final results of administrative III. Scope of the Order respectively.
review for all shipments of OCTG from IV. Allegation of a Particular Market
Turkey entered, or withdrawn from Situation SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
warehouse, for consumption on or after V. Preliminary Finding of No Shipments
VI. Rates for Respondents Not Selected for Background
the date of publication as provided by
Individual Examination This final determination is made in
section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash VII. Discussion of the Methodology
deposit rate for companies subject to accordance with section 735(a) of the
Comparisons to Normal Value
this review will be the rates established A. Determination of Comparison Method Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
in the final results of the review; (2) for B. Results of Differential Pricing Analysis On March 28, 2018, Commerce
merchandise exported by producers or Product Comparisons published the preliminary affirmative
exporters not covered in this review but Date of Sale determination of sales at LTFV in the
covered in a prior segment of the Export Price investigation of stainless steel flanges
Normal Value from China.1 We invited interested
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will
A. Home Market Viability and Comparison parties to comment on the Preliminary
continue to be the company-specific rate Market
published for the most recent period; (3) Determination. We received no
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if the exporter is not a firm covered in 8 See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from
comments from interested parties.
India, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the Republic
7 See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of 1 See Stainless Steel Flanges from the People’s
of Turkey, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Antidumping Duty Orders; and Certain Oil Country Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Tubular Goods from the Socialist Republic of Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 83
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 Vietnam: Amended Final Determination of Sales at FR 13244 (March 28, 2018) (Preliminary
(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification for Less Than Fair Value, 79 FR 53691, 53693 Determination), and accompanying Preliminary
Reviews). (September 10, 2014). Decision Memorandum.
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and ASTM specifications are provided for mechanical tubing from China, ministerial errors in the Germany Final
convenience and customs purposes, the Germany, India, Italy, Korea, and with respect to Benteler Steel/Tube
written description of the scope is Switzerland on April 16, 2018.1 In GmbH (Benteler), Salzgitter
dispositive.
addition, Commerce made affirmative Mannesmann Line Pipe GmbH
[FR Doc. 2018–12482 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] determinations of critical circumstances (Salzgitter Line Pipe) and Salzgitter
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P with respect to China and Italy, in part, Mannesmann Precision GmbH
and with respect to Korea, pursuant to (Salzgitter Precision).7 On April 30,
section 735(a)(3) of the Act, and 19 CFR 2018, Benteler submitted rebuttal
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 351.206.2 comments to the petitioners’ allegation.8
Commerce received numerous Neither Salzgitter Line Pipe nor
International Trade Administration ministerial error allegations and Salzgitter Precision submitted rebuttal
[A–570–058, A–428–845, A–533–873, A–475– comments in the various investigations. comments. However, we find that the
838, A–580–892, A–441–801] A ministerial error is defined as an error alleged errors regarding our Final
in addition, subtraction, or other Determination with respect to Benteler’s
Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing arithmetic function, clerical error margin calculation and our treatment of
of Carbon and Alloy Steel From the resulting from inaccurate copying, Salzgitter Line Pipe, Salzgitter
People’s Republic of China, the duplication, or the like, and any other Precision, or any other Salzgitter
Federal Republic of Germany, India, similar type of unintentional error company are methodological, rather
Italy, the Republic of Korea, and which the Secretary considers than ministerial, in nature.9
Switzerland: Antidumping Duty ministerial.3 On April 23, 2018, Benteler Rothrist
Orders; and Amended Final On April 17, 2018, Goodluck India AG (Benteler Rothrist) alleged that
Determinations of Sales at Less Than Limited (Goodluck) alleged that Commerce made certain ministerial
Fair Value for the People’s Republic of Commerce made a ministerial error in errors in the Switzerland Final.10 On
China and Switzerland the India Final.4 However, we find that April 30, 2018, the petitioners
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, the alleged error is methodological, submitted rebuttal comments to
International Trade Administration, rather than ministerial, in nature.5 Benteler Rothrist’s allegation.11 See the
Department of Commerce. On April 23, 2018, the petitioners 6 ‘‘Amendment to Switzerland Final’’
alleged that Commerce made certain section below for further information.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final
On April 24, 2018, the petitioners
determinations by the Department of 1 See Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of
alleged that Commerce made certain
Commerce (Commerce) and the Carbon and Alloy Steel from the People’s Republic ministerial errors in the China Final
International Trade Commission (the of China: Affirmative Final Determination of Sales
with respect to Zhangjiagang Huacheng
ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping at Less-Than-Fair Value and Final Determination of
Critical Circumstances, in Part, 83 FR 16322 (April Import & Export Co., Ltd. (Huacheng).12
duty orders on certain cold-drawn 16, 2018) (China Final); Certain Cold-Drawn On April 30, 2018, Huacheng submitted
mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from rebuttal comments to the petitioners’
steel (cold-drawn mechanical tubing) the Federal Republic of Germany: Final Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 83 allegation.13 See the ‘‘Amendment to
from the People’s Republic of China
FR 16326 (April 16, 2018) (Germany Final); Certain
(China), the Federal Republic of Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and 7 See the petitioners’ letter, ‘‘Cold-Drawn
Germany (Germany), India, Italy, the Alloy Steel from India: Final Affirmative Mechanical Tubing from Germany—Petitioners’
Republic of Korea (Korea), and Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value, 83 Ministerial Error Allegations Regarding BENTELER
Switzerland. In addition, Commerce is FR 16296 (April 16, 2018) (India Final); Certain Steel/Tube GmbH,’’ dated April 23, 2018
Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and (Petitioners’ Allegation regarding Benteler); the
amending its final determination of Alloy Steel from Italy: Final Determination of Sales petitioners’ letter, ‘‘Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing
sales at less than fair value (LTFV) for at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative from Germany—Petitioners’ Ministerial Error
China and Switzerland as a result of Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, 83 Allegations Regarding Salzgitter Mannesmann Line
ministerial errors. FR 16289 (April 16, 2018) (Italy Final); Certain Pipe GmbH and Salzgitter Mannesmann Precision
Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and GmbH,’’ dated April 23, 2018 (Petitioners’
DATES: Applicable June 11, 2018. Alloy Steel from the Republic of Korea: Final Allegation regarding Salzgitter).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 8 See Benteler’s letter, ‘‘Antidumping Duty
Stolz at (202) 482–4474 or Keith Haynes Fair Value, Final Affirmative Determination of
Critical Circumstances, 83 FR 16319 (April 16,
Investigation of Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical
Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from Germany:
at (202) 482–5139 (China), Frances 2018) (Korea Final); Certain Cold-Drawn Reply to Ministerial Error Comments for the Final
Veith at (202) 482–4295 (Germany), Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from Determination,’’ dated April 30, 2018 (Benteler’s
Susan Pulongbarit at (202) 482–4031 or Switzerland: Final Determination of Sales at Less Rebuttal Comments).
Omar Qureshi at (202) 482–5307 (India), Than Fair Value, 83 FR 16293 (April 16, 2018)
(Switzerland Final).
9 See Memorandum, ‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value
Investigation of Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical
Carrie Bethea at (202) 482–1491 (Italy), 2 See China Final, 83 FR at 16322; Italy Final, 83
Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from the Federal
Annathea Cook at (202) 482–0250 FR at 16290; and Korea Final, 83 FR at 16320. Republic of Germany: Ministerial Error Allegation
(Korea), and Laurel LaCivita at (202) 3 See section 735(e) of the Act and 19 CFR Memorandum,’’ dated June 6, 2018.
482–4243 (Switzerland), AD/CVD 351.224(f). 10 See Benteler Rothrist’s letter, ‘‘Antidumping
4 See Goodluck’s letter, ‘‘Goodluck’s Final Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Drawn
Operations, Enforcement and Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from
Determination Ministerial Error Comments:
Compliance, U.S. Department of Antidumping Duty Investigation on Certain Cold- Switzerland: Ministerial Error Comments for the
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Final Determination,’’ dated April 23, 2018
NW, Washington, DC 20230. Steel from India (A–533–873),’’ dated April 17, (Benteler Rothrist’s Allegation).
2018 (Goodluck’s Allegation). 11 See the petitioners’ letter, ‘‘Cold-Drawn
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty Mechanical Tubing from Switzerland—Petitioners’
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Background Investigation of Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Response to Benteler Rothrist’s Ministerial Error
Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from India: Allegation,’’ dated April 30, 2018 (Petitioners’
In accordance with sections 735(a), Ministerial Error Allegation Memorandum,’’ dated Rebuttal Comments to Benteler Rothrist).
735(d), and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of May 16, 2018. 12 See the petitioners’ letter, ‘‘Cold-Drawn
1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 6 ArcelorMittal Tubular Products, Michigan Mechanical Tubing from China—Petitioners’
Seamless Tube, LLC, Plymouth Tube Co. USA, PTC Ministerial Error Allegations,’’ dated April 24, 2018
351.210(c), Commerce published its Alliance Corp., Webco Industries, Inc., and (Petitioners’ China Allegation).
affirmative final determinations in the Zekelman Industries, Inc. (collectively, the 13 See Huacheng’s letter, ‘‘Cold-Drawn
LTFV investigations of cold-drawn petitioners). Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from
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