[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 39850]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17063]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE



International Trade Administration



[A-201-838]




Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From Mexico: Notice of 

Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review



AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce.



SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a 

request for a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 

seamless refined copper pipe and tube (copper pipe and tube) from 

Mexico. See Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From Mexico and the 

People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value From Mexico, 75 FR 71070 

(November 22, 2010) (Order). In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.214(d), 

the Department is initiating an antidumping duty new shipper review of 

GD Affiliates S.de R.L. de C.V. (GD). The period of review (POR) of 

this new shipper review is November 22, 2010, through April 30, 2011.



DATES: Effective Date: July 7, 2011.



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis McClure or Christopher Hargett, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-

5973 or (202) 482-4161, respectively.



SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 



Background



    On November 22, 2010, the Department published the antidumping duty 

order on copper pipe and tube from Mexico. See Order. Thus, the order 

on copper pipe and tube from Mexico has a May semi-annual anniversary 

month. On May 31, 2011, the Department received a request for a new 

shipper review from GD in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c). In its 

request for a review, GD identified itself as a producer and exporter 

of the subject merchandise. For the purpose of initiating this new 

shipper review, the Department determines that GD's submission was 

timely filed.

    Pursuant to the requirements set forth in section 751(a)(2)(B)(i) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2), GD certified that (1) it did not 

export subject merchandise to the United States during the period of 

investigation (POI) (see section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(I) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.214(b)(2)(i)); and (2) since the initiation of the 

investigation, it has never been affiliated with any company that 

exported subject merchandise to the United States during the POI, 

including those companies not individually examined during the 

investigation (see section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(II) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.214(b)(2)(iii)(A)). Additionally, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.214(b)(2)(iv), GD submitted documentation establishing the 

following: (1) The date on which it first shipped subject merchandise 

to the United States; (2) the volume of its first shipment; and (3) the 

date of its first sale to an unaffiliated purchaser for exportation to 

the United States. GD also stated it had shipments to the United States 

during the period subsequent to its first shipment.



Initiation of Review



    Based on information on the record and in accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.214(d), we find that the 

request submitted by GD meets the statutory and regulatory requirements 

for initiation of a new shipper review. See Memorandum to the File, 

through Melissa Skinner, Office Director, Office 3, AD/CVD Operations, 

from Christopher Hargett, Case Analyst, Office 3, AD/CVD Operations, 

regarding ``Initiation of AD New Shipper Review: Seamless Refined 

Copper Pipe and Tube from Mexico (A-201-838),'' dated June 28, 2011. 

Accordingly, we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping 

duty order on copper pipe and tube from Mexico exported by GD, for the 

period November 22, 2010, through April 30, 2011. We intend to issue 

the preliminary results of this review no later than 180 days after the 

date on which this review is initiated, and the final results within 90 

days after the date on which we issue the preliminary results. See 

section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(h)(i).

    We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to allow, 

at the option of the importer, the posting, until the completion of the 

review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for certain 

entries of the subject merchandise exported by GD in accordance with 

section 751(a)(2)(B)(iii) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(e). Because GD 

certified that it exports the subject merchandise, the sale of which 

forms the basis for its new shipper review request, we will instruct 

CBP to permit the use of a bond only for entries of subject merchandise 

which GD exported.

    Interested parties may submit applications for disclosure under 

administrative protective order in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 

351.306.

    This initiation and this notice are issued and published in 

accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214 and 

351.221(c)(1)(i).



    Dated: June 28, 2011.

Christian Marsh,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations.

[FR Doc. 2011-17063 Filed 7-6-11; 8:45 am]

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