[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 117 (Monday, June 18, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36257-36260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14734]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-423-808, A-449-804, A-405-803, A-475-818, A-421-811, A-469-807, A-
475-703, A-588-845]


Notice of Implementation of Determination Under Section 129 of 
the Uruguay Round Agreements Act: Stainless Steel Plate in Coils From 
Belgium, Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars From Latvia, Purified 
Carboxymethylcellulose From Finland, Certain Pasta From Italy, Purified 
Carboxymethylcellulose From the Netherlands, Stainless Steel Wire Rod 
From Spain, Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin From Italy, 
Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils From Japan

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: On June 8, 2012, the U.S. Trade Representative (``USTR'') 
instructed the Department of Commerce (``Department'') to implement its 
determinations under section 129 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act 
(``URAA'') regarding the recalculation of cash deposit rates for 
estimated antidumping duties currently in effect for certain companies, 
in a manner which renders them not inconsistent with the World Trade 
Organization (``WTO'') dispute settlement findings in US-Zeroing 
(EC),\1\ US-Continued Zeroing (EC),\2\ and US-Zeroing (Japan).\3\ The 
Department issued its determinations in the Final Results of its 
section 129 proceedings\4\ on June 6, 2012. The Department is now 
implementing these Final Results.
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    \1\ United States-Laws, Regulations and Methodology for 
Calculating Dumping Margins (``Zeroing''), WT/DS294/R, WT/DS294/AB/
R, adopted May 9, 2006; United States-Laws, Regulations and 
Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins (``Zeroing''), Recourse 
to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the European Communities, WT/DS294/AB/
RW, adopted June 11, 2009 (collectively ``US-Zeroing (EC)'').
    \2\ United States-Continued Existence and Application of Zeroing 
Methodology, WT/DS350/R, WT/DS350/AB/R, adopted February 19, 2009 
(``US-Continued Zeroing (EC)'').
    \3\ United States-Measures Related to Zeroing and Sunset 
Reviews, WT/DS322/R, WT/DS322/AB/R, adopted January 23, 2007; United 
States-Measures Related to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews, Recourse to 
Article 21.5 of the DSU by Japan, WT/DS322/AB/RW, adopted August 31, 
2009 (collectively ``US-Zeroing (Japan)'').
    \4\ Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Final Results of 
Proceedings Under Section 129: Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from 
Belgium, Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Latvia, Purified 
Carboxymethylcellulose from Finland, Certain Pasta from Italy, 
Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands, Stainless 
Steel Wire Rod from Spain, Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin 
from Italy, Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from Japan 
(``Final Results'').

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DATES: Effective Date: June 8, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sapna Sharma, James Maeder, or Michael 
Rill, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5285, (202) 482-3330, or 
(202) 482-3058, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 13, 2012, the USTR requested, pursuant to section 129 
of the URAA, that the Department render the cash deposit rates 
currently in effect for certain companies not inconsistent with the WTO 
Dispute Settlement Body's (``DSB'') recommendations and rulings in US-
Zeroing (EC), US-Continued Zeroing (EC), and US-Zeroing (Japan). 
Subsequently, on February 21, 2012, the Department initiated section 
129 proceedings for the completed administrative reviews corresponding 
to the request from the USTR. In each section 129 proceeding, the 
Department recalculated the cash deposit rates for certain companies, 
as specified by the USTR, applying the calculation methodology 
described in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the

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Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain 
Antidumping Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 
14, 2012) (``Final Modification for Reviews''). The Department has 
recalculated the current cash deposit rates for these specified 
companies, listed in the table below, in a manner paralleling the WTO-
consistent methodology that the Department applies in antidumping 
investigations.
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    \5\ On April 12, 2012, the Department determined that Aperam 
Stainless Belgium N.V. is the successor-in-interest to ArcelorMittal 
Stainless Belgium N.V. Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from Belgium: 
Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances 
Review, 77 FR 66,271 (April 12, 2012). Therefore, although the 
request from the USTR identified ArcelorMittal Stainless Belgium 
N.V. as the respondent from the underlying final results, the 
recalculated cash deposit rate will be applied to Aperam Stainless 
Belgium N.V. (``ASB'').
    \6\ The full name of the company concerning this review is CP 
Kelco Oy.
    \7\ The full names of the companies concerning this review are: 
Pastificio Lucio Garofalo S.p.A. (``Garofalo''), Molino e Pastificio 
Tomasello S.p.A. (``Tomasello''), Agritalia S.r.L. (``Agritalia''), 
Domenico Paone fu Erasmo S.p.A. (``Erasmo''), Industria Alimentare 
Colavita, S.p.A. (``Indalco''), Labor S.r.L. (``Labor''), PAM S.p.A. 
and its affiliate, Liguori Pastificio dal 1820 S.p.A. (``PAM''), 
P.A.P. SNC Di Pazienza G.B. & C. (``P.A.P''), Premiato Pastificio 
Afeltra S.r.L. (``Afeltra''), Pastificio Fabianelli S.p.A. 
(``Fabianelli''), Pastificio Riscossa F.lli Mastromauro S.p.A. 
(``Riscossa''), and Rustichella d'Abruzzo S.p.A (``Rustichella'').
    \8\ Pasta Lensi S.r.l. (``Pasta Lensi'') was found to be the 
successor-in-interest to Italian American Pasta Company Italia 
S.r.l. (``IAPC'') for purposes of determining antidumping (and 
countervailing duty) liability. See Notice of Final Results of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews: 
Certain Pasta From Italy, 68 FR 41553 (July 17, 2003).
    \9\ The full name of this company is Pastificio Fratelli Pagani 
S.p.A. (``Pagani'').
    \10\ The full names of the companies concerning this review are: 
F. Divella SpA (``Divella''), Pasta Zara SpA 1 and Pasta Zara SpA 2 
(collectively, ``Pasta Zara''), Pastificio Di Martino Gaetano & F. 
lli SrL (``Gaetano''), and Pastificio Felicetti SrL (``Felicetti'').
    \11\ The full names of the companies concerning this review are: 
Atar, S.r.L. (``Atar'') and Corticella Molinie Pastifici S.p.A. and 
its affiliate Pasta Combattenti S.p.A. (collectively,''Corticella/
Combattenti'').
    \12\ The full name of this company is G.e.R. Barilla Fratelli, 
S.p.A.
    \13\ The full name of this collapsed entity is Pastificio 
Carmine Russo S.p.A./Pastificio De Nola S.p.A.
    \14\ The full name of this company is La Molisana Industrie 
Alimentari S.p.A.
    \15\ The full name of this company is Akzo Nobel Functional 
Chemicals B.V. In the USTR letter, the first word in the name of 
this company is spelled ``Azko'' instead of ``Akzo.''
    \16\ See Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin From Italy: 
Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review, 68 FR 25327 (May 12, 
2003).

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                                                   Basis of current cash
           Companies                Proceeding          deposit rate
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ArcelorMittal Stainless         Stainless Steel    Stainless Steel Plate
 Belgium N.V.\5\.                Plate in Coils     in Coils From
                                 from Belgium, A-   Belgium: Final
                                 423-808.           Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 74 FR 53468
                                                    (October 19, 2009).
Joint Stock Company Liepajas    Steel Concrete     Notice of Final
 Metalurgs.                      Reinforcing Bars   Results of
                                 from Latvia, A-    Antidumping Duty
                                 449-804.           Administrative
                                                    Review: Steel
                                                    Concrete Reinforcing
                                                    Bars from Latvia, 71
                                                    FR 74900 (December
                                                    13, 2006).
CP Kelco \6\..................  Purified           Purified
                                 Carboxymethylcel   Carboxymethylcellulo
                                 lulose from        se From Finland;
                                 Finland, A-405-    Notice of Final
                                 803.               Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 75 FR 73035
                                                    (November 29, 2010).
Garofalo \7\, Tomasello,        Certain Pasta      Certain Pasta From
 Agritalia, Erasmo, Indalco,     from Italy, A-     Italy: Notice of
 Labor, PAM, P.A.P., Afeltra,    475-818.           Final Results of the
 Fabianelli, Riscossa,                              Fourteenth
 Rustichella.                                       Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 76 FR 76937
                                                    (December 9, 2011).
PAM (for non-selected rate),    .................  Certain Pasta from
 Garofalo (for non-selected                         Italy: Notice of
 rate), IAPC/Pasta Lensi \8\.                       Amended Final
Pagani \9\....................                      Results of the
                                                    Twelfth Antidumping
                                                    Duty Administrative
                                                    Review, 75 FR 11116
                                                    (March 10, 2010).
Divella,\10\ Pasta Zara,        .................  Certain Pasta From
 Gaetano, Felicetti.                                Italy: Notice of
                                                    Final Results of the
                                                    Eleventh
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review and Partial
                                                    Rescission of
                                                    Review, 73 FR 75400
                                                    (December 11, 2008).
Atar,\11\ Corticella/           .................  Notice of Final
 Combattenti.                                       Results of the Ninth
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review of the
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Order on Certain
                                                    Pasta from Italy, 72
                                                    FR 7011 (February
                                                    14, 2007).
Barilla \12\..................  .................  Notice of Final
                                                    Results of the
                                                    Eighth
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review of the
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Order on Certain
                                                    Pasta From Italy and
                                                    Determination to
                                                    Revoke in Part, 70
                                                    FR 71464 (November
                                                    29, 2005).
Russo/Di Nola \13\............  .................  Notice of Final
                                                    Results of the
                                                    Seventh
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review of the
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Order on Certain
                                                    Pasta from Italy and
                                                    Determination to
                                                    Revoke in Part, 70
                                                    FR 6832 (February 9,
                                                    2005).
La Molisana \14\..............  .................  Certain Pasta From
                                                    Italy: Final Results
                                                    of Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 65 FR 77852
                                                    (December 13, 2000).
Akzo Nobel BV \15\............  Purified           Purified
                                 Carboxymethylcel   Carboxymethylcellulo
                                 lulose from the    se From the
                                 Netherlands, A-    Netherlands: Final
                                 421-811.           Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 76 FR 66687
                                                    (October 27, 2011).
CP Kelco BV...................  .................  Purified
                                                    Carboxymethylcellulo
                                                    se From the
                                                    Netherlands: Final
                                                    Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 75 FR 77829
                                                    (December 14, 2010).
Roldan S.A....................  Stainless Steel    Stainless Steel Wire
                                 Wire Rod from      Rod from Spain;
                                 Spain, A-469-807.  Final Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 66 FR 10988
                                                    (February 21, 2001).
Solvay Solexis SpA (formerly    Granular           Granular
 Ausimont SpA) \16\.             Polytetrafluoroe   Polytetrafluoroethyl
                                 thylene Resin      ene Resin From
                                 from Italy, A-     Italy: Amended Final
                                 475-703.           Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 74 FR 19931
                                                    (April 30, 2009).
Nippon Kinzoku Co., Ltd.......  Stainless Steel    Stainless Steel Sheet
                                 Sheet and Strip    and Strip in Coils
                                 in Coils from      from Japan: Final
                                 Japan, A-588-845.  Results of
                                                    Antidumping Duty
                                                    Administrative
                                                    Review, 75 FR 6631
                                                    (February 10, 2010).
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    On March 23, 2012, the Department issued its Preliminary Results 
for these section 129 proceedings.\17\ On April 9 and 10, 2012, the 
Department received case briefs from interested parties, and on April 
16, 2012, the Department received rebuttal briefs. The Department 
issued its Final Results on June 6, 2012, in which it addressed all 
comments from interested parties.
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    \17\ Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Preliminary Results 
for the Section 129 Proceedings: Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from 
Belgium, Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Latvia, Purified 
Carboxymethylcellulose from Finland, Certain Pasta from Italy, 
Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands, Stainless 
Steel Wire Rod from Spain, Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin 
from Italy, Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from Japan 
(``Preliminary Results'').
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    On June 7-8, 2012, consistent with section 129(b)(3) of the URAA, 
the USTR held consultations with the Department and the appropriate 
congressional committees with respect to these Final Results. On June 
8, 2012, in accordance with sections 129(b)(4) and 129(c)(1)(B) of the 
URAA, the USTR directed the Department to implement these Final 
Results.

Nature of the Proceedings

    Section 129 of the URAA governs the nature and effect of 
determinations issued by the Department to implement findings by WTO 
dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body. Specifically, section 
129(b)(2) provides that ``notwithstanding any provision of the Tariff 
Act of 1930,'' within 180 days of a written request from the USTR, the 
Department shall issue a determination that would render its actions 
not inconsistent with an adverse finding of a WTO panel or the 
Appellate Body.\18\ The Statement of Administrative Action, U.R.A.A., 
H. Doc. 316, Vol. 1, 103d Cong. (1994) (``SAA''), variously refers to 
such a determination by the Department as a ``new,'' ``second,'' and 
``different'' determination.\19\ After consulting with the Department 
and the appropriate congressional committees, the USTR may direct the 
Department to implement, in whole or in part, the new determination 
made under section 129.\20\ Pursuant to section 129(c), the new 
determination shall apply with respect to unliquidated entries of the 
subject merchandise that are entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption, on or after the date on which the USTR directs the 
Department to implement the new determination.\21\ The new 
determination is subject to judicial review, separate and apart from 
judicial review of the Department's original determination.\22\
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    \18\ See 19 U.S.C. 3538(b)(2).
    \19\ See SAA at 1025, 1027.
    \20\ See 19 U.S.C. 3538(b)(4).
    \21\ See 19 U.S.C. 3538(c).
    \22\ See 19 U.S.C. 1516a(a)(2)(B)(vii).
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Final Results: Analysis of Comments Received

    The issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs submitted by 
interested parties to these proceedings are addressed in the Final 
Results. The issues included in the Final Results are (1) Targeted 
dumping, and (2) cash deposit rates for non-selected respondents. The 
Final Results is a public document and is on file electronically via 
Import Administration's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized 
Electronic Service System (``IA ACCESS''). Access to IA ACCESS is 
available in the Central Records Unit, room 7046 of the main Department 
of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Final 
Results can be accessed directly on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia/.

Final Results: Recalculated Cash Deposit Rates

    The recalculated cash deposit rates, as included in the Final 
Results and which remain unchanged from the Preliminary Results for 
each company, are as follows:

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                                                                                          Cash deposit rate
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       Antidumping order  (review period)               Manufacturer/exporter          Underlying    proceedings
                                                                                     administrative      final
                                                                                       review  (%)     results
                                                                                                         (%)
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Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from Belgium      Amperam Stainless Belgium N.V.....            6.57         0.00
 (2007/08).
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Latvia      Joint Stock Company Liepajas                  5.94         4.87
 (2004/05).                                       Metalurgs.
Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from Finland     CP Kelco Oy.......................            6.10         0.00
 (2008/09).
Certain Pasta from Italy (2009/10).............  Pastificio Lucio Garofalo S.p.A...            3.20         0.00
                                                 Molino e Pastificio Tomasello                 4.18         0.00
                                                  S.p.A.
                                                 Agritalia S.r.L...................            3.57         0.00
                                                 Domenico Paone fu Erasmo S.p.A....            3.57         0.00
                                                 Industria Alimentare Colavita,                3.57         0.00
                                                  S.p.A.
                                                 Labor S.r.L.......................            3.57         0.00
                                                 PAM S.p.A. and Liguori Pastificio             3.57         0.00
                                                  dal 1820 S.p.A.
                                                 P.A.P. SNC Di Pazienza G.B. & C...            3.57         0.00
                                                 Premiato Pastificio Afeltra S.r.L.            3.57         0.00
                                                 Pastifico Fabianelli S.p.A........            3.57         0.00
                                                 Pastificio Riscossa F.lli                     3.57         0.00
                                                  Mastromauro S.p.A.
                                                 Rustichella d'Abruzzo S.p.A.......            3.57         0.00
Certain Pasta from Italy (2007/08).............  PAM S.p.A. and Liguori Pastificio             8.54         5.49
                                                  dal 1820 S.p.A.
                                                 Pastificio Lucio Garofalo S.p.A...           15.87        14.63
                                                 Pasta Lensi S.r.L.................           12.21        10.06
                                                 Pastificio Fratelli Pagani S.p.A..           12.21        10.06
Certain Pasta from Italy (2006/07).............  F. Divella S.p.A..................            2.83         0.00
                                                 Pasta Zara S.p.A. 1 and Pasta Zara            9.71         0.00
                                                  S.p.A. 2.
                                                 Pastificio Di Martino Gaetano &               6.27         0.00
                                                  F.lli S.r.L.
                                                 Pastificio Felicetti S.r.L........            6.27         0.00
Certain Pasta from Italy (2004/05).............  Atar, S.r.L.......................           18.18         0.00
                                                 Corticella Molini e Pastifici                 1.95         0.00
                                                  S.p.A. and Pasta Combattenti
                                                  S.p.A.
Certain Pasta from Italy (2003/04).............  Barilla G.e.R. Fratelli S.p.A.....           20.68        19.55

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Certain Pasta from Italy (2002/03).............  Pastificio Carmine Russo S.p.A.               7.36         0.00
                                                  and Pastificio Di Nola S.p.A.
Certain Pasta from Italy (1998/99).............  La Molisana Industrie Alimerntari             5.26         0.00
                                                  S.p.A.
Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from the         Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals               3.57         0.00
 Netherlands (2009/10).                           B.V.
Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from the         CP Kelco B.V......................            2.64         0.00
 Netherlands (2008/09).
Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Spain (1998/99)..  Roldan S.A........................            0.80         0.00
Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from      Solvay Solexis S.p.A..............           79.45        79.45
 Italy (2006/07).
Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from    Nippon Kinzoku Co., Ltd...........            0.54         0.00
 Japan (2007/08).
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Implementation of the Revised Cash Deposit Requirements

    On June 8, 2012, in accordance with sections 129(b)(4) and 
129(c)(1)(B) of the URAA and after consulting with the Department and 
Congress, the USTR directed the Department to implement these Final 
Results. With respect to each of these proceedings, the Department will 
instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to require a cash deposit 
for estimated antidumping duties at the appropriate rate for each 
manufacturer/producer specified above, for entries of subject 
merchandise, entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on 
or after June 8, 2012.
    This notice of implementation of these section 129 Final Results is 
published in accordance with section 129(c)(2)(A) of the URAA.

    Dated: June 11, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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