[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 154 (Thursday, August 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47595-47596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19574]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-825, A-533-810, A-588-833, A-469-805]


Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain: 
Continuation of Antidumping Duty Orders

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


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SUMMARY: As a result of the determinations by the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) 
that revocation of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel bar 
from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain would likely lead to a 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and material injury to an 
industry in the United States, the Department is publishing a notice of 
continuation of the antidumping duty orders.

DATES: Effective Date: August 9, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Bryan Hansen or Minoo Hatten, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3683 or (202) 482-1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On December 1, 2011, the Department initiated the third sunset 
reviews of the antidumping duty orders \1\ on stainless steel bar from 
Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain pursuant to section 751(c) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). See Initiation of Five-Year 
(``Sunset'') Review, 76 FR 74775 (December 1, 2011).
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    \1\ Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, 
India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995) and Amended Final 
Determination and Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from 
Spain, 60 FR 11656 (March 2, 1995).
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    As a result of these sunset reviews, the Department determined that 
revocation of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel bar from 
Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain would be likely to lead to continuation 
or recurrence of dumping and notified the ITC of the magnitude of the 
margins likely to prevail should the orders be revoked. See Stainless 
Steel Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain: Final Results of the 
Expedited Third Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Orders, 77 FR 
16207 (March 20, 2012).
    On August 1, 2012, pursuant to section 752(a) of the Act, the ITC 
published its determination that revocation of the antidumping duty 
orders on stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain 
would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to 
an industry in the United States within a reasonably foreseeable time. 
See Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain; 
Determination, 77 FR 45653 (August 1, 2012), and ITC Publication 4341 
(July 2012) entitled Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and 
Spain Investigation Nos. 731-TA-678, 679, 681, and 682 (Third Review).

Scope of the Orders

    Imports covered by the orders are shipments of stainless steel bar. 
Stainless steel bar means articles of stainless steel in straight 
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, 
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform 
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles, 
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles, 
hexagons, octagons, or other convex polygons. Stainless steel bar 
includes cold-finished stainless steel bars that are turned or ground 
in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or from 
straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have 
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the 
rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have 
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or 
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at 
least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do 
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, 
shapes and sections.
    The stainless steel bars subject to the orders is currently 
classifiable under subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 
7222.20.00, and 7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope 
of the orders is dispositive.

Continuation of the Orders

    As a result of the determinations by the Department and the ITC 
that revocation of these antidumping duty orders would likely lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and material injury to an 
industry in the United States, pursuant to section 751(d)(2) of the 
Act, the Department hereby orders the continuation of the antidumping 
duty orders on stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and 
Spain.
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection will continue to collect 
antidumping duty cash deposits at the rates in effect at the time of 
entry for all imports of subject merchandise. The effective date of 
continuation of these orders will be the date of publication in the 
Federal Register of this notice of continuation. Pursuant to section 
751(c)(2) of the Act, the Department intends to initiate the next five-
year reviews of these orders not later than 30 days prior to the fifth 
anniversary of the effective date of continuation.
    These five-year sunset reviews and this notice are in accordance 
with section 751(c) of the Act and published pursuant to section 
777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: August 2, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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