[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 218 (Friday, November 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67332-67334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27438]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-932]


Certain Steel Threaded Rod From the People's Republic of China: 
Final Results and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2010-2011

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

SUMMARY: On May 8, 2012, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the Preliminary Results of the second 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain steel 
threaded rod from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') for the 
period of review (``POR'') April 1, 2010, through March 31, 2011.\1\ 
Based upon our analysis of the comments and information received, we 
continue to find that RMB Fasteners Ltd., and IFI & Morgan Ltd. 
(collectively ``RMB/IFI Group'') has sold subject merchandise at less 
than normal value.
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    \1\ See Certain Steel Threaded Rod From the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review, Intent To 
Rescind, and Rescission, in Part, 77 FR 27022 (May 8, 2012) 
(``Preliminary Results'').

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DATES: Effective Date: November 9, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Huang, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202-482-4047.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On May 8, 2012, the Department published the Preliminary Results. 
In the Preliminary Results, the Department indicated its intent to 
rescind the review with respect to Gem-Year Industrial Co., Ltd. 
(``Gem-Year'') and Haiyan Julong Standard Part Co., Ltd. (``Haiyan 
Julong'') for lack of shipments.\2\
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    \2\ See Preliminary Results, 77 FR at 27024.
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    On June 8, 2012, the RMB/IFI Group submitted factor usage 
information that the Department requested for two control numbers that 
were not produced during the POR. On June 19, 2012, the

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RMB/IFI Group submitted additional surrogate value information for the 
final results. Interested parties were further provided an opportunity 
to comment on the Preliminary Results. Between July 17 and July 24, 
2012, we received case and rebuttal briefs from interested parties. On 
August 24, 2012, the Department extended the time limit for these final 
results by 60 days.\3\
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    \3\ See Department's Memorandum, re: ``Certain Steel Threaded 
Rod from the People's Republic of China: Extension of Deadline for 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated 
August 24, 2012.
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties to 
this review are addressed in the memorandum entitled, ``Issues and 
Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Second Administrative 
Review of Certain Steel Threaded Rod from the People's Republic of 
China'' (``I&D Memo''), which is dated November 5, 2012, and hereby 
adopted by this notice. A list of the issues that parties raised, and 
to which we respond in the I&D Memo is attached to this notice as 
Appendix I. The I&D Memo is a public document and is on file 
electronically via Import Administration's Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (``IA 
ACCESS''). IA ACCESS is available to registered users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov and in the Central Records Unit (``CRU''), room 7046 
of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete 
version of the I&D Memo can be accessed directly on the internet at 
http://www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed I&D Memo and the electronic 
versions of the I&D Memo are identical in content.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    The Department has made changes to the preliminary margin 
calculation for the RMB/IFI Group. Specifically, we relied on factor 
usage information submitted after the Preliminary Results for the two 
control numbers that were not produced during the POR and updated the 
Thai import statistics used to value steel wire rod based on the 
specific carbon content reported by the RMB/IFI Group for its steel 
wire rod consumption.\4\
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    \4\ See I&D Memo at Comments 1 and 3.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is steel threaded rod. Steel 
threaded rod is certain threaded rod, bar, or studs, of carbon quality 
steel, having a solid, circular cross section, of any diameter, in any 
straight length, that have been forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-
rolled, machine straightened, or otherwise cold-finished, and into 
which threaded grooves have been applied. Certain steel threaded rod 
subject to the order is currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'') at subheadings 7318.15.5051, 
7318.15.5056, 7318.15.5090, and 7318.15.2095.\5\ Although the 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written product description, available in Certain Steel Threaded Rod 
from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Antidumping Duty Order, 
74 FR 17154 (April 14, 2009), remains dispositive.
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    \5\ As part of these final results, the Department has modified 
the language of the scope to reflect the fact that HTSUS subheading 
7318.15.5050 has been deleted and replaced with subheadings 
7318.15.5051 and 7318.15.5056. See I&D Memo at Comment 2.
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PRC-Wide Entity

    As noted in the Preliminary Results, upon initiation of the 
administrative review, we provided an opportunity for all companies for 
which the review was initiated to complete either the separate rate 
application or certification.\6\ The Department preliminarily 
determined that New Pole Power Systems Co., Ltd. (``New Pole'') failed 
to demonstrate eligibility for a separate rate and is thus properly 
considered not to be separate from the PRC-wide entity.\7\ Further, in 
the Preliminary Results we assigned the PRC-wide entity a rate of 
206.00 percent, the only rate ever determined for the PRC-wide entity 
in this proceeding.\8\ No party submitted comments regarding this 
finding. Therefore, for these final results, we continue to assign the 
PRC-wide entity a rate of 206.00 percent.\9\
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    \6\ See Preliminary Results, 77 FR at 27024.
    \7\ See id.
    \8\ See, e.g., Certain Steel Threaded Rod from the People's 
Republic of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value, 74 FR 8907 (February 27, 2009).
    \9\ See Certain Steel Threaded Rod from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 74 FR 
8907, 8910 (February 27, 2009).
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Final Partial Rescission

    In the Preliminary Results, the Department indicated its intent to 
rescind this review with respect to Gem-Year and Haiyan Julong upon 
preliminarily determining that they had no shipments of subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POR.\10\ Subsequent to the 
Preliminary Results, no information was submitted on the record 
indicating that they made sales to the United States of subject 
merchandise during the POR and no party provided written arguments 
regarding this issue. Thus, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), 
and consistent with our practice,\11\ we are rescinding this review 
with respect to Gem-Year and Haiyan Julong.
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    \10\ See Preliminary Results, 77 FR at 27024.
    \11\ See, e.g., Certain Tissue Paper Products from the People's 
Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 73 FR 18497, 18500 (April 4, 
2008) (preliminarily rescinding review because of lack of reviewable 
entries), unchanged in Certain Tissue Paper Products from the 
People's Republic of China: Final Results and Final Rescission, in 
Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 73 FR 58113 
(October 6, 2008).
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Final Results of Review

    The dumping margins for the POR are as follows:

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                                                             Weighted-
                        Exporter                          average margin
                                                             (percent)
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RMB Fasteners Ltd., and IFI & Morgan Ltd. (``RMB/IFI               19.68
 Group'')...............................................
PRC-wide Entity.........................................          206.00
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    The Department will disclose calculations performed for these final 
results to the parties within five days of the date of publication of 
this notice, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. The Department intends 
to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of 
publication of the final results of review. For any individually 
examined respondents whose weighted-average dumping margin is above de 
minimis, we calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment 
rates based on the ratio of the total amount of antidumping duty 
calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total entered value 
of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\12\ We 
will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries covered by this review when the importer-specific assessment 
rate calculated in the final results of this review is above de minimis 
(i.e., 0.50 percent). Where either the respondent's

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weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \12\ In these final results, the Department applied the 
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping 
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final 
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended, (``the Act''): (1) For the RMB/IFI Group, the cash deposit 
rate will be the rate established in the final results of review 
(except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, i.e., less than 0.5 
percent, a zero cash deposit rate will be required for that company); 
(2) for previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters 
not listed above that have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the exporter-specific rate published for the most recent 
period; (3) for all PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not 
been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate 
will be the PRC-wide rate of 206.00 percent; and (4) for all non-PRC 
exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own 
rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the PRC 
exporters that supplied that non-PRC exporter. The deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

Reimbursement of Duties

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding 
the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during this POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305, which continues 
to govern business proprietary information in this segment of the 
proceeding. Timely written notification of the return/destruction of 
APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby 
requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO 
is a violation which is subject to sanction.
    We are issuing and publishing this administrative review and notice 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: November 5, 2012
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix I

Comment 1. Surrogate Country Selection
    A. Economic Comparability and Significant Producer
    B. Data Availability
    (1) Surrogate Value for Steel Inputs
    (2) Surrogate Value for Hydrochloric Acid
    (3) Surrogate Financial Ratios
Comment 2. Correcting the Harmonized Tariff Schedule Numbers Within 
the Scope
Comment 3. Factors of Production for Control Numbers Not Produced 
During the POR

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