[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 37 (Monday, February 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12718-12719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04151]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-932]


Certain Steel Threaded Rod From the People's Republic of China: 
Affirmative Final Determination of Circumvention of the Antidumping 
Duty Order

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

SUMMARY: On December 4, 2012, the Department of Commerce (the 
``Department'') published the Preliminary Determination of the 
circumvention inquiry concerning the antidumping duty order on certain 
steel threaded rod (``steel threaded rod'') from the People's Republic 
of China (``PRC'').\1\ The period of inquiry is April 1, 2010, through 
January 11, 2012. We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment 
on the Preliminary Determination. On December 31, 2012, Vulcan Threaded 
Products, Inc. (``Petitioner'') filed comments agreeing that the 
Department's Preliminary Determination is in accordance with law and 
supported by evidence on the record of this inquiry. No other party 
filed comments.
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    \1\ See Certain Steel Threaded Rod From the People's Republic of 
China: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Circumvention of the 
Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 71776 (December 4, 2012) 
(``Preliminary Determination'').

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DATES: Effective Date: February 25, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Toni Dach, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1655.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 4, 2012, the Department published the Preliminary 
Determination finding that imports from the PRC of steel threaded rod 
products with 1.25 percent or more chromium, by weight, produced by 
Gem-Year Industrial Co. Ltd. (``Gem-Year''), and otherwise meeting the 
description of in-scope merchandise, are subject to the order.\2\ We 
invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Determination. 
The only party to comment was Petitioner, who agreed that the 
Preliminary Determination is in accordance with law and supported by 
evidence on the record of this inquiry. The Department has conducted 
this anticircumvention inquiry in accordance with section 781(c) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), and 19 CFR 351.225.
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    \2\ See Preliminary Determination; see also Certain Steel 
Threaded Rod from the People's Republic of China: Notice of 
Antidumping Duty Order, 74 FR 17154 (April 14, 2009).
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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. In addition, the steel 
threaded rod, bar, or studs subject to the order are non-headed and 
threaded along greater than 25 percent of their total length. A variety 
of finishes or coatings, such as plain oil finish as a temporary rust 
protectant, zinc coating (i.e., galvanized, whether by electroplating 
or hot-dipping), paint, and other similar finishes and coatings, may be 
applied to the merchandise.
    Included in the scope of the order are steel threaded rod, bar, or 
studs, in which: (1) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of the 
other contained elements; (2) the carbon content is two percent or 
less, by weight; and (3) none of the elements listed below exceeds the 
quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:

 1.80 percent of manganese, or
 1.50 percent of silicon, or
 1.00 percent of copper, or
 0.50 percent of aluminum, or
 1.25 percent of chromium, or
 0.30 percent of cobalt, or
 0.40 percent of lead, or
 1.25 percent of nickel, or
 0.30 percent of tungsten, or
 0.012 percent of boron, or
 0.10 percent of molybdenum, or
 0.10 percent of niobium, or
 0.41 percent of titanium, or
 0.15 percent of vanadium, or
 0.15 percent of zirconium.

    Steel threaded rod is currently classifiable under subheading 
7318.15.5051, 7318.15.5056, 7318.15.5090, and 7318.15.2095 of the 
United States Harmonized Tariff Schedule (``HTSUS''). Although the

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HTSUS subheading is provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written description of the merchandise is dispositive.
    Excluded from the scope of the order are: (a) Threaded rod, bar, or 
studs which are threaded only on one or both ends and the threading 
covers 25 percent or less of the total length; and (b) threaded rod, 
bar, or studs made to American Society for Testing and Materials 
(``ASTM'') A193 Grade B7, ASTM A193 Grade B7M, ASTM A193 Grade B16, or 
ASTM A320 Grade L7.

Scope of the Circumvention Inquiry

    The merchandise subject to this circumvention inquiry consists of 
steel threaded rod from the PRC produced by Gem-Year containing greater 
than 1.25 percent chromium, by weight, and otherwise meeting the 
requirements of the scope of the order as listed under the ``Scope of 
the Order'' section above.

Final Determination

    In the Preliminary Determination, the Department found that imports 
from the PRC of steel threaded rod containing greater than 1.25 percent 
chromium, by weight, produced by Gem-Year, and otherwise meeting the 
description of in-scope merchandise, are subject to the antidumping 
duty order on steel threaded rod from the PRC. We continue to determine 
that imports from the PRC of steel threaded rod containing greater than 
1.25 percent chromium, by weight, produced by Gem-Year, and otherwise 
meeting the description of in-scope merchandise, are subject to the 
antidumping duty order on steel threaded rod from the PRC. The 
Department will issue appropriate instructions to U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (``CBP'') based on our final determination.

Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(l)(3), we are directing CBP to 
continue to suspend liquidation of entries of merchandise subject to 
this inquiry produced by Gem-Year, and entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after January 5, 2012, the date of the 
initiation of this inquiry. We will also instruct CBP to require a cash 
deposit of estimated duties at the applicable rates for each 
unliquidated entry of the product entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after January 5, 2012, the date of the initiation 
of this inquiry, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(l)(3).

Notifications

    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to the 
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 
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.
    We are issuing and publishing this affirmative final determination 
of circumvention in accordance with sections 781(c) and 777(i) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.225.

    Dated: February 13, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-04151 Filed 2-22-13; 8:45 am]
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