[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 46 (Friday, March 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14964-14967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05494]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-929]


Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review 
and Partial Rescission; 2011-2012

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

SUMMARY:  The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on small diameter 
graphite electrodes (graphite electrodes) from the People's Republic of 
China (PRC), covering the period February 1, 2011, through January 31, 
2012. The Department has preliminarily determined that during the 
period of review (POR) certain companies covered by this review have 
not made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value, and 
that other companies are now part of the PRC-wide entity.

DATES:  Effective Date: March 8, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Dmitry Vladimirov 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) 482-0665 
or (202) 482-1690, respectively.

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order includes all small diameter 
graphite electrodes with a nominal or actual diameter of 400 
millimeters (16 inches) or less and graphite pin joining systems for 
small diameter graphite electrodes. Small diameter graphite electrodes 
and graphite pin joining systems for small diameter graphite electrodes 
that are subject to the order are currently classified under the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 
8545.11.0010 and 3801.10. The HTSUS numbers are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes. A full description of the scope of 
the order is contained in the memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, 
to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, 
``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes from the 
People's Republic of China'' dated concurrently with this notice 
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum), which is hereby adopted by this 
notice. The written description is dispositive. The Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum 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, room 7046 of the main Department of Commerce 
building. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum can be accessed directly on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the 
electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 
identical in content.

Partial Rescission of the Administrative Review

    Based on the withdrawal of the requests for review and because the 
companies previously established their entitlement to a separate rate, 
we are rescinding this administrative review with respect to 19 
companies named in the Initiation Notice \1\ and listed in the 
attachment to this notice as Appendix II.
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, and 
Deferral of Administrative Review, 77 FR 19179 (March 30, 2012) 
(Initiation Notice).
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Methodology

    The Department has conducted this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Export 
prices have been calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. 
Because the PRC is a non-market economy (NME) within the meaning of 
section 771(18) of the Act, normal value has been calculated in 
accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. Specifically, the 
respondents' factors of production have been valued using prices in 
Ukraine, a country which is economically comparable to the PRC and a 
significant producer of comparable merchandise. For a full description 
of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department has determined that the following preliminary 
dumping margins exist for the period February 1, 2011, through January 
31, 2012:

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                                                                 Margin
                           Company                             (percent)
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Fushun Jinly Petrochemical Carbon Co., Ltd...................       0.00
Beijing Fangda Carbon Tech Co., Ltd..........................       0.00
Chengdu Rongguang Carbon Co., Ltd............................       0.00
Fangda Carbon New Material Co., Ltd..........................       0.00
Fushun Carbon Co., Ltd.......................................       0.00
Hefei Carbon Co., Ltd........................................       0.00
Xinghe County Muzi Carbon Co., Ltd...........................       0.00
PRC-wide entity [dagger].....................................     159.64
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[dagger] The PRC-wide entity includes the companies listed in Appendix
  III.

Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department will disclose calculations performed for these 
preliminary results to the parties within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 
Interested parties may submit written comments no later than 30 days 
after the date of publication of these preliminary results of 
review.\2\ Rebuttals to written comments may be filed no later than 
five days after the written comments are filed.\3\
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    \2\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
    \3\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
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    Any interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of 
publication of this notice.\4\ Hearing requests should contain the 
following information: (1) The party's name, address, and telephone; 
(2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be 
discussed. Oral presentations will be limited to issues raised in the 
briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties will be notified of 
the time and date for the hearing to be held at the U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.\5\
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    The Department intends to issue the final results of this 
administrative review, which will include the results of its analysis 
of issues raised in any such comments, within 120 days of publication 
of these preliminary results, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

Deadline for Submission of Publicly Available Surrogate Value 
Information

    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(ii), the deadline for 
submission of publicly available information to value factors 
production under 19 CFR 351.408(c) is 20 days after the date of 
publication of these preliminary results. In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.301(c)(1), if an interested party submits factual information less 
than ten days before, on, or after (if the Department has extended the 
deadline), the applicable deadline for submission of such factual 
information, an interested party may submit factual information to 
rebut, clarify, or correct the factual information no later than ten 
days after such factual information is served on the interested party. 
However, the Department generally will not accept in the rebuttal 
submission additional or alternative surrogate value information not 
previously on the record, if the deadline for submission of surrogate 
value information has passed.\6\ Furthermore, the Department generally 
will not accept business proprietary information in either the 
surrogate value submissions or the rebuttals thereto, as the regulation 
regarding the submission of surrogate values allows only for the 
submission of publicly available information.\7\
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    \6\ See, e.g., Glycine from the People's Republic of China: 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final 
Rescission, in Part, 72 FR 58809 (October 17, 2007), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2.
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3).
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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuing the final results of review, the Department will 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review.\8\ If a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is above 
de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of this review, we 
will calculate an importer-specific assessment rate on the basis of the 
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's 
examined sales and, where possible, the total entered value of those 
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Specifically, the 
Department will apply the assessment rate calculation method adopted in 
Final Modification for Reviews, i.e., on the basis of monthly average-
to-average comparisons using only the transactions associated with that 
importer with offsets being provided for non-dumped comparisons.\9\ 
Where an importer- (or customer-) specific ad valorem rate is zero or 
de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties.\10\
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    \8\See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \9\See Antidumping Proceeding: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8103 (February 14, 2012) 
(Final Modification for Reviews).
    \10\See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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    On October 24, 2011, the Department announced a refinement to its 
assessment practice in NME cases. \11\ Pursuant to this refinement in 
practice, for entries that were not reported in the U.S. sales 
databases submitted by companies individually examined during this 
review, the Department will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at 
the PRC-wide rate. In addition, if the Department determines that an 
exporter under review had no shipments of the subject merchandise, any 
suspended entries that entered under that exporter's case number (i.e., 
at that exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.
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    \11\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market 
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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    The Department intends to issue appropriate assessment instructions 
directly to CBP 15 days after publication of the final results of 
review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for 
shipments of the subject merchandise from the PRC entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate 
for Fushun Jinly Petrochemical Carbon Co., Ltd., Xinghe County Muzi 
Carbon Co., Ltd., and the five companies comprising the Fangda Group 
\12\ will be the rate established in the final results of this 
administrative review (except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, then 
no cash deposit will be required); (2) for previously investigated or 
reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters not listed above that received a 
separate rate in a prior segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit 
rate will continue to be the existing exporter-specific rate; (3) for 
all PRC exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be 
entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be that for the

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PRC-wide entity; 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 exporter that supplied that 
non-PRC exporter. These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \12\ The Fangda Group consists of Beijing Fangda Carbon Tech 
Co., Ltd., Chengdu Rongguang Carbon Co., Ltd., Fangda Carbon New 
Material Co., Ltd., Fushun Carbon Co., Ltd., and Hefei Carbon Co., 
Ltd. We refer to the Fangda Group as a single entity pursuant to 19 
CFR 351.401(f)(1). See Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the 
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and 
Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Critical Circumstances, in 
Part, 73 FR 49408, 49411-12 (August 21, 2008) (where we collapsed 
the individual members of the Fangda Group), unchanged in Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Affirmative 
Determination of Critical Circumstances: Small Diameter Graphite 
Electrodes from the People's Republic of China, 74 FR 2049 (January 
14, 2009).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213.

    Dated: March 4, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix I

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

1. Scope of the Order
2. Non-Market Economy Country Status
3. Separate Rates
4. Rate for Non-Selected Companies
5. PRC-Wide Entity
6. Surrogate Country
7. Fair-Value Comparisons
8. Export Price
9. Normal Value
10. Factor Valuations
11. Use of Facts Available
12. Allegations of Targeted Dumping
13. Currency Conversion

Appendix II

    Firms for which we are rescinding this administrative review 
because we received timely withdrawal requests and these companies 
have a separate rate from a prior segment.

1. Brilliant Charter Limited,
2. Dalian Thrive Metallurgy Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
3. GES (China) Co., Ltd.
4. Heilongjiang Xinyuan Carbon Products Co., Ltd.
5. Jiaozuo Zhongzhou Carbon Products Co., Ltd.
6. Linghai Hongfeng Carbon Products Co., Ltd.
7. Nantong Falter New Energy Co., Ltd.
8. Nantong River-East Carbon Co., Ltd.
9. Nantong River-East Carbon Joint Stock Co., Ltd.
10. Nantong Yangtze Carbon Corp. Ltd.
11. Qingdao Haosheng Metals Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
12. Shanghai GC Co., Ltd.
13. Shanghai Jinneng International Trade Co., Ltd.
14. Shenyang Jinli Metals & Minerals Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
15. Shijiazhuang Huanan Carbon Factory
16. Sinosteel Jilin Carbon Co., Ltd.
17. Tianzhen Jintian Graphite Electrodes Co., Ltd.
18. Xinghe Xinyuan Carbon Products Co., Ltd.
19. Xuzhou Jianglong Carbon Manufacture Co., Ltd.

Appendix III

    Firms for which we are not rescinding the review even though we 
received timely withdrawal requests because these companies are part 
of the PRC entity as they did not have a separate rate from a prior 
segment.

1. 5-Continent Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
2. Acclcarbon Co., Ltd.
3. Allied Carbon (China) Co., Limited
4. Anssen Metallurgy Group Co., Ltd.
5. AMGL
6. Apex Maritime (Dalian) Co., Ltd.
7. Asahi Fine Carbon (Dalian) Co., Ltd.
8. Beijing Xinchengze Inc.
9. Beijing Xincheng Sci-Tech. Development Inc.
10. Chang Cheng Chang Electrode Co., Ltd.
11. Chengdelh Carbonaceous Elements Factory
12. Chengdu Jia Tang Corp.
13. China Industrial Mineral & Metals Group
14. China Shaanxi Richbond Imp. & Exp. Industrial Corp. Ltd.
15. China Xingyong Carbon Co., Ltd.
16. CIMM Group Co., Ltd.
17. Dalian Carbon & Graphite Corporation
18. Dalian Hongrui Carbon Co., Ltd.
19. Dalian Honest International Trade Co., Ltd.
20. Dalian Horton International Trading Co., Ltd.
21. Dalian LST Metallurgy Co., Ltd.
22. Dalian Shuangji Co., Ltd.
23. Datong Carbon
24. Datong Carbon Plant
25. Datong Xincheng Carbon Co., Ltd.
26. De Well Container Shipping Corp.
27. Dewell Group
28. Dignity Success Investment Trading Co., Ltd.
29. Double Dragon Metals and Mineral Tools Co., Ltd.
30. Fangda Lanzhou Carbon Joint Stock Company Co. Ltd.
31. Foset Co., Ltd.
32. Fushun Orient Carbon Co., Ltd.
33. Guangdong Highsun Yongye (Group) Co., Ltd.
34. Haimen Shuguang Carbon Industry Co., Ltd.
35. Handan Hanbo Material Co., Ltd.
36. Hebei Long Great Wall Electrode Co., Ltd.
37. Heilongjiang Xinyuan Metacarbon Company, Ltd.
38. Henan Sanli Carbon Products Co., Ltd.
39. Hopes (Beijing) International Co., Ltd.
40. Hunan Mec Machinery and Electronics Imp. & Exp. Corp.
41. Hunan Yinguang Carbon Factory Co., Ltd.
42. Inner Mongolia QingShan Special Graphite and Carbon Co., Ltd.
43. Inner Mongolia Xinghe County Hongyuan Electrical Carbon Factory
44. Jiang Long Carbon
45. Jiangsu Yafei Carbon Co., Ltd.
46. Jichun International Trade Co., Ltd. of Jilin Province
47. Jiexiu Juyuan Carbon Co., Ltd.
48. Jiexiu Ju-Yuan & Coaly Co., Ltd.
49. Jilin Carbon Graphite Material Co., Ltd.
50. Jilin Carbon Import and Export Company
51. Jilin Songjiang Carbon Co Ltd.
52. Jinneng Group Co., Ltd.
53. Jinyu Thermo-Electric Material Co., Ltd.
54. Kaifeng Carbon Company Ltd.
55. KASY Logistics (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
56. Kimwan New Carbon Technology and Development Co., Ltd.
57. Kingstone Industrial Group Ltd.
58. L & T Group Co., Ltd.
59. Laishui Long Great Wall Electrode Co. Ltd.
60. Lanzhou Carbon Co., Ltd.
61. Lanzhou Carbon Import & Export Corp.
62. Lanzhou Hailong Technology
63. Lanzhou Ruixin Industrial Material Co., Ltd.
64. LH Carbon Factory of Chengde
65. Lianxing Carbon Qinghai Co., Ltd.
66. Lianxing Carbon Science Institute
67. Lianxing Carbon (Shandong) Co., Ltd.
68. Lianyungang Jinli Carbon Co., Ltd.
69. Liaoyang Carbon Co. Ltd.
70. Linyi County Lubei Carbon Co., Ltd.
71. Maoming Yongye (Group) Co., Ltd.
72. MBI Beijing International Trade Co., Ltd.
73. Nantong Yangtze Carbon Corp. Ltd.
74. Orient (Dalian) Carbon Resources Developing Co., Ltd.
75. Orient Star Transport International, Ltd.
76. Peixian Longxiang Foreign Trade Co. Ltd.
77. Qingdao Grand Graphite Products Co., Ltd.
78. Quingdao Haosheng Metals & Minerals Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
79. Qingdao Liyikun Carbon Development Co., Ltd.
80. Qingdao Likun Graphite Co., Ltd.
81. Qingdao Ruizhen Carbon Co., Ltd.
82. Ray Group Ltd.
83. Rex International Forwarding Co., Ltd.
84. Rt Carbon Co., Ltd.
85. Ruitong Carbon Co., Ltd.
86. Shandong Basan Carbon Plant
87. Shandong Zibo Continent Carbon Factory
88. Shanghai Carbon International Trade Co., Ltd.
89. Shanghai P.W. International Ltd.
90. Shanghai Shen-Tech Graphite Material Co., Ltd.
91. Shanghai Topstate International Trading Co., Ltd.
92. Shanxi Datong Energy Development Co., Ltd.
93. Shanxi Foset Carbon Co. Ltd.
94. Shanxi Jiexiu Import and Export Co., Ltd.
95. Shanxi Jinneng Group Co., Ltd.
96. Shanxi Yunheng Graphite Electrode Co., Ltd.
97. Shijaizhuang Carbon Co., Ltd.
98. Sichuan 5-Continent Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
99. Sichuan GMT International Inc.
100. Sinicway International Logistics Ltd.
101. Sinosteel Anhui Co., Ltd.
102. Sinosteel Jilin Carbon Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.

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103. Sinosteel Sichuan Co., Ltd.
104. SMMC Group Co., Ltd.
105. Sure Mega (Hong Kong) Ltd.
106. Tangshan Kimwan Special Carbon & Graphite Co., Ltd.
107. Tengchong Carbon Co., Ltd.
108. Tianjin (Teda) Iron & Steel Trade Co., Ltd.
109. Tianjin Kimwan Carbon Technology and Development Co., Ltd.
110. Tianjin Yue Yang Industrial & Trading Co., Ltd.
111. Tielong (Chengdu) Carbon Co., Ltd.
112. UK Carbon & Graphite
113. United Carbon Ltd.
114. United Trade Resources, Inc.
115. Weifang Lianxing Carbon Co., Ltd.
116. World Trade Metals & Minerals Co., Ltd.
117. XC Carbon Group
118. Xinyuan Carbon Co., Ltd.
119. Xuanhua Hongli Refractory and Mineral Company
120. Xuchang Minmetals & Industry Co., Ltd.
121. Xuzhou Carbon Co., Ltd.
122. Xuzhou Electrode Factory
123. Yangzhou Qionghua Carbon Trading Ltd.
124. Yixing Huaxin Imp & Exp Co. Ltd.
125. Youth Industry Co., Ltd.
126. Zhengzhou Jinyu Thermo-Electric Material Co., Ltd.
127. Zibo Continent Carbon Factory
128. Zibo DuoCheng Trading Co., Ltd.
129. Zibo Lianxing Carbon Co., Ltd.
130. Zibo Wuzhou Tanshun Carbon Co., Ltd.

    Companies that are now part of the PRC entity because they did 
not demonstrate in this review that they are entitled to a separate 
rate.

1. Dechang Shida Carbon Co., Ltd.
2. Shida Carbon Group
3. Sichuan Shida Trading Co., Ltd.
4. Sichuan Guanghan Shida Carbon Co., Ltd.\13\
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    \13\ In the Initiation Notice, we initiated a review of Guanghan 
Shida Carbon Co., Ltd. This company is the same entity as Sichuan 
Guanghan Shida Carbon Co., Ltd. See Small Diameter Graphite 
Electrodes from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 77 FR 40854, 40856 (July 11, 
2012).
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