[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 72 (Monday, April 15, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22227-22228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-08792]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-825]


Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2011-2012

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 22, 2013, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from 
Brazil. For these final results, we continue to find that Villares 
Metals S.A. (Villares) has not sold subject merchandise at less than 
normal value.

DATES: Effective Date: April 15, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Dreisonstok 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-
0768 and (202) 482-1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 22, 2013, the Department published the preliminary 
results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
SSB from Brazil.\1\ The period of review is February 1, 2011, through 
January 31, 2012.
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2011-2012, 78 FR 4383 
(January 22, 2013) (Preliminary Results).
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    We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary 
Results. We received a case brief from Villares on February 21, 2013, 
in which it alleged two clerical errors in the calculation. The 
petitioners \2\ did not file a case or rebuttal brief.
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    \2\ Carpenter Technology Corporation, Crucible Industries LLC, 
and Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc.
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    The Department has conducted this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with 
respect to the order 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. SSB includes cold-finished 
SSBs 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 SSB subject to the order is currently classifiable under 
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.\3\
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    \3\ The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope have changed since 
the publication of the order. See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless 
Steel Bar from Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 
1995).
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Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our analysis of the comments received, we have corrected 
two programming errors in the weighted-average dumping margin 
calculation in the Preliminary Results. These changes, however, did not 
affect the final weighted-average dumping margin for Villares. A 
detailed discussion of the corrections made is included in the final 
analysis memorandum,\4\ which is hereby adopted by this notice 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.
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    \4\ See Memorandum to the file from Sandra Dreisonstok through 
Minoo Hatten entitled, ``Administrative Review of the Antidumping 
Duty Order on Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Final Analysis 
Memorandum for Villares Metals S.A.; 2011-2012,'' dated concurrently 
with this notice.
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Final Results of Review

    As a result of this review, we determine that a weighted-average 
dumping margin of 0.00 percent exists for Villares for the period 
February 1, 2011, through January 31, 2012.

Assessment Rates

    In accordance with the Final Modification,\5\ we will instruct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate entries covered in 
this review without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \5\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012) 
(Final Modification for Reviews).
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    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the period of review produced by Villares for which 
it did not know its merchandise was destined for the United States. In 
such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at 
the country-specific all-others rate if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction. For a full 
discussion of this clarification, see Antidumping and

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Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
    We intend to issue liquidation instructions to CBP 15 days after 
publication of the final results of review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of this notice of final results for all shipments of SSB 
from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after the date of publication as provided by section 751(a)(2) of the 
Act: (1) No cash deposit will be required for Villares which received a 
rate of 0.00 percent in the final results of this administrative 
review; (2) for merchandise exported by manufacturers or exporters not 
covered in this review but covered in a prior segment of the 
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter 
is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original 
investigation but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of 
the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers 
or exporters will continue to be 19.43 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28, 
1994). These cash deposit requirements shall remain in effect until 
further notice.

Notifications

    This notice serves as a final 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 Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
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.
    These final results of administrative review are issued and 
published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 
Act.

     Dated: April 9, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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