[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 96 (Friday, May 17, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29113-29114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-11888]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-836]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From 
the Republic of Korea: 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 published the 
preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products 
from the Republic of Korea. For these final results, we continue to 
find that subject merchandise has not been sold at less than normal 
value.

DATES: Effective Date: May 17, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yang Jin Chun, 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) 482-5760.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On January 22, 2013, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel 
plate products from the Republic of Korea (Korea).\1\ The period of 
review is February 1, 2011, through January 31, 2012.
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    \1\ See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 
Products From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2011-2012, 78 FR 4385 
(January 22, 2013) (Preliminary Results).
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    We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results 
and received a case brief from Nucor Corporation and a rebuttal brief 
from Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.
    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 products covered by the antidumping duty order are certain cut-
to-length plate. For a full description of the scope of the order, see 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum,\2\ which is hereby adopted by this 
notice. The written description is dispositive.
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    \2\ See the memorandum to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for 
Import Administration, from Gary Taverman, Senior Advisor for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, entitled ``Issues 
and Decision Memorandum for the Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review of Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products 
from the Republic of Korea for the Period of Review February 1, 
2011, through January 31, 2012'' dated concurrently with this notice 
(Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    The comments received in the case and rebuttal briefs are addressed 
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. The Issues and 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). Access to 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 Issues and Decision

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Memorandum can be accessed directly on the internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed Issues and Decision Memorandum and the 
electronic versions of the Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical 
in content.

Final Results of Review

    For the final results of this review, we determine that the 
following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period 
February 1, 2011, through January 31, 2012.

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                  Manufacturer/exporter                       dumping
                                                              margin
                                                             (percent)
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Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.............................            0.00
Samsung C&T Corp........................................            0.00
TCC Steel Corp..........................................            0.00
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
the Department will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of 
subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this 
review. With respect to the respondents for which the 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 any entries without regard to antidumping duties.\3\
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    \3\ 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 Duty Proceedings; Final 
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012), 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.
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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 POR produced by Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd., 
which is the company selected for individual examination in this 
review, 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 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 Countervailing 
Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 
2003) (May 2003 Clarification).
    Consistent with the May 2003 Clarification, for Daewoo 
International Corp., Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd., GS Global Corp., and 
Hyundai Steel Co., which had no reviewable entries of subject 
merchandise to the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate any 
applicable entries of subject merchandise at the all-others rate.
    We intend to issue liquidation instructions to CBP 15 days after 
publication of the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for 
all shipments of certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate 
products from Korea 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 
companies which received the rate of zero 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 0.98 percent,\4\ 
the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value 
investigation, adjusted for the export-subsidy rate in the companion 
countervailing duty investigation. These cash deposit requirements, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \4\ See, e.g., Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 
Products From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review, 77 FR 21527, 21529 (April 10, 2012).
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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: May 13, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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