[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 110 (Friday, June 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34337-34338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-13567]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


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

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

SUMMARY: On February 1, 2013, the Department of Commerce (Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India (Preliminary 
Results).\1\ The review covers shipments of subject merchandise to the 
United States for the period February 1, 2011, through January 31, 
2012, by Ambica Steels Limited (Ambica). We continue to find that 
Ambica has not sold subject merchandise at less than normal value.
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Results of 
the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 78 FR 7395 (February 1, 
2013) (Preliminary Results).

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DATES: As of June 7, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Shuler or Yasmin Nair, 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) 482-1293, 
or (202) 482-3813, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is stainless steel bar. The 
stainless steel bar 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 (HTS). The HTS subheadings 
are provided for convenience and customs purposes. For a full 
description of the scope of the order, see Memorandum to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, from Christian Marsh, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 2011-2012 
Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Bar from India'' (Final IDM). 
The written description is dispositive.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case briefs are addressed in the Final 
IDM, dated concurrently and hereby adopted by this notice. A list of 
the issues which parties raised and to which we responded in the Final 
IDM is attached to this notice as an Appendix. The Final IDM 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 Final IDM can be 
accessed directly on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia/. The 
signed Final IDM and the electronic versions of the Final IDM are 
identical in content.

Changes From the Preliminary Results

    Based on our analysis of the comments received since the 
Preliminary Results, we have made the following changes in calculating 
Ambica's weighted-average dumping margin for the final results: (1) We 
removed the billing adjustments from the net prices in the comparison 
and U.S. markets; (2) we capped packing revenue by the amount of 
packing revenue Ambica recouped from certain customers; and, (3) we re-
classified a previously affiliated loan from the Preliminary Results as 
non-affiliated and recalculated Ambica's net financial expense ratio, 
excluding the previously affiliated loan. See Memorandum to the File 
from Joseph Shuler, ``Final Results Calculation Memorandum for 
Ambica,'' June 3, 2013, and Memorandum to Neal M. Halper, Director, 
Office of Accounting, through Peter S. Scholl, Lead Accountant, from 
Sheikh M. Hannan, Senior Accountant, titled ``Cost Calculation 
Adjustment Memorandum for the Final Results,'' June 3, 2013.

Final Results of the Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for Ambica for the period February 1, 2011, through January 31, 
2012.

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                                                                Margin
                    Exporter/manufacturer                      (percent)
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Ambica Steels Limited.......................................        0.00
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Disclosure

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(b), we intend to disclose calculation 
memoranda used in our analysis to parties to these proceedings within 
five days of the date of publication of this notice.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (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. The Department 
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date 
of publication of these final results of review.
    In accordance with the Final Modification, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate Ambica's entries covered in

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this review without regard to antidumping duties.\2\
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    \2\ 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).
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    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (Assessment 
Policy Notice). This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the period of review produced by Ambica for which 
Ambica did not know the merchandise was destined for the United States. 
In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate un-reviewed 
entries at 12.45 percent, the ``all others'' rate established in the 
LTFV investigation if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction. See Notice of Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar 
from India, 59 FR 66915 (December 28, 1994); see also Assessment Policy 
Notice.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit rates will be effective upon publication of 
the final results of this administrative review for all shipments of 
stainless steel bar from India 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) For the company covered by this 
review, the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously reviewed 
or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent 
final results in which that manufacturer or exporter participated; (3) 
if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, 
or the original LTFV investigation, but the producer is, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent final 
results for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) if neither the 
exporter nor the producer is a firm covered in this or any previous 
review conducted by the Department, the cash deposit rate will be 12.45 
percent, the ``all others'' rate established in the LTFV 
investigation.\3\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \3\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Stainless Steel Bar from India, 59 FR 66915 (December 28, 
1994).
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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 double antidumping duties.
    This notice serves as the only 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 written 
notification of return/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 review are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: June 3, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix--Issues in Decision Memorandum

Comment 1: Whether Ambica Has Withheld Information Related to 
Affiliated Companies
Comment 2: Whether Ambica Has Been Uncooperative or Withheld 
Information
Comment 3: Whether the Department should re-classify certain Ambica 
transactions as constructed export price sales
Comment 4: Whether the Department should adjust the interest rate on 
Ambica's loans provided from non-affiliates
Comment 5: Whether the Department erred in the calculation of net 
U.S. and home market prices
Comment 6: Whether the Department should correct its calculation of 
the per-unit G&A and Interest Expenses

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