[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 24, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44525-44526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-17796]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-849]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From the People's 
Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative 
Review; 2011-2012

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

DATES: Effective Date: July 24, 2013.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``Department'') is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-
length carbon steel plate (``CTL plate'') from the People's Republic of 
China (``PRC'') for the period of review (``POR'') November 1, 2011, 
through October 31, 2012. This review covers three PRC companies.\1\ 
The Department preliminarily finds Hunan Valin did not have reviewable 
transactions during the POR. Further, the Department preliminarily 
finds that the other two respondents, Baosteel and Shanghai Pudong, did 
not establish their eligibility for separate rate status and, thus, are 
part of the PRC-wide entity.
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 77 FR 
77017 (December 31, 2012). The companies under review are as 
follows: Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (``Hunan 
Valin''), Shanghai Pudong Iron and Steel Co. (``Shanghai Pudong''), 
and the company grouping Bao/Baoshan Iron and Steel Corp., Baoshan 
International Trade Corp. and Bao Steel Metals Trading Corp. 
(``Baosteel'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Pedersen, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
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Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2769.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the order is certain cut-to-length carbon 
steel plate from the PRC.\2\ This merchandise is currently classified 
in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'') 
under item numbers 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 
7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 7208.90.0000, 
7210.70.3000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000. Although the HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
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    \2\ See Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon 
Steel Plate from the People's Republic of China issued concurrently 
with this notice for a complete description of the Scope of the 
Order (``Preliminary Results Decision Memorandum'').
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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''). For a 
full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see 
Preliminary Results Decision Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations 
to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, dated 
concurrently with these results and hereby adopted by this notice. This 
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 Results Decision 
Memorandum can be accessed directly on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed Preliminary Results Decision Memorandum 
and the electronic versions of the Preliminary Results Decision 
Memorandum are identical in content.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that Hunan Valin did not 
have reviewable transactions during the POR and that Baosteel and 
Shanghai Pudong, did not establish their eligibility for separate rate 
status and, thus, are part of the PRC-wide entity.

Disclosure and Public Comment

    Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary 
results and may submit case briefs and/or written comments within 30 
days of the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.309(c)(1)(ii). Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the 
case briefs, will be due five days after the due date for case briefs, 
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(d). Parties who submit

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case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are requested to submit with 
each argument a statement of the issue, a summary of the argument not 
to exceed five pages, and a table of statutes, regulations, and cases 
cited, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2).
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties, who wish to 
request a hearing, or to participate in a hearing if one is requested, 
must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Import 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, filed electronically using 
IA ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be received 
successfully in its entirety by the Department's electronic records 
system, IA ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, within 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice.\3\ Requests should 
contain: (1) The party's name, address and telephone number; (2) the 
number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed. 
Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those issues raised in 
the respective case briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties 
will be notified of the time and date of the hearing which will be held 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington DC 20230. The Department intends to issue the final results 
of this administrative review, including the results of its analysis of 
the issues raised in any written briefs, not later than 120 days after 
the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
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    \3\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review.\4\ The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to 
CBP 15 days after the publication date of the final results of this 
review. The Department intends to instruct CBP to liquidate entries of 
subject merchandise from Baosteel and Shanghai Pudong at the PRC-wide 
rate of 128.59 percent. Additionally, pursuant to a recently announced 
refinement to its assessment practice in NME cases, if the Department 
continues to determine 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. 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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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 
Act: (1) For Hunan Valin, which had no shipments, the cash deposit rate 
will remain unchanged from the rate assigned to this company in the 
most recently completed review of the company; (2) for previously 
investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters who are not under 
review in this segment of the proceeding but which have separate rates, 
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-specific rate 
published for the most recent period; (2) for all PRC exporters of 
subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a 
separate rate, including Baosteel and Shanghai Pudong, the cash deposit 
rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 128.59 percent; and (3) 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(s) that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice also 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 Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213.

    Dated: July 15, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Results Decision Memorandum

1. Preliminary Determination of No Shipments for Hunan Valin
2. Treatment of Baosteel and Shanghai Pudong
3. Separate Rates

[FR Doc. 2013-17796 Filed 7-23-13; 8:45 am]
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