[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 192 (Thursday, October 3, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61333-61334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-24279]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-821-808]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From the Russian 
Federation; 2012; Preliminary Results of Administrative Review of 
Antidumping Duty Suspension Agreement

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

DATES: Effective Date: October 3, 2013.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) preliminarily 
determines that Joint Stock Company Severstal (Severstal) is in 
compliance with the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation 
of Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from the Russian Federation 
(Agreement) for the period January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012, 
and that the Agreement is functioning as intended. The preliminary 
results are set forth in the section titled ``Methodology and 
Preliminary Results,'' infra. We intend to issue the final results 
within 120 days after publication of these preliminary results in the 
Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sally C. Gannon or Anne D'Alauro, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-0162 or (202) 482-4830.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of Review

    The products covered by the Agreement are certain cut-to-length 
carbon steel plate from the Russian Federation. This merchandise is 
currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTS) 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, 7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030, 
7211.14.0045, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000. 
Although the HTS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, our written description of the scope of this Agreement is 
dispositive.
    A full description of the scope of the order is contained in 
``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of Administrative Review 
of the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation of Certain 
Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from the Russian Federation'' from 
Lynn Fischer Fox, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Policy and Negotiations 
to Ronald K. Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 
Administration (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated September 27, 
2013, and hereby adopted by this notice. The Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum is a public document and is made available to the public via 
Import Administration's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized 
Electronic Service System (IA ACCESS). IA ACCESS is available to 
registered users at https://iaaccess.trade.gov and in the Department's 
Central Records Unit, located in Room 7046 of the main Department of 
Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum can be found on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia. The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the 
electronic version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical 
in content.

Methodology and Preliminary Results

    On December 20, 2002, the Department signed an agreement under 
section 734(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), with 
Russian steel producers/exporters, including Severstal, which suspended 
the antidumping duty investigation on certain cut-to-length carbon 
steel plate (CTL plate) from the Russian Federation. See Suspension of 
Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel 
Plate from the Russian Federation, 68 FR 3859 (January 27, 2003). On 
January 31, 2013, Nucor submitted a request for an administrative 
review of the Agreement pursuant to Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 
Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request 
Administrative Review, 78 FR 288 (January 3, 2013). The review was 
initiated on February 28, 2013, for the January 1, 2012 through 
December

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31, 2012 period of review. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation 
in Part, 78 FR 13631 (February 28, 2013). The Department examined U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) import data for the 2012 calendar 
year and determined that CTL plate produced by Severstal accounted for 
substantially all (not less than 85 percent) of the subject merchandise 
imported into the United States during the January 1, 2012 through 
December 31, 2012 period of review. See Memo to the file from Anne 
D'Alauro dated September 27, 2013, with attached summary of CBP import 
data for 2012. On March 14, 2013, and May 31, 2013, the Department 
issued its questionnaire and supplemental questionnaire, respectively, 
to Severstal. Severstal submitted its responses on April 23, 2013, and 
June 27, 2013, respectively.
    The Department has conducted this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(C) of the Act, which specifies that the Department shall 
``review the current status of, and compliance with, any agreement by 
reason of which an investigation was suspended.'' In this case, the 
Department and Severstal signed the Agreement, suspending the 
underlying antidumping duty investigation, on December 20, 2002. 
Pursuant to the Agreement, each signatory producer/exporter 
individually agrees to make any necessary price revisions to eliminate 
completely any amount by which the normal value (NV) of the subject 
merchandise exceeds the U.S. price of its merchandise subject to the 
Agreement. See Agreement, 68 FR at 3860-61. Our review of the 
information submitted by Severstal indicates that the company has 
adhered to the terms of the Agreement and that the Agreement is 
functioning as intended. For a full description of the methodology 
underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Public Comment

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties may submit 
case briefs not later than 30 days after the date of publication of 
this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case 
briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing 
case briefs in accordance with 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1). Parties who submit 
case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are encouraged to 
provide: (1) A statement of the issue; (2) a brief summary of the 
argument; and (3) a table of authorities. See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 
(d)(2).
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing, or to participate if one is requested, must submit a 
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, 
filed electronically via 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. 
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 raised 
in the respective case briefs. 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.
    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: September 27, 2013.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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