[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43712-43713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-17721]


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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; 2012-2013

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: On March 25, 2014, the Department of Commerce (Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from India.\1\ The 
period of review (POR) is February 1, 2012, through January 31, 2013. 
We have not made changes to our margin calculations for the final 
results of this review. The final dumping margins for this review are 
listed in the ``Final Results of the Review'' section below.
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results and 
Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2012-
2013, 79 FR 16282 (March 25, 2014) (Preliminary Results).

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DATES: Effective July 28, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sergio Balbontin, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-6478.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Following the Preliminary Results, on March 26, 2014, the 
Department issued an additional supplemental questionnaire to Ambica 
Steels Limited (Ambica), the only respondent in this administrative 
review. Ambica responded on April 2, 2014. We received a case brief 
from Ambica.

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. 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). The HTSUS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes. The written description 
is dispositive.
    A full description of the scope of the order is contained in the 
memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, ``Issues and 
Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Bar from India'' dated 
concurrently with this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum), which 
is hereby adopted by this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is 
a public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and 
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic 
Service System (IA ACCESS). Access to IA ACCESS is available to

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registered users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov and is available to all 
parties in the Central Records Unit, room 7046 of the main Department 
of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly on the Internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed Issues and Decision 
Memorandum and the electronic versions of the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum are identical in content.

Analysis of Comments Received

    A list of the issues raised and to which we have responded in the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum, is attached to this notice as an 
Appendix.

Final Results of the Review

    As a result of this review, we determine the following weighted-
average dumping margin exists for the respondent for the period 
February 1, 2012, through January 31, 2013.

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               Average
                     Producer/exporter                         Dumping
                                                               Margin
                                                              (Percent)
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Ambica Steels Limited.....................................         0.00
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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 determines, 
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.
    For assessment purposes, because Ambica's weighted-average dumping 
margin remains zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent) in 
these final results, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.106(c)(2). Our instructions will be on an importer-specific basis, 
where the importer is known, or on a customer-specific basis, where the 
importer is not known.
    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 Ambica 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).

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 subject merchandise 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) The cash deposit rate for 
Ambica will be the rate established 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 recently completed segment of this 
proceeding 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 investigation but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit 
rate will be the rate established for the most recently completed 
segment of this proceeding for the manufacturer of subject merchandise; 
and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters 
will continue to be 12.45 percent, the ``all others'' rate established 
in the order.\2\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \2\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Stainless Steel Bar From India, 59 FR 66915, 66921 (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 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 written 
notification of the return or 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, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: July 22, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary
    for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--Issues in Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of Issues
    1. Whether To Correct the Name of a U.S. Customer in the Final 
Liquidation Instructions
    2. Whether To Name All of Ambica's U.S. Customers in the Final 
Liquidation Instructions

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