[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 225 (Friday, November 21, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69425-69427]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-27292]


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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; 2012-2013

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

DATES:  Effective Date: November 21, 2014.

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, 2012, 
through October 31, 2013. This review covers

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two PRC companies.\1\ The Department preliminarily finds that one of 
the two companies, Hunan Valin, did not have reviewable transactions 
during the POR. Further, the Department finds that the other company, 
Zhengzhou Shangdao, is part of the PRC-wide entity to which the 
Department has assigned a dumping margin based on total adverse facts 
available (``AFA'').
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 78 FR 
79392 (December 30, 2013). The companies under review are as 
follows: Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (``Hunan 
Valin''), and Zhengzhou Shangdao Iron & Steel Co. (``Zhengzhou 
Shangdao'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick O'Connor, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IV, Enforcement & Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
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0989.

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, and 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)(B) 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 Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, dated concurrently with these results and hereby adopted by 
this notice. This 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''). 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/enforcement/. 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 the following 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the POR:

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                                                            Weighted-
                                                         Average dumping
                        Exporter                              margin
                                                            (percent)
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PRC-Wide Entity \3\....................................          128.59
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    In addition, the Department preliminarily determines that Hunan 
Valin did not have reviewable transactions during the POR.
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    \3\ Including Zhengzhou Shangdao.
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary 
results and may submit case briefs and/or written comments, filed 
electronically using IA ACCESS, 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 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 
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, filed 
electronically using IA ACCESS. Electronically filed case briefs/
written comments and hearing requests must be received successfully in 
their 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.\4\ Hearing 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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    \4\ 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.\5\ 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 the PRC-wide entity, including entries of 
subject merchandise from Zhengzhou Shangdao, at 128.59 percent (the 
PRC-wide rate). Additionally, pursuant to the Department's practice in 
NME cases, if we continue to determine that Hunan Valin 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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    \5\ 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

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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 which 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; (3) for all PRC exporters of 
subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a 
separate rate, including Zhengzhou Shangdao, the cash deposit rate will 
be the PRC-wide rate of 128.59 percent; and (4) 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: November 7, 2014.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Results Decision Memorandum

Summary
Background
Scope of the Order
Discussion of the Methodoogy
Preliminary Determination of No Shipments
Separate Rates
Application of Adverse Facts Available
Corroboration of Secondary Information Used as AFA
Duty Evasion
Recommendation

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