[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 11, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12798-12800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05561]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-469-805]


Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2013-2014

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

SUMMARY: On November 18, 2014, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published in the Federal Register the preliminary results 
of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless 
steel bar (SSB) from Spain.\1\ The period of review (POR) is March 1, 
2013, through February 28, 2014. The review covers one producer/
exporter of the subject merchandise, Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa, 
S.L. (Gerdau). We invited parties to comment on the Preliminary 
Results. None were received. Accordingly, these final results are 
unchanged from the Preliminary Results, and we continue to find that 
Gerdau did not have reviewable entries during the POR.
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014, 79 FR 68662 
(November 18, 2014) (Preliminary Results).

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DATES: Effective Date: March 11, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dmitry Vladimirov or Minoo Hatten,

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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-
1690, and (202) 482-1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with 
respect to the order means articles of stainless steel in straight 
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, 
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform 
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles, 
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles, 
hexagons, octagons or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished 
SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced 
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and 
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other 
deformations produced during the rolling process. Except as specified 
above, the term does not include stainless steel semi-finished 
products, cut-length flat-rolled products (i.e., cut-length rolled 
products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have a width measuring 
at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in thickness 
having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the 
thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform 
solid cross section along their whole length, which do not conform to 
the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, shapes and 
sections.
    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).
    Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.

Background

    We received a timely submission from Gerdau reporting that it did 
not have sales, shipments, or entries of the subject merchandise during 
the POR.\2\ In addition, in response to the Department's query, U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not provide any evidence that 
contradicted Gerdau's claim of no shipments.\3\ We received no comments 
from interested parties concerning the results of our query with the 
CBP. Therefore, based on Gerdau's certification and our analysis of CBP 
information, we preliminarily determined that Gerdau did not have any 
reviewable entries during the POR.\4\
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    \2\ See Gerdau's letter entitled ``Stainless Steel Bar from 
Spain; Entry of appearance and notification of no shipments'' dated 
May 10, 2014.
    \3\ See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 68663.
    \4\ Id.
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    We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary 
Results.\5\ None were received. The Department conducted this review in 
accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act).
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    \5\ Id.
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Final Determination of No Shipments

    As explained above, in the Preliminary Results, we found that 
Gerdau did not have reviewable entries during the POR.\6\ Also in the 
Preliminary Results, we stated that consistent with our recently 
announced refinement to our assessment practice, it is not appropriate 
to rescind the review with respect to Gerdau but, rather, to complete 
the review with respect to Gerdau and issue appropriate instructions to 
CBP based on the final results of this review.\7\
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    \6\ Id.
    \7\ Id.
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    After issuing the Preliminary Results, we received no comments from 
interested parties, nor have we received any information that would 
cause us to revisit our preliminary determination. Therefore, for these 
final results, we continue to find that Gerdau did not have any 
reviewable entries during the POR.

Assessment

    We determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with these 
final results of review.\8\ Consistent with the Department's refinement 
to its assessment practice, because we determined that Gerdau had no 
shipments of subject merchandise during the POR, for entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by Gerdau for which it did not know 
that the merchandise was destined for the United States, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate un-reviewed entries at the all-others rate if 
there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the 
transaction.\9\
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
    \9\ For a full discussion, see Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 
6, 2003) (Assessment Policy Notice).
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    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after the 
publication date of the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of this 
notice of final results of the administrative review, as provided by 
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Gerdau 
remains unchanged from the rate assigned to the company in the most 
recently completed review of the company; (2) for other manufacturers 
and exporters covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate continues 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 is 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 continues to 
be 25.77 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
investigation.\10\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \10\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar From Spain, 59 FR 66931 (December 
28, 1994).
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Notification to Importers

    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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    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,

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is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms 
of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    We are issuing and publishing these final results of administrative 
review and notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of 
the Act.

    Dated: March 3, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-05561 Filed 3-10-15; 8:45 am]
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