[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 153 (Monday, August 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47908-47909]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19616]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-838]


Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From Mexico: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on seamless refined 
copper pipe and tube from Mexico.\1\ The review covers one producer/
exporter of the subject merchandise, GD Affiliates S. de R.L. de C.V. 
(Golden Dragon).\2\ The period of review (POR) is November 1, 2013, 
through October 31, 2014. We preliminarily found that sales of subject 
merchandise have not been made at prices below normal value. Interested 
parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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    \1\ See Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From Mexico and 
the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value From Mexico, 75 
FR 71070 (November 22, 2010) (Order).
    \2\ The Department has previously treated GD Affiliates S. de 
R.L. de C.V. as part of a single entity including: 1) GD Copper 
Cooperatief U.A.; 2) Hong Kong GD Trading Co. Ltd.; 3) Golden Dragon 
Holding (Hong Kong) International, Ltd.; 4) GD Copper U.S.A. Inc.; 
5) GD Affiliates Servicios S. de R.L. de C.V.; and 6) GD Affiliates 
S. de R.L. de C.V., which is collectively referred to as Golden 
Dragon. See, e.g., Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From 
Mexico: Final Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 77 FR 
59178 (September 26, 2012), and accompanying Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.

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DATES: Effective date: August 10, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Eastwood or Dennis McClure, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3874 or (202) 482-5973, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is seamless refined copper 
pipe and tube. The product is currently classified under the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 7411.10.1030 
and 7411.10.1090, and also may enter under HTSUS subheadings 
7407.10.1500, 7419.99.5050, 8415.90.8065, and 8415.90.8085. The HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes only; the 
written product description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.\3\
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    \3\ See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to 
Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, entitled ``Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube from 
Mexico: Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014'' (Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum), dated concurrent with and adopted by this notice, for a 
complete description of the Scope of the Order.
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Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Constructed 
export price is calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. 
Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, dated 
concurrently with these results and hereby adopted by this notice. The 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file 
electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 
ACCESS is available to registered users at http://access.trade.gov and 
it is available to all parties in the Central Records Unit, room B0824 
of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete 
version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum and the electronic version of the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum are identical in content. A list of the topics 
discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as the 
Appendix to this notice.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margin exists:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                    Producer/Exporter                     dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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GD Affiliates S. de R.L. de C.V.........................            0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these preliminary results to interested parties within 
five days after the date of publication of this notice.\4\ Interested 
parties may submit case briefs to the Department no 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 no later than five 
days after the time limit for filing case briefs.\5\ Parties who submit 
case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are encouraged to 
submit with each argument: (1) A statement of the issue; (2) a brief 
summary of the argument; and (3) a table of authorities.\6\ Case and 
rebuttal briefs should be filed using ACCESS.\7\
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via 
ACCESS. An electronically-filed document must be received successfully 
in its entirety by ACCESS by 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time within 30 
days after the date of publication of this notice.\8\ 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 issues 
raised in the briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties will 
be notified of the time and date for the hearing to be held at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.\9\
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \9\ Id.
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    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, no later than 120 days after the 
date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h), unless this deadline is extended.

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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department shall determine, 
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.\10\ Golden 
Dragon reported the names of the importers of record and the entered 
value for all of its sales to the United States during the POR. If 
Golden Dragon's weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de 
minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final results of this 
review, we will calculate importer-specific assessment rates on the 
basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the 
importer's examined sales and the total entered value of those sales in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), and we will instruct CBP to 
assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review. Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin 
is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero 
or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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    In accordance with the Department's ``automatic assessment'' 
practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
Golden Dragon for which it did not know its merchandise was destined 
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed 
entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
companies 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).
    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 41 days after the 
publication date of the final results of this review.

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 seamless refined copper pipe and tube from Mexico 
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 Golden Dragon will be equal to the weighted-
average dumping margin 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; (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 for the manufacturer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit 
rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 26.03 
percent, the all-others rate established in the Order. These cash 
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 Secretary'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(h) and 
351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: August 3, 2015.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Discussion of the Methodology
    i. Normal Value Comparisons
    ii. Determination of Comparison Method
    iii. Product Comparisons
    iv. Date of Sale
    v. Constructed Export Price
    vi. Normal Value
    vii. Currency Conversion

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