[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69641-69643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28623]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-830]


Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and 
certain alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from Mexico. The period of 
review (POR) is October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014.\1\ This 
review covers two producers/exporters of subject merchandise: 
ArcelorMittal Las Truchas, S.A. de C.V. (AMLT) and Deacero S.A. de C.V. 
We preliminarily determine that AMLT and Deacero made sales of subject 
merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the POR. Interested 
parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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    \1\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Carbon and Certain 
Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, 
Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine 67 FR 65945 (October 29, 2002) 
(Wire Rod Order).

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DATES: Effective date: November 10, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Terpstra (for Deacero) or 
Jolanta Lawska (for AMLT), AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement 
and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: 202-482-3965 and 202-482-8362, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the Wire Rod Order is carbon and certain 
alloy steel wire rod. The product is currently classified under the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) item numbers 
7213.91.3000, 7213.91.3010, 7213.91.3011,

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7213.91.3015, 7213.91.3020, 7213.91.3090, 7213.91.3091, 7213.91.3092, 
7213.91.3093, 7213.91.4500, 7213.91.4510, 7213.91.4590, 7213.91.6000, 
7213.91.6010, 7213.91.6090, 7213.99.0030, 7213.99.0031, 7213.99.0038, 
7213.99.0090, 7227.20.0000, 7227.20.0010, 7227.20.0020, 7227.20.0030, 
7227.20.0080, 7227.20.0090, 7227.20.0095, 7227.90.6010, 7227.90.6020, 
7227.90.6030, 7227.90.6035, 7227.90.6050, 7227.90.6051, 7227.90.6053, 
7227.90.6058, 7227.90.6059, 7227.90.6080, and 7227.90.6085 of the 
HTSUS. Although the HTS numbers are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes, the written product description remains 
dispositive.\2\
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    \2\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see 
Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, ``Decision 
Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 2013/14 Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from 
Mexico'' (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated concurrently with 
these preliminary results.
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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 prices or export price are 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, please see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, which is 
hereby adopted by this notice. A list of the topics discussed in the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as an appendix to 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 (CRU), Room 
B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a 
complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed 
directly on the Internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the 
electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 
identical in content.

Preliminary Results of the Review

    As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the 
weighted-average dumping margins for the POR are as follows:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                    Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                              margin
                                                             (percent)
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Deacero S.A. de C.V.....................................           72.95
ArcelorMittal Las Truchas, S.A. de C.V..................           12.38
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Assessment Rate

    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. For any 
individually examined respondents whose weighted-average dumping margin 
is above de minimis, we will calculate importer-specific ad valorem 
duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping 
calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total entered value 
of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\3\ We will 
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries 
covered by this review when the importer-specific assessment rate 
calculated in the final results of this review is above de minimis 
(i.e., 0.50 percent). 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. 
The final results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment 
of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the final 
results of this review where applicable.
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    \3\ In these preliminary results, the Department applied the 
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping 
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final 
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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    In accordance with the Department's ``automatic assessment'' 
practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
each respondent for which they did not know that their 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 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).
    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of 
the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash 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 publication of the final 
results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2) 
of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Deacero and AMLT will be 
equal to the weighted-average dumping margins established in the final 
results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by 
manufacturers or exporters not covered in this administrative review 
but covered in a prior completed segment of the proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published in 
the completed segment for the most recent period; (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 in the completed segment for the most recent 
period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to 
be 20.11 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
investigation.\4\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \4\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico, 67 FR 
55800 (August 30, 2002).
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    Concerning Deacero, on October 1, 2012, the Department found that 
wire rod with an actual diameter of 4.75 mm to 5.00 mm produced 
(hereinafter referred to as narrow gauge wire rod) in Mexico and 
exported to the United States by Deacero was circumventing the Wire Rod 
Order.\5\ Specifically, the Department found that it is appropriate to 
consider that Deacero's shipments to the United States of narrow gauge 
wire rod constitute merchandise altered in form or appearance in such 
minor respects that it should be included within the scope of Wire Rod 
Order.\6\

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The Department's affirmative finding in the Final Circumvention 
Determination applied solely to Deacero.
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    \5\ See Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico: 
Affirmative Final Determination of Circumvention of the Antidumping 
Order, 77 FR 59892 (October 1, 2012) (Final Circumvention 
Determination) and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum.
    \6\ Id.
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    Deacero challenged the Department's ruling in the Final 
Circumvention Determination and on December 22, 2014, the Court of 
International Trade (CIT) entered its final judgement in Deacero 
III,\7\ sustaining the Department's negative circumvention 
determination from the First Remand Redetermination in which the 
Department, under protest, found that Deacero's shipments of narrow 
gauge wire rod to the United States were not subject antidumping 
duties.\8\ The Department is appealing the CIT's decision at the 
Federal Circuit. Consistent with the CIT's holding and Wire Rod Timken 
Notice,\9\ the Department instructed CBP to set the cash deposit rate 
for narrow gauge wire rod shipped to the United States by Deacero to 
zero, pending a final and conclusive court decision. Additionally, we 
instructed CBP to refund any antidumping duties deposited for narrow 
gauge wire rod shipped to the United States by Deacero that entered 
from January 1, 2015, through the publication date of the Wire Rod 
Timken Notice (July 27, 2015) and, for such entries, to continue to 
suspend Deacero's narrow gauge wire rod at a zero cash deposit 
rate.\10\
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    \7\ See Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. and Deacero Usa, Inc. v. United 
States and Arcelormittal USA LLC, Gerdau Ameristeel U.S. Inc., Evraz 
Rocky Mountain Steel, and Nucor Corporation, Court No. 12-00345, 
Slip Op. 14-151 (Deacero III).
    \8\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Deacero 
S.A. de C.V. and Deacero USA Inc. v. United States and Arcelormittal 
USA LLC, Gerdau Ameristeel U.S. Inc., Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, 
and Nucor Corporation, Court No. 12-00345; Slip Op. 13-126 (CIT 
2013) (January 29, 2014) (First Remand Redetermination).
    \9\ See Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico: 
Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With Final Results and 
Notice of Amended Final Determination, 80 FR 44326, 44327 (July 27, 
2015) (Wire Rod Timken Notice).
    \10\ Id.
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    During the POR of the instant review, Deacero shipped narrow gauge 
wire rod as well as wire rod with actual diameters greater than 5.00 
mm. In light of the CIT's holding in Deacero III and our statement in 
Wire Rod Timken Notice that Deacero's narrow gauge wire rod is excluded 
from antidumping duties,\11\ we have, for purposes of these preliminary 
results, removed narrow gauge wire rod from Deacero's dumping 
calculations. Per the Court's holding in Deacero III, the preliminary 
cash deposit rate for Deacero, as listed above, only applies with 
regard its entries of wire with an actual diameter that is greater than 
5.00 and less than or equal to 19.00 mm. The cash deposit rate listed 
above for Deacero does not apply to its entries of narrow gauge wire 
rod.
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    \11\ See Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 
F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010).
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department intends to disclose to interested parties to this 
proceeding the calculations performed in connection with these 
preliminary results within five days after the date of publication of 
this notice.\12\ 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.\13\ Parties who submit case briefs or 
rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are requested to submit with the 
argument: (1) A statement of the issue, (2) a brief summary of the 
argument, and (3) a table of authorities.\14\ All case and rebuttal 
briefs must be filed electronically using ACCESS, and must also be 
served on interested parties.\15\ An electronically filed document must 
be received successfully in its entirety by the Department's electronic 
records system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after 
the date of publication of this notice. Executive summaries should be 
limited to five pages total, including footnotes.
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    \13\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
    \14\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.303(f).
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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, U.S. Department of Commerce. 
All documents must be filed electronically using ACCESS. An 
electronically-filed request must be received successfully in its 
entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, within 30 days after the 
date of publication of this notice.\16\ Requests should contain the 
party's name, address, and telephone number, the number of 
participants, and a list of the issues to be discussed. If a request 
for a hearing is made, the Department intends to hold the hearing at 
the U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time and date to be determined. Parties 
should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing 
two days before the scheduled date.
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    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    Unless the deadline is extended, the Department intends to issue 
the final results of this administrative review, including the results 
of our analysis of the issues raised by the parties in their case and 
rebuttal briefs, within 120 days after the publication of these 
preliminary results, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 
CFR 351.213(h).

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.
    These preliminary results of review are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: October 30, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of Methodology
    A. Universe of Sales
    B. Date of Sale
    C. Comparisons to Normal Value
    D. Product Comparisons
    E. Determination of Comparison Method
    F. Results of DP Analysis
    G. U.S. Price
    H. Normal Value
    I. Cost of Production Analysis
    J. Affiliated Respondents
    K. Currency Conversion
    V. Recommendation

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