[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 230 (Tuesday, December 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75056-75058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30506]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-876, A-489-822]


Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea and the Republic of 
Turkey: Antidumping Duty Orders

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (the 
ITC), the Department is issuing antidumping duty orders on welded line 
pipe from the Republic of Korea (Korea) and the Republic of Turkey 
(Turkey).

DATES: Effective Date: December 1, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ross Belliveau (Korea) or David Crespo 
(Turkey), AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4952 and (202) 482-3693, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on October 13, 
2015, the Department published its affirmative final determinations in 
the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of welded line pipe from 
Korea and Turkey.\1\ Pursuant to section 735(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.224(f), the Department published its amended final determination in 
the LTFV investigation of welded line pipe from Korea on November 10, 
2015.\2\ On November 20, 2015, the ITC notified the Department of its 
affirmative determinations that an industry in the United States is 
materially injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the 
Act, by reason of the LTFV imports of welded line pipe from Korea and 
Turkey.\3\
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    \1\ See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Turkey: Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 80 FR 61362 (October 
13, 2015) (Turkey Final Determination), and Welded Line Pipe From 
the Republic of Korea: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value, 80 FR 61366 (October 13, 2015).
    \2\ See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Amended 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 80 FR 69637 
(November 10, 2015).
    \3\ See Letter to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, from Meredith Broadbent, 
Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, regarding 
certain welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey (November 20, 2015). 
See also Certain Welded Line Pipe from Korea and Turkey, USITC 
Investigation Nos. 701-TA-525 and 731-TA-1260-1261 (Final), USITC 
Publication 4580 (November 2015).
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Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these orders is circular welded carbon 
and alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipe of a kind used for 
oil or gas pipelines (welded line pipe), not more than 24 inches in 
nominal outside diameter, regardless of wall thickness, length, surface 
finish, end finish, or stenciling. Welded line pipe is normally 
produced to the American Petroleum Institute (API) specification 5L, 
but can be produced to comparable foreign specifications, to 
proprietary grades, or can be non-graded material. All pipe meeting the 
physical description set forth above, including multiple-stenciled pipe 
with an API or comparable foreign specification line pipe stencil is 
covered by the scope of these orders.
    The welded line pipe that is subject to these orders is currently 
classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS) under subheadings 7305.11.1030, 7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 
7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.5000, 7306.19.1010, 7306.19.1050, 
7306.19.5110, and 7306.19.5150. The subject merchandise may also enter 
in HTSUS 7305.11.1060 and 7305.12.1060. While the HTSUS subheadings are 
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convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope 
of these orders is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Orders

    As stated above, on November 20, 2015, in accordance with section 
735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified the Department of its final 
determinations in these investigations, in which it found material 
injury with respect to welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey.\4\ 
Therefore, in accordance with section 735(c)(2) of the Act, we are 
issuing these antidumping duty orders. Because the ITC determined that 
imports of welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey are materially 
injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from 
Korea and Turkey, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, 
are subject to the assessment of antidumping duties.
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    \4\ Id.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the 
Department will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 
assess, upon further instruction by the Department, antidumping duties 
equal to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise 
exceeds the export price (or constructed export price) of the 
merchandise, for all relevant entries of welded line pipe from Korea 
and Turkey. Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries 
of welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after May 22, 2015, the date of 
publication of the preliminary determinations,\5\ but will not include 
entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures 
period and before publication of the ITC's final injury determination 
as further described below.
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    \5\ See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of 
Final Determination, 80 FR 29620 (May 22, 2015) (Korea Preliminary 
Determination); and Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Turkey: 
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 
Postponement of Final Determination, 80 FR 29617 (May 22, 2015) 
(Turkey Preliminary Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will 
instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries 
of welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey. These instructions 
suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice.
    We will also instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the 
amounts as indicated below. Accordingly, effective on the date of 
publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determinations, CBP 
will require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit 
estimated duties on this subject merchandise, a cash deposit equal to 
the estimated weighted-average dumping margins listed below.\6\ The 
relevant all-others rates apply to all producers or exporters not 
specifically listed. For the purpose of determining cash deposit rates, 
the estimated weighted-average dumping margins for imports of subject 
merchandise from Turkey will be adjusted, as appropriate, for export 
subsidies found in the final determination of the companion 
countervailing duty investigation of this merchandise imported from 
Turkey.\7\
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    \6\ See section 736(a)(3) of the Act.
    \7\ See Turkey Final Determination, 80 FR at 61364.
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Provisional Measures

    Section 733(d) of the Act states that instructions issued pursuant 
to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in effect 
for more than four months, except where exporters representing a 
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request 
the Department to extend that four-month period to no more than six 
months. At the request of exporters that account for a significant 
proportion of welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey, we extended the 
four-month period to six months in each case.\8\ In the underlying 
investigations, the Department published the preliminary determinations 
on May 22, 2015. Therefore, the extended period, beginning on the date 
of publication of the preliminary determinations, ended on November 18, 
2015. Furthermore, section 737(b) of the Act states that definitive 
duties are to begin on the date of publication of the ITC's final 
injury determination.
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    \8\ See Korea Preliminary Determination and Turkey Preliminary 
Determination.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act and our 
practice, we will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of 
liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, 
unliquidated entries of welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after November 18, 2015, 
the date on which the provisional measures expired, until and through 
the day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury 
determinations in the Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation will 
resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination in 
the Federal Register.
    The weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                              Dumping
                                     Exporter/ Producer       margins
                                                             (percent)
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Korea.............................  Hyundai HYSCO.......            6.23
                                    SeAH Steel                      2.53
                                     Corporation.
                                    All Others..........            4.38
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                                                                                      Dumping
                                                      Exporter/ Producer              margins      Cash deposit
                                                                                     (percent)       (percent)
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Turkey.....................................  Borusan Istikbal Ticaret...........           22.95            0.00
                                             Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve             22.95            0.00
                                              Ticaret A.S.
                                             [Ccedil]ayirova Boru Sanayi ve                22.95           22.09
                                              Ticaret A.S./Y[uuml]cel Boru
                                              Ithalat-Ihracat ve Pazarlama A.S.
                                             Tos[ccedil]elik Profil ve Sac                  6.66            5.80
                                              Endustrisi A.S./Tosyali Dis
                                              Ticaret A.S.
                                             All Others.........................            7.10            6.24
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Note: The cash deposit rates are adjusted to account for the applicable export subsidy rate of 27.32 percent for
  Borusan Istikbal Ticaret and Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.; and 0.86 percent for
  [Ccedil]ayirova Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S./Y[uuml]cel Boru Ithalat-Ihracat ve Pazarlama A.S., Tos[ccedil]elik
  Profil ve Sac Endustrisi A.S./Tosyali Dis Ticaret A.S., and all other exporters/producers in Turkey.


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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to 
welded line pipe from Korea and Turkey pursuant to section 736(a) of 
the Act. Interested parties can find a list of antidumping duty orders 
currently in effect at http://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
    These orders are published in accordance with section 736(a) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.211.

    Dated: November 23, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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