[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 235 (Tuesday, December 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76267-76269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30793]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-809]


Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe From the Republic of Korea: 
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 circular welded 
non-alloy steel pipe (CWP) from the Republic of Korea (Korea).\1\ The 
period of review (POR) is November 1, 2013, through October 31, 2014. 
This review covers three producers or exporters of the subject 
merchandise: Husteel Co., Ltd. (Husteel), Hyundai HYSCO (HYSCO), and 
SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH). We preliminarily find that Husteel and 
HYSCO have made sales of the subject merchandise at prices below normal 
value. We also preliminarily find that SeAH did not make sales of 
subject merchandise at prices below normal value. Interested parties 
are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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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).

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DATES: Effective date: December 8, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Meek, Lana Nigro, or Joseph 
Shuler, 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) 482-2778, (202) 482-1779 or (202) 482-1293, respectively.

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is circular welded non-alloy 
steel pipe and tube. The product is currently classifiable under the 
following Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 
numbers: 7306.30.1000, 7306.30.5025, 7306.30.5032, 7306.30.5040, 
7306.30.5055, 7306.30.5085, and 7306.30.5090. Although the HTSUS 
numbers are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written 
product description remains dispositive.\2\
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    \2\ For a full description of the scope of the order, see the 
Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Ronald K. 
Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Circular Welded Non-Alloy 
Steel Pipe from the Republic of Korea: 2013-2014'' (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum), dated concurrently with these results and 
hereby adopted by this notice.
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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. A list of topics 
discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is provided as 
Appendix I 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 is available to all parties in the Central 
Records Unit, room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. 
In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
can be accessed directly at http://trade.gov/enforcement. 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 
following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the respondents 
for the period November 1, 2013, through October 31, 2014.

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                    Producer or exporter                       dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Husteel Co., Ltd...........................................         1.42
SeAH Steel Corporation.....................................         0.00
Hyundai HYSCO..............................................         3.69
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department intends to disclose to interested parties the 
calculations performed in connection with these preliminary results 
within five days of the date of publication of this notice.\3\

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Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days after 
the date of publication of the preliminary results.\4\ Rebuttal briefs, 
limited to the issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed no later 
than five days after the submission of 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\ All case 
and rebuttal briefs must be filed electronically using ACCESS, and must 
also be served on interested parties.\7\ 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 on the date that the document is due. Executive summaries should 
be limited to five pages total, including footnotes.
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    \3\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1).
    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.303(f).
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    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, using Enforcement and 
Compliance's ACCESS system within 30 days of publication of this 
notice.\8\ Hearing 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, we will 
inform parties of the scheduled date for the hearing which will be held 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time and location to be determined. 
Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the 
hearing.
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), 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)(1).

Assessment Rates

    For Husteel, HYSCO, and SeAH, 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. Husteel, HYSCO, and SeAH reported the name of 
the importer of record and the entered value for all of their sales to 
the United States during the POR. If Husteel's, HYSCO's, and SeAH's 
weighted-average dumping margins are 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 each importer's examined 
sales and the total entered value of those sales in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    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 not 
zero or de minimis. Where either the respondent's weighted-average 
dumping margin is zero or de minimis,\9\ 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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    \9\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14, 
2012).
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    The Department's ``automatic assessment'' practice will apply to 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Husteel, 
HYSCO, and SeAH for which they did not know their merchandise was 
destined for the United States. In such instances, 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 practice, see Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 
2003).
    For Husteel, HYSCO, and SeAH, 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 for estimated antidumping 
duties will be effective upon publication of the notice of final 
results of administrative review for all shipments of CWP from Korea 
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 Husteel, HYSCO, and SeAH will be equal to the 
weighted-average dumping margins established in the final results of 
this administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers 
or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a prior 
completed segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published 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 producer has been 
covered in a prior complete segment of this proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period 
for the producer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other producers or exporters will continue to be 4.80 percent, the 
``all others'' rate established in the order.\10\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \10\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Circular 
Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Brazil, the Republic of Korea 
(Korea), Mexico, and Venezuela, and Amendment to Final Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy 
Steel Pipe from Korea, 57 FR 49453 (November 2, 1992).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice 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.
    The Department is issuing and publishing these results in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 1, 2015.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations.

Appendix I

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of Order
IV. Discussion of The Methodology
    1. Determination of Comparison Method
    2. Results of the Differential Pricing Analysis
V. Date of Sale
VI. Product Comparisons
VII. Export Price and Constructed Export Price
VIII. Normal Value
    A. Comparison Market Viability
    B. Affiliated Party Transactions and Arm's Length Test

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    C. Level of Trade (LOT)/CEP Offset
    D. Cost of Production Analysis
    1. Calculation of Cost of Production (COP)
    2. Test of Comparison Market Sales Prices
    3. Results of the COP Test
    E. Calculation of Normal Value Based on Comparison Market Prices
    F. Constructed Value
IX. Currency Conversion
X. Recommendation

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