[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4253-4254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01573]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-601]


Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Court 
Decision Not in Harmony With Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and Notice of Amended Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2007-2008

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On December 21, 2015, the United States Court of International 
Trade (``CIT'' or ``Court'') issued its final judgment \1\ sustaining 
the Department of Commerce's (the ``Department'') final results of 
redetermination \2\ issued pursuant to the CIT's remand order in Peer 
Bearing Company--Changshan v. United States, 914 F. Supp. 2d 1343 (CIT 
2013) (``CPZ 07-08 II''), with respect to the Department's final 
results \3\ of the 2007-2008 administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on certain tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, 
finished and unfinished (``TRBs''), from the People's Republic of China 
(``PRC''). Consistent with the decision of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (``CAFC'') in Timken Co. v. United 
States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (``Timken''), as clarified by 
Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. 
Cir. 2010) (``Diamond Sawblades''), the Department is notifying the 
public that the final judgment in this case is not in harmony with the 
Department's Final Results and is amending the Final Results with 
respect to the dumping margin determined for the sole mandatory 
respondent in the underlying review, Peer Bearing Company--Changshan 
(``CPZ'').
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    \1\ See Peer Bearing Company (Changshan) v. United States, Court 
No. 10-00013, Slip Op. 15-142 (CIT December 21, 2015) (``CPZ 07-08 
III''), and accompanying judgment order.
    \2\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court 
Remand, Peer Bearing Company--Changshan. v. United States, Court No. 
10-00013, Slip Op. 13-72 (CIT 2013), dated April 30, 2014 (``Second 
Remand Redetermination'').
    \3\ See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of 
the 2007-2008 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 
75 FR 844 (January 6, 2010) (``Final Results'') and accompanying 
Issues and Decision Memorandum (``IDM'').

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DATES: Effective Date: December 31, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex Rosen, Office III, Enforcement 
and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-7814.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 21, 2011, the CIT issued its 
initial opinion on the underlying proceeding and remanded the Final 
Results, ordering that the Department: (1) Redetermine the surrogate 
value used to value bearing-quality steel bar inputs; (2) redetermine 
the surrogate value used to value bearing-quality steel wire rod 
inputs; and (3) reconsider, and modify as appropriate, its 
determination of the country of origin of merchandise finished and 
assembled into finished TRBs by a CPZ affiliate in Thailand from 
finished and unfinished TRB component parts manufactured in the PRC by 
CPZ.\4\ Specifically, with respect to the latter issue of country of 
origin, the Court held that the Department's findings that the ``third-
country processor's costs as compared to each product's COM {(Cost of 
Manufacture){time}  are not significant,'' is ``not supported by 
substantial evidence on the record, which contains evidence that the 
processing costs in Thailand accounted for 42 percent of the total cost 
of manufacturing.'' \5\ The Court held that the Department ``may not 
disregard record evidence that detracts significantly from, and appears 
to refute, one of the findings on which the Department relied.'' \6\ 
The Court instructed the Department ``to ensure that its 
redetermination. . . is based on findings supported by substantial 
evidence on the record of this case.'' \7\
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    \4\ See Peer Bearing Company--Changshan v. United States, 804 F. 
Supp. 2d 1337 (CIT 2011) (``CPZ 07-08 I''). While the third county 
in which the further processing took place was treated as business 
proprietary information in the underlying administrative review, 
along with the percentage cost of manufacture (discussed below), CPZ 
made this information public during the litigation.
    \5\ See CPZ 07-08 I, 804 F. Supp. 2d at 1342.
    \6\ Id.
    \7\ Id.
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    On April 10, 2012, pursuant to the Court's orders in CPZ 07-08 I, 
the Department: (1) Reconsidered the Indian data used to value bearing-
quality steel bar inputs in the Final Results and instead valued CPZ's 
steel bar inputs using Thai import data, and (2) revised the surrogate 
value used to value CPZ's steel wire rod inputs using data 
corresponding to steel rod that is ``of circular cross-section.'' \8\ 
With respect to the country of origin issue, the Department 
reconsidered its determination, applying its established criteria for 
determining whether merchandise is substantially transformed in another 
country. The Department expanded upon and further supported the 
existing findings as to the substantial transformation test employed in 
the Final Results.\9\ The Department reconsidered one finding with 
respect to the significance of the quantitative value added by Thai 
processing (i.e., one of six aspects of the underlying analysis in the 
First Remand Redetermination), finding that this prong of the analysis 
could support a determination that the Thai processing substantially 
transformed the merchandise in question.\10\ However, because further 
analysis of the remaining substantial transformation criteria continued 
to support the initial finding from the Final Results, the Department 
ultimately determined that the totality of the circumstances indicated 
that the processing that took place in Thailand during the period of 
review (``POR'') did not constitute substantial transformation so as to 
confer a new country of origin of the merchandise in question for 
antidumping purposes.\11\
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    \8\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court 
Remand, Peer Bearing Company--Changshan v. United States, Court No. 
10-00013, Slip Op. 11-143 (CIT 2011), dated April 10, 2012 (``First 
Remand Redetermination''), at 4-6 and 28.
    \9\ See First Remand Redetermination, at 8-17.
    \10\ Id.
    \11\ Id.
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    On June 6, 2013, the CIT issued CPZ 07-08 II, in which it sustained 
the Department's redetermination of the surrogate values for CPZ's 
steel bar and steel wire rod inputs,\12\ but again remanded the 
Department's country of origin determination. Specifically, citing

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``flaws in the Department's analysis'' \13\ with respect to each of the 
six criteria comprising the Department's substantial transformation 
test, the Court instructed the Department to ``reach a new country of 
origin determination because the record lacked substantial evidence to 
support the Department's determination that the TRBs which achieved 
final processing in Thailand were products of China for purposes of the 
antidumping duty order.'' \14\ Consistent with the CIT's remand order, 
the Department under protest redetermined the country of origin for 
certain merchandise under review and revised the dumping margin 
calculations to exclude U.S. sales of TRBs further processed in 
Thailand.\15\ In particular, the Department revised its findings with 
respect to five of the six criteria in its substantial transformation 
test, consistent with the Court's order. Along with the surrogate value 
changes sustained in CPZ 07-08 II, the Department calculated a 
weighted-average dumping margin for CPZ of 6.24 percent.\16\
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    \12\ See CPZ 07-08 II, 914 F. Supp. 2d at 1347.
    \13\ Id., 914 F. Supp. 2d at 1351. The Government subsequently 
moved for clarification regarding whether the Court in CPZ 07-08 II 
required the Department to find that TRBs were substantially 
transformed in Thailand, or whether the Court permitted the 
Department to make new findings under each of the substantial 
transformation criteria. On February 13, 2014, the Court responded 
to the Government's motion, though the Court did not modify its 
previous ruling or provide further clarification. See Peer Bearing 
Company--Changshan v. United States, Court No. 10-00013, Slip Op. 
14-15 (CIT 2014).
    \14\ See CPZ 07-08 II, 914 F. Supp. 2d at 1356.
    \15\ See Second Remand Redetermination at 33.
    \16\ Id.
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    On December 21, 2015, the CIT issued its decision in CPZ 07-08 III, 
in which it sustained the Department's Second Remand Redetermination. 
The Court concluded that though the Department made certain errors in 
construing the Court's opinion, the Department reached an ultimate 
determination that is supported by substantial evidence on the record 
and that accords with a reasonable, rather than expansive, 
interpretation of the scope of the antidumping duty order.\17\
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    \17\ See CPZ 07-08 III, at 30.
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Timken Notice

    In its decision in Timken, 893 F.2d at 341, as clarified by Diamond 
Sawblades, the CAFC held that, pursuant to section 516A(e) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department must 
publish a notice of a court decision that is not ``in harmony'' with a 
Department determination and must suspend liquidation of entries 
pending a ``conclusive'' court decision. The CIT's December 21, 2015, 
judgment in this case constitutes a final court decision that is not in 
harmony with the Department's Final Results. This notice is published 
in fulfillment of the publication requirements of Timken.

Amended Final Results

    Because there is now a final court decision with respect to this 
case, the Department is amending the Final Results with respect to CPZ 
in this case. The revised weighted-average dumping margin for the June 
1, 2007, through May 31, 2008, period of review is as follows:

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                                                                Final
                          Exporter                             percent
                                                                margin
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Peer Bearing Company--Changshan............................        6.24
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    The Department will continue the suspension of liquidation of the 
subject merchandise pending the expiration of the period of appeal or, 
if appealed, pending a final and conclusive court decision. In the 
event the Court's ruling is not appealed or, if appealed, upheld by the 
CAFC, the Department will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
to assess antidumping duties on unliquidated entries of subject 
merchandise exported by the above listed exporters at the rate listed 
above.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    In September 2008, Peer Bearing Company--Changshan was acquired by 
AB SKF, and the Department determined via a successor-in-interest 
analysis that the post-acquisition entity was not its successor in 
interest to the pre-acquisition exporter. As a consequence, Peer 
Bearing Company--Changshan effectively no longer exists, and its cash 
deposit rate does not need to be updated as a result of these amended 
final results.

Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
516A(e), 751(a)(1), and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: January 13, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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