[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 47 (Thursday, March 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12694-12696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05449]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014-2015

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 stainless steel 
bar (SSB) from India.\1\ The period of review (POR) is February 1, 
2014, through January 31, 2015. This review covers two producers or 
exporters of the subject merchandise: Ambica Steels Limited (Ambica), 
and Bhansali Bright Bars Pvt. Ltd. (Bhansali). We preliminarily find 
that Ambica and Bhansali have not made sales of the 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, 80 FR 18202 (April 3, 2015).

DATES: Effective Date: March 10, 2016.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Shore, or Joseph Shuler, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-2778, or (202) 482-
1293, respectively.

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SSB from India. The SSB 
subject to the order is currently classifiable under subheadings 
7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). The HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes. The 
written description is dispositive.\2\
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    \2\ A full description of the scope of the order is contained in 
the memorandum to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 
and Compliance, from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, ``Decision 
Memorandum for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar from India; 2014-2015'' 
(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)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (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://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The 
signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the electronic versions of 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.

Preliminary Results of the Review \3\
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    \3\ The Department exercised its discretion to toll all 
administrative deadlines due to a closure of the Federal Government. 
See Memorandum to the Record from Ron Lorentzen, Acting A/S for 
Enforcement & Compliance, regarding ``Tolling of Administrative 
Deadlines As a Result of the Government Closure During Snowstorm 
Jonas,'' dated January 27, 2016. All deadlines in this segment of 
the proceeding have been extended by four business days. The revised 
deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative review 
is now March 4, 2016.
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    As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the 
following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the respondents 
for the period February 1, 2014, through January 30, 2015.

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                                                       Weighted-average
                Producer or exporter                    dumping margin
                                                           (percent)
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Ambica Steels Limited...............................                0.00
Bhansali Bright Bars Private Limited................                0.00
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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.\4\ 
Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days after 
the date of publication of the preliminary results.\5\ 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.\6\ 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.\7\ All case 
and rebuttal briefs must be filed electronically using ACCESS, and must 
also be served on interested parties.\8\ 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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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for 
general filing requirements).
    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1).
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
    \8\ 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.\9\ 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, 1401 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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    \9\ 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 Ambica and Bhansali, 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. If Ambica's and Bhansali'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). Where Ambica and Bhansali did not report entered value, 
we will calculate importer specific assessment rates for the 
merchandise in question by aggregating the dumping margins calculated 
for all U.S. sales to each importer and dividing this amount by the 
total quantity of those sales.
    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,\10\ or an importer-specific 
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the

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appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \10\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 
2012).
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    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 for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Bhansali and 
Ambica will be the rate established in the final results of this 
review, except if the rate is de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 
351.106(c)(1) (i.e., less than 0.50 percent), in which case the cash 
deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated 
companies not participating in this review, 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 manufacturer is, 
the cash deposit rate will be the rate established 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 12.45 percent, the all-others rate established in the less-than-
fair-value investigation.\11\ These requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \11\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from India, 59 FR 66915, 66921 
(December 28, 1994).
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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: March 4, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

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
VIII. Normal Value
    A. Comparison Market Viability
    B. Affiliated Party Transactions and Arm's Length Test
    C. Level of Trade (LOT)
    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
IX. Currency Conversion
X. Recommendation

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