[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62865-62867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22003]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-880, A-201-847, A-489-824]


Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From 
the Republic of Korea, Mexico, 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 heavy walled 
rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from the Republic of 
Korea (Korea), Mexico, and the Republic of Turkey (Turkey).

DATES: Effective September 13, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alice Maldonado (Korea), David Crespo 
(Mexico), or Ross Belliveau (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) 482-4682, (202) 482-3693, and, (202) 482-4952 
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 July 21, 2016, 
the Department published its affirmative final determinations in the 
less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of heavy walled rectangular 
welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey.\1\ 
On September 6, 2016, 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 heavy walled rectangular welded 
carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey.\2\
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    \1\ See Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and 
Tubes From The Republic of Korea: Final Determination of Sales Less 
Than Fair Value, 81 FR 47347 (July 21, 2016) (Korea Final 
Determination), Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes 
and Tubes From Mexico: Final Determination of Sales Less Than Fair 
Value, 81 FR 47352 (July 21, 2016) (Mexico Final Determination), and 
Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From 
The Republic of Turkey: Final Determination of Sales Less Than Fair 
Value, 81 FR 47355 (July 21, 2016) (Turkey Final Determination).
    \2\ See ITC Notification Letter to the Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, referencing ITC 
Investigation Nos. 701-TA-539 and 731-TA-1280-1282 (September 6, 
2016) (ITC Notification).
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Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these orders is certain heavy walled 
rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes of rectangular (including 
square) cross section, having a nominal wall thickness of not less than 
4 mm. The merchandise includes, but is not limited to, the American 
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) A-500, grade B specifications, 
or comparable domestic or foreign specifications.
    Included products are those in which: (1) Iron predominates, by 
weight, over each of the other contained elements; (2) the carbon 
content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and (3) none of the elements 
below exceeds the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:

     2.50 percent of manganese, or
     3.30 percent of silicon, or
     1.50 percent of copper, or
     1.50 percent of aluminum, or
     1.25 percent of chromium, or
     0.30 percent of cobalt, or
     0.40 percent of lead, or
     2.0 percent of nickel, or
     0.30 percent of tungsten, or
     0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
     0.10 percent of niobium (also called columbium), or
     0.30 percent of vanadium, or
     0.30 percent of zirconium.


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    The subject merchandise is currently provided for in item 
7306.61.1000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS). Subject merchandise may also enter under HTSUS 7306.61.3000. 
While the HTSUS subheadings and ASTM specification are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope 
of this investigation is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Orders

    As stated above, on September 6, 2016, 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 heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel 
pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey.\3\ 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 
heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from 
Korea, Turkey, and Mexico are materially injuring a U.S. industry, 
unliquidated entries of such merchandise from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey 
entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the 
assessment of antidumping duties.
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    \3\ 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 heavy walled rectangular 
welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey. 
Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of heavy 
walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, 
Mexico, and Turkey entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after March 1, 2016, the date of publication of the 
preliminary determinations,\4\ but will not include entries occurring 
after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before 
publication of the ITC's final injury determinations as further 
described below.
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    \4\ See Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and 
Tubes From The Republic of Korea: Preliminary Determination of Sales 
Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination, 81 FR 
10585 (March 1, 2016) (Korea Preliminary Determination), Heavy 
Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Mexico: 
Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Sales Less Than Fair Value 
and Postponement of Final Determination, 81 FR 10587 (March 1, 2016) 
(Mexico Preliminary Determination), and Heavy Walled Rectangular 
Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From The Republic of Turkey: 
Preliminary Determination of Sales Less Than Fair Value and 
Postponement of Final Determination, 81 FR 10583 (March 1, 2016) 
(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 heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from 
Korea, Mexico, and Turkey. In the Turkey Final Determination the 
Department calculated a zero percent margin for Ozdemir Boru Profil 
San. Ve Tic. Ltd. Sti. (Ozdemir). Accordingly, Ozdemir is excluded from 
the antidumping duty order, and no suspension of liquidation is 
required for heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and 
tubes from Turkey produced and exported by Ozdemir. 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.\5\ 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.\6\
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    \5\ See section 736(a)(3) of the Act.
    \6\ See Turkey Final Determination, 81 FR at 47356.
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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 heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and 
tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey, we extended the four-month period 
to six months in each case.\7\ In the underlying investigations, the 
Department published the preliminary determinations on March 1, 2016. 
Therefore, the extended period, beginning on the date of publication of 
the preliminary determinations, ended on August 28, 2016. 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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    \7\ See Korea Preliminary Determination, Mexico 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 heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel 
pipes and tubes from Korea, Mexico, and Turkey entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after August 28, 2016, 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 determinations 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..................  Dong-A Steel Company...........            2.34
                         HiSteel Co., Ltd...............            3.82
                         All Others.....................            3.24
Mexico.................  Maquilacero S.A. de C.V........            3.83

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                         Productos Laminados de                     5.21
                          Monterrey S.A. de C.V.
                         All Others.....................            4.91
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                                              Dumping
                    Exporter/producer         margins      Cash deposit
                                             (percent)       (percent)
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Turkey.........  MMZ Boru Profil Uretim            35.66           35.66
                  Sanayi Ve Tic. A.S.
                 All Others.............           17.83           17.73
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Note: In the Turkey Final Determination, we adjusted the all-others cash
  deposit rate by 0.10 percent to account for the export subsidies
  included in the all-others rate calculated in the companion
  countervailing duty investigation. See Memorandum to the File from
  Rebecca Trainor, ``Calculation of the All-Others Rate,'' dated July
  14, 2016, which is on the record of the LTFV investigation of heavy
  walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey.

    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to 
heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from 
Korea, Mexico, 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(b).

    Dated: September 7, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2016-22003 Filed 9-12-16; 8:45 am]
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