[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 200 (Monday, October 17, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71482-71484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25057]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-520-804]


Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: Final Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014-2015

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: On June 10, 2016, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain steel nails (nails) from the United 
Arab Emirates (UAE). The period of review (POR) is May 1, 2014, through 
April 30, 2015. The review covers five producers/exporters of the 
subject merchandise, Dubai Wire FZE (Dubai Wire), Oman Fasteners LLC 
(Oman Fasteners), Overseas Distribution Services Inc. (ODS), Overseas 
International Steel Industry LLC (OISI), and Precision Fasteners LLC 
(Precision). For these final results, we continue to find that subject 
merchandise has been sold in the United States at less than normal 
value.

DATES: Effective October 17, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Hansen or Minoo Hatten, 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) 482-3683, and (202) 482-
1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On June 10, 2016, the Department published the preliminary results 
of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain 
steel nails from the UAE.\1\ We invited interested parties to comment 
on the Preliminary Results. We received case and rebuttal briefs from 
Mid Continent Steel and Wire, Inc., a domestic interested party, and 
ODS, the only mandatory respondent selected for individual examination 
in this review. The Department conducted this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).
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    \1\ See Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014-
2015, 81 FR 37571 (June 10, 2016), and accompanying Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum (collectively, Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the Order \2\ is nails from the UAE. The 
products are currently classifiable under the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 7317.00.55, 
7317.00.65, 7317.00.75, 7806.00.80.00 and 7907.00.60.00.\3\ While the 
HTSUS numbers are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written description of the scope of the order is dispositive. A full 
description of the scope of the order is contained in the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.\4\
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    \2\ See Certain Steel Nails from the United Arab Emirates: 
Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 
Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 27421 (May 10, 2012) (Order).
    \3\ On April 16, 2012, the Department added classification 
numbers 7806.00.80.00 and 7907.00.60.00 to the customs case 
reference file pursuant to a request by U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP).
    \4\ For a full description of the scope of the order, see the 
memorandum from Deputy Assistant Secretary Christian Marsh to 
Assistant Secretary Paul Piquado entitled, ``Certain Steel Nails 
from the United Arab Emirates: Issues and Decision Memorandum for 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014-
2015,'' dated concurrently with and hereby adopted by this notice 
(Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of the Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties to 
this administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum. A list of the issues is attached to this notice as an 
appendix. The Issues and 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) 
and is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. The 
Issues and Decision Memorandum is also available to all parties in the 
Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce 
building. In addition, a complete

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version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
on the Enforcement and Compliance Web site at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html.

Final Determination of No Shipments

    The Department preliminarily found that Oman Fasteners LLC, 
Overseas International Steel Industry LLC, and Precision Fasteners LLC, 
did not have any reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the 
POR.\5\ After the Preliminary Results, we received no comments or 
additional information with respect to these three companies. 
Therefore, for these final results, we continue to find that these 
three companies did not have any reviewable entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR. Consistent with our practice, we will issue 
appropriate instructions to CBP based on our final results.
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    \5\ See Preliminary Results, and accompanying Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum at 4.
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Rate for Respondent Not Selected for Individual Examination

    In these final results we calculated a weighted-average dumping 
margin above zero or de minimis for ODS, the sole respondent selected 
for individual examination.\6\ Accordingly, for these final results, we 
will assign to Dubai Wire FZE (Dubai Wire), a company not selected for 
individual examination in this review, the weighted-average dumping 
margin calculated for ODS, consistent with section 735(c)(5)(A) of the 
Act.
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    \6\ Id.
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Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on the Department's analysis of comments received and further 
examination of the record, we made revisions to our margin calculations 
for ODS. As a result, the margins for ODS and Dubai Wire have changed.

Final Results of the Review

    As a result of this administrative review, we determine that the 
following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the 
period May 1, 2014, through April 30, 2015:
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    \7\ Dubai Wire was not selected for individual examination in 
this review. Generally, we look to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, 
which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in 
an investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for 
respondents not selected for individual review. Section 735(c)(5)(A) 
of the Act instructs that we are not to calculate an all-others rate 
using any zero or de minimis margins or any margins based on total 
facts available. Accordingly, our usual practice has been to average 
the rates for the selected companies excluding zero, de minimis, and 
rates based entirely on facts available. In this review, we 
calculated a weighted-average dumping margin above zero or de 
minimis for the sole respondent selected for individual examination, 
ODS. Based on this, and analogous to the statutory provision 
concerning investigations, we assigned the rate calculated for ODS 
to Dubai Wire.

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                                                              Margin
                         Company                             (percent)
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Overseas Distribution Services Inc......................            0.87
Dubai Wire FZE \7\......................................            0.87
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Disclosure

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties in this 
proceeding within five days after public announcement of the final 
results, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
the Department shall determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.\8\ Therefore, 
we will instruct CBP to apply ad valorem assessment rate of 0.87 
percent, to all entries of subject merchandise during the POR which 
were produced and/or exported by ODS.
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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    Consistent with our practice, because we continue to find that Oman 
Fasteners, OISI, and Precision had no shipments of subject merchandise 
to the United States in the final results of this review, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate any existing entries of merchandise produced 
by Oman Fasteners, OISI, and Precision and exported by other parties at 
the all-others rate.\9\
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    \9\ See, e.g., Magnesium Metal From the Russian Federation: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR 
26922, 26923 (May 13, 2010), unchanged in Magnesium Metal From the 
Russian Federation: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 75 FR 56989 (September 17, 2010).
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    For Dubai Wire, the respondent not selected for individual 
examination, we will instruct CBP to apply the rate assigned to ODS, to 
all entries of subject merchandise produced and/or exported by Dubai 
Wire.
    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of 
the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for 
all shipments of nails from the UAE 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 
ODS and Dubai Wire will be the rates established in the final results 
of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by 
manufacturers or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a 
prior 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 manufacturer is, the cash deposit 
rate will be the rate established for the most recent period for the 
manufacturer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 4.30 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 Order, 77 FR 27421, 27422.
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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.

Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 
written notification of the return or destruction of APO materials or 
conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to 
comply with the regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable 
violation.
    These final results of review are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: October 11, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum

Summary
Background
Scope of the Order
Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Selection of Financial Statements to Calculate 
Constructed Value Selling Expenses and Profit

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    Comment 2: Errors in Calculation of Constructed Value Selling 
Expense and Profit Ratios
    Comment 3: Appropriate Universe of Sales
    Comment 4: Consideration of an Alternative Comparison Method
    Comment 5: Differential Pricing Analysis
Recommendation

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