[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48483-48485]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22601]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results of Changed 
Circumstances Review and Intent To Reinstate Certain Companies in the 
Antidumping Duty Order

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting a 
changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on stainless 
steel bar (SS Bar) from India to determine whether Venus Wire 
Industries Pvt. Ltd. and its affiliates Precision Metals, Sieves 
Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd., and Hindustan Inox Ltd. (collectively, 
Venus Group), or Viraj Profiles Ltd. (Viraj) have resumed dumping SS 
Bar and whether the antidumping order should be reinstated for SS Bar 
from India produced and/or exported by the Venus Group and produced 
and/or exported by Viraj. The period of review is July 1, 2015, through 
June 31, 2016.
    We preliminarily determine that the Venus Group and Viraj 
(collectively, the respondents) have sold SS Bar at less than normal 
value (NV) and that SS Bar produced and/or exported by the respondents 
should be reinstated in the antidumping order on SS Bar from India. We 
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 
liquidation of all entries of SS Bar produced and/or exported by the 
respondents and entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption 
on or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register. Interested parties are invited to comment on these 
preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable October 18, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Schauer, 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) 482-0410.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is SS bar. The subject 
merchandise is currently classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 
7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00. The HTSUS subheadings are provided 
for convenience and

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customs purposes only; the written description of the scope of the 
order is dispositive.\1\
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    \1\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see 
Memorandum titled, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results 
of the Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review of Stainless 
Steel Bar from India,'' (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated 
concurrently with and hereby adopted by this notice.
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Basis for Reinstatement

    In requesting revocation, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.222(b)(2)(i)(B), 
the respondents agreed to immediate reinstatement of the order, so long 
as any exporter or producer is subject to the order, if the Secretary 
concludes that subsequent to the revocation, certain respondents sold 
SS Bar at less than NV.\2\ Under 19 CFR 351.222(b)(2)(i)(B) as long as 
any exporter or producer is subject to an antidumping duty order which 
remains in force, an entity previously granted a revocation may be 
reinstated under that order if it is established that the entity has 
resumed the dumping of subject merchandise.
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    \2\ See Stainless Steel Bar from India; Final Results, 
Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review in Part, and 
Determination To Revoke in Part, 69 FR 55409, 55411 (September 14, 
2004) (Viraj Revocation) and Stainless Steel Bar from India: Final 
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and 
Revocation of the Order, in Part, 76 FR 56401, 56403 (September 13, 
2011) (Venus Revocation).
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    In this case, because other exporters in India remain subject to 
the SS Bar order, the order remains in effect, and the respondents may 
be reinstated in the order. The Department conditionally revoked the 
order with respect to respondents based in part upon their agreement to 
immediate reinstatement in the antidumping duty order if the Department 
were to find that the companies resumed dumping of SS Bar from 
India.\3\
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    \3\ Id.
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    As discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, we have 
examined the respondents' responses and have preliminarily found that 
the respondents' dumping margin for the review period is greater than 
de minimis, on the basis of adverse facts available. Accordingly, we 
preliminarily intend to reinstate the respondents in the antidumping 
duty order on SS Bar from India.

Methodology

    The Department is conducting this changed circumstances review in 
accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act), and 19 CFR 351.216(d). For a full description of the 
methodology underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum. 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 https://access.trade.gov, and 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 found at 
http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum and the electronic version of the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum are identical in content. A list of the topics discussed in 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as an Appendix to this 
notice.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period June 1, 2015, 
through May 31, 2016:
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    \4\ Viraj Alloys, Ltd., Viraj Forgings, Ltd., and Viraj 
Impoexpo, Ltd., are collectively now known as Viraj Profiles 
Limited. In July 2006, Viraj Forgings Ltd. merged with Viraj Alloys 
Ltd.; in April 2007, Viraj Alloys and Viraj Impoexpo Ltd. merged 
into Viraj Profiles Ltd.

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd. and its affiliates Precision       30.92
 Metals, Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd., and
 Hindustan Inox Ltd.........................................
Viraj Profiles Ltd \4\......................................       30.92
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    Normally, the Department discloses to interested parties the 
calculations performed in connection with the preliminary results of 
changed circumstances review within five days after public announcement 
of the preliminary results of changed circumstances review in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Because the Department preliminarily 
applied AFA to each of the respondents in this changed circumstances 
review, in accordance with section 776 of the Act, there are no 
calculations to disclose.
    As explained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, we intend to 
send a final supplemental questionnaire to the Venus Group after these 
preliminary results of review. We will disclose the schedule for 
submitting briefs and requesting a hearing to all interested parties at 
a later date.

Reinstatement and Suspension of Liquidation

    Because we have preliminarily established that SS Bar from India 
produced and/or exported by the respondents is being sold at less than 
NV, the respondents are hereby preliminarily reinstated in the 
antidumping duty order. We will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of 
all entries of subject merchandise produced and/or exported by the 
respondents, entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register. 
Furthermore, a cash deposit requirement of 30.92 percent will be in 
effect for all shipments of the subject merchandise produced and/or 
exported by either the Venus Group or Viraj, entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of this 
notice. This requirement shall remain in effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of 
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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.We are issuing and publishing 
these preliminary results of review in accordance with sections 
751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b) of the 
Department's regulations.

    Dated: October 12, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Collapsing
V. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and Adverse Inferences
    a. The Venus Group
    b. Viraj

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VI. Conclusion

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