[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 22, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23633-23634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10878]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-825]


Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017

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

SUMMARY: On March 1, 2018, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. The 
period of review (POR) is February 1, 2016, through January 31, 2017. 
For the final results of this review, we continue to find that Villares 
Metals S.A. (Villares) has not made sales of subject merchandise at 
less than normal value during the POR.

DATES: Applicable May 22, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dmitry Vladimirov, Office I, 
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0665.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 1, 2018, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of the 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from 
Brazil.\1\ The administrative review covers one producer/exporter of 
the subject merchandise, Villares. We gave interested parties an 
opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results. We received no 
comments. Hence, these final results are unchanged from the Preliminary 
Results. Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 8839 (March 
1, 2018) (Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with 
respect to the order means articles of stainless steel in straight 
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, 
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform 
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles, 
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles, 
hexagons, octagons or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished 
SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced 
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and 
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other 
deformations produced during the rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have 
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or 
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at 
least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do 
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, 
shapes and sections.
    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). 
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.

Final Results of the Administrative Review

    We determine that a weighted-average dumping margin of 0.00 percent 
exists for Villares for the period of February 1, 2016, through January 
31, 2017.

Assessment

    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1) and the Final Modification,\2\ Commerce will instruct 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate all appropriate 
entries for Villares without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \2\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14, 
2012) (Final Modification).
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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
Villares for

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which it did not know its merchandise was destined for the United 
States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the 
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company 
involved in the transaction. 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 upon 
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for 
all shipments of SSB from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the date of publication as provided by 
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Villares 
will be 0.00 percent, the weighted-average dumping margin established 
in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise 
exported by producers or exporters not covered in this administrative 
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 recently completed segment of this proceeding; (3) if the 
exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the 
original investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will 
be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of this 
proceeding for the producer of the subject merchandise; and (4) the 
cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to 
be 19.43 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
Determination of Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil.\3\
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    \3\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28, 
1994) (LTFV Determination of Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil).
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    These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in 
effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a final 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.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the 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 violation subject 
to sanction.
    We are issuing and publishing these results of an administrative 
review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: May 16, 2018.
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.
[FR Doc. 2018-10878 Filed 5-21-18; 8:45 am]
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