[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 57 (Monday, March 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11049-11050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05644]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-469-805]


Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2017-2018

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Sidenor 
Aceros Especiales S.L. (Sidenor) sold subject merchandise in the United 
States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review 
(POR) March 1, 2017, through August 8, 2017.

DATES: Applicable March 25, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trenton Duncan or Kabir Archuletta, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3539 or (202) 
482-2593, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results of this administrative 
review on stainless steel bar (SSB) from Spain on December 10, 2018.\1\ 
We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results; 
however, no interested party submitted comments. Commerce conducted 
this administrative review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from 
Spain in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and (2) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended (the Act).\2\ When the review was initiated, the 
period of review (POR) was March 1, 2017, through Febrary 28, 2018. 
However, on October 3, 2018, as a result of a five-year (sunset) 
review, Commerce revoked the antidumping duty order on imports of 
stainless steel bar (SSB) from Spain, effective August 9, 2017.\3\ As a 
result, the POR was revised to March 1, 2017, through August 8, 
2017.\4\
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from Spain: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018, 83 FR 63478 
(December 10, 2018) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ See Amended Final Determination and Antidumping Duty Order: 
Stainless Steel Bar from Spain, 60 FR 11656 (March 2, 1995) (Order).
    \3\ See Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and 
Spain: Continuation of Antidumping Duty Order (India) and Revocation 
of Antidumping Duty Orders (Brazil, Japan, and Spain), 83 FR 49910 
(October 3, 2018) (Revocation Notice).
    \4\ Id.
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    Commerce exercised its discretion to toll all deadlines affected by 
the partial federal government closure from December 22, 2018, through 
the resumption of operations on January 29, 2019.\5\ If the new 
deadline falls on a non-business day, in accordance with Commerce's 
practice, the deadline will become the next business day. The revised 
deadline for the final results of this review is now May 20, 2019.
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    \5\ See memorandum to the Record from 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, ``Deadlines 
Affected by the Pai1ial Shutdown of the Federal Government,'' dated 
January 28, 2019. All deadlines in this segment of the proceeding 
have been extended by 40 days.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is Stainless Steel Bar. The 
merchandise subject to this order is currently classified under the 
following Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 
subheadings: 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, and 
7222.30.00.\6\ Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope 
of the order is dispositive.\7\
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    \6\ For a full description of the scope of the order, see 
Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar from 
Spain; 2017-2018,'' dated December 3, 2018.
    \7\ The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope changed since the 
publication of the order. See Amended Final Determination and 
Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from Spain, 60 FR 11656 
(March 2, 1995).
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Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    As no parties submitted comments on the Preliminary Results, we 
made no changes in the final results of this review.

Final Results of the Review

    As there are no changes from, or comments upon, the Preliminary 
Results, Commerce has not modified its analysis or calculations. 
Accordingly, no decision memorandum accompanies this Federal Register 
notice. We continue to find that Sidenor made sales of subject 
merchandise at less than normal value during the POR.
    Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping

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margin exists for the period March 1, 2017, through August 8, 2017:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Sidenor Aceros Especiales, S.L.............................        1.76
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Assessment Rates

    Commerce will determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties 
on all appropriate entries in this review, in accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Commerce intends to 
issue assessment instructions directly to CBP 15 days after publication 
of these final results of review.
    In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice, 
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Sidenor 
for which it did not know that the merchandise was destined for the 
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at the 
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) 
involved in the transaction.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    In the Revocation Notice, Commerce stated that it intends to issue 
instructions to CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to 
discontinue the collection of cash deposits on entries of subject 
merchandise, entered or withdrawn from warehouse, on or after August 9, 
2017.\8\ Furthermore, because the antidumping duty order on SSB from 
Spain has been revoked as a result of the Revocation Notice, Commerce 
does not intend to issue cash deposit instructions at the conclusion of 
this administrative review.
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    \8\ See Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and 
Spain: Continuation of Antidumping Duty Order (India) and Revocation 
of Antidumping Duty Orders (Brazil, Japan, and Spain), 83 FR 49910 
(October 3, 2018) (Revocation Notice).
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Reimbursement of Duties

    This notice also 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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties occurred and 
the subsequent assessment of doubled antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of 
the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return/destruction 
of APO materials, or conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby 
requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the terms of an 
APO is subject to sanction.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h).

    Dated: March 20, 2019.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2019-05644 Filed 3-22-19; 8:45 am]
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