[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24083-24085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10934]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-881]


Certain Cold Rolled Steel Flat Products From the Republic of 
Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-
2017

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Hyundai 
Steel Company (Hyundai) and POSCO/POSCO Daewoo Co., Ltd. (POSCO/PDW), 
producers/exporters of certain cold rolled steel flat products (cold-
rolled steel) from the Republic of Korea (Korea), sold subject 
merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) 
during the period of review (POR) March 7, 2016, through August 31, 
2017.

DATES: Applicable May 24, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael J. Heaney or Daniel Deku, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4475 or (202) 
482-5075, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results of this administrative 
review on October 12, 2018.\1\ For a history of events that occurred 
since the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\2\
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    \1\ See Certain Cold Rolled Steel Flat Products from the 
Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and Partial Rescission of Review; 2016-2017, 
83 FR 51661 (October 12, 2018) (Preliminary Results) and 
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products 
from the Republic of Korea: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the 2016-2017 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Issues and Decision 
Memorandum).
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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.\3\ If the new 
deadline falls on a

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non-business day, in accordance with Commerce's practice, the deadline 
will become the next business day. Between March 19, 2019, and April 
18, 2019, Commerce extended the deadline for the final results of this 
administrative review. The revised deadline for the final results is 
now May 17, 2019.\4\
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    \3\ 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 Partial Shutdown of the Federal Government,'' dated 
January 28, 2019. All deadlines in this segment of the proceeding 
have been extended by 40 days.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Cold Rolled Steel Flat Products 
from the Republic of Korea: Extension of Deadline for Final Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March 19, 2019; 
see also Memorandum, ``Certain Cold Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
the Republic of Korea: Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated April 18, 2019.
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    Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a) of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is certain cold-rolled steel 
flat products. For a complete description of the scope of the order, 
see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\5\
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    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products 
from the Republic of Korea: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the 2016-2017 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Issues and Decision 
Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in interested parties' case briefs are addressed 
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. The issues are identified in the 
Appendix to this notice. 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). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov and is available to all parties in the Central Records 
Unit, Room B8024 of the main Commerce building. In addition, a complete 
version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
on the internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The 
signed and electronic versions of the Issues and Decision Memorandum 
are identical in content.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on the comments received from the interested parties, we made 
certain changes to the Preliminary Results. For a discussion of these 
issues, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Companies Not Selected for Individual Review

    The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment 
of a rate to be applied to companies not selected for examination when 
Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to 
section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 
735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the 
all-others rate in a market economy investigation, for guidance when 
calculating the rate for companies which were not selected for 
individual review in an administrative review. Under section 
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally ``an amount 
equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted average dumping 
margins established for exporters and producers individually 
investigated, excluding any zero or de minimis margins, and any margins 
determined entirely {on the basis of facts available{time} .''
    For these final results, we calculated a weighted-average dumping 
margin that is not zero, de minimis, or determined entirely on the 
basis of facts available for Hyundai and POSCO/PDW. Accordingly, 
Commerce has continued to assign companies not individually examined a 
margin of 11.60 percent, which is the weighted average of Hyundai's and 
POSCO/PDW's calculated weighted-average dumping margins.

Final Results of Administrative Review

    We determine that, for the period of March 7, 2016, through August 
31, 2017, the following dumping margins exist:

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                                                                 Final
                                                                dumping
                    Producer or exporter                        margin
                                                               (percent)
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Hyundai Steel Company.......................................       36.59
POSCO/POSCO Daewoo Co., Ltd.................................        2.68
Non-examined companies......................................       11.60
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed for these 
final results of review within five days of the date of publication of 
this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b).

Assessment Rate

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
Commerce intends to issue appropriate instructions to U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) 15 days after publication of the final results 
of this review. We intend to calculate importer-specific assessment 
rates on the basis of the ratio of the total amount of antidumping 
duties calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total 
entered value of the sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by each 
respondent for which it did not know its merchandise was destined for 
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at 
the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company or 
companies involved in the transaction. We intend to issue liquidation 
instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of the final 
results of this administrative review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of this administrative 
review for all shipments of the subject merchandise 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 the companies listed in these final results will 
be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the 
final results of this review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers 
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 recently completed segment 
of this proceeding in which they were reviewed; (3) if the exporter is 
not a firm covered in this review or the original less-than-fair-value 
(LTFV) 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 20.33 percent,\6\ the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \6\ See Certain Cold Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil, 
India, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom: Amended Final 
Affirmative Antidumping Determinations for Brazil and the United 
Kingdom and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 64432 (September 20, 
2016) (Order).
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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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties

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occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition 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 or 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 a sanctionable violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    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: May 17, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Margin Calculation
V. Rates for Non-Examined Companies
VI. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: POSCO/PDW's CONNUM-Specific Costs
    Comment 2: Adverse Facts Available for Hyundai
    Comment 3: POSCO/PDW's Cost Methodology
    Comment 4: POSCO/PDW's CEP Offset
    Comment 5: POSCO/PDW's Freight Revenue Cap
    Comment 6: POSCO/PDW's Prime Product Matching
    Comment 7: POSCO/PDW's Importer Specific Duty Assessment Rate 
Calculation
    Comment 8: Treatment of Hyundai's Affiliated Freight Company
VII. Recommendation

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