[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 111 (Monday, June 10, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26819-26820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12148]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-863]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From India: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final 
Determination of No Shipments; 2017-2018

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain 
corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from India are being, or are 
likely to be sold, at less than normal value during the period of 
review (POR) July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018.

DATES: Applicable June 10, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel Greenberg 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) 482-0652 or (202) 
482-2593, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results of this administrative 
review on CORE from India on February 1, 2019.\1\ We invited interested 
parties to comment on the Preliminary Results. On March 4, 2019, 
Commerce received a timely-filed case brief from Uttam Galva Steels 
Limited (Uttam Galva). On March 11, 2019, Commerce received a timely-
filed rebuttal brief from California Steel Industries and Steel 
Dynamics Inc. (collectively, the petitioners). Commerce conducted this 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on CORE from India 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act).\2\
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    \1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-
2018, 84 FR 1061 (February 1, 2019) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, 
Italy, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and 
Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for 
India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390 (July 25, 
2016) (Order).
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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 non-business day, in accordance with Commerce's 
practice, the deadline will become the next business day. The revised 
deadline for the final results is now June 3, 2019.
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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.
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Scope of the Order

    The product covered by this review is CORE from India. For a full 
description of the scope, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice.\4\
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products 
from India: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of 
the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 
Decision Memorandum).
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Final Determination of No Shipments

    In the Preliminary Results, we found that JSW Steel Ltd. and JSW 
Coated Products Ltd. (collectively, JSW), had no shipments during the 
POR. Following the publication of the Preliminary Results, we received 
no comments from interested parties regarding this company, nor has any 
party submitted record evidence which would call this finding into 
question. Therefore, for the final results, we continue to find that 
JSW had no shipments during the POR. Accordingly, consistent with 
Commerce's practice, we intend to instruct U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) to liquidate any existing entries of merchandise 
produced by JSW, but exported by other parties without their own rate, 
at the all-others rate.\5\
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    \5\ 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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Analysis of 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.\6\ A list of the issues that parties raised and to which we 
responded 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). ACCESS is available to 
registered users at https://access.trade.gov and in the Central Records 
Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum and the 
electronic versions of the Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical 
in content.
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    \6\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our analysis of the record and comments received from 
interested parties regarding our Preliminary Results, Commerce has made 
no changes to the Preliminary Results. As stated in the Preliminary 
Results, we found that the application of facts otherwise available 
with adverse inferences, for Uttam Galva's dumping margin, pursuant to 
sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act, was warranted. For further 
discussion, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Final Results of the Review

    We determine that, for the period of July 1, 2017, through June 30, 
2018, the following weighted-average dumping margin exists:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Uttam Galva Steels Limited \7\.............................       71.09
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
performed in connection with the final determination within five days 
after the date of any public announcement, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b). However, the final dumping margin assigned to Uttam Galva 
is based on adverse facts available with adverse inferences. 
Accordingly, no disclosure of calculations is necessary for these final 
results.
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    \7\ This rate also applies to: Atlantis International Services 
Company Ltd., Uttam Galva Steels (BVI) Limited, Uttam Galva Steels, 
Netherlands B.V., and Uttam Value Steels Limited. In the 
investigation, Commerce found these companies to be a single entity.
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Assessment Rate

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
Commerce has determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on 
all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the 
final results of this review. Commerce shall instruct CBP to

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apply an ad valorem assessment rate of 71.09 percent to all entries of 
subject merchandise during the POR which were produced and/or exported 
by Uttam Galva.
    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after the 
publication date 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 the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Uttam Galva will 
be the rate 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 manufacturers 
or exporters will continue to be 0.00 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the investigation.\8\ These cash deposit requirements, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \8\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, 
Italy, the People's Republic of Korea and Taiwan: Amended Final 
Affirmative Antidumping Determination for India and Taiwan, and 
Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390, 48393 (July 25, 2016).
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Notification to Importers

    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.

Notification Regarding 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 a sanctionable violation.
    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: June 3, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Final Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. List of Comments
III. Background
IV. Scope of the Order
V. Determination of No Shipments
VI. Discussion of the Issue
    Comment: AFA Rate Applied to Uttam Galva
VII. Recommendation

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