[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29846-29848]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13478]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-523-812]


Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe From Oman: 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 Al 
Jazeera Steel Products Co. SAOG (Al Jazeera) made sales of certain 
welded carbon quality steel pipe from Oman at less than normal value 
(NV) during the period of review (POR) June 8, 2016 through November 
30, 2017.

DATES: Applicable June 26, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis McClure or Robert Palmer, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5973 or (202) 
482-9068, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results on December 11, 2018.\1\ 
For events subsequent to the Preliminary Results, see Commerce's Issues 
and Decision Memorandum.\2\ 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\

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Additionally, on May 9, 2019, Commerce extended the deadline for these 
final results by 30 days.\4\ Accordingly, the revised deadline for 
these Final Results of this administrative review became June 19, 2019. 
Between March 15 and March 20, 2019, interested parties submitted case 
and rebuttal briefs.\5\
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    \1\ See Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the 
Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 63621 (December 11, 2018) 
(Preliminary Results) and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe 
from the Sultanate of Oman: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results; 2016-2017,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby 
adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
    \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. If the new deadline falls on a non-
business day, in accordance with Commerce's practice, the deadline 
will become the next business day.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe 
from the Sultanate of Oman: Extension of Deadline for Final Results 
of 2016-2017 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated May 9, 
2019.
    \5\ See Letter from Wheatland Tube Company and Bull Moose Tube, 
``Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from Oman: Case Brief,'' 
dated March 15, 2019; see also Letter from Al Jazeera, ``Circular 
Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from Oman; Al Jazeera's Rebuttal 
Case Brief,'' dated March 20, 2019.
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Scope of the Order

    Imports covered by the order are shipments of circular welded 
carbon-quality steel pipe. The merchandise subject to review is 
currently classifiable under items 7306.19.1010, 7306.19.1050, 
7306.19.5110, 7306.19.5150, 7306.30.1000, 7306.30.5015, 7306.30.5020, 
7306.30.5025, 7306.30.5032, 7306.30.5040, 7306.30.5055, 7306.30.5085, 
7306.30.5090, 7306.50.1000, 7306.50.5030, 7306.50.5050, and 
7306.50.5070 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 merchandise 
subject to the order is dispositive.\6\
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    \6\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum for a complete 
description of the scope of the Order.
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Analysis of Comments Received

    In the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we addressed the issues 
raised in parties' case and rebuttal briefs. In the Appendix to this 
notice, we provide a list of the issues raised by parties. 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 (CRU), 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 Issues and Decision 
Memorandum and the electronic versions of the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum are identical in content.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our review of the record and comments received from 
interested parties, these final results do not differ from the 
Preliminary Results.

Final Results of the Review

    As a result of this review, Commerce determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period June 8, 2016 
through November 30, 2017:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                  Producer and/or exporter                      dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Al Jazeera Steel Products Co. SAOG..........................        3.84
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Duty Assessment

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 351.212(b), Commerce shall determine and 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess antidumping duties on 
all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the 
final results of this review.\7\ Commerce intends to issue appropriate 
assessment instructions directly to CBP 15 days after publication of 
the final results of this administrative review.
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    \7\ In these final results, Commerce applied the assessment rate 
calculation method adopted in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation 
of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in 
Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 
(February 14, 2012).
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    For any individually examined respondent whose weighted-average 
dumping margin is above de minimis, we calculated importer-specific ad 
valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of 
dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total 
entered value of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1). Upon issuance of the final results of this 
administrative review, if any importer-specific assessment rates 
calculated in the final results are above de minimis (i.e., at or above 
0.5 percent), Commerce will issue instructions directly to CBP to 
assess antidumping duties on appropriate entries. Where either the 
respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or 
an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties.
    In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,\8\ 
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by each 
respondent for which it did not know that 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(ies) involved in the transaction. We intend to issue assessment 
instructions directly to CBP 15 days after publication of the final 
results of this review.
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    \8\ For a full discussion of this clarification, see Antidumping 
and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping 
Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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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 subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication of the final 
results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2) 
of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Al Jazeera noted above will 
be the rate established in the final results of this administrative 
review; (2) for merchandise exported by manufacturers 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 manufacturer is, 
the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most 
recently completed segment of this proceeding for the manufacturer of 
the subject merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 
manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 7.36 percent, the all-
others rate established in the antidumping investigation.\9\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \9\ See Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the 
Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates: Amended 
Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping 
Duty Orders, 81 FR 91906 (December 19, 2016).

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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) to file a certificate regarding 
the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties prior to 
liquidation of the relevant entries during the POR. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in Commerce'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 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 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: June 19, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Final Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether a Particular Market Situation Exists.
    Comment 2: Whether To Use Quarterly Costs

    V. Recommendation

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