[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40028-40029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17310]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-857]


Oil Country Tubular Goods From India: Preliminary No Shipments 
Determination of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on oil country 
tubular goods (OCTG) from India. The period of review (POR) is 
September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2018. The review covers one 
producer/exporter of the subject merchandise, GVN Fuels, Ltd. (GVN). We 
preliminarily determine that GVN had no shipments of subject 
merchandise during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment 
on these preliminary results.

DATES: August 13, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charlotte Baskin-Gerwitz and Andrew 
Huston AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4880 
or (202) 482-4261, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In response to Commerce's notice of opportunity to request an 
administrative review on OCTG from India,\1\ United States Steel 
Corporation, Maverick Tube Corporation, Tenaris Bay City, Inc, TMK 
IPSCO, Vallourec Star, L.P., and Welded Tube USA (domestic interested 
parties) timely requested an administrative review with respect to 
GVN.\2\ Subsequently, on October 15, 2018, Commerce received a letter 
from GVN commenting that subject merchandise produced and exported by 
GVN was outside of the scope of antidumping order and should not be 
subject to administrative review.\3\ On November 15, 2018, Commerce 
published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on OCTG from India 
covering one company, GVN.\4\ Thereafter, Commerce clarified that the 
administrative review excludes OCTG from India ``both produced and 
exported'' by GVN.\5\ In May and June 2019, Commerce requested 
clarification from GVN regarding whether it was responsible for the 
production, sale, or shipment of subject merchandise during the POR.\6\ 
On July 1, 2019, GVN reported that it did not sell or export the 
subject merchandise to the United States during the POR that was 
produced by any other company, nor, to its knowledge, was any subject 
merchandise it produced shipped or sold to the United States during the 
POR by any other company.\7\ On July 2, 2019, we transmitted a ``No-
Shipment Inquiry'' to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
regarding GVN, to which CBP responded that there were no entries of 
subject merchandise involving GVN as the producer or exporter.\8\
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    \1\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative 
Review, 83 FR 45888, 45889 (September 11, 2018).
    \2\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, ``Oil Country 
Tubular Goods from India: Request for Administrative Review,'' dated 
September 28, 2018.
    \3\ See GVN's Letter, ``Oil Country Tubular Goods from India: 
Comment on petitioner's review request,'' dated October 15, 2018.
    \4\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 83 FR 57411 (November 15, 2018).
    \5\ See Initiation Notice of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 84 FR 9297, 9307 n.5 (March 14, 2019) 
(emphasis added).
    \6\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods 
(OCTG) from India: Administrative Review Request,'' dated May 20, 
2019; see also Commerce's Letter, ``Certain Oil Country Tubular 
Goods from India: Administrative Review,'' dated June 26, 2019.
    \7\ See GVN's Letter, ``Oil Country Tubular Goods from India: 
Reply to Department's letter of June 26, 2019 on Antidumping 
administrative review of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) from 
India,'' dated July 1, 2019.
    \8\ See CBP's Letter, ``Certain oil country tubular goods from 
India (A-533-857),'' dated July 8, 2019 (CBP Letter).
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    On July 2, 2019, Commerce exercised its discretion to extend the 
deadline for these preliminary results until August 23, 2019.\9\
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    \9\ See Memorandum, ``Oil Country Tubular Goods from India: 
Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review,'' dated July 2, 2019.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is certain oil country tubular 
goods (OCTG), which are hollow steel products of circular cross-
section, including oil well casing and tubing, of iron (other than cast 
iron) or steel (both carbon and alloy), whether seamless or welded, 
regardless of end finish (e.g., whether or not plain end, threaded, or 
threaded and coupled) whether or not conforming to American Petroleum 
Institute (API) or non-API specifications, whether finished (including 
limited service OCTG products) or unfinished (including green tubes and 
limited service OCTG products), whether or not thread protectors are 
attached. The scope of the order also covers OCTG coupling stock.
    Excluded from the scope of the order are: casing or tubing 
containing 10.5 percent or more by weight of chromium; drill pipe; 
unattached couplings; and unattached thread protectors.
    The merchandise subject to the order is currently classified in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under item 
numbers: 7304.29.10.10, 7304.29.10.20, 7304.29.10.30, 7304.29.10.40, 
7304.29.10.50, 7304.29.10.60, 7304.29.10.80, 7304.29.20.10, 
7304.29.20.20, 7304.29.20.30, 7304.29.20.40, 7304.29.20.50, 
7304.29.20.60, 7304.29.20.80, 7304.29.31.10, 7304.29.31.20, 
7304.29.31.30, 7304.29.31.40, 7304.29.31.50, 7304.29.31.60, 
7304.29.31.80, 7304.29.41.10, 7304.29.41.20, 7304.29.41.30, 
7304.29.41.40, 7304.29.41.50,

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7304.29.41.60, 7304.29.41.80, 7304.29.50.15, 7304.29.50.30, 
7304.29.50.45, 7304.29.50.60, 7304.29.50.75, 7304.29.61.15, 
7304.29.61.30, 7304.29.61.45, 7304.29.61.60, 7304.29.61.75, 
7305.20.20.00, 7305.20.40.00, 7305.20.60.00, 7305.20.80.00, 
7306.29.10.30, 7306.29.10.90, 7306.29.20.00, 7306.29.31.00, 
7306.29.41.00, 7306.29.60.10, 7306.29.60.50, 7306.29.81.10, and 
7306.29.81.50.
    The merchandise subject to the order may also enter under the 
following HTSUS item numbers: 7304.39.00.24, 7304.39.00.28, 
7304.39.00.32, 7304.39.00.36, 7304.39.00.40, 7304.39.00.44, 
7304.39.00.48, 7304.39.00.52, 7304.39.00.56, 7304.39.00.62, 
7304.39.00.68, 7304.39.00.72, 7304.39.00.76, 7304.39.00.80, 
7304.59.60.00, 7304.59.80.15, 7304.59.80.20, 7304.59.80.25, 
7304.59.80.30, 7304.59.80.35, 7304.59.80.40, 7304.59.80.45, 
7304.59.80.50, 7304.59.80.55, 7304.59.80.60, 7304.59.80.65, 
7304.59.80.70, 7304.59.80.80, 7305.31.40.00, 7305.31.60.90, 
7306.30.50.55, 7306.30.50.90, 7306.50.50.50, and 7306.50.50.70.
    The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of the 
order is dispositive.

Preliminary Determination of No Shipments

    Based on record evidence, we preliminarily determine that GVN had 
no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR. Specifically, CBP 
indicated that it found no shipments by GVN during the POR.\10\ 
Consistent with Commerce's practice, we find that it is not appropriate 
to rescind the review with respect to GVN but, rather, to complete the 
review and issue appropriate instructions to CBP based on the final 
results of this review.\11\
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    \10\ See CBP Letter.
    \11\ 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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Public Comment

    Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice.\12\ Rebuttal briefs, 
limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later 
than five days after the date for filing case briefs.\13\ Parties who 
submit case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are encouraged to 
submit with each argument: (1) A statement of the issue; (2) a brief 
summary of the argument; and (3) a table of authorities.\14\
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
    \13\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
    \14\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing, or to participate if one is requested, must submit a 
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce using Enforcement and 
Compliance's ACCESS system within 30 days after the date of publication 
of this notice.\15\ Requests should contain: (1) The party's name, 
address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) 
a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be 
limited to those raised in the respective case and rebuttal briefs. If 
a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230, at a time and date to be determined. Parties 
should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing 
two days before the scheduled date.
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    All submissions must be filed electronically using ACCESS and 
served on interested parties.\16\ An electronically-filed document must 
be received successfully in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern 
Standard Time on the date that the document is due.
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    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.303(f).
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    Unless the deadline is extended, Commerce intends to issue the 
final results of this administrative review, including the results of 
its analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, not later than 
120 days after the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Assessment Rates

    Commerce clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on May 
6, 2003.\17\ This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by GVN for which this company did 
not know that the merchandise was destined for the United States. In 
such instances, 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. Further, instead of 
rescinding the review with respect to GVN, we find it appropriate to 
complete the review and issue liquidation instruction to CBP concerning 
entries for GVN following issuance of the final results of review. If 
we continue to find that GVN had no shipments of subject merchandise in 
the final results, we will instruct CBP to liquidate any existing 
entries of merchandise produced by GVN, but exported by other parties, 
at the rate for the intermediate reseller, if available, or at the all-
others rate.\18\
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    \17\ For a full discussion of this clarification, see 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of 
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
    \18\ Id.
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    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after the 
publication date of the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    If the final results of review continue to find that GVN had no 
shipments during the POR, there will be no change to the existing cash 
deposit requirements.

Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary 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 Commerce's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: August 7, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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