[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 203 (Monday, October 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56179-56181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22867]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Administrative 
Review of the Antidumping Duty Order; 2017-2018.

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has determined that 
certain producers/exporters of stainless steel bar (SS Bar) from India 
made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during 
the period of review (POR) February 1, 2017 through January 31, 2018.

DATES: Applicable October 21, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3477.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 16, 2019, Commerce published the preliminary results of 
this administrative review.\1\ This review covers four producers/
exporters of the subject merchandise, Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd. 
and its affiliates Precision Metals, Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. 
Ltd., and Hindustan Inox Ltd. (collectively, the Venus Group), Jindal 
Stainless Hisar Ltd. (JSHL), Jindal Stainless Limited, and Laxcon 
Steels Limited (Laxcon). We invited parties to comment on the 
Preliminary Results.
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018, 84 FR 15582 
(April 16, 2019) (Preliminary Results).
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    On May 31, 2019, we received case briefs from the Venus Group, JSHL 
and Laxcon.\2\ On June 14, 2019, we received rebuttal briefs from the 
petitioners,\3\ and from Laxcon.\4\ On July 15, 2019, Commerce held a 
public hearing at the request of JSHL and the Venus Group.\5\
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    \2\ See Venus Group's Letter, ``Antidumping Duty Investigation 
of Stainless Steel Bar from India: Venus Group Case Brief,'' dated 
May 31, 2019; see also JSHL's Letter, ``Stainless Steel Bar from 
India: Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited's Case Brief,'' dated May 
31, 2019; and ``Stainless Steel Bar from India: Laxcon Case Brief,'' 
dated May 31, 2019.
    \3\ The petitioners are: Carpenter Technology Corporation, 
Crucible Industries LLC, Electralloy, a Division of G.O. Carlson, 
Inc., North American Stainless, Outokumpu Stainless Bar, LLC, 
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., and Valbruna Slater 
Stainless.
    \4\ See Petitioners' Letters, ``Petitioners' Rebuttal Brief 
Concerning the Venus Group,'' dated June 14, 2019; ``Petitioners' 
Rebuttal Brief Concerning Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited,'' dated 
June 14, 2019; and ``Petitioners' Rebuttal Brief Concerning Laxcon 
Steels Limited,'' dated June 14, 2019; see also Laxcon's Letter, 
``Stainless Steel Bar from India: Laxcon Rebuttal Brief,'' dated 
June 14, 2019 (Laxcon's Rebuttal Brief).
    \5\ See JSHL's Letter, ``Stainless Steel Bar From India; Jindal 
Stainless (Hisar) Limited's Request for a Hearing,'' dated May 15, 
2019; and Venus Group's Letter, ``Stainless Steel Bar from India: 
Request for Hearing,'' dated May 16, 2019; see also Hearing 
Transcript, dated July 15, 2019, Bar Code 3866774-01.
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    Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).

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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SS bar. SS bar means 
articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either 
hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-
finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their 
whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, 
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 
convex polygons. SS bar includes cold-finished SS bars that are turned 
or ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or 
from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have 
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the 
rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut-to-length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut-to-length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness 
have a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm 
or more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures 
at least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in 
coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, 
which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and 
angles, shapes, and sections.
    Imports of these products are currently classifiable under 
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). Although the HTS subheadings 
are provided for convenience and customs purposes, our written 
description of the scope of the order is dispositive.

Analysis of Comments Received

    The issues raised by interested parties in their case and rebuttal 
briefs have been addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. The 
Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is made 
available to the public via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping 
and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 
ACCESS is available to registered users at http://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 
Enforcement and Compliance website at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed Issues and Decision Memorandum and the electronic 
version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical in content. 
A list of the topics discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is 
attached as an Appendix to this notice.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our analysis of the comments received, we made certain 
changes to the margin calculations with regard to the Venus Group. 
These changes affect the margins assigned to the mandatory respondent 
and to the non-selected respondent. For a discussion of these changes, 
see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\6\
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Stainless Steel Bar from India,'' dated concurrently with this 
notice; see also Memorandum, ``Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Stainless Steel Bar from India: Final 
Analysis Memorandum for the Venus Group,'' dated concurrently with 
this notice.
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Final Results of Review

    Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping 
margins exist for the period February 1, 2017 through January 31, 2018:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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The Venus Group.............................................        5.35
Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited............................       52.84
Laxcon Steels Limited.......................................        5.35
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Disclosure

    With respect to the Venus Group, we intend to disclose the 
calculations performed for these final results to the parties within 
five days after public announcement of the final results in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Because we determined an antidumping duty 
margin for Jindal in these final results based on the application of 
adverse facts available, in accordance with section 776 of the Act, 
there are no calculations to disclose.

Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results in this administrative review, 
Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by 
this POR. If the preliminary results are unchanged for the final 
results, we will instruct CBP to apply the ad valorem assessment rates 
listed above to all entries of subject merchandise during the POR which 
were exported by the companies named above.
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the 
Venus Group for which it did not know 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.
    Consistent with Commerce practice, for Jindal Stainless Limited, 
which had no reviewable entries of subject merchandise to the United 
States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate any applicable entries of 
subject merchandise at the all-others rate.\7\
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    \7\ For a full discussion, see Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 
6, 2003) (May 2003 Clarification).
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    We intend to issue liquidation instructions to CBP 15 days after 
publication of the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of this review for all 
shipments of SS Bar from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the date of publication as provided by 
section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for companies 
subject to this review will be the rates established in the final 
results of the 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 recent period; (3) if the exporter 
is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original 
investigation, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established for the most recent period for the producer of the 
merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or 
exporters will continue to be 12.45 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the less-than-fair-value investigation.\8\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \8\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Stainless Steel Bar from India, 59 FR 66915, 66921 (December 
28, 1994).
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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 and/or countervailing duties 
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. 
Failure to comply with this requirement could result in the

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Secretary's presumption that reimbursement of the antidumping and/or 
countervailing duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double 
antidumping duties.

Notifications to Interested Parties

    This notice serves as the only 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). Timely written 
notification of 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.
    We are issuing and publishing these results of review in accordance 
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: October 15, 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. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Use of AFA
VI. Discussion of the Issues
VII. Recommendation

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