[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2715-2717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00641]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-502]


Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and Tubes From India: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the 
producers/exporters subject to this review made sales of subject 
merchandise in the United States at less than normal value during the 
period of review (POR) May 1, 2017 through April 30, 2018.

DATES: Applicable January 16, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dmitry Vladimirov, 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) 482-0665.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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Background

    On July 16, 2019, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of the 
2017-2018 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on welded 
carbon steel standard pipes and tubes (pipe and tube) from India.\1\ 
The administrative review covers 27 producers or exporters of the 
subject merchandise. We invited interested parties to comment on the 
Preliminary Results and received case and rebuttal briefs from 
interested parties.\2\ On October 24, 2019, Commerce extended the 
deadline for the final results by 57 days to January 9, 2020.\3\
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    \1\ See Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and Tubes from India: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-
2018, 84 FR 33916 (July 16, 2019) (Preliminary Results) and 
accompanying Decision Memorandum (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
    \2\ See Independence Tube Corporation and Southland Tube, 
Incorporated's (collectively, the domestic interested parties (i.e., 
DIPs)) Letter, ``Certain Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and 
Tubes from India: Case Brief,'' dated August 27, 2019; see also Garg 
Tube Export LLP and Garg Tube Limited's (collectively, Garg Tube) 
Letter, ``Garg Tube's Administrative Case Brief: Administrative 
Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Welded Carbon Steel 
Standard Pipes and Tubes from India,'' dated August 27, 2019; DIPs' 
Letter, ``Certain Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and Tubes from 
India: Rebuttal Brief,'' dated September 3, 2019; and Garg Tube's 
Letter, ``Garg Tube's Rebuttal Brief: Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes 
and Tubes from India,'' dated September 3, 2019.
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and 
Tubes from India: Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated October 24, 2019.
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    Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is pipe and tube. The pipe and 
tube subject to the order is currently classifiable under subheadings 
7306.30.1000, 7306.30.5025, 7306.30.5032, 7306.30.5040, 7306.30.5055, 
7306.30.5085, 7306.30.5090 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS). While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description is 
dispositive. A full description of the scope of the order is contained 
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\4\
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and 
Tubes from India: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017/18'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by this notice (Issues and 
Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties in 
this review are 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 
ACCESS 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 the comments received we made changes for these final 
results which are enumerated in the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Final Results of the Administrative Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins 
exist for the period May 1, 2017 through April 30, 2018.

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                                                        Weighted-average
                 Producer or exporter                    dumping margin
                                                           (percent)
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Apl Apollo Tubes Limited.............................              87.39
Garg Tube Export LLP and Garg Tube Limited                         11.83
 (collectively Garg Tube)............................
Asian Contec Ltd.....................................              11.83
Bhandari Foils & Tubes Ltd...........................              11.83
Bhushan Steel Ltd....................................              11.83
Blue Moon Logistics Pvt. Ltd.........................              11.83
CH Robinson Worldwide................................              11.83
Ess-Kay Engineers....................................              11.83
Manushi Enterprise...................................              11.83
Nishi Boring Corporation.............................              11.83
Fiber Tech Composite Pvt. Ltd........................              11.83
GCL Private Limited..................................              11.83
Goodluck India Ltd...................................              11.83
GVN Fuels Ltd........................................              11.83
Hydromatik...........................................              11.83
Jindal Quality Tubular Ltd...........................              11.83
KLT Automatic & Tubular Products Ltd.................              11.83
Lloyds Line Pipes Ltd................................              11.83
MARINEtrans India Private Ltd........................              11.83
Patton International Ltd.............................              11.83
SAR Transport Systems Pvt. Ltd.......................              11.83
Surya Global Steel Tubes Ltd.........................              11.83
Surya Roshni Ltd.....................................              11.83
Welspun India Ltd....................................              11.83
Zenith Birla (India) Ltd.............................              11.83
Zenith Birla Steels Private Ltd......................              11.83
Zenith Dyeintermediates Ltd..........................              11.83
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Disclosure

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed in connection with 
these final results to parties in this proceeding within five days 
after the date of publication of the final results, in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and U.S. 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.
    For Garg Tube, we calculated importer-specific assessment rates on 
the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for 
each importer's examined sales and the total entered value of those 
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\5\ Where an importer-
specific assessment rate is de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), 
the entries by that importer will be liquidated without reference to 
antidumping duties. For entries of Garg Tube's merchandise during the 
period of review for which it did not know the 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.
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    \5\ 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 Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 
(February 14, 2012).
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    For Apl Apollo Tubes Limited \6\ and the 25 companies which were 
not selected for individual examination,\7\ we will instruct CBP to 
assess antidumping duties at a rate equal to each company's weighted-
average dumping margin in these final results of review.
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    \6\ The rate for this company was determined on the basis of 
facts otherwise available with an adverse inference. See Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum, section ``Application of Facts Available with 
an Adverse Inference,'' uncontested and unchanged in these final 
results.
    \7\ These companies are Asian Contec Ltd., Bhandari Foils & 
Tubes Ltd., Bhushan Steel Ltd., Blue Moon Logistics Pvt. Ltd., CH 
Robinson Worldwide, Ess-Kay Engineers, Manushi Enterprise, Nishi 
Boring Corporation, Fiber Tech Composite Pvt. Ltd., GCL Private 
Limited, Goodluck India Ltd., GVN Fuels Ltd., Hydromatik, Jindal 
Quality Tubular Ltd., KLT Automatic & Tubular Products Ltd., Lloyds 
Line Pipes Ltd., MARINEtrans India Private Ltd., Patton 
International Ltd., SAR Transport Systems Pvt. Ltd., Surya Global 
Steel Tubes Ltd., Surya Roshni Ltd., Welspun India Ltd., Zenith 
Birla (India) Ltd., Zenith Birla Steels Private Ltd., and Zenith 
Dyeintermediates Ltd.
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    In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice, 
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.\8\
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    \8\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    We intend to issue liquidation instructions to CBP 15 days after 
publication of these final results of review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication in the Federal Register of this notice for all shipments of 
pipe and tube 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 equal to the weighted-average dumping margin 
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 completed segment of the proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published in 
the completed segment 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 has been covered in a prior completed 
segment of this proceeding, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
established in the completed segment 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 7.08 percent, the all-others 
rate established in the less-than-fair-value investigation for this 
proceeding.\9\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \9\ See Antidumping Duty Order; Certain Welded Carbon Steel 
Standard Pipes and Tubes from India, 51 FR 17384 (May 12, 1986).
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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 the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (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 or 
destruction of APO materials, or conversion to judicial protective 
order, is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and 
terms of an APO is a violation subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these results of administrative 
review in accordance with sections 751(a) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 
CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: January 9, 2020.
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. Discussion of the Issues
VI. Recommendation

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