[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 3, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12520-12522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04343]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; and Rescission of Review in 
Part; 2018-2019

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines 
that producers/exporters subject to this review made sales of stainless 
steel bar (SS Bar) from India at less than fair value (LTFV) during the 
period of review (POR) February 1, 2018 through January 31, 2019. 
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable March 3, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla or Allison Hollander, 
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 or (202) 482-
2805, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    This review covers two producers/exporter of the subject 
merchandise, Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd., and its affiliates 
Hindustan Inox, Precision Metals and Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. 
Ltd. (collectively, the Venus Group),\1\ and Ambica Steels Limited 
(Ambica). Commerce preliminarily determines that sales of subject 
merchandise by Ambica have not been made at prices below normal value. 
Commerce also preliminarily determines that sales of subject 
merchandise by the Venus Group have been made at prices below normal 
value. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results.
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    \1\ Commerce has previously determined that Venus Wire 
Industries Pvt. Ltd., and its affiliates Hindustan Inox, Precision 
Metals and Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd. constitute a 
single entity. See Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary 
Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Intent To Reinstate 
Certain Companies in the Antidumping Duty Order, 82 FR 48483 
(October 18, 2017), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
at 3-5, unchanged in Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review 
and Reinstatement of Certain Companies in the Antidumping Duty 
Order, 83 FR 17529 (April 20, 2018). We have received no information 
on the record of this review to dispute that finding.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SS Bar from India. Imports 
of the product are currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under subheadings 7222.11.00, 
7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00. While the HTSUS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description 
is dispositive. For a full description of the scope of the order, see 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\2\
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    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Stainless Steel 
Bar from India: 2017-2018,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby 
adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Rescission of Administrative Review in Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that 
requested a review withdraw the request within 90 days of the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation.
    On July 31, 2019, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Crucible 
Industries LLC, Electralloy, a Division of G.O. Carlson, Inc., North 
American Stainless, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., and 
Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. (collectively, the petitioners), 
withdrew their request for an administrative review of one company, 
Jindal Stainless Hisar Ltd. (JSHL).\3\ The petitioners are the only 
party that requested a review of JSHL. The petitioners' withdrawal of 
review request was submitted within the deadline set forth under 19 CFR 
351.213(d)(1). Accordingly, Commerce is rescinding this review, in 
part, with respect to JSHL, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1).\4\
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    \3\ See Petitioners' letter, ``Stainless Steel Bar from India: 
Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review,'' dated July 31, 
2019.
    \4\ For more details, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751 
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce calculated 
export prices in accordance with section 772 of the Act.

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Normal value was calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. The Preliminary 
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 to all 
parties in the Central Records Unit, located in Room B8024 of the main 
Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum can be found at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The electronic and signed versions of the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum are identical in content. A list of topics 
discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as the 
appendix to this notice.

Verification

    As provided in section 782(i) of the Act, we intend to verify 
information relied upon in reaching the final results of review with 
respect to Ambica.

Preliminary Results of Administrative Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average 
dumping margins exist for the respondents during the period February 1, 
2018 through January 31, 2019:

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                                                               Estimated
                                                               weighted-
                                                                average
                      Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd., and its affiliates                11.88
 Hindustan Inox, Precision Metals and Sieves Manufacturers
 (India) Pvt. Ltd...........................................
Ambica Steels Limited.......................................        0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    We intend to disclose the calculations and analysis performed in 
these preliminary results to interested parties within five days of any 
public announcement of these preliminary results in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.224(b).
    Because Commerce intends to conduct verification of Ambica, 
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit case 
briefs not later than seven days after the date on which the 
verification report is issued in this proceeding,\5\ and rebuttal 
briefs, limited to issues raised in case briefs, may be submitted no 
later than five days after the deadline date for case briefs.\6\ 
Parties who submit case briefs 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.\7\
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    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
    \7\ 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 must submit a written request to the Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
filed via ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the 
date of publication of this notice.\8\ 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 
briefs.
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    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 
Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1) and (2).

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 a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is above de 
minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of these reviews, we 
will calculate importer-specific assessment rates on the basis of the 
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's 
examined sales and, where possible, the total entered value of sales. 
Specifically, Commerce will apply the assessment rate calculation 
method adopted in Final Modification for Reviews.\9\ Where an importer- 
(or customer-) specific ad valorem rate is zero or de minimis, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties.\10\
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    \9\ See Antidumping Proceeding: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8103 (February 14, 2012) 
(Final Modification for Reviews).
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the 
Venus Group and Ambica for which they did not know their 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 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, 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 LTFV investigation.\11\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \11\ 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 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 POR. 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

    Commerce is issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: February 26, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Cost of Production Analysis for the Venus Group
V. Application of Facts Otherwise Available and Adverse Inferences
VI. Affiliation and Collapsing
VII. Discussion of the Methodology
VIII. Date of Sale
IX. Product Comparisons
X. Export Price and Constructed Export Price
XI. Normal Value
XII. Verification
XIII. Currency Conversion
XIV. Recommendation

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