[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 71 (Monday, April 13, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20469-20470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07717]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-817]


Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From Thailand: 
Final Results of Administrative Review and Determination of No 
Shipments; 2017-2018

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that there 
were no shipments of subject merchandise during the period of review 
(POR) November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018.

DATES: Applicable April 13, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chelsey Simonovich, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1979.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results on December 16, 2019.\1\ 
Interested parties were asked to comment within 30 days of the date of 
publication. We received no comments.
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    \1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from 
Thailand: Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2017-2018, 84 
FR 68398 (December 16, 2019) (Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the order are certain hot-rolled carbon 
steel flat products from Thailand. For a complete description of the 
scope of the order, see the Appendix to this notice.

Final Determination of No Shipments

    In the Preliminary Results, we found that Sahaviriya Steel 
Industries Public Co., Ltd. (Sahaviriya) and G Steel Public Company 
Ltd. (G Steel) had no shipments of the subject merchandise to the 
United States during the POR. Also, in the Preliminary Results, we 
stated that, consistent with our practice, it was not appropriate to 
rescind the review, but rather to complete the review and issue 
appropriate instructions to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) based 
on the final results of this review.\2\
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    \2\ 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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    After issuing the Preliminary Results, we received no information 
that contradicted our Preliminary Results. No interested party 
commented on the Preliminary Results. Therefore, for these final 
results, we continue to find that Sahaviriya and G Steel had no 
shipments of the subject merchandise to the United States during the 
POR.

Assessment Rates

    Commerce determines, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on 
all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with these 
final results of review.\3\ Consistent with Commerce's clarification to 
its assessment practice, because we determined that Sahaviriya and G 
Steel had no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States 
during the POR, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR 
produced, but not exported by, Sahaviriya and G Steel, we will instruct 
CBP to liquidate any entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate 
for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\4\
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    \3\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
    \4\ For a full discussion, see Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 
6, 2003).
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    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of 
publication of the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rates for G Steel and 
Sahaviriya will remain unchanged from the rate assigned to them in the 
most recently completed review of those companies; (2) for merchandise 
exported by manufacturers 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 
recently-completed segment; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered 
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review, a prior review, or the original investigation, but the 
manufacturer is, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
established for the most recently completed segment for the 
manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 4.44 percent, the 
all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value 
investigation.\5\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \5\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value; Certain Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand, 
66 FR 49623 (September 28, 2001).
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Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties

    This notice also 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 the 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 Regarding 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: April 7, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--Scope of the Order

    For purposes of the Order, the products covered are certain hot-
rolled carbon steel flat products of a rectangular shape, of a width 
of 0.5 inch or greater, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal 
and whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or 
other non-metallic substances, in coils (whether or not in 
successively superimposed layers), regardless of thickness, and in 
straight lengths of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm and of a width 
measuring at least 10 times the thickness. Universal mill plate 
(i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box 
pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm, but not exceeding 1250 mm, and of 
a thickness of not less than 4.0 mm, not in coils and without 
patterns in relief) of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm is not 
included within the scope of the order.
    Specifically included within the scope of the order are vacuum 
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-
free (IF)) steels, high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels, and the 
substrate for motor lamination steels. IF steels are recognized as 
low carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as 
titanium or niobium (also commonly referred to as columbium), or 
both, added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels 
are recognized as steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such 
as chromium, copper, niobium, vanadium, and molybdenum. The 
substrate for motor lamination steels contains micro-alloying levels 
of elements such as silicon and aluminum.
    Steel products to be included in the scope of the order, 
regardless of definitions in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTS), are products in which: (i) Iron predominates, 
by weight, over each of the other contained elements; (ii) the 
carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and (iii) none of 
the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by weight, 
respectively indicated:

1.80 percent of manganese,
or 2.25 percent of silicon,
or 1.00 percent of copper,
or 0.50 percent of aluminum,
or 1.25 percent of chromium,
or 0.30 percent of cobalt,
or 0.40 percent of lead,
or 1.25 percent of nickel,
or 0.30 percent of tungsten,
or 0.10 percent of molybdenum,
or 0.10 percent of niobium,
or 0.15 percent of vanadium,
or 0.15 percent of zirconium.

    All products that meet the physical and chemical description 
provided above are within the scope of the order unless otherwise 
excluded. The following products, by way of example, are outside or 
specifically excluded from the scope of the order:

--Alloy hot-rolled steel products in which at least one of the 
chemical elements exceeds those listed above (including, e.g., ASTM 
specifications A543, A387, A514, A517, A506).
--Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)/American Iron and Steel 
Institute (AISI) grades of series 2300 and higher.
--Ball bearings steels, as defined in the HTS.
--Tool steels, as defined in the HTS.
--Silico-manganese (as defined in the HTS) or silicon electrical 
steel with a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent.
--ASTM specifications A710 and A736.
--USS Abrasion-resistant steels (USS AR 400, USS AR 500).
--All products (proprietary or otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM 
specification (sample specifications: ASTM A506, A507).
--Non-rectangular shapes, not in coils, which are the result of 
having been processed by cutting or stamping and which have assumed 
the character of articles or products classified outside chapter 72 
of the HTS.

    The merchandise subject to the order is classified in the HTS at 
subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00, 
7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60, 
7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60, 
7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30, 
7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90, 
7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00, 
7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00, 
7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30, 
7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90. Certain hot-rolled flat-rolled 
carbon steel flat products covered by the order, including: Vacuum 
degassed fully stabilized; high strength low alloy; and the 
substrate for motor lamination steel may also enter under the 
following tariff numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00, 
7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00, 7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90, 
7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30, 7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00, 
7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00, 7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and 
7226.99.01.80. Subject merchandise may also enter under 
7210.70.30.00, 7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30, 7212.40.10.00, 
7212.40.50.00, and 7212.50.00.00. Although the HTS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes, the written 
description of the merchandise under the order is dispositive.

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