[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 120 (Monday, June 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37424-37426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13377]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-484-803]


Large Diameter Welded Pipe From Greece: Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews

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

SUMMARY: On May 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
published the preliminary results of the changed circumstances review 
(CCR) of the antidumping duty (AD) order on large diameter welded pipe 
(welded pipe) from Greece which revoked, in part, this order as it 
relates to certain specific welded pipe products. Commerce has adopted 
the scope exclusion language in these final results.

DATES: Applicable June 22, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brittany Bauer, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3860.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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Background

    On May 2, 2019, Commerce published the AD order on welded pipe from 
Greece.\1\ On May 6, 2020, Commerce published the Preliminary 
Results,\2\ in which Commerce preliminarily revoked, in part, the Order 
with respect to certain welded pipe products with specific combinations 
of grades, diameters, and wall thicknesses. These products have been 
incorporated into the exclusion language of the scope, below in bold.
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    \1\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Amended Final 
Affirmative Antidumping Determination and Antidumping Duty Order, 84 
FR 18769 (May 2, 2019) (Order).
    \2\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 85 FR 
26924 (May 6, 2020) (Preliminary Results).
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    Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry S.A. (Corinth) placed comments made 
by the petitioners, representing ``substantially all'' of the domestic 
industry,\3\ in the CCRs of welded pipe from India on the record of 
this CCR. These comments indicate that the domestic industry does not 
currently produce the particular welded pipe products subject to this 
partial revocation request, and the investment needed to do so far 
exceeds the potential benefit of such investment. In addition, in these 
same comments, the domestic producers provided an explanation 
indicating that the commercial reality has changed since the Order was 
put in place.
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    \3\ See Corinth's Letter, ``Large Diameter Welded Pipe from 
Greece: Request for Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation, In 
Part,'' dated January 3, 2020, at Exhibits 2-4. Commerce has 
interpreted ``substantially all'' to mean at least 85 percent of the 
total production of the domestic like product covered by the order. 
See, e.g., Supercalendered Paper from Canada: Final Results of 
Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation of Countervailing Duty 
Order, 83 FR 32268 (July 12, 2018).
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    Both in the CCRs of welded pipe from India and the Preliminary 
Results, we found that there was ``good cause'' to conduct the CCRs 
less than 24 months after the date of publication of notices of the 
final determinations in the investigations.\4\ In addition, in the 
Preliminary Results, we provided all interested parties an opportunity 
to comment and to request a public hearing regarding our preliminary 
findings.\5\ No interested party submitted comments.
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.216(c).
    \5\ See Preliminary Results, 85 FR at 26926.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by this Order is welded carbon and alloy 
steel line pipe (other than stainless steel pipe), more than 406.4 mm 
(16 inches) in nominal outside diameter (large diameter welded line 
pipe), regardless of wall thickness, length, surface finish, grade, end 
finish, or stenciling. Large diameter welded pipe may be used to 
transport oil, gas, slurry, steam, or other fluids, liquids, or gases.
    Large diameter welded line pipe is used to transport oil, gas, or 
natural gas liquids and is normally produced to the American Petroleum 
Institute (API) specification 5L. Large diameter welded line pipe can 
be produced to comparable foreign specifications, grades and/or 
standards or to proprietary specifications, grades and/or standards, or 
can be non-graded material. All line pipe meeting the physical 
description set forth above, including any dual- or multiple-certified/
stenciled pipe with an API (or comparable) welded line pipe 
certification/stencil, is covered by the scope of the Order.
    Subject merchandise also includes large diameter welded line pipe 
that has been further processed in a third country, including but not 
limited to coating, painting, notching, beveling, cutting, punching, 
welding, or any other processing that would not otherwise remove the 
merchandise from the scope of the Order if performed in the country of 
manufacture of the in-scope large diameter welded line pipe.
    Excluded from the scope of the Order is structural pipe, which is 
produced only to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 
standards A500, A252, or A53, or other relevant domestic 
specifications, or comparable foreign specifications, grades and/or 
standards or to proprietary specifications, grades and/or standards. 
Also excluded is large diameter welded pipe produced only to 
specifications of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for water 
and sewage pipe. Also excluded is large diameter welded pipe in the 
following combinations of grades, outside diameters, and wall 
thicknesses:
     Grade X60, X65, or X70, 18 inches outside diameter, 0.688 
inches or greater wall thickness;
     Grade X60, X65, or X70, 20 inches outside diameter, 0.688 
inches or greater wall thickness;
     Grade X60, X65, X70, or X80, 22 inches outside diameter, 
0.750 inches or greater wall thickness; and
     Grade X60, X65, or X70, 24 inches outside diameter, 0.750 
inches or greater wall thickness.
    The large diameter welded line pipe that is subject to this Order 
is currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS) under subheadings 7305.11.1030, 7305.11.1060, 
7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 7305.12.1060, 7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 
7305.19.1060, and 7305.19.5000. Merchandise currently classifiable 
under subheadings 7305.31.4000, 7305.31.6090, 7305.39.1000 and 
7305.39.5000 and that otherwise meets the above scope language is also 
covered. While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of this Order is 
dispositive.

Final Results of CCR

    Section 751(b) authorizes Commerce to modify the scopes of AD and 
CVD orders only for those orders in which we conduct a CCR.\6\ Further, 
19 CFR 351.216(c) states that ``good cause'' exists when Commerce 
conducts a CCR within 24 months of the publication of a final 
determination of an investigation. In the Initiation, Commerce found 
that ``good cause'' existed to initiate this CCR.\7\ No parties 
submitted comments regarding the Preliminary Results. Therefore, for 
the reasons stated in the Initiation and Preliminary Results, Commerce 
continues to find that it is appropriate to revoke the Order, in part, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1) with respect to certain welded 
pipe products with specific combinations of grades, diameters, and wall 
thicknesses, as reflected in the ``Scope of the Order'' section of this 
notice.
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    \6\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of 
Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances 
Review, 84 FR 13888 (April 8, 2019); see also Certain Steel Nails 
from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 84 FR 49508 (September 20, 2019).
    \7\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Initiation of 
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 85 FR 10150, 10151 
(Initiation).
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    We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to terminate 
the suspension of liquidation for all shipments of the products subject 
to this changed circumstances review that were entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of 
this notice of revocation in the Federal Register. All entries of the 
revoked products that were suspended on or after the date of 
publication of this revocation notice will be liquidated without regard 
to antidumping duties (i.e., refund all cash deposits).

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing this determination and publishing these final 
results and notice in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) 
and (2) of the Act and 19

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CFR 351.216(e), 351.221(b) and (c)(3), and 351.222(g)(1) and (4).

    Dated: June 16, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2020-13377 Filed 6-19-20; 8:45 am]
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