[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 163 (Friday, August 21, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51679-51680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18385]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-897; C-580-898]


Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Changed 
Circumstances Reviews

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

SUMMARY: On July 10, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
published a notice of initiation and expedited preliminary results of 
the changed circumstances reviews (CCRs) of the antidumping duty (AD) 
and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on large diameter welded pipe from 
the Republic of Korea (Korea) which revoked, in part, these orders as 
they relate to certain specific large diameter welded pipe products. 
Commerce has adopted the scope exclusion language in these final 
results.

DATES: Applicable August 21, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katherine Johnson or Sergio Balbontin, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4929 
or (202) 482-6478, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 2, 2019, Commerce published the AD and CVD orders on large 
diameter welded pipe from Korea.\1\ On July 10, 2020, Commerce 
published the Initiation and Preliminary Results,\2\ in which Commerce 
preliminarily revoked, in part, the Orders with respect to certain 
large diameter welded pipe products with specific combinations of 
grades, diameters, and wall thicknesses, pursuant to a request from 
SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH). These products are specified in the 
exclusion language of the scope provided in the Initiation and 
Preliminary Results.\3\
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    \1\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: 
Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination and Antidumping 
Duty Order, 84 FR 18767 (May 2, 2019); and Large Diameter Welded 
Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Countervailing Duty Order, 84 FR 
18773 (May 2, 2019) (collectively, Orders).
    \2\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: 
Initiation and Expedited Preliminary Results of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews, 85 FR 41536 (July 
10, 2020) (Initiation and Preliminary Results).
    \3\ Id at Attachment.
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    SeAH placed on the record of these CCRs comments made by domestic 
producers,\4\ representing ``substantially all'' of the domestic 
industry \5\ in the CCRs of large diameter welded pipe from India. 
These comments indicate that the domestic industry does not currently 
produce the particular large diameter welded pipe products subject to 
the request for partial revocation of the Orders, and that the 
investment needed to do so far exceeds the potential benefit of such 
investment, given that the U.S. market for deep offshore projects, 
i.e., the primary market for the large diameter welded pipe product 
groups at issue, is relatively small.\6\ In addition, in these same 
comments, the domestic producers provided an explanation indicating 
that commercial circumstances have changed since the Orders were put in 
place.
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    \4\ These domestic producers are the petitioners in the AD and 
CVD investigations (American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Berg Steel Pipe 
Corp./Berg Spiral Pipe Corp., Dura-Bond Industries, Stupp 
Corporation, individually and as members of the American Line Pipe 
Producers Association; Greens Bayou Pipe Mill, LP; JSW Steel (USA) 
Inc.; Skyline Steel; and Trinity Products LLC) and Welspun Global 
Trade LLC.
    \5\ See SeAH's Letter, ``Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Korea--
Request for Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation, in Part,'' 
dated June 11, 2020 at Exhibits 1-3. 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).
    \6\ See Initiation and Preliminary Results, 85 FR at 41538.
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    Consistent with the CCRs of large diameter welded pipe from India 
and Greece, in the Initiation and 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 
Korea large diameter welded pipe investigations.\7\ In addition, in the 
Initiation and Preliminary Results, we provided all interested parties 
an opportunity to comment and to request a public hearing regarding our 
preliminary findings.\8\ No interested party submitted comments or 
requested a public hearing.
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.216(c). See also Large Diameter Welded Pipe 
from India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing 
Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews, 85 FR 26930 (May 6, 2020); Large 
Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Changed Circumstances Review, 85 FR 37424 (June 22, 2020); and 
Initiation and Preliminary Results, 85 FR at 41537-38.
    \8\ See Initiation and Preliminary Results, 85 FR at 41538.
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Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these Orders is welded carbon and alloy 
steel 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. 
It may also be used for structural purposes, including, but not limited 
to, piling. Specifically, not included is large diameter welded pipe 
produced only to specifications of the American Water Works Association 
(AWWA) for water and sewage pipe.
    Large diameter welded line pipe used to transport oil, gas, or 
natural gas liquids is normally produced to the American Petroleum 
Institute (API) specification 5L. Large diameter welded pipe may also 
be produced to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 
standards A500, A252, or A53, or other relevant domestic 
specifications, grades and/or standards. 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 pipe meeting the physical 
description set forth above is covered by the scope of these Orders, 
whether or not produced according to a particular standard.
    Subject merchandise also includes large diameter welded 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 Orders if performed in the country of 
manufacture of the in-scope large diameter welded pipe.
    Excluded from the scope are any products covered by the existing 
antidumping duty order on welded line pipe from the Republic of Korea. 
See Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea and the Republic of 
Turkey: Antidumping Duty Orders, 80 FR 75056 (December 1, 2015).\9\
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    \9\ This paragraph does not appear in the scope of the CVD order 
on large diameter welded pipe from Korea.
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    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;

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     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 pipe that is subject to these Orders 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, 7305.19.5000, 7305.31.4000, 7305.31.6090, 7305.39.1000 
and 7305.39.5000. While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope 
of these Orders is dispositive.

Final Results of CCRs

    Commerce may modify the scope of an AD and/or CVD order as a result 
of conducting a CCR.\10\ For the reasons stated in the Initiation and 
Preliminary Results, Commerce continues to find that it is appropriate 
to revoke the Orders, in part, in accordance with section 782(h)(2) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i), with respect to certain large 
diameter 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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    \10\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of 
Korea and the United Kingdom: Notice of 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).
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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 which 
are revoked from the Orders as a result of these CCRs that were 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the 
date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register. We intend 
for all entries of the revoked products that were suspended on or after 
the date of publication of this notice to 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 CFR 351.216(e), 351.221(b), 351.221(c)(3), 
351.222(g)(1) and 351.222(g)(4).

    Dated: August 13, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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