[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 190 (Wednesday, September 30, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61722-61726]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21546]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-357-822, A-301-804, A-729-804, A-421-814, A-517-806, A-489-842, A-
520-809]


Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Argentina, Colombia, 
Egypt, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Turkey, and the 
United Arab Emirates: Preliminary Affirmative Determinations of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value and Preliminary Affirmative Critical 
Circumstances Determinations, in Part

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines 
that prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from Argentina, 
Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Turkey 
(Turkey), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is being, or is likely to 
be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The 
period of investigation (POI) is April 1, 2019 through March 31, 2020. 
The estimated margins of sales at LTFV are shown in the ``Preliminary 
Determinations'' section of this notice. Interested parties are invited 
to comment on these preliminary determinations.

DATES: Applicable September 30, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kabir Archuletta at (202) 482-2593 
(Argentina); Hermes Pinilla at (202) 482-3477 (Colombia); David Crespo 
at (202) 482-3693 (Egypt); Bryan Hansen at (202) 482-3683 (the 
Netherlands); Drew Jackson at (202) 482-4406 (Saudi Arabia); David 
Goldberger at (202) 482-4136 (Turkey); and Charles Doss at (202) 482-
4474 (UAE), AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Commerce published the notice of initiation of these investigations 
on May 13, 2020.\1\ Acindar Industria De Sinal S.A. (Acindar) is the 
sole mandatory respondent in the investigation covering PC strand from 
Argentina; Knight S.A.S. (Knight SAS) is the sole mandatory respondent 
in the investigation covering PC strand from Colombia; United Wires 
Company Elsewedy is the sole mandatory respondent in the investigation 
covering PC strand from Egypt; Nedri Spanstaal BV is the sole mandatory 
respondent in the investigation covering PC strand from the 
Netherlands; National Metal Manufacturing & Casting Co. (National Metal 
Manufacturing) is the sole mandatory respondent in the investigation 
covering PC strand from Saudi Arabia; Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.S. 
(Celik Halat) and G[uuml]ney [Ccedil]elik Hasir ve Demir (G[uuml]ney 
Celik) are the mandatory respondents in the investigation covering PC 
strand from Turkey; and GSS International Trading FZE (GSS) and Gulf 
Steel Strands FZE (Gulf Steel) are the mandatory respondents in the 
investigation covering PC strand from the UAE. For a complete 
description of the events that followed the initiation of these 
investigations, see the Preliminary Decision Memoranda.\2\ A list of 
topics

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included in the Preliminary Decision Memoranda is included as Appendix 
II to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memoranda are public 
documents and are 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 
https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete version of the 
Preliminary Decision Memoranda can be accessed directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed and the electronic versions of 
the Preliminary Decision Memoranda are identical in content.
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    \1\ See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Argentina, 
Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Saudi 
Arabia, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, the Republic of Turkey, Ukraine, and 
the United Arab Emirates: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair Value 
Investigations, 85 FR 28605 (May 13, 2020) (Initiation Notice).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Determinations in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations of 
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Argentina, Colombia, 
Egypt, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and the United Arab 
Emirates'' dated concurrently with this notice; and Memorandum, 
``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Determination in the Less-
Than-Fair Value Investigation of Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Turkey,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted 
by, this notice (collectively, Preliminary Decision Memoranda).
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Scope of the Investigations

    The product covered by these investigations is PC strand. For a 
full description of the scope of these investigations, see the ``Scope 
of the Investigations,'' in Appendix I of this notice.

Scope Comments

    In accordance with the Preamble to Commerce's regulations,\3\ the 
Initiation Notice set aside a period of time for parties to raise 
issues regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).\4\ However, Commerce 
received no comments on the scope of these investigations from 
interested parties.
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    \3\ See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties; Final Rule, 
62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997) (Preamble).
    \4\ See Initiation Notice, 85 FR at 28606.
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Methodology

    Commerce is conducting these investigations in accordance with 
section 731 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Pursuant 
to sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce has preliminarily 
relied upon facts otherwise available to assign estimated weighted-
average dumping margins to the mandatory respondents in these seven 
investigations because none of the respondents either submitted a 
response to Commerce's antidumping duty questionnaire, or submitted a 
timely response to Commerce's antidumping duty questionnaire. Further, 
Commerce is preliminarily determining that these mandatory respondents 
failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of their ability to 
comply with a request for information and is using an adverse inference 
when selecting from among the facts otherwise available (i.e., applying 
adverse facts available (AFA)) to these respondents, in accordance with 
section 776(b) of Act. For a full description of the methodology 
underlying our preliminary determinations, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memoranda.

Critical Circumstances

    On August 24, 2020, the petitioners \5\ timely filed critical 
circumstances allegations, pursuant to section 733(e)(1) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.206(c)(1), alleging that critical circumstances exist with 
respect to imports of the subject merchandise from Colombia, Egypt, and 
the Netherlands.\6\ On August 28, 2020, Commerce requested that the 
petitioners file an addendum to their critical circumstances 
allegation.\7\ In response, the petitioners filed an addendum providing 
the requested additional U.S. import data.\8\ We received no rebuttal 
information from interested parties.
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    \5\ The petitioners are Insteel Wire Products Company, Sumiden 
Wire Products Corporation, and Wire Mesh Corporation (collectively, 
the petitioners).
    \6\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Colombia, Egypt, and Netherlands--Petitioners' 
Allegation of Critical Circumstances,'' dated August 24, 2020.
    \7\ See Commerce's Letter dated August 28, 2020. Commerce asked 
the petitioners to provide U.S. import data for subject merchandise 
from Colombia, Egypt, and the Netherlands for February 2020 through 
April 2020, as the base period, and import data for May 2020 through 
July 2020, as the comparison period. Commerce also provided an 
opportunity for interested parties other than the petitioners to 
submit factual information to rebut, clarify, or correct factual 
information in the addendum.
    \8\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Taiwan and Turkey--
Petitioners' Updated Import Volume Data for Their Critical 
Circumstances Allegations,'' dated September 8, 2020 (Addendum to 
Allegation).
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    On September 2, 2020, the petitioners timely filed a critical 
circumstances allegation, pursuant to section 733(e)(1) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.206(c)(1), alleging that critical circumstances exist with 
respect to imports of the PC strand from Turkey.\9\ Also on September 
2, 2020, Commerce requested that Celik Halat provide monthly quantity 
and value (Q&V) data.\10\ On September 3, 2020, Commerce requested that 
the petitioners file an addendum to their critical circumstances 
allegation.\11\ In response, Celik Halat filed the requested Q&V data 
and the petitioners filed an addendum providing the requested 
additional U.S. import data.\12\ The petitioners did not file a 
critical circumstances allegation with respect to Argentina, Saudi 
Arabia, or the UAE.
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    \9\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Taiwan and Turkey--Petitioners' Allegation of Critical 
Circumstances,'' dated September 2, 2020.
    \10\ See Commerce's Letter dated September 2, 2020.
    \11\ See Commerce's Letter dated September 3, 2020.
    \12\ See Celik Halat's Letter, ``Pre-Stressed Concrete Steel 
Wire Strand from Turkey: Initial Critical Circumstances Response of 
Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.S.,'' dated September 4, 2020; and 
Addendum to Allegation.
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    Section 733(e)(1) of the Act provides that Commerce will 
preliminarily determine that critical circumstances exist in an LTFV 
investigation if there is a reasonable basis to believe or suspect 
that: (A) There is a history of dumping and material injury by reason 
of dumped imports in the United States or elsewhere of the subject 
merchandise, or the person by whom, or for whose account, the 
merchandise was imported knew or should have known that the exporter 
was selling the subject merchandise at less than its fair value and 
that there was likely to be material injury by reason of such sales; 
and (B) there have been massive imports of the subject merchandise over 
a relatively short period. We preliminarily determine that critical 
circumstances exist with respect to imports of PC strand exported by 
(1) Knight SAS from Colombia; (2) United Wires Company Elsewedy and all 
other producers/exporters from Egypt; (3) Nedri Spanstaal BV from the 
Netherlands; and (4) Celik Halat, G[uuml]ney Celik, and all other 
producers/exporters from Turkey.\13\
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    \13\ For a full description of Commerce's preliminary critical 
circumstances determinations, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memoranda.
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All-Others Rate

    Sections 733(d)(1)(ii) of the Act provides that in the preliminary 
determination Commerce shall determine an estimated all-others rate for 
all exporters and producers not individually investigated, in 
accordance with section 735(c)(5) of the Act. Section 735(c)(5)(A) of 
the Act states that generally the estimated rate for all others shall 
be an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted-
average dumping margins established for exporters and producers 
individually investigated, excluding any zero and de minimis margins, 
and any margins determined entirely under section 776 of the Act. The 
estimated weighted-average dumping margins in these preliminary 
determinations were determined entirely under section 776 of the Act. 
In cases where no weighted-average dumping margins other than zero, de 
minimis, or those determined entirely under section 776 of the Act have 
been established for individually examined entities, in accordance with

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section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act, Commerce typically averages the 
margins alleged in the petitions and applies the results to all other 
entities not individually examined.
    With respect to Argentina, in the Petitions,\14\ the petitioners 
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the 
investigation covering PC strand from Argentina, we preliminarily 
assigned the only margin alleged for subject merchandise from Argentina 
in the Petitions, which is 60.40 percent.\15\
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    \14\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, 
Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, 
Turkey, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates--Petition for the 
Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties,'' dated April 
16, 2020 (the Petitions) at Volume II; and AD Investigation 
Initiation Checklist: Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from 
Argentina (May 6, 2020).
    \15\ See, e.g., Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value: Sodium Nitrite from the Federal Republic of 
Germany, 73 FR 38986, 38987 (July 8, 2008), and accompanying Issues 
and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2; and AD Investigation 
Initiation Checklist: Argentina.
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    With respect to Colombia, in the Petitions,\16\ the petitioners 
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the 
investigation covering PC strand from Colombia, we preliminarily 
assigned the only margin alleged for subject merchandise from Colombia 
in the Petitions, as recalculated for the purposes of initiation, which 
is 86.09 percent.\17\
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    \16\ See Petitions at Volume III.
    \17\ We note that the petitioners revised the calculated rate 
from that submitted in the Petitions. See Petitions at Volume III; 
and Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand 
from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, 
Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, 
Turkey, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates--Petitioners' Amendment to 
Volume III Related to Antidumping Duties from Colombia,'' dated 
April 27, 2020 at 4 and Exhibit AD-CO-SUPP-3; and AD Investigation 
Initiation Checklist: Colombia.
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    With respect to Egypt, in the Petitions,\18\ the petitioners 
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the 
investigation covering PC strand from Egypt, we preliminarily assigned 
the only margin alleged for subject merchandise from Egypt in the 
Petitions, as recalculated for the purposes of initiation, which is 
29.72 percent.\19\
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    \18\ See Petitions at Volume IV.
    \19\ We note that the petitioners revised the calculated rate 
from that submitted in the Petitions. See Petitions at Volume IV; 
Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from 
Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, 
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, 
and United Arab Emirates--Petitioners' Amendment to Volume IV 
Related to Antidumping Duties from Egypt,'' dated April 27, 2020 at 
4 and Exhibit AD-EG-SUPP-2; and AD Investigation Initiation 
Checklist: Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Egypt.
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    With respect to the Netherlands, in the Petitions,\20\ the 
petitioners calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others 
rate in the investigation covering PC strand from the Netherlands, we 
preliminarily assigned the only margin alleged for subject merchandise 
from the Netherlands in the Petitions, which is 30.86 percent.\21\
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    \20\ See Petitions at Volume VIII.
    \21\ See AD Investigation Initiation Checklist: Prestressed 
Concrete Steel Wire Strand from the Netherlands.
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    With respect to Saudi Arabia, in the Petitions,\22\ the petitioners 
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the 
investigation covering PC strand from Saudi Arabia, we preliminarily 
assigned the only margin alleged for subject merchandise from Saudi 
Arabia in the Petitions, which is 194.40 percent.\23\
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    \22\ See Petitions at Volume IX.
    \23\ See AD Investigation Initiation Checklist: Prestressed 
Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Saudi Arabia.
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    With respect to Turkey, in the Petitions,\24\ the petitioners 
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the 
investigation covering PC strand from Turkey, we preliminarily assigned 
the only margin alleged for subject merchandise from Turkey in the 
Petitions, which is 53.65 percent.\25\
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    \24\ See Petitions at Volume XIV.
    \25\ See AD Investigation Initiation Checklist: Prestressed 
Concrete Steel Wire Strand Turkey.
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    With respect to the UAE, in the Petitions,\26\ the petitioners 
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the 
investigation covering PC strand from the UAE, we preliminarily 
assigned the only margin alleged for subject merchandise from the UAE 
in the petitions, as recalculated for the purposes of initiation, which 
is 170.65 percent.\27\
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    \26\ See Petitions at Volume XVI.
    \27\ We note that the petitioners revised the calculated rate 
from that submitted in the petitions. See Petitions at Volume XVI; 
and Petitioners' Letter, ``Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand 
from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, 
Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, 
Turkey, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates--Petitioners' Amendment to 
Volume XVI Related to Antidumping Duties from the United Arab 
Emirates,'' dated April 27, 2020 at 4 and Exhibit AD-AE-SUPP-3; and 
AD Investigation Initiation Checklist: Prestressed Concrete Steel 
Wire Strand from the United Arab Emirates.
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Preliminary Determinations

    Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated 
weighted-average dumping margins exist during the period April 1, 2019 
through March 31, 2020:

                                Argentina
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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Acindar Industria (Argentina) de Sinal S.A..................       60.40
All Others..................................................       60.40
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                                Colombia
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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Knight SAS..................................................       86.09
All Others..................................................       86.09
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                                  Egypt
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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United Wires Company Elsewedy...............................       29.72
All Others..................................................       29.72
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                             The Netherlands
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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Nedri Spanstaal B.V.........................................       30.86
All Others..................................................       30.86
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                              Saudi Arabia
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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National Metal Manufacturing & Casting Co...................      194.40
All Others..................................................      194.40
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                                 Turkey
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.S...............................       53.65
G[uuml]ney [Ccedil]elik Hasir ve Demir......................       53.65
All Others..................................................       53.65
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                          United Arab Emirates
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                                                                Dumping
                      Exporter/producer                         margin
                                                               (percent)
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GSS International Trading FZE...............................      170.65
Gulf Steel Strands FZE......................................      170.65
All Others..................................................      170.65
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Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 733(d)(2) of the Act, Commerce will 
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation of all 
entries of PC strand from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, 
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE, as described in the ``Scope of the 
Investigations'' in Appendix I, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice in 
the Federal Register.
    Further, section 733(e)(2) of the Act provides that, given an 
affirmative determination of critical circumstances, any suspension of 
liquidation shall apply to unliquidated entries of merchandise entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the later of: 
(a) The date which is 90 days before the date on which the suspension 
of liquidation was first ordered; or (b) the date on which notice of 
initiation of the investigation was published. In accordance with 
733(e)(2)(A), suspension of liquidation of PC strand from Colombia, 
Egypt, the Netherlands, and Turkey as described in the ``Scope of the 
investigations'' in Appendix I, shall apply to unliquidated entries of 
merchandise from imports of PC strand exported by: (1) Knight SAS from 
Colombia; (2) United Wires Company Elsewedy and all other producers/
exporters from Egypt; (3) Nedri Spanstaal BV from the Netherlands; and 
(4) Celik Halat, G[uuml]ney Celik, and all other producers/exporters 
from Turkey, that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date which is 90 days before the 
publication of this notice, the date suspension of liquidation is first 
ordered.
    We will also instruct CBP, pursuant to section 733(d)(1)(B) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.205(d) to require a cash deposit equal to the 
margins indicated in the charts above. These suspension of liquidation 
instructions will remain in effect until further notice.

Verification

    Because each mandatory respondent in these investigations did not 
act to the best of their ability to provide information requested by 
Commerce, and Commerce preliminarily determines each of the mandatory 
respondents to be uncooperative, we will not conduct verifications.

Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
performed in connection with a preliminary determination within five 
days of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, 
within five days of the date of publication of the notice of 
preliminary determination in the Federal Register, in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.224(b). However, because Commerce preliminarily applied AFA 
to each mandatory respondent in these investigations, in accordance 
with section 776 of the Act, there are no calculations to disclose.

Public Comment

    Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
determinations no later than 30 days after the date of publication of 
these preliminary determinations.\28\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to 
issues raised in case briefs, may be submitted no later than seven days 
after the deadline date for case briefs.\29\ Pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal 
briefs in these proceedings 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.
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    \28\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for 
general filing requirements).
    \29\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for general 
filing requirements).
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal 
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain: 
(1) The party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of 
participants and whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3) 
a list of the issues to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is 
made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be 
determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and 
location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
    An electronically-filed document must be received successfully in 
its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established 
deadline. Note that Commerce has temporarily modified certain of its 
requirements for serving documents containing business proprietary 
information, until further notice.\30\
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    \30\ See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements 
Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 
10, 2020).
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Final Determinations

    Section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1) provide that 
Commerce will issue the final determination within 75 days after the 
date of its preliminary determination. Accordingly, Commerce will make 
its final determinations no later than 75 days after the signature date 
of these preliminary determinations.

International Trade Commission Notification

    In accordance with section 733(f) of the Act, Commerce will notify 
the International Trade Commission (ITC) of our affirmative preliminary 
determinations. If our final determinations are affirmative, the ITC 
will determine before the later of 120 days after the date of these 
preliminary determinations or 45 days after our final determinations 
whether these imports are materially injuring, or threaten material 
injury to, the U.S. industry.

Notification to Interested Parties

    These determinations are issued and published in accordance with 
sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(c).

    Dated: September 23, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

Scope of the Investigations

    The merchandise covered by these investigations is prestressed 
concrete steel wire strand (PC strand), produced from wire of non-
stainless, non-galvanized steel, which is suitable for use in 
prestressed concrete (both pretensioned and post-tensioned) 
applications. The product definition encompasses covered and 
uncovered strand and all types, grades, and diameters of PC strand. 
PC strand is normally sold in the United States in sizes ranging 
from 0.25 inches to 0.70 inches in diameter. PC strand made from 
galvanized wire is only excluded from the scope if the zinc and/or 
zinc oxide coating meets or exceeds the 0.40 oz./ft2 standard set 
forth in ASTM-A-475.
    The PC strand subject to these investigations is currently 
classifiable under subheadings 7312.10.3010 and 7312.10.3012 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Although 
the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the scope of these 
investigations is dispositive.

Appendix II

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memoranda

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Period of Investigation
IV. Scope of the Investigations
V. Application of Facts Available, Use of Adverse Inferences, and 
Calculation of All-Others Rate
VI. Preliminary Critical Circumstances Findings

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VII. Conclusion

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