[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 24, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74985-74987]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-25942]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2018-2019

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain 
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. 
Commerce determines that mandatory respondent Venus Wire Industries 
Pvt. Ltd., and its affiliates Hindustan Inox, Precision Metals and 
Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd. (collectively, the Venus Group), 
made sales at LTFV, while mandatory respondent Ambica Steels Limited 
(Ambica) did not make sales at LTFV.

DATES: Applicable November 24, 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

    On March 3, 2020, Commerce published the preliminary results of 
this administrative review.\1\ This review covers two producers/
exporters of the subject merchandise: Venus Group \2\ and Ambica. We 
invited parties to comment on the Preliminary Results.
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; and Rescission of Review in 
Part; 2018-2019, 85 FR 12520 (March 3, 2020) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ 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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    On April 2, 2020, the petitioners submitted a request for a 
hearing.\3\ On June 16, 2020, we received case briefs from the Venus 
Group,\4\ and 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

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petitioners).\5\ On June 30, 2020, we received rebuttal briefs from the 
petitioners, and from the Venus Group.\6\ On August 13, 2020, the 
petitioners withdrew their request for a hearing.\7\ On September 21, 
2020, we extended the deadline for the final results.\8\
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    \3\ See the petitioners' Letter ``Stainless Steel Bar from 
India--Petitioners' Request for a Hearing,'' dated April 2, 2020.
    \4\ Commerce rejected the Venus Group's June 16, 2020, case 
brief because it contained untimely filed new factual information. 
See Commerce's Letter, ``Rejection of Untimely New Factual 
Information,'' dated June 24, 2020. On June 26, 2020, the Venus 
Group refiled its case brief. See Venus Group's Letter, 
``Antidumping Duty Investigation of Stainless Steel Bar from India: 
Re-Submission of Venus Group Case Brief,'' dated June 26, 2020.
    \5\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Case Brief Regarding 
the Venus Group,'' dated June 16, 2020 (Petitioners' Case Brief).
    \6\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Petitioners' Rebuttal Brief 
Regarding Venus,'' dated June 30, 2020 (Petitioners' Venus Rebuttal 
Brief)
    \7\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Stainless Steel Bar from India--
Withdrawal of Hearing Request,'' dated August 13, 2020.
    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Stainless Steel Bar from India: Extension 
of Time Limit for the Final Results of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2018-2019,'' dated September 21, 2020.
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    Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is SS bar. SS bar means 
articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either 
hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-
finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their 
whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, 
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 
convex polygons. For a complete description of the scope of the Order, 
see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\9\
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    \9\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Stainless Steel Bar from India,'' dated concurrently with, and 
hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    The issues raised by interested parties in their case and rebuttal 
briefs have been addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. The 
Issues and 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. In 
addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can 
be accessed directly on the Enforcement and Compliance website at 
http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. A list of the topics discussed in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum is attached as an Appendix to this 
notice.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our analysis of the comments received, we made certain 
changes to the margin calculation with regard to the Venus Group. For a 
discussion of these changes, see the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\10\
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    \10\ See also the Venus Group final calculation memorandum dated 
concurrently with this notice.
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Final Results of Review

    Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping 
margins exist for the period February 1, 2018, through January 31, 
2019:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd., and its affiliates                17.24
 Hindustan Inox, Precision Metals and Sieves Manufacturers
 (India) Pvt. Ltd...........................................
Ambica Steels Limited.......................................        0.00
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Disclosure

    With respect to the Venus Group, we intend to disclose the 
calculations performed for these final results to the parties within 
five days after public announcement of the final results in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Upon publication of the final results in this administrative 
review, Commerce shall determine and CBP shall assess antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this POR. We will instruct 
CBP to apply the ad valorem assessment rates listed above to all 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR which were exported by 
the companies named above.
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the 
Venus Group and Ambica for which it did not know its 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 these final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of these 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 less-than-fair-
value 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 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 this review period. 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 Orders

    This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information

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disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 
written notification of return or 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

    Commerce is issuing and publishing these results of review in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: November 18, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Application of Facts Available and Adverse Inferences
VI. Discussion of the Issues
    1. Whether the Venus Group is the Producer of Subject 
Merchandise
    2. Whether Partial Adverse Facts Available (AFA) is Warranted 
for the Venus Group
    3. Whether Commerce Erroneously Calculated the AFA Adjustment it 
Intended to Make in Calculating the Venus Group's Dumping Margin
    4. Whether Commerce Should Apply Total AFA to the Venus Group
    5. Whether Commerce Should Match Sales by Manufacturer
VII. Recommendation

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