[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 144 (Friday, July 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41010-41013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16325]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-897]


Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Korea: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-
2020

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines 
that sales of large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from the 
Republic of Korea (Korea) were not made at less than normal value 
during the period of review (POR) August 27, 2018, through April 30, 
2020. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary 
results.

DATES: Applicable July 30, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate 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 antidumping duty order on 
welded pipe from Korea.\1\ On July 10, 2020, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce initiated an

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administrative review of the Order, covering twenty companies.\2\
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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) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 41540 (July 10, 2020).
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    On July 21, 2020, Commerce tolled all preliminary and final results 
deadlines in administrative reviews by 60 days.\3\
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    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,'' dated July 21, 2020.
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    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), on March 10, 2021, Commerce determined that it was 
not practicable to complete the preliminary results of this review 
within 245 days and extended the deadline for the preliminary results 
of this review by 120 days, until July 30, 2021.\4\
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of 2018-2020 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated 
March 10, 2021.
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    For a detailed description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\5\
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    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the 
Republic of Korea: Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2020,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The product covered by this Order is welded pipe from Korea. For a 
full description of the scope, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying 
these preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A 
list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
included as an appendix to this notice.
    The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is 
available 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 Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
available at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.

Rate for Non-Selected Companies

    The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the 
establishment of a weighted-average dumping margin to be determined for 
companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits 
its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 
777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) 
of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others 
rate in an investigation, for guidance when determining the weighted-
average dumping margin for companies which were not selected for 
individual examination in an administrative review. Under section 
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally ``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 {on the basis of facts available{time} .''
    In this review, we have preliminarily calculated a weighted-average 
dumping margin for each of the mandatory respondents, Hyundai RB Co., 
Ltd. (Hyundai RB) and Hyundai Steel Company (Hyundai Steel), that is 
zero percent. Where the rates for the individually examined companies 
are all zero, de minimis, or determined entirely using facts available, 
section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act instructs that Commerce ``may use any 
reasonable method to establish the estimated all-others rate for 
exporters and producers not individually investigated, including 
averaging the estimated weighted average dumping margins determined for 
the exporters and producers individually investigated.'' One such 
reasonable method is to weight average the zero and de minimis rates, 
and the rates determined entirely pursuant to facts available. In fact, 
the SAA states that this is the ``expected'' method in such 
circumstances.\6\ Accordingly, we have determined the weighted-average 
dumping margin for the eighteen companies that were not selected for 
individual examination based on the weighted average of the weighted-
average dumping margins calculated for Hyundai RB and Hyundai Steel, 
i.e., zero percent, consistent with section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act. 
These are the only rates determined in this review for individually 
examined companies, and, thus, are applied to the eighteen firms not 
selected for individual examination.
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    \6\ See Statement of Administrative Action Accompanying the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act, H.R. Doc. 103-316, vol. 1 (1994) (SAA) 
at 873.
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Preliminary Results of the Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average 
dumping margins exist for the period of August 27, 2018, through April 
30, 2020:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                  Exporter and/or producer                      dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Hyundai RB Co., Ltd.........................................        0.00
Hyundai Steel Company.......................................        0.00
Non-Examined Companies \7\..................................        0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment
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    \7\ See Appendix II.
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    We intend to disclose the calculations performed for these 
preliminary results to parties within five days after the date of 
public announcement of the preliminary results.\8\
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit case 
briefs no later than 30 days after the date of publication of this 
notice.\9\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case 
briefs, may be filed not later than seven days after the date for 
filing case briefs.\10\ Parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal 
briefs in this proceeding 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.\11\ Executive summaries should be limited 
to five pages total, including footnotes.
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    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1) and (2); see also Temporary Rule 
Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due to COVID-19, 85 FR 17006 
(March 26, 2020); and Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 
Requirements Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 
41363 (July 10, 2020).
    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via 
ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) The party's name, address, and 
telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of 
issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to 
those raised in the respective case and rebuttal briefs. If a request 
for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a date 
and time to be determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the 
date, time, and location of the hearing two days before the scheduled 
date.
    All submissions to Commerce must be filed using ACCESS \12\ and 
must be served on interested parties.\13\ An electronically filed 
document must be received successfully in its entirety by Commerce's 
electronic records system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the 
date that the document is due. Note

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that Commerce has temporarily modified certain of its requirements for 
serving documents containing business proprietary information, until 
further notice.\14\
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
    \13\ See 19 CFR 351.303(f).
    \14\ 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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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of 
this review. Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 
no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of the final 
results of this administrative review in the Federal Register. If a 
timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the 
assessment instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant 
entries until the time for parties to file a request for a statutory 
injunction has expired (i.e., within 90 days of publication).
    For an individually examined respondent whose weighted-average 
dumping margin is not de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent), upon 
completion of the final results, Commerce intends to calculate 
importer-specific assessment rates on the basis of the ratio of the 
total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales 
to the total entered value of those sales. Where we do not have entered 
values for all U.S. sales to a particular importer, we will calculate 
an importer-specific, per-unit assessment rate on the basis of the 
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's 
examined sales to the total quantity of those sales.\15\ To determine 
whether an importer-specific, per-unit assessment rate is de minimis, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we also will calculate an 
importer-specific ad valorem ratio based on estimated entered values. 
Where either a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or 
de minimis, or an importer-specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero 
or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties.\16\ For entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by each individually examined 
respondent for which it did not know its merchandise was destined for 
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at 
the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\17\
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \16\ See 19 CFR 352.106(c)(2); see also Antidumping Proceeding: 
Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment 
Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 
8101, 8103 (February 14, 2012).
    \17\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    For the companies which were not selected for individual 
examination, we intend to direct CBP to assess antidumping duties at a 
rate equal to their weighted-average dumping margin determined in the 
final results.
    The final results of this review shall be the basis for the 
assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by 
the final results of this review and for future cash deposits of 
estimated duties, where applicable.\18\
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    \18\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash 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 rate for the companies 
listed above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of this review, except if the rate is 
less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 
19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; 
(2) for previously reviewed or investigated companies not covered in 
this review, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recently-completed segment of this 
proceeding in which the company was reviewed; (3) if the exporter is 
not a firm covered in this review, a prior completed review, or the 
less-than-fair value (LTFV) investigation, but the producer is, then 
the cash deposit rate will be the company-specific rate established for 
the most recently-completed segment of this proceeding for the producer 
of subject merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 
producers and exporters will continue to be 7.08 percent, the all-
others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\19\
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    \19\ See Order.
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    These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in 
effect until further notice.

Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, including the results of our 
analysis of issues raised by the parties in the written comments, 
within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the 
Federal Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 
CFR 351.213(h)(1).

Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary 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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of doubled 
antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    These preliminary results are issued and published in accordance 
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: July 26, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation

Appendix II

Review-Specific Average Rate Applicable to Companies Not Selected for 
Individual Review

1. AJU Besteel Co., Ltd.
2. Chang Won Bending Co., Ltd.
3. Daiduck Piping Co., Ltd.
4. Dong Yang Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.
5. Dongbu Incheon Steel Co., Ltd.
6. EEW KHPC Co., Ltd.
7. EEW Korea Co., Ltd.
8. Histeel Co., Ltd.
9. Husteel Co., Ltd.
10. Kiduck Industries Co., Ltd.
11. Kum Kang Kind. Co., Ltd.
12. Kumsoo Connecting Co., Ltd.
13. Nexteel Co., Ltd.
14. SeAH Steel Corporation
15. Seonghwa Industrial Co., Ltd.
16. SIN-E B&P Co., Ltd.
17. Steel Flower Co., Ltd.

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18. WELTECH Co., Ltd.

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