[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 28, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53637-53639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21042]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-475-833]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Italy: Final 
Results of the Expedited First Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty 
Order

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of 
the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain corrosion-resistant 
steel products (corrosion-resistant steel) from Italy would be likely 
to lead to continuation or recurrence of countervailing subsidies at 
the levels indicated in the ``Final Results of Sunset Review'' section 
of this notice.

DATES: Applicable September 28, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Scully, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0572.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 25, 2016, Commerce published in the Federal Register the 
CVD order on corrosion-resistant steel from Italy.\1\ On June 1, 2021, 
Commerce published the notice of initiation of the first sunset review 
of the Order, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act).\2\ On June 14 and 16, 2021, Commerce received timely 
filed notices of intent to participate from Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc., 
Nucor Corporation, Steel Dynamics Inc., California Steel Industries, 
and U.S. Steel Corporation (collectively, the domestic interested 
parties), within the deadline specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i).\3\ 
The domestic interested parties claimed interested party status under 
section 771(9)(C) of the Act as producers of the domestic like product 
in the United States.
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    \1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, 
Italy, Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China: 
Countervailing Duty Order, 81 FR 48387 (July 25, 2016) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 86 FR 29239 
(June 1, 2021) (Initiation Notice).
    \3\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, ``Five Year 
(`Sunset') Review of the Countervailing Duty Order on Corrosion-
Resistant Steel Products from Italy: Notice of Intent to Participate 
in Sunset Review,'' dated June 14, 2021; see also Domestic 
Interested Parties' Letter, ``Five Year (`Sunset') Review of the 
Countervailing Duty Order on Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from 
Italy: Notice of Intent to Participate,'' dated June 16, 2021; 
Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, ``Notice of Intent to 
Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the Countervailing Duty 
Order on Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Italy,'' dated June 
16, 2021; and Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, ``Certain 
Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Italy: Notice of Intent to 
Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated June 16, 2021.
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    On July 1, 2021, Commerce received an adequate substantive response 
from the domestic interested parties within the 30-day deadline 
specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i).\4\ We received no substantive 
responses from any other interested party, including the Government of 
Italy, nor was a hearing requested. On July 22, 2021, Commerce notified 
the U.S. International Trade Commission that it did not receive an 
adequate substantive response from respondent interested parties.\5\ As 
a result, pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(B)-(C), Commerce conducted an expedited (120-day) 
sunset review of the Order.
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    \4\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, ``Domestic Industry 
Substantive Response,'' dated July 1, 2021.
    \5\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Sunset Reviews Initiated on June 1, 
2021,'' dated July 22, 2021.
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Scope of the Order

    The products covered by this order are certain corrosion-resistant 
steel products. For a complete description of the scope of the Order, 
see Appendix I.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in this sunset review are addressed in the 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum,\6\ which is hereby adopted 
by this notice. The issues discussed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum are listed in Appendix II. The Issues and Decision 
Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically 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

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directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Expedited First Sunset Review of the 
Countervailing Duty Order on Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel 
Products from Italy,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted 
by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Final Results of Sunset Review

    Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 752(b) of the Act, Commerce 
determines that revocation of the Order would likely lead to 
continuation or recurrence of countervailable subsidies at the rates 
listed below.
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    \7\ Because the net subsidy rate was de minimis for Acciaieria 
Arvedi S.p.A., Finarvedi S.p.A., Arvedi Tubi Acciaio S.p.A., Euro-
Trade S.p.A., and Siderurgica Triestina Srl., merchandise both 
produced and exported by Acciaieria Arvedi S.p.A., Finarvedi S.p.A., 
Arvedi Tubi Acciaio S.p.A., Euro-Trade S.p.A., and Siderurgica 
Triestina Srl. is excluded from the Order.
    \8\ Because the net subsidy rate was de minimis for Marcegaglia 
S.p.A. and Marfin S.p.A., merchandise both produced and exported by 
Marcegaglia S.p.A. and Marfin S.p.A. is excluded from the Order.

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                                                                  Net
                                                                subsidy
                      Exporter/producer                          rate
                                                               (percent)
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Acciaieria Arvedi S.p.A., Finarvedi S.p.A., Arvedi Tubi             0.48
 Acciaio S.p.A., Euro-Trade S.p.A., and Siderurgica
 Triestina Srl., (collectively, the Arvedi Group) \7\.......
Marcegaglia S.p.A. and Marfin S.p.A., (collectively, the            0.07
 Marcegaglia Group) \8\.....................................
Ilva S.p.A..................................................       38.51
All Others..................................................       13.02
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Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice serves as the only reminder to interested parties 
subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or 
destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. Timely notification of the return or 
destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order 
is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms 
of an APO is a violation which is subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these final results and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(c), 752(b), and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.218.

    Dated: September 22, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

Scope of the Order

    The products covered by this order are certain flat-rolled steel 
products, either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant 
metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-
based alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished, 
laminated, or coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances 
in addition to the metallic coating. The products covered include 
coils that have a width of 12.7 mm or greater, regardless of form of 
coil (e.g., in successively superimposed layers, spirally 
oscillating, etc.). The products covered also include products not 
in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 
mm and a width that is 12.7 mm or greater and that measures at least 
10 times the thickness. The products covered also include products 
not in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75 mm 
or more and a width exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least twice 
the thickness. The products described above may be rectangular, 
square, circular, or other shape and include products of either 
rectangular or non-rectangular cross-section where such cross-
section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., 
products which have been ``worked after rolling'' (e.g., products 
which have been beveled or rounded at the edges). For purposes of 
the width and thickness requirements referenced above:
    (1) Where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is 
within the scope if application of either the nominal or actual 
measurement would place it within the scope based on the definitions 
set forth above, and
    (2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product 
(e.g., the thickness of certain products with non-rectangular cross-
section, the width of certain products with non-rectangular shape, 
etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies.
    Steel products included in the scope of this order are products 
in which: (1) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of the other 
contained elements; (2) the carbon content is 2 percent or less, by 
weight; and (3) none of the elements listed below exceeds the 
quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:

 2.50 percent of manganese, or
 3.30 percent of silicon, or
 1.50 percent of copper, or
 1.50 percent of aluminum, or
 1.25 percent of chromium, or
 0.30 percent of cobalt, or
 0.40 percent of lead, or
 2.00 percent of nickel, or
 0.30 percent of tungsten (also called wolfram), or
 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
 0.10 percent of niobium (also called columbium), or
 0.30 percent of vanadium, or
 0.30 percent of zirconium

    Unless specifically excluded, products are included in this 
scope regardless of levels of boron and titanium.
    For example, specifically included in this scope are vacuum 
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-
free (IF)) steels and high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels. IF 
steels are recognized as low carbon steels with micro-alloying 
levels of elements such as titanium and/or niobium added to 
stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are recognized 
as steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as chromium, 
copper, niobium, titanium, vanadium, and molybdenum.
    Furthermore, this scope also includes Advanced High Strength 
Steels (AHSS) and Ultra High Strength Steels (UHSS), both of which 
are considered high tensile strength and high elongation steels.
    Subject merchandise also includes corrosion-resistant steel that 
has been further processed in a third country, including but not 
limited to annealing, tempering painting, varnishing, trimming, 
cutting, punching and/or slitting 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 corrosion 
resistant steel.
    All products that meet the written physical description, and in 
which the chemistry quantities do not exceed any one of the noted 
element levels listed above, are within the scope of this order 
unless specifically excluded. The following products are outside of 
and/or specifically excluded from the scope of this order:
     Flat-rolled steel products either plated or coated with 
tin, lead, chromium, chromium oxides, both tin and lead (``terne 
plate''), or both chromium and chromium oxides (``tin free steel''), 
whether or not painted, varnished or coated with plastics or other 
non-metallic substances in addition to the metallic coating;
     Clad products in straight lengths of 4.7625 mm or more 
in composite thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 mm and 
measures at least twice the thickness; and
     Certain clad stainless flat-rolled products, which are 
three-layered corrosion-resistant flat-rolled steel products less 
than 4.75 mm in composite thickness that consist of a flat-rolled 
steel product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-
20% ratio.
    The products subject to the Order are currently classified in 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under 
item numbers: 7210.30.0030, 7210.30.0060, 7210.41.0000, 
7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0091, 7210.49.0095, 7210.61.0000, 
7210.69.0000, 7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 
7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000, 7212.30.1030, 
7212.30.1090, 7212.30.3000, 7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 
7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000, 7210.49.0040, and 
7210.49.0045.
    The products subject to the Order may also enter under the 
following HTSUS item numbers: 7210.90.1000, 7215.90.1000, 
7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500, 7217.30.1530, 
7217.30.1560, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, 
7217.90.5090, 7225.91.0000, 7225.92.0000, 7225.99.0090, 
7226.99.0110, 7226.99.0130, 7226.99.0180, 7228.60.6000, 
7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000.
    The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of the 
Order is dispositive.

Appendix II

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary

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II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. History of the Order
V. Legal Framework
VI. Discussion of the Issues
    1. Likelihood of Continuation or Recurrence of a Countervailable 
Subsidy
    2. Net Countervailable Subsidy Rate Likely to Prevail
    3. Nature of the Subsidies
VII. Final Results of Review
VIII. Recommendation

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