[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 751-753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-00019]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-602-809, A-351-845, A-588-874, A-580- 883, A-421-813, A-489-826, A-
412-825]


Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Australia, Brazil, 
Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, 
and the United Kingdom: Final Results of the Expedited Sunset Reviews 
of the Antidumping Duty Orders

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

SUMMARY: As a result of these expedited sunset reviews, the Department 
of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the antidumping duty 
(AD) orders on certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled 
steel) from Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea (Korea), 
the Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey (Turkey), and the United 
Kingdom would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of 
dumping as indicated in the ``Final Results of Sunset Review'' section 
of this notice.

DATES: Applicable January 6, 2022.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zachary Le Vene, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0056.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 1, 2021, Commerce published the notice of initiation 
of the sunset reviews of the AD orders on hot-rolled steel from 
Australia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the 
United Kingdom \1\ pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act).\2\ In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.218(d)(1)(i) and (ii), Commerce received notices of intent to 
participate in these sunset reviews from California Steel Industries, 
Steel Dynamics, Inc., Nucor Corporation, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., and 
United States Steel Corporation (domestic interested parties) within 15 
days after the date of publication of the Initiation Notice.\3\ On 
September 20, 2021, Commerce received a request to amend received 
notices to include SSAB Enterprises LLC (SSAB) in the reviews.\4\ The 
domestic interested parties claimed interested party status under 
section 771(9)(C) of the Act, as domestic producers of hot-rolled steel 
in the United States.\5\
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    \1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, 
Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic 
of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative 
Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the Republic of Korea, and 
the Republic of Turkey and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 67962 
(October 3, 2016), as amended, Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 
Products from Turkey: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony with 
the Amended Final Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value 
Investigation; Notice of Amended Final Determination, Amended 
Antidumping Duty Order, Notice of Revocation of Antidumping Duty 
Order in Part; and Discontinuation of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, in Part, 85 FR 29399 (May 
15, 2020) (AD Orders).
    \2\ See Initiation Notice of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 86 FR 
48983 (September 1, 2021) (Initiation Notice).
    \3\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letters, ``Five-Year 
(``Sunset'') Review Of Antidumping Duty Order On Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from Australia: Notice of Intent to Participate 
in Sunset Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') 
Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 
Products from Australia: Notice of Intent to Participate,'' dated 
September 16, 2021; ``Notice of Intent to Participate in the First 
Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from Australia,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Notice 
of Intent to Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Australia'' as amended to include SSAB Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated 
September 16, 2021 and amended September 20, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from Australia: Notice of Intent to Participate 
in Sunset Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') 
Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 
Products from Brazil: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset 
Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from Brazil: Notice of Intent to Participate,'' 
dated September 16, 2021; ``Notice of Intent to participate in the 
First Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from Brazil'' as amended to include SSAB 
Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated September 16, 2021 and amended 
September 20, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil: 
Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated September 
16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of Antidumping Duty Order on 
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Notice of Intent 
to Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; 
``Notice of Intent to Participate in the First Five-Year Review of 
the Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Japan'' as amended to include SSAB Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated 
September 16, 2021 and amended September 20, 2021; ``Five-Year 
(`Sunset') Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from Japan: Notice of Intent to Participate,'' 
dated September 16, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Japan: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated 
September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of Antidumping 
Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the 
Republic of Korea: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset 
Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea: Notice of Intent to 
Participate,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Notice of Intent to 
Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Korea'' as amended to 
include SSAB Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated September 16, 2021 and 
amended September 20, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
the Republic of Korea: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset 
Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of 
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 
from the Netherlands: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset 
Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of 
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 
from the Netherlands: Notice of Intent to Participate,'' dated 
September 16, 2021; ``Notice of Intent to Participate in the First 
Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from the Netherlands'' as amended to include SSAB 
Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated September 16, 2021 and amended 
September 20, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the 
Netherlands: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,'' 
dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (``Sunset'') Review of 
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 
from the Republic of Turkey: Notice of Intent to Participate in 
Sunset Review,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') 
Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 
Products from the Republic of Turkey: Notice of Intent to 
Participate,'' dated September 16, 2021; ``Notice of Intent to 
Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Turkey'' as amended to 
include SSAB Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated September 16, 2021 and 
amended September 20, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Turkey: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated 
September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of Antidumping 
Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United 
Kingdom: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated 
September 16, 2021; ``Five-Year (`Sunset') Review of Antidumping 
Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United 
Kingdom: Notice of Intent to Participate,'' dated September 16, 
2021; ``Notice of Intent to Participate in the First Five-Year 
Review of the Antidumping Duty order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 
Products from the United Kingdom'' as amended to include SSAB 
Enterprises LLC (SSAB), dated September 16, 2021 and amended 
September 20, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United 
Kingdom: Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,'' dated 
September 16, 2021 (collectively, Notices of Intent to Participate).
    \4\ See Interested Parties' Letters, ``Amendment to Notice of 
Intent to Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Australia''; ``Amendment to Notice of Intent to Participate in the 
First Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from Brazil''; ``Amendment to notice of Intent 
to Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan''; ``Amendment to 
Notice of Intent to Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the 
Antidumping Duty order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Korea''; ``Amendment to Notice of Intent to Participate in the First 
Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty order on Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from the Netherlands''; ``Amendment to Notice of 
Intent to Participate in the First Five-year Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 
Turkey''; ``Amendment to Notice of Intent to Participate in the 
First Five-Year Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from the United Kingdom,'' each dated September 
20, 2021.
    \5\ Note that some domestic interested parties are not 
participating in every review. See country-specific substantive 
responses for a specific list of the domestic interested parties 
participating in each county review.
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    Commerce received adequate substantive responses to the Initiation 
Notice from the domestic interested parties within the 30-day period 
specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i).\6\ Commerce received no 
substantive responses from any respondent interested parties.
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    \6\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letters, ``Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from Australia: Substantive Response of the Domestic 
Interested Parties to Commerce's Notice of Initiation of Five-Year 
(`Sunset') Reviews,'' dated September 30, 2021; ``Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from Japan: Substantive Response of the Domestic 
Interested Parties to Commerce's Notice of Initiation of Five-Year 
(`Sunset') Reviews,'' dated September 30, 2021; ``First Five-years 
(``Sunset'') Review of the Antidumping Order on Hot-Rolled Steel 
Flat Products from Brazil: Domestic Industry's Substantive Response 
to Notice of Initiation,'' dated September 30, 2021; ``Five-Year 
(`Sunset'') Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from the Netherlands: Domestic Industry 
Substantive Response,'' dated September 29, 2021; ``Five-Year 
(`Sunset') Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Hot-Rolled 
Steel Flat Products from the United Kingdom: Domestic Industry 
Substantive Response,'' dated September 29, 2021 (collectively, 
Domestic Interested Parties' Substantive Responses).
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    On October 21, 2021, Commerce notified the U.S. International Trade 
Commission that it did not receive an adequate substantive response 
from respondent interested parties.\7\ As a

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result, pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2), Commerce conducted an expedited (120-day) 
sunset reviews of the AD Orders.
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    \7\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Sunset Reviews Initiated on 
September 1, 2021,'' dated October 21, 2021.
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Scope of the AD Orders

    The merchandise subject to the AD Orders is hot-rolled steel flat 
products. A full description of the scope of the AD Orders is contained 
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\8\ The written description is 
dispositive.
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    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Expedited Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Orders on Certain 
Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, Brazil, Japan, the 
Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the 
United Kingdom,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 
this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in this review are addressed in the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum, including the likelihood of continuation or 
recurrence of dumping in the event of revocation and the magnitude of 
dumping margins likely to prevail if the orders were revoked. Parties 
can find a complete discussion of all issues raised in this review and 
the corresponding recommendations in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum, which 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 directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNotices/ListLayout.aspx.

Final Results of Sunset Reviews

    Pursuant to sections 751(c) and 752(c) of the Act, Commerce 
determines that revocation of the AD Orders would be likely to lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and the magnitude of the margins 
of dumping likely to prevail would be weighted-average margins up to 
the following percentages:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                           Country                              margin
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Australia...................................................       29.58
Brazil......................................................       34.28
Japan.......................................................       11.70
Korea.......................................................       11.10
The Netherlands.............................................        3.73
Turkey......................................................       24.32
United Kingdom..............................................       33.06
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Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a). Timely written notification 
of the 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

    Commerce is issuing and publishing these final results and notice 
in accordance with sections 751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(5)(ii).

    Dated: December 29, 2021.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the 
non-exclusive functions and duties of the 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 Orders
IV. History of the Orders
V. Legal Framework
VI. Discussion of the Issues
VII. Final Results of Expedited Sunset Reviews
VIII. Recommendation

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