[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 48 (Friday, March 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13968-13970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05210]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-914]


Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube From the People's Republic 
of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
2019-2020

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Hangzhou 
Ailong Metal Products Co., Ltd. (Ailong) made U.S. sales of light-
walled rectangular pipe and tube (LWRPT) from the People's Republic of 
China (China) at less than normal value during the period of review 
(POR) August 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020.

DATES: Applicable March 11, 2022.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Hanna, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0835.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On July 24, 2020, Commerce published the Preliminary Results and 
invited interested parties to comment.\1\ For details regarding the 
events that occurred since the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum. Commerce conducted this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).
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    \1\ See Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube from the People's 
Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2019-2020, 86 FR 50054 (September 7, 2021) 
(Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.
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Scope of the Order 2
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    \2\ See Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube from Mexico, the 
People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea: Antidumping 
Duty Orders; Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube from the 
Republic of Korea: Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value, 73 FR 45403 (August 5, 2008) (Order).
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    The scope of the Order is certain welded carbon quality light-
walled steel pipe and tube, of rectangular (including square) cross 
section, having a wall thickness of less than 4 millimeters. For a full 
description of the scope, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Analysis of Comments Received

    We addressed all issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs 
filed in this administrative review in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum, which is hereby adopted by this notice. A list of the 
sections in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is in the appendix to 
this notice. 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 directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. The signed Issues and 
Decision Memorandum and the electronic version of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum are identical in content.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    We made no changes to the Preliminary Results.

Separate Rates

    No parties commented on our preliminary separate rate findings. 
Therefore, we have continued to grant Ailong (the mandatory respondent) 
separate rate status.

Final Results of Review

    We are assigning following dumping margin to the firm listed below 
for the period August 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020:

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                                                             Weighted
                                                              average
                  Producer or exporter                    dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Hangzhou Ailong Metal Products Co., Ltd.................          157.40
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce will disclose to the parties in a proceeding the 
calculations performed in connection with a final results of review 
within five days of the date of publication of the notice of final 
results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 
However, here, Commerce made no adjustments to the margin calculation 
methodology used in the Preliminary Results; therefore, there are no 
calculations to disclose for the final results.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, 
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.\3\ Commerce 
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days 
after the date of publication date of the final results of this 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).
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    \3\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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    Where the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or 
de minimis, or where an importer- (or customer-) specific ad valorem or 
per-unit rate is zero or de minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP to 
liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\4\ 
For entries that were not reported in the U.S. sales database submitted 
by an exporter individually examined during this review, but that 
entered under the case number of that exporter (i.e., at the 
individually-examined exporter's cash deposit rate), Commerce will 
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate (i.e., 
264.64 percent).\5\
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    \4\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
    \5\ See Order, 73 FR at 45403.
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    For any individually-examined respondent whose weighted-average 
dumping margin is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), we will 
calculate importer-specific assessment rates on the basis of the ratio 
of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for each 
importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the sales, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\6\
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    \6\ Id.
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    For the respondents not eligible for a separate rate and that are 
part of the China-wide entity, we intend to instruct CBP to apply an ad 
valorem assessment rate of 264.64 percent (i.e., the China-wide entity 
rate) to all entries of subject merchandise during the POR that were 
exported by these companies.
    Additionally, if Commerce determines that an exporter under review 
had no shipments of the subject merchandise, any suspended entries that 
entered under that exporter's case number will be liquidated at the 
China-wide rate.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of review, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 
Act: (1) For the exporters listed in the table above, the cash deposit 
rate will be the rate established in the final results of review that 
is listed for the exporter in the table; (2) for previously 
investigated or reviewed China and non-China exporters not listed in 
the table above that have separate rates, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the existing exporter-specific rate published for the 
most recent period; (3) for all China exporters of subject merchandise 
that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate previously established for the China-wide 
entity, which is 264.64 percent; and (4) for all non-China exporters of 
subject merchandise which

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have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the 
rate applicable to the China exporter that supplied that non-China 
exporter. The cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in 
effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties

    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 POR entries. 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 Regarding Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under an APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of 
the proceeding. Timely written 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 sanctionable violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: March 7, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
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. Discussion of the Issues
VI. Recommendation

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