[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 129 (Thursday, July 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40489-40491]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14423]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-836]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From 
the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2020-2021

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the 
producers/exporters subject to this review made sales of subject 
merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) 
February 1, 2020, through January 31, 2021.

DATES: Applicable July 7, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andre Gziryan, 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) 482-2201.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 1, 2022, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of the 
2020-2021 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products (CTL plate) 
from the Republic of Korea (Korea).\1\ For a complete description of 
the events that occurred since the Preliminary Results, see the Issues 
and Decision Memorandum.\2\
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    \1\ See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 
Products from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 87 FR 11410 
(March 1, 2022) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel 
Plate Products from the Republic of Korea: Issues and Decision 
Memorandum for the Final Results of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2020-2021,'' dated concurrently with, and 
hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ See Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from France, India, 
Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585 
(February 10, 2000) (Order).
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    The products covered by the Order are certain CTL plate from Korea. 
For a full description of the scope of the Order, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.

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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the parties' case and rebuttal briefs in this 
administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum and are listed 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 https://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.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on a review of the record and the comments received from 
interested parties regarding our Preliminary Results, and for the 
reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we did not 
make changes to the preliminary calculation of the weighted-average 
dumping margin for the sole mandatory respondent, Hyundai Steel Company 
(Hyundai Steel), and the margin assigned to the non-selected 
respondents.

Final Results of the Review

    Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping 
margins exist for the period February 1, 2020, through January 31, 
2021:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                     Producer/ exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Hyundai Steel Company.......................................        6.09
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        Rate Applicable to the Following Non-Selected Companies:
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Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.................................        6.09
BDP International...........................................        6.09
Sung Jin Steel Co., Ltd.....................................        6.09
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to the parties in a proceeding the 
calculations performed in connection with the final results of review 
within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public 
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the notice 
of final results in the Federal Register.\4\ However, because Commerce 
made no adjustments to the margin calculation methodology used in the 
Preliminary Results, there are no revised calculations to disclose for 
the final results of review.
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce intends to determine, and U.S. Customs and 
Border Protections (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final 
results of this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for Hyundai 
Steel, we calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates 
based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each 
importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the sales in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an importer-specific 
assessment rate is de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), the 
entries by that importer will be liquidated without reference to 
antidumping duties.
    For all non-selected respondents subject to this review, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate all entries of subject merchandise that 
entered the United States during the POR at the rates calculated for 
Hyundai Steel listed above.
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
Hyundai Steel for which it did not know its merchandise was destined 
for the United States, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate such 
entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company or companies involved in the transaction.
    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication 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).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of CTL plate from Korea entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the publication of the notice of final 
results of this administrative review in the Federal Register, as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate 
for companies subject to this review will be equal to the weighted-
average dumping margins established in the final results of this 
administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by companies not 
covered in this review but covered in the most recently completed 
segment of this 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 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 for the producer of 
the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers 
or exporters will continue to be 0.98 percent,\5\ the all-others rate 
established in the LTFV investigation, adjusted for the export subsidy 
rate in the companion countervailing duty investigation. These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \5\ See, e.g., Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 
Products from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2019-2020, 86 FR 56889 (October 13, 
2021).
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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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Commerce's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under 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/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 subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

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


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    Dated: June 29, 2022.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should Smooth Hyundai Steel's Costs
    Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should Select Dongkuk Steel Mill 
Co., Ltd. (Dongkuk) as a Voluntary Respondent
V. Recommendation

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