[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 169 (Thursday, September 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53723-53725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18916]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-842]


Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From the Republic of 
Turkey: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2020-2022

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 
determines that the sole producer/exporter subject to this 
administrative review made sales of subject merchandise at less than 
fair value (LTFV) during the period of review (POR) September 30, 2020, 
through January 31, 2022. Interested parties are invited to comment on 
these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable September 1, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ajay Menon or Macey Mayes, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0208 or (202) 482-4473, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 12, 2022, based on timely requests for review, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on prestressed concrete steel wire 
strand (PC strand)

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from the Republic of Turkey (Turkey).\1\ For a complete description of 
the events that followed the initiation of this review, see the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\2\
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 21619 (April 12, 2022).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the 2020-2022 Administrative Review of the Antidumping 
Duty Order on Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from the 
Republic of Turkey,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted 
by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of topics 
included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached in the 
appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Argentina, 
Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the Republic 
of Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates: Antidumping Duty Orders, 86 
FR 7703 (February 1, 2021) (Order).
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    The products covered by the Order include prestressed concrete 
steel wire strand from Turkey. For a complete description of the scope 
of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 
In reaching these preliminary results, Commerce relied on facts 
otherwise available, with the application of adverse inferences, in 
accordance with sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act. For further 
information, see ``Application of Facts Otherwise Available and Use of 
Adverse Inferences'' in the accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.

Preliminary Results of Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following estimated dumping 
margin exists for Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.S. for the period 
September 30, 2020, through January 31, 2022:

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                                                      Cash deposit rate
      Producer/exporter         Estimated dumping   adjusted for subsidy
                                margin (percent)    offset (percent) \4\
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Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi                   53.65                 53.16
 A.S........................
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Public Comment

    Interested parties may submit case briefs or other written comments 
to Commerce no later than 30 days after the date of publication of 
these preliminary results of review in the Federal Register.\5\ 
Rebuttal comments, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be 
filed no later than seven days after the deadline for filing case 
briefs.\6\ 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.\7\ Case and rebuttal briefs should be filed using 
ACCESS.\8\ An electronically filed document must be received 
successfully in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the 
established deadline. Note that Commerce has temporarily modified 
certain of its requirements for serving documents containing business 
proprietary information.\9\
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    \4\ We subtracted 0.49 percent, the amount of export subsidies 
Commerce calculated in the most recently completed segment of the 
companion countervailing duty proceeding, from the dumping margin of 
53.65 percent. See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from the 
Republic of Turkey: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the 
Final Determination of Countervailing Duty Investigation; Notice of 
Amended Final Determination, 87 FR 34653 (June 7, 2022); see also 
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from the Republic of Turkey: 
Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Final Determination 
of Antidumping Investigation; Notice of Amended Final Determination, 
87 FR 34241 (June 6, 2022) (Amended Final Determination).
    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
    \9\ 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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    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, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
filed electronically via ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 
publication of this notice.\10\ Hearing 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 
addressed at the hearing will be limited to those raised in the briefs. 
If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce will inform parties of the 
scheduled date for the hearing.\11\
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    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act, we intend to issue the final results of this administrative 
review, including the results of our analysis of the issues raised by 
the parties in their case briefs, with 120 days after the date of 
publication of this notice.\12\
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    \12\ See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
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Assessment Rates

    Upon completion of the final results of this administrative review, 
Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by 
this review.\13\ We intend to instruct CBP to take into account the 
``provisional measures deposit cap,'' in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(d). 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 deposits of estimated 
duties, where applicable.\14\
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    \13\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
    \14\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    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 the subject merchandise

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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 company 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 companies not participating in this review, 
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific cash 
deposit rate published for the most recently completed segment; (3) if 
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, or the LTFV 
investigation, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be 
the cash deposit 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 17.39 
percent, the all-others rate established in the Amended Final 
Determination, adjusted for export subsidies.\15\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \15\ See Amended Final Determination, 87 FR at 34241.
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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 review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    Commerce is issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(d).

    Dated: August 25, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Application of Facts Available and Use of Adverse Inference
V. Recommendation

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