[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 48 (Monday, March 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17410-17411]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05065]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-877]


Stainless Steel Flanges From India: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that 
producers/exporters of stainless steel flanges (flanges) from India did 
not make sales of subject merchandise in the United States at prices 
below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) October 1, 
2021, through September 30, 2022.

DATES: Applicable March 11, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benito Ballesteros or Seth Brown, AD/
CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-7425 or (202) 
482-0029, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Commerce selected two companies, Chandan Steel Limited (Chandan) 
and Kisaan Die Tech Private Limited (KDT) as the mandatory respondents, 
in this review. On November 6, 2023, Commerce published the Preliminary 
Results and invited interested parties to comment.\1\ In December 2023, 
we received case briefs from Core Pipe Products, Inc. (the petitioner) 
and rebuttal briefs from Chandan and KDT.\2\ For a complete description 
of the events that occurred since the Preliminary Results, see the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum.\3\ 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 Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Preliminary Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Partial Rescission; 
2021-2022, 88 FR 76176 (November 6, 2023) (Preliminary Results), and 
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Petitioner's Letters, ``Petitioner's Case Brief for 
Chandan,'' dated December 6, 2023; and ``Petitioner's Case Brief for 
KDT,'' dated December 6, 2023; see also Chandan's Letter, 
``Submission of rebuttal brief in response to petitioner's case 
brief,'' dated December 18, 2023; and KDT's Letter, ``Rebuttal to 
Petitioners Pre-Preliminary Comments,'' dated December 18, 2023.
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Stainless Steel Flanges from India; 2021-2022,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is flanges from India. For a 
complete description of the scope of the order, see the Preliminary 
Results PDM.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues that parties 
raised, and to which we responded in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum, is attached to this notice in Appendix I. 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.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    We made no changes to the Preliminary Results based on comments 
from interested parties.

Final Results of Review

    The final estimated weighted-average dumping margins are listed 
below for the period October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022:
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    \4\ See appendix II for the list of exporters and/or producers 
not selected for individual examination.

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Chandan Steel Limited.......................................        0.00
Kisaan Die Tech Private Limited.............................        0.00
Companies Not Selected for Individual Examination \4\.......        0.00
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce will disclose 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, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b). However, because we have made no changes to the Preliminary 
Results, there are no new calculations to disclose.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of 
this review. Where a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is 
either zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties. Accordingly, because Chandan's and KDT's weighted-
average dumping margins are zero percent, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. 
Consistent with Commerce's assessment practice, for entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by Chandan or KDT for which these 
companies did not know the merchandise was destined for the United 
States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the 
all-others rate if there is no rate for the

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intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\5\
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    \5\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    For the companies which were not selected for individual 
examination, we will also instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.
    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 entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section 
751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies 
listed above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of this review, except if the rate is 
de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent), in which case the cash 
deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated 
companies not covered by this review, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most 
recently-completed segment of this proceeding in which they were 
examined; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the less-than-fair value investigation, but the 
producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the 
most recently-completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of 
the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers 
or exporters will continue to be 7.00 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the Amended Final Determination.\6\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \6\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Notice of Court 
Decision Not in Harmony with the Final Determination of Antidumping 
Investigation; Notice of Amended Final Determination, 86 FR 50325 
(September 8, 2021) (Amended Final Determination).
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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 and/or countervailing duties 
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure 
to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption 
that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties occurred 
and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, and/or an 
increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of the 
countervailing duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an 
administrative protective order (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 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 this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: March 4, 2024.
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 I

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether to Apply Adverse Facts Available (AFA) to 
Chandan
    Comment 2: Whether to Include KDT's Outside Tolling Costs
IV. Recommendation

Appendix II

List of Companies Not Selected for Individual Examination

1. Balkrishna Steel Forge Pvt. Ltd.
2. BFN Forgings Private Limited; Bebitz Flanges Works Private 
Limited; Fanschen werk Bebitz GmbH; Viraj Alloys, Ltd.; Viraj 
Forgings, Ltd.; Viraj Impoexpo, Ltd.; and Viraj Profiles Limited \7\
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    \7\ Commerce has previously found BFN Forgings Private Limited 
to be part of a collapsed entity. See, e.g., Stainless Steel Flanges 
from India: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value and Final Affirmative Critical Circumstance 
Determination, 83 FR 40745 (August 16, 2018). The companies which 
are part of this collapsed entity are listed above.
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3. Echjay Forgings Private Limited
4. Fivebros Forgings Pvt. Ltd.\8\
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    \8\ We incorrectly listed this company as ``Fivebros Pvt Ltd.'' 
in the Initiation Notice and as ``Fivebros Forging Pvt Ltd.'' in the 
Preliminary Results. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 74404 (December 5, 
2022); and Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 7060 (February 2, 2023) (collectively, 
Initiation Notice); and Preliminary Results, 88 FR at 76178.
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5. Goodluck India Limited
6. Hilton Metal Forging Limited
7. Jai Auto Pvt. Ltd.
8. Jay Jagdamba Forgings Pvt Ltd.
9. Jay Jagdamba Ltd.
10. Jay Jagdamba Profile Pvt Ltd.
11. Pradeep Metals Limited
12. Shree Jay Jagdamba Flanges Pvt. Ltd.

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