[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 111 (Friday, June 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48562-48563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12513]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-834]


Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate From Italy: 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
sales of certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (CTL plate) 
from Italy were made at less than normal value during the period of 
review (POR), May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.

DATES: Applicable June 7, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Grossnickle, 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) 482-3818.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 31, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register the 
Preliminary Results of the 2022-2023 administrative review \1\ of the 
antidumping duty order on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length 
plate from Italy.\2\ The review covers two mandatory respondents, NLMK 
Verona S.p.A. (NVR) and Officine Tecnosider S.R.L. (OTS). We invited 
interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results.\3\ On March 
8, 2024, the petitioner (i.e., Nucor Corporation) submitted a case 
brief.\4\ On March 14, 2024, NVR submitted a rebuttal brief.\5\ For a 
complete description of the events that occurred since the Preliminary 
Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\6\ 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 Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from 
Italy: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2022-2023, 89 FR 6090 (January 31, 2024) (Preliminary 
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \2\ See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from 
Austria, Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, 
Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative 
Antidumping Determinations for France, the Federal Republic of 
Germany, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty 
Orders, 82 FR 24096, 24098 (May 25, 2017) (Order).
    \3\ See Preliminary Results.
    \4\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Nucor's Case Brief,'' dated March 
8, 2024.
    \5\ See NVR's Letter, ``Rebuttal Brief,'' dated March 14, 2024.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Final Results 
of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on 
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from Italy; 2021-
2022,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, these 
results (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the Order is certain carbon and alloy 
steel cut-to-length plate from Italy. A complete description of the 
scope of the Order is contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs filed by parties 
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 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

    Based on a review of the record and comments received from 
interested parties regarding the Preliminary Results, and for the 
reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, Commerce made 
certain changes to the preliminary weighted-average dumping margin 
calculation for NVR for the final results of review.\7\
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    \7\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum; see also Memorandum, 
``Cost Calculations for NLMK Verona S.p.A. (NVR) for the Final 
Results,'' dated concurrently with this notice.
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Final Results of Administrative Review

    As a result of this review, we determine that the following 
estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period May 1, 
2022, through April 30, 2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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NLMK Verona S.p.A...........................................       16.98
Officine Tecnosider S.R.L...................................        0.00
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these final results of review to interested parties 
within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if 
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rate

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of 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 of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of 
this review.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), 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 those sales. Because OTS' weighted-average dumping 
margin or importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis in 
the final results of review, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.\8\ For NVR, where an 
importer-specific rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \8\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102-03 (February 14, 
2012); see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by NVR 
or OTS for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined for 
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries 
at the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation (i.e., 6.08 percent) if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\9\
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    \9\ See Order; see also Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 
2003).
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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).

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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication in the Federal Register, of the notice of final results of 
administrative review for all shipments of the subject merchandise 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the 
date of publication, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: 
(1) the cash deposit rate for the companies subject to this review will 
be equal to the weighted-average dumping margins established in the 
final results of this review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers 
or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a prior 
completed segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published in the completed 
segment for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this review, a prior review, or the original LTFV 
investigation, but the producer has been covered in a prior completed 
segment of this proceeding, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
established in the completed segment for the most recent period for the 
producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other producers or exporters will continue to be 6.08 percent ad 
valorem, the all-others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\10\ 
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until further notice.
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    \10\ See Order.
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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 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 doubled antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice serves as the only 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)(3), which continues to govern 
business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. 
Timely written notification of 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) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: May 31, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy 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
    Comment 1: Revision to NVR's Margin Calculation
    Comment 2: Adjustment to NVR's Slab Cost Under the Transaction 
Disregarded Rule
    Comment 3: Application of the Quarterly Cost Methodology to NVR
VI. Recommendation

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