[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 129 (Friday, July 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55580-55582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14765]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-469-821]


Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Spain: Preliminary 
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) preliminarily 
determines that the producer/exporter subject to this administrative 
review made sales of subject merchandise at prices below normal value 
(NV) during the period of review (POR), June 1, 2022, through May 31, 
2023. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary 
results.

DATES: Applicable July 5, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lilit Astvatsatrian, 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) 482-6412.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On June 4, 2021, Commerce published the antidumping duty order on 
prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Spain in the Federal 
Register.\1\ On August 3, 2023, based on timely requests for review, we 
initiated an administrative review of the Order with respect to one 
company, Global Special Steel Products S.A.U. (d.b.a. Trenzas y Cables 
de Acero PSC, S.L.) (TYCSA).\2\ On February 6, 2024, Commerce extended 
the deadline for these preliminary results to June 28, 2024.\3\
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    \1\ See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Indonesia, 
Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine: 
Antidumping Duty Orders, 86 FR 29998 (June 4, 2021) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 51271 (August 3, 2023).
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary 
Results,'' dated February 6, 2024.
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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\4\ 
A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
attached as an 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.
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Spain; 2022-2023,'' 
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The products subject to the Order are prestressed concrete steel 
wire strand from Spain. For a full description of the scope of the 
Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). We calculated 
export price and constructed export price in accordance with section 
772 of the Act. We calculated NV in accordance with

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section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology 
underlying these preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.

Preliminary Results of the Review

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

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                               margin
                                                              (percent)
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Global Special Steel Products S.A.U. (d.b.a. Trenzas y             3.04
 Cables de Acero PSC, S.L.)...............................
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Verification

    On November 13, 2023, Insteel Wire Products Company, Sumiden Wire 
Products Corporation, and Wire Mesh Corp., the petitioners in this 
proceeding, requested that Commerce conduct verification of the factual 
information submitted by TYCSA in this administrative review.\5\ 
Accordingly, as provided in section 782(i)(3) of the Act, Commerce 
intends to verify the information relied upon in determining its final 
results.
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    \5\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Request to Conduct 
In-Person Verification of TYCSA,'' dated November 13, 2023.
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed in connection with 
these preliminary results to interested parties within five days of any 
public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five 
days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register.\6\
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    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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    Interested parties may submit case briefs to Commerce no later than 
seven days after the date on which the verification report is issued in 
this administrative review.\7\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 
raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after 
the date for filing case briefs.\8\ Interested parties who submit case 
briefs or rebuttal briefs in this administrative review must submit: 
(1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of 
authorities.\9\
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for 
general filing requirements).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1); see also Administrative Protective 
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 
2023) (APO and Service Procedures).
    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 
proceedings, we have encouraged interested parties to provide an 
executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages 
total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that 
interested parties provide, at the beginning of their briefs, a public 
executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\10\ Further, 
we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary 
of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We 
intend to use the public executive summaries as the basis of the 
comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that 
will accompany the final results in this administrative review. We 
request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant 
citations in the public executive summary of each issue.
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    \10\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
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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, filed electronically via 
ACCESS within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. 
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 raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised 
in the respective case briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, 
parties will be notified of the time and date for the hearing.\11\
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    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    All submissions, including case and rebuttal briefs, as well as 
hearing requests, should be filed via ACCESS.\12\ 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 amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the 
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\13\
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
    \13\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, including the results of its 
analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, no later than 120 
days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.213(h)(1).

Assessment Rates

    Upon completion of this administrative review, pursuant to section 
751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries covered by 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 the examined sales to the total entered value 
of those sales. Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping 
margin is zero or de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 
351.106(c)(1), or an importer specific assessment rate is zero or de 
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties. The final results of this review 
shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries 
of merchandise covered by this review and for future deposits of 
estimated duties, where applicable.\14\
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    \14\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice, 
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by TYCSA for 
which the company did not know that the merchandise was destined for 
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at 
the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation (i.e., 14.75 percent) \15\ if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\16\
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    \15\ See Order.
    \16\ For a full description of this practice, see 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).

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

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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 administrative 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 previously reviewed or investigated 
companies not covered in 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 the company was 
reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the LTFV investigation, but the producer is, then 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 14.75 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the LTFV investigation.\17\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \17\ See Order.
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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) 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 Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of doubled 
antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: June 28, 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

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Recommendation

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