[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65865-65866]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17999]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results of New 
Shipper Review; 2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting a new 
shipper review (NSR) of Welspun Specialty Solutions Limited (Welspun) 
regarding the antidumping duty (AD) order on stainless steel bar (SS 
Bar) from India. The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2023, 
through July 31, 2023. We have preliminarily determined that Welspun's 
sales were bona fide transactions and were not made below normal value 
(NV). Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results.

DATES: Applicable August 13, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Weiner, 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) 482-3902.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 21, 1995, Commerce published in the Federal Register 
the antidumping duty order on SS Bar from India.\1\ On August 31, 2023, 
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.214(c), Commerce received a timely 
NSR request from Welspun.\2\ Based on Welspun's NSR request and 
supplemental information, we published in the Federal Register a notice 
of initiation of the NSR. On March 5, 2024, Commerce extended the 
deadline to issue the preliminary results of this NSR by 120 days, to 
July 25, 2024, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2).\3\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain 
deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days.\4\ The 
deadline for the preliminary results is now August 1, 2024.
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    \1\ See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from 
Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995) (Order).
    \2\ See Welspun's Letter, ``Request for New Shipper Review,'' 
dated August 31, 2023.
    \3\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Extension of Deadline for 
Preliminary Results,'' dated March 5, 2024.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this NSR, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\5\ A 
list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
included 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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    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results in the New Shipper Review of Welspun'' dated concurrently 
with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the Order is SS Bar from India. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 751 of 
the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying the 
preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Verification

    As provided in 19 CFR 351.307(b)(iv), Commerce verified the 
information submitted by Welspun in advance of these preliminary 
results.\6\
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Verification of the Questionnaire Sales 
Responses,'' dated July 16, 2024 (Verification Report).
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Preliminary Results of NSR

    As a result of this NSR, Commerce preliminarily determines the 
following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the 
period, February 1, 2023, through July 31, 2023.

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Welspun Specialty Solutions Limited........................        0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis 
performed to interested parties in these preliminary results 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 accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than thirty 
days after the publication of the Federal Register notice regarding 
these preliminary results.\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 proceeding 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)(ii).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); 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 Final Rule).
    \9\ See 19 351.309(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 NSR, 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

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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 NSR. We 
request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant 
citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note that 
Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the 
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\11\
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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.
    \11\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal 
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain 
the party's name, address, and telephone number, the number of 
participants, whether any participant is a foreign national, and a list 
of the issues to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is made, 
Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be 
determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and 
location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
    An electronically filed hearing request must be received 
successfully in its entirety by Commerce's electronic records system, 
ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of 
publication of this notice.\12\
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    Commerce intends to issue the final results of this NSR, including 
the results of its analysis of issues raised in any written briefs, no 
later than 90 days after the date of issuance of these preliminary 
results, unless extended, pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the 
Act.

Assessment Rates

    Upon issuing the final results of this review, Commerce will 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review.\13\ If the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero 
or de minimis in the final results, Commerce will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to duties. If the 
respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is above de minimis (i.e., 
0.5 percent) in the final results of this review, Commerce will 
calculate importer-specific (or customer-specific) assessment rates on 
the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for 
the importer's examined sales to the total entered value of those 
sales, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). If an importer-specific 
rate is zero or de minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate the 
appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \13\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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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 
NSR 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 Instructions

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this review for shipments of the 
subject merchandise from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the publication date, as provided by 
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for subject merchandise produced 
and exported by Welspun, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
established for Welspun in the final results of this NSR (except, if 
the rate is zero or de minimis, then no cash deposit will be required); 
\14\ (2) for subject merchandise exported by Welspun, but not produced 
by Welspun, the cash deposit rate will be the producer's rate, or the 
all others rate (i.e., 12.45 percent) \15\ if the producer does not 
have its own rate; and (3) for subject merchandise produced by Welspun, 
but not exported by Welspun, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
applicable to the exporter, or the all other's rate if the exporter 
does not have its own rate. These cash deposit requirements, when 
imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \14\ See Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 
Products from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative and New Shipper Reviews and 
Rescission of Administrative Review, In Part; 2014-2015, 81 FR 12870 
(March 11, 2016).
    \15\ See Order, 60 FR at 9661.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice also 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 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

    We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of NSR in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(2)(B) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 
CFR 351.214.

    Dated: August 1, 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 Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation

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