[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 167 (Wednesday, August 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68857-68858]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19317]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-828]


Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From France: 
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 
certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (CTL plate) from 
France was not sold in the United States at less than normal value 
during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.

DATES: Applicable August 28, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samuel Evans, 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) 482-2420.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 6, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results and 
invited comments from interested parties.\1\ No interested party 
submitted comments on the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the final 
results remain unchanged from the Preliminary Results and, thus, there 
is no decision memorandum accompanying this notice. On July 22, 2024, 
Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by 
seven days.\2\ The deadline for these final results is now no later 
than October 11, 2024. 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 
France: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of the 
Antidumping Administrative Review; 2022-23, 89 FR 48368 (June 6, 
2024) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ 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 (May 25, 2017) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by the Order is CTL plate from France. For 
a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Results.

Final Results of Review

    For these final results, 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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Dillinger France S.A.......................................        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 from 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 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. 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).
    Commerce calculated a weighted-average dumping margin for Dillinger 
France S.A. (Dillinger) of zero percent in this review. Accordingly, we 
intend to instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without 
regard to antidumping duties. For entries of subject merchandise during 
the POR produced by Dillinger for which Dillinger did not know 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., 6.15 percent),\4\ if 
there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the 
transaction.\5\
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    \4\ See Order, 82 FR at 24096.
    \5\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication in the Federal Register of these final results of 
administrative review for all shipments of the subject merchandise 
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) 
the cash deposit rate for the company listed

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above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established 
in these final results of this administrative review; (2) for 
previously investigated or reviewed 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 participated; (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 subject merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 
producers and exporters will continue to be 6.15 percent, the all-
others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\6\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \6\ See Order, 82 FR at 24096.
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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 double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an 
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 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 sanctionable 
violation.

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: August 21, 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.
[FR Doc. 2024-19317 Filed 8-27-24; 8:45 am]
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