[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25996-25999]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11175]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-930, C-533-931]
Certain High Chrome Cast Iron Grinding Media From India: Amended
Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty
Order; Countervailing Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) and
countervailing duty (CVD) orders on certain high chrome cast iron
grinding media (grinding media) from India. In addition, Commerce is
amending its final determination in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigation of certain high chrome cast iron grinding media from
India to correct a ministerial error. The period of investigation (POI)
is April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
DATES: Applicable June 18, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles DeFilippo (AD), Office VII, at
(202) 482-3797; or Katherine Smith (CVD), Office II, at (202) 482-0557;
AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d), 735(d), and 777(i) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on April 28, 2025, Commerce
published its final affirmative determination of sales at LTFV from
India and its affirmative final determination that countervailable
subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of grinding
media from India.\1\ On April 28, 2025, Commerce received allegations
of a ministerial error regarding the AD Final Determination from
Magotteaux Inc.
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(the petitioner).\2\ We received no rebuttal comments. We reviewed the
allegation and determined that we made a ministerial error in the AD
Final Determination on grinding media from India. See ``Amendment to
the AD Final Determination'' section below for further discussion. On
June 11, 2025, the ITC notified Commerce of its affirmative final
determination that an industry in the United States is materially
injured within the meaning of sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and
735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\3\
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\1\ See Certain High Chrome Cast Iron Grinding Media from India:
Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90
FR 17577 (April 28, 2025) (AD Final Determination); see also Certain
High Chrome Cast Iron Grinding Media from India: Final Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination, 90 FR 17575 (April 28, 2025) (CVD
Final Determination).
\2\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Petitioner's Final Determination
Ministerial Error Comments,'' dated April 28, 2025 (Ministerial
Error Allegation).
\3\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determinations,'' dated June 11, 2025.
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Scope of the Orders
The product covered by these orders is grinding media from India.
For a complete description of the scope of these orders, see the
appendix to this notice.
Amendment to the AD Final Determination
On April 28, 2025, the petitioner timely alleged that Commerce made
a ministerial error in the AD Final Determination with respect to the
duty margin assigned to AIA Engineering Limited (AIAEL) and its
affiliates (collectively, AIA).\4\ No other party made an allegation of
ministerial errors or submitted a rebuttal to the petitioner's
ministerial error allegation under 19 CFR 351.224(c)(3). Commerce
reviewed the record and agreed that the error alleged by the petitioner
constitutes a ministerial error within the meaning of section 735(e) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f).\5\ Specifically Commerce found that it
made an inadvertent error in not accounting for AIA's reporting of
certain brokerage and handling incurred in the United States. Pursuant
to 19 CFR 351.224(e), Commerce is amending the AD Final Determination
to reflect the correction of the ministerial error, as described in the
Ministerial Error Memorandum.\6\ Based on the correction, AIA's final
dumping margin rate changed from 9.58 percent to 9.79 percent. As a
result, we are also revising the all-others rate from 9.58 percent to
9.79 percent. The amended estimated weighted-average dumping margins
are listed in the ``Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins''
section below.
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\4\ See Ministerial Error Allegation.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Analysis of Ministerial Error
Allegations,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Ministerial
Error Memorandum).
\6\ Id.
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Antidumping Duty Order
On June 11, 2025, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, the
ITC notified Commerce of its final determination that an industry in
the United States is materially injured within the meaning of section
735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of imports of grinding media that
are sold in the United States at less than fair value. Therefore, in
accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is
issuing this AD order. Because the ITC determined that imports of
grinding media from India are materially injuring a U.S. industry,
unliquidated entries of such merchandise from India, entered or
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment
of antidumping duties.
Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act,
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal
to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise, for all
relevant entries of grinding media from India. Antidumping duties will
be assessed on unliquidated entries of grinding media from India
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after
December 6, 2024, the date of publication of the AD Preliminary
Determination but will not include entries occurring after the
expiration of the provisional measures period and before publication of
the ITC's final injury determination, as further described below.\7\
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\7\ See Certain High Chrome Cast Iron Grinding Media from India:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of
Provisional Measure, 89 FR 96939 (December 6, 2024) (AD Preliminary
Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--AD
Commerce intends to instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of
liquidation of grinding media from India, effective on the date of
publication of the ITC Final Determination in the Federal Register, and
to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties on
each entry of subject merchandise based on the estimated weighted-
average dumping margins indicated in the table below. These
instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further
notice.
Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits
equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in
the table below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in
the Federal Register of the notice of the ITC's final affirmative
injury determination, CBP will require, at the same time as importers
would normally deposit estimated customs duties on this subject
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the table
below. The all-others rate applies to all producers and exporters not
specifically listed below, as appropriate.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average
dumping margins exist:
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\8\ Adjusted for export subsidies of 2.88 percent (comprised of
1.63 percent for the Duty Drawback Program (DDB), 1.00 percent for
the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Export Products program
(RoDTEP), 0.07 percent for the Status Holder Incentive Scheme (SHIS)
program, and 0.18 percent for the Interest Equalization Scheme
(IES)). See CVD Final Determination.
\9\ We determined that AIAEL and Welcast Steel Limited (Welcast)
are a single entity. In addition, we determine that AIAEL is
affiliated with Vega Industries (Middle East) F.Z.C (Vega ME) and
Vega Industries, Ltd, USA (Vega USA). See Memorandum, ``Preliminary
Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for AIA Engineering Limited,
Welcast Steel Limited, Vega Industries (Middle East) F.Z.C, and Vega
Industries Ltd, USA,'' dated November 29, 2024.
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Cash deposit rate
Weighted-average (adjusted for
Exporter/producer dumping margin subsidy offset(s))
(percent) (percent) \8\
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AIA Engineering Limited \9\. 9.79 6.91
All Others.................. 9.79 6.91
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Provisional Measures--AD
Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request
that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months.
At the request of the exporter that accounted for a significant
proportion of export of grinding media from India, Commerce extended
the four-month period to no more than six months.\10\ Therefore, the
six-month period beginning on the date of the publication of the AD
Preliminary Determination ended on June 3, 2025.
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\10\ See AD Preliminary Determination.
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Consequently, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act,
Commerce intends to instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of
liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties,
unliquidated entries of grinding media from India entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after June 4, 2025, the first day
provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the
day preceding the date of publication of the ITC Final Determination.
Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will
resume on the date of publication of the ITC Final Determination in the
Federal Register.
Countervailing Duty Order
As stated above, based on the above-referenced affirmative
determination by the ITC that an industry in the United States is
materially injured within the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the
Act by reason of subsidized imports of grinding media from India, in
accordance with sections 705(c)(2) and 706 of the Act, Commerce is
issuing this CVD order. Because the ITC determined that imports of
grinding media from India are materially injuring a U.S. industry,
unliquidated entries of such merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the assessment of
countervailing duties.
Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce
will direct CBP to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce,
countervailing duties on all relevant entries of grinding media from
India, which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption
on or after October 4, 2024, the date of the publication of the CVD
Preliminary Determination,\11\ but will not include entries occurring
after the expiration of the provisional measures and before the
publication in the Federal Register of the ITC's final injury
determination under section 705(b) of the Act, as further described in
the ``Provisional Measures--CVD'' section of this notice.
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\11\ See Certain High Chrome Cast Iron Grinding Media from
India: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination,
and Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 89 FR 80865 (October 4, 2024) (CVD Preliminary
Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--CVD
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of grinding
media from India, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
final affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, and to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, countervailing duties on
each entry of subject merchandise in an amount based on the net
countervailable subsidy rates below. These instructions suspending
liquidation will remain in effect until further notice.
Commerce also intends, pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, to
instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the amounts as indicated
below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
final affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, CBP
will require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit
estimated customs duties on the subject merchandise, a cash deposit for
each entry of subject merchandise equal to the subsidy rates listed
below.\12\ The all-others rate applies to all producers and exporters
not specifically listed below, as appropriate.
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\12\ See section 706(a)(3) of the Act.
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Estimated CVD Subsidy Rates
The estimated CVD subsidy rates published in Commerce's CVD Final
Determination are as follows:
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\13\ Commerce continued to find that AIAEL is cross owned with
Vega Industries (Middle East) F.Z.C. and Welcast Steels Ltd. See CVD
Final Determination.
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Subsidy rate (percent
Company ad valorem)
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AIA Engineering Limited; Vega Industries (Middle 3.16
East) F.Z.C; Welcast Steels Ltd \13\............
All Others....................................... 3.16
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Provisional Measures--CVD
Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months. Commerce published the CVD
Preliminary Determination on October 4, 2024.\14\ As such, the four-
month period beginning on the date of the publication of the CVD
Preliminary Determination ended on January 31, 2025.
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\14\ See CVD Preliminary Determination.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, Commerce
instructed CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to
liquidate, without regard to countervailing duties, unliquidated
entries of grinding media from India entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption, on or after February 1, 2025, the first day
provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the
day preceding the date of publication of the ITC Final Determination.
Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will
resume on the date of publication of the ITC Final Determination in the
Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\15\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published
the Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\16\ The Final Rule and
Procedural Guidance provide that Commerce will maintain an annual
inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any
interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for
circumvention inquiry shall serve a
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copy of the application or request on the persons on the annual inquiry
service list for that order, as well as any companion order covering
the same merchandise from the same country of origin. In accordance
with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in the Federal
Register after November 4, 2021, Commerce will create an annual inquiry
service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and document
management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Electronic
Service System (ACCESS), available at https://access.trade.gov, within
five business days of publication of the order. Each annual inquiry
service list will be saved in ACCESS, under each case number, and under
a specific segment type called ``AISL Annual Inquiry Service List.''
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\15\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September
20, 2021) (Final Rule).
\16\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
\17\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL-January
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\18\ the new annual
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is
published.
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\18\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.
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Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and
representatives, or to update contact information. Any changes or
announcements pertaining to these procedures will be posted to the
ACCESS website.
Special Instructions for Petitioners and Foreign Governments
In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry
service list in the years that follow.'' \19\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and the Government of India should submit their
initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in order
to appear in the first annual inquiry service lists for those orders
for which they qualify as an interested party. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the Government of India will not need
to resubmit their entries of appearance each year to continue to be
included on the annual inquiry service list. However, the petitioner
and the Government of India are responsible for making amendments to
their entries of appearance during the annual update to the annual
inquiry service list in accordance with the procedures described above.
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\19\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD and CVD orders with respect to
grinding media from India, pursuant to sections 736(a) and 706(a) of
the Act. Interested parties can find a list of AD and CVD orders
currently in effect at https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
These orders are issued and published in accordance with sections
736(a) and 706(a) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: June 12, 2025.
Steven Presing,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations.
Appendix I
Scope of the Orders
The scope of these orders covers chrome cast iron grinding media
in spherical (ball) or ovoid shape, with an alloy composition of
seven percent or more (>=7 percent of total mass) chromium (Cr)
content and produced through the casting method, with a nominal
diameter of up to 127 millimeters (mm) and tolerance of plus or
minus 10 mm. The products covered by the scope are currently
classified under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) subheading 7325.91.0000. This HTSUS subheading is provided
for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes only. The written
description of the scope is dispositive.
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