[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 120 (Monday, June 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37424-37426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13377]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-484-803]
Large Diameter Welded Pipe From Greece: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On May 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce)
published the preliminary results of the changed circumstances review
(CCR) of the antidumping duty (AD) order on large diameter welded pipe
(welded pipe) from Greece which revoked, in part, this order as it
relates to certain specific welded pipe products. Commerce has adopted
the scope exclusion language in these final results.
DATES: Applicable June 22, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brittany Bauer, 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) 482-3860.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
On May 2, 2019, Commerce published the AD order on welded pipe from
Greece.\1\ On May 6, 2020, Commerce published the Preliminary
Results,\2\ in which Commerce preliminarily revoked, in part, the Order
with respect to certain welded pipe products with specific combinations
of grades, diameters, and wall thicknesses. These products have been
incorporated into the exclusion language of the scope, below in bold.
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\1\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Amended Final
Affirmative Antidumping Determination and Antidumping Duty Order, 84
FR 18769 (May 2, 2019) (Order).
\2\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 85 FR
26924 (May 6, 2020) (Preliminary Results).
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Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry S.A. (Corinth) placed comments made
by the petitioners, representing ``substantially all'' of the domestic
industry,\3\ in the CCRs of welded pipe from India on the record of
this CCR. These comments indicate that the domestic industry does not
currently produce the particular welded pipe products subject to this
partial revocation request, and the investment needed to do so far
exceeds the potential benefit of such investment. In addition, in these
same comments, the domestic producers provided an explanation
indicating that the commercial reality has changed since the Order was
put in place.
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\3\ See Corinth's Letter, ``Large Diameter Welded Pipe from
Greece: Request for Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation, In
Part,'' dated January 3, 2020, at Exhibits 2-4. Commerce has
interpreted ``substantially all'' to mean at least 85 percent of the
total production of the domestic like product covered by the order.
See, e.g., Supercalendered Paper from Canada: Final Results of
Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation of Countervailing Duty
Order, 83 FR 32268 (July 12, 2018).
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Both in the CCRs of welded pipe from India and the Preliminary
Results, we found that there was ``good cause'' to conduct the CCRs
less than 24 months after the date of publication of notices of the
final determinations in the investigations.\4\ In addition, in the
Preliminary Results, we provided all interested parties an opportunity
to comment and to request a public hearing regarding our preliminary
findings.\5\ No interested party submitted comments.
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\4\ See 19 CFR 351.216(c).
\5\ See Preliminary Results, 85 FR at 26926.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this Order is welded carbon and alloy
steel line pipe (other than stainless steel pipe), more than 406.4 mm
(16 inches) in nominal outside diameter (large diameter welded line
pipe), regardless of wall thickness, length, surface finish, grade, end
finish, or stenciling. Large diameter welded pipe may be used to
transport oil, gas, slurry, steam, or other fluids, liquids, or gases.
Large diameter welded line pipe is used to transport oil, gas, or
natural gas liquids and is normally produced to the American Petroleum
Institute (API) specification 5L. Large diameter welded line pipe can
be produced to comparable foreign specifications, grades and/or
standards or to proprietary specifications, grades and/or standards, or
can be non-graded material. All line pipe meeting the physical
description set forth above, including any dual- or multiple-certified/
stenciled pipe with an API (or comparable) welded line pipe
certification/stencil, is covered by the scope of the Order.
Subject merchandise also includes large diameter welded line pipe
that has been further processed in a third country, including but not
limited to coating, painting, notching, beveling, cutting, punching,
welding, or any other processing that would not otherwise remove the
merchandise from the scope of the Order if performed in the country of
manufacture of the in-scope large diameter welded line pipe.
Excluded from the scope of the Order is structural pipe, which is
produced only to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
standards A500, A252, or A53, or other relevant domestic
specifications, or comparable foreign specifications, grades and/or
standards or to proprietary specifications, grades and/or standards.
Also excluded is large diameter welded pipe produced only to
specifications of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for water
and sewage pipe. Also excluded is large diameter welded pipe in the
following combinations of grades, outside diameters, and wall
thicknesses:
Grade X60, X65, or X70, 18 inches outside diameter, 0.688
inches or greater wall thickness;
Grade X60, X65, or X70, 20 inches outside diameter, 0.688
inches or greater wall thickness;
Grade X60, X65, X70, or X80, 22 inches outside diameter,
0.750 inches or greater wall thickness; and
Grade X60, X65, or X70, 24 inches outside diameter, 0.750
inches or greater wall thickness.
The large diameter welded line pipe that is subject to this Order
is currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) under subheadings 7305.11.1030, 7305.11.1060,
7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 7305.12.1060, 7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030,
7305.19.1060, and 7305.19.5000. Merchandise currently classifiable
under subheadings 7305.31.4000, 7305.31.6090, 7305.39.1000 and
7305.39.5000 and that otherwise meets the above scope language is also
covered. While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of this Order is
dispositive.
Final Results of CCR
Section 751(b) authorizes Commerce to modify the scopes of AD and
CVD orders only for those orders in which we conduct a CCR.\6\ Further,
19 CFR 351.216(c) states that ``good cause'' exists when Commerce
conducts a CCR within 24 months of the publication of a final
determination of an investigation. In the Initiation, Commerce found
that ``good cause'' existed to initiate this CCR.\7\ No parties
submitted comments regarding the Preliminary Results. Therefore, for
the reasons stated in the Initiation and Preliminary Results, Commerce
continues to find that it is appropriate to revoke the Order, in part,
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1) with respect to certain welded
pipe products with specific combinations of grades, diameters, and wall
thicknesses, as reflected in the ``Scope of the Order'' section of this
notice.
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\6\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of
Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances
Review, 84 FR 13888 (April 8, 2019); see also Certain Steel Nails
from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 84 FR 49508 (September 20, 2019).
\7\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Initiation of
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 85 FR 10150, 10151
(Initiation).
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We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to terminate
the suspension of liquidation for all shipments of the products subject
to this changed circumstances review that were entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of
this notice of revocation in the Federal Register. All entries of the
revoked products that were suspended on or after the date of
publication of this revocation notice will be liquidated without regard
to antidumping duties (i.e., refund all cash deposits).
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing this determination and publishing these final
results and notice in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1)
and (2) of the Act and 19
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CFR 351.216(e), 351.221(b) and (c)(3), and 351.222(g)(1) and (4).
Dated: June 16, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2020-13377 Filed 6-19-20; 8:45 am]
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