[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 240 (Friday, December 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68108-68109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27044]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-549-840]
Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod From Thailand: Antidumping
Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of
Commerce (Commerce) and the International Trade Commission (ITC),
Commerce is issuing an antidumping duty order on carbon and alloy steel
threaded rod from Thailand.
DATES: Applicable December 13, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Halle or Robert Scully, AD/CVD
Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-0176 or (202) 482-0572,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on October 21,
2019, Commerce published its affirmative final determination in the
less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation, including its affirmative
determination of critical circumstances, with respect to imports of
carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Thailand.\1\ On December 5,
2019, the ITC notified Commerce of its final determination pursuant to
section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act that an industry in the United
States is materially injured by reason of the LTFV imports of carbon
and alloy steel threaded rod from Thailand, and its determination that
critical circumstances do not exist with respect to imports of subject
merchandise from Thailand.\2\
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\1\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from Thailand: Final
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final
Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 84 FR 56162
(October 21, 2019).
\2\ See Notification Letter from the ITC, dated December 5,
2019.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this order is carbon and alloy steel
threaded rod from Thailand. For a complete description of the scope of
the order, see the appendix to this notice.
Antidumping Duty Order
On December 5, 2019, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act,
the ITC notified Commerce of its final determination in this
investigation, in which it found 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 carbon and alloy steel threaded rod
from Thailand sold at LTFV, and further found that critical
circumstances do not exist with respect to imports of subject
merchandise from Thailand. Therefore, in accordance with section
735(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce is issuing this antidumping duty order.
Because the ITC determined that an industry in the United States is
materially injured by imports of carbon and alloy steel threaded rod
from Thailand that are sold at LTFV, section 736(b)(1) of the Act is
applicable. Accordingly, Commerce will instruct 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
carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Thailand exceeds the export
price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise for entries of
carbon and alloy steel threaded rods from Thailand which are entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after August 7,
2019, the date of publication of the Preliminary Determination.\3\ We
will not include entries occurring after the expiration of the
provisional measures period and before the date of publication of the
ITC's final affirmative determination under section 735(b) of the Act,
as further described below.
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\3\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from Thailand:
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 84
FR 38597 (August 7, 2019) (Preliminary Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce will instruct
CBP to suspend liquidation of all appropriate entries of carbon and
alloy steel threaded rod from Thailand as described in the appendix to
this notice which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the date of publication of the ITC's notice of
final determination in the Federal Register. We will also instruct CBP
to require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit
estimated customs duties on this merchandise, cash deposits for the
subject merchandise equal to the estimated weighted average dumping
margins listed below. The all-others rate applies to all producers or
exporters not specifically listed.
In accordance with section 736(b)(2) of the Act, Commerce will
instruct CBP to release any bond or other security, and refund any cash
deposit made to secure the payment of antidumping duties with respect
to entries of the merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption before the date of publication of the ITC's final
affirmative determination under section 735(b) of the Act. Further,
Commerce will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation
of, and to liquidate without regard to antidumping duties, entries of
carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Thailand which are entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption prior to the date of
publication of the ITC's affirmative determination under section 735(b)
of the Act.
Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that instructions issued 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
Commerce to extend that four-month period to no more than six months.
Because no party requested an extension of provisional measures,
provisional measures were in effect beginning on the date of
publication of the Preliminary Determination and ending on December 5,
2019. Pursuant to section 737(b) of the Act, the collection of cash
deposits at the rates listed above will begin on the date of
publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal
Register.
Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act and our
practice, we will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of
liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties,
unliquidated entries of carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from
Thailand entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after December 5, 2019, the date on which the provisional measures
expired, until and through the day preceding the date of publication of
the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal Register.
Suspension of liquidation will resume on the date of publication of the
ITC's final determination in the Federal Register.
Critical Circumstances
In its final determination, the ITC did not make an affirmative
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circumstances finding with respect to imports of subject merchandise
from Thailand that were subject to Commerce's final affirmative
critical circumstances determination. Accordingly, Commerce will
instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to
secure the payment of estimated antidumping duties with respect to
entries of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after May 9, 2019 (i.e., 90 days prior to the
date of publication of the Preliminary Determination), but before
August 7, 2019 (i.e., the publication date of the Preliminary
Determination).
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
The weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Tycoons Worldwide Group (Thailand) Co. Ltd.................. 20.83
All Others.................................................. 20.83
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to
carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Thailand pursuant to section
736(a) of the Act. Interested parties can find a list of antidumping
duty orders currently in effect at http://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
This order is issued and published in accordance with section
736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: December 6, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the scope of this investigation is
carbon and alloy steel threaded rod. Steel threaded rod is certain
threaded rod, bar, or studs, of carbon or alloy steel, having a
solid, circular cross section of any diameter, in any straight
length. Steel threaded rod is normally drawn, cold-rolled, threaded,
and straightened, or it may be hot-rolled. In addition, the steel
threaded rod, bar, or studs subject to these investigations are non-
headed and threaded along greater than 25 percent of their total
actual length. A variety of finishes or coatings, such as plain oil
finish as a temporary rust protectant, zinc coating (i.e.,
galvanized, whether by electroplating or hot-dipping), paint, and
other similar finishes and coatings, may be applied to the
merchandise.
Steel threaded rod is normally produced to American Society for
Testing and Materials (ASTM) specifications ASTM A36, ASTM A193 B7/
B7m, ASTM A193 B16, ASTM A307, ASTM A320 L7/L7M, ASTM A320 L43, ASTM
A354 BC and BD, ASTM A449, ASTM F1554-36, ASTM F1554-55, ASTM F1554
Grade 105, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
specification ASME B18.31.3, and American Petroleum Institute (API)
specification API 20E. All steel threaded rod meeting the physical
description set forth above is covered by the scope of these
investigations, whether or not produced according to a particular
standard.
Subject merchandise includes material matching the above
description that has been finished, assembled, or packaged in a
third country, including by cutting, chamfering, coating, or
painting the threaded rod, by attaching the threaded rod to, or
packaging it with, another product, or any other finishing,
assembly, or packaging operation that would not otherwise remove the
merchandise from the scope of this investigation if performed in the
country of manufacture of the threaded rod.
Carbon and alloy steel threaded rod are also included in the
scope of this investigation whether or not imported attached to, or
in conjunction with, other parts and accessories such as nuts and
washers. If carbon and alloy steel threaded rod are imported
attached to, or in conjunction with, such non-subject merchandise,
only the threaded rod is included in the scope.
Excluded from the scope of this investigation is: (1) Threaded
rod, bar, or studs which are threaded only on one or both ends and
the threading covers 25 percent or less of the total actual length;
and (2) stainless steel threaded rod, defined as steel threaded rod
containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5
percent or more of chromium, with our without other elements.
Excluded from the scope of the antidumping investigation on
steel threaded rod from the People's Republic of China is any
merchandise covered by the existing antidumping order on Certain
Steel Threaded Rod from the People's Republic of China. See Certain
Steel Threaded Rod from the People's Republic of China: Notice of
Antidumping Duty Order, 74 FR 17154 (April 14, 2009).
Specifically excluded from the scope of this investigation is
threaded rod that is imported as part of a package of hardware in
conjunction with a ready-to-assemble piece of furniture.
Steel threaded rod is currently classifiable under subheadings
7318.15.5051, 7318.15.5056, and 7318.15.5090 of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Subject merchandise
may also enter under subheading 7318.15.2095 and 7318.19.0000 of the
HTSUS. The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S.
Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope is
dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2019-27044 Filed 12-12-19; 8:45 am]
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