[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 71 (Monday, April 13, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20469-20470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07717]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-549-817]
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From Thailand:
Final Results of Administrative Review and Determination of No
Shipments; 2017-2018
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that there
were no shipments of subject merchandise during the period of review
(POR) November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018.
DATES: Applicable April 13, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chelsey Simonovich, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1979.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Commerce published the Preliminary Results on December 16, 2019.\1\
Interested parties were asked to comment within 30 days of the date of
publication. We received no comments.
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\1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from
Thailand: Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2017-2018, 84
FR 68398 (December 16, 2019) (Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the order are certain hot-rolled carbon
steel flat products from Thailand. For a complete description of the
scope of the order, see the Appendix to this notice.
Final Determination of No Shipments
In the Preliminary Results, we found that Sahaviriya Steel
Industries Public Co., Ltd. (Sahaviriya) and G Steel Public Company
Ltd. (G Steel) had no shipments of the subject merchandise to the
United States during the POR. Also, in the Preliminary Results, we
stated that, consistent with our practice, it was not appropriate to
rescind the review, but rather to complete the review and issue
appropriate instructions to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) based
on the final results of this review.\2\
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\2\ See, e.g., Magnesium Metal from the Russian Federation:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR
26922, 26923 (May 13, 2010), unchanged in Magnesium Metal from the
Russian Federation: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 75 FR 56989 (September 17, 2010).
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After issuing the Preliminary Results, we received no information
that contradicted our Preliminary Results. No interested party
commented on the Preliminary Results. Therefore, for these final
results, we continue to find that Sahaviriya and G Steel had no
shipments of the subject merchandise to the United States during the
POR.
Assessment Rates
Commerce determines, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on
all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with these
final results of review.\3\ Consistent with Commerce's clarification to
its assessment practice, because we determined that Sahaviriya and G
Steel had no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States
during the POR, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR
produced, but not exported by, Sahaviriya and G Steel, we will instruct
CBP to liquidate any entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate
for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\4\
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\3\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
\4\ For a full discussion, see Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May
6, 2003).
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We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of
publication of the final results of this review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rates for G Steel and
Sahaviriya will remain unchanged from the rate assigned to them in the
most recently completed review of those companies; (2) for merchandise
exported by manufacturers or exporters not covered in this review but
covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate
will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most
recently-completed segment; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered
in this
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review, a prior review, or the original investigation, but the
manufacturer is, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established for the most recently completed segment for the
manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all
other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 4.44 percent, the
all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value
investigation.\5\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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\5\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value; Certain Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand,
66 FR 49623 (September 28, 2001).
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Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties
This notice also 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 the POR. 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 Regarding Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the return or destruction 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/destruction
of APO materials, or conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby
requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the 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)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: April 7, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix--Scope of the Order
For purposes of the Order, the products covered are certain hot-
rolled carbon steel flat products of a rectangular shape, of a width
of 0.5 inch or greater, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal
and whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or
other non-metallic substances, in coils (whether or not in
successively superimposed layers), regardless of thickness, and in
straight lengths of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm and of a width
measuring at least 10 times the thickness. Universal mill plate
(i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box
pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm, but not exceeding 1250 mm, and of
a thickness of not less than 4.0 mm, not in coils and without
patterns in relief) of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm is not
included within the scope of the order.
Specifically included within the scope of the order are vacuum
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-
free (IF)) steels, high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels, and the
substrate for motor lamination steels. IF steels are recognized as
low carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as
titanium or niobium (also commonly referred to as columbium), or
both, added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels
are recognized as steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such
as chromium, copper, niobium, vanadium, and molybdenum. The
substrate for motor lamination steels contains micro-alloying levels
of elements such as silicon and aluminum.
Steel products to be included in the scope of the order,
regardless of definitions in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTS), are products in which: (i) Iron predominates,
by weight, over each of the other contained elements; (ii) the
carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and (iii) none of
the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by weight,
respectively indicated:
1.80 percent of manganese,
or 2.25 percent of silicon,
or 1.00 percent of copper,
or 0.50 percent of aluminum,
or 1.25 percent of chromium,
or 0.30 percent of cobalt,
or 0.40 percent of lead,
or 1.25 percent of nickel,
or 0.30 percent of tungsten,
or 0.10 percent of molybdenum,
or 0.10 percent of niobium,
or 0.15 percent of vanadium,
or 0.15 percent of zirconium.
All products that meet the physical and chemical description
provided above are within the scope of the order unless otherwise
excluded. The following products, by way of example, are outside or
specifically excluded from the scope of the order:
--Alloy hot-rolled steel products in which at least one of the
chemical elements exceeds those listed above (including, e.g., ASTM
specifications A543, A387, A514, A517, A506).
--Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)/American Iron and Steel
Institute (AISI) grades of series 2300 and higher.
--Ball bearings steels, as defined in the HTS.
--Tool steels, as defined in the HTS.
--Silico-manganese (as defined in the HTS) or silicon electrical
steel with a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent.
--ASTM specifications A710 and A736.
--USS Abrasion-resistant steels (USS AR 400, USS AR 500).
--All products (proprietary or otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM
specification (sample specifications: ASTM A506, A507).
--Non-rectangular shapes, not in coils, which are the result of
having been processed by cutting or stamping and which have assumed
the character of articles or products classified outside chapter 72
of the HTS.
The merchandise subject to the order is classified in the HTS at
subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00,
7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60,
7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60,
7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30,
7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90,
7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00,
7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00,
7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30,
7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90. Certain hot-rolled flat-rolled
carbon steel flat products covered by the order, including: Vacuum
degassed fully stabilized; high strength low alloy; and the
substrate for motor lamination steel may also enter under the
following tariff numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00,
7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00, 7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90,
7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30, 7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00,
7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00, 7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and
7226.99.01.80. Subject merchandise may also enter under
7210.70.30.00, 7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30, 7212.40.10.00,
7212.40.50.00, and 7212.50.00.00. Although the HTS subheadings are
provided for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes, the written
description of the merchandise under the order is dispositive.
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