Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil, India, and the Republic of Korea: Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Countervailing Duty Order (the Republic of Korea) and Countervailing Duty Orders (Brazil and India), 64436-64439 [2016-22614]
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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–351–844, C–533–866, C–580–882]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
from Brazil, India, and the Republic of
Korea: Amended Final Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination and
Countervailing Duty Order (the
Republic of Korea) and Countervailing
Duty Orders (Brazil and India)
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final
determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the
International Trade Commission (ITC),
the Department is issuing countervailing
duty (CVD) orders on certain cold-rolled
steel flat products (cold-rolled steel)
from Brazil, India, and the Republic of
Korea (Korea). In addition, the
Department is amending its final
affirmative determination with respect
to Korea to correct the rates assigned to
Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. (Hyundai Steel),
POSCO, and All Others.
DATES: Effective September 20, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sergio Balbontin at (202) 482–6478
AGENCY:
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(Brazil); Robert Bolling at (202) 482–
3434 (India); and Emily Maloof at (202)
482–5649 (Korea); AD/CVD Operations,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(a)
and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended (the Act), on July 20, 2016,
the Department made final
determinations that countervailable
subsidies are being provided to
producers and exporters of cold-rolled
steel from Brazil, India, and Korea.
Pursuant to section 705(d) of the Act,
the Department published the
affirmative final determinations on July
29, 2016.1
On July 27, 2016, Usinas Siderurgicas
de Minas Gerais S.A. (Usiminas) timely
filed ministerial error comments,
alleging that the Department made
errors in the final determination of the
CVD investigation of cold-rolled steel
from Brazil. No other interested party
submitted ministerial error allegations
or rebuttals to Usiminas’ submission.
We analyzed the allegations submitted
by Usiminas and determined that only
one of the three alleged errors is a
ministerial error, as defined by section
705(e) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.224(f).2 However, we determined
that correcting the ministerial error
within the calculations does not change
the overall rate for Usiminas.3
On July 27, 2016, Hyundai Steel and
POSCO timely filed ministerial error
comments, alleging that the Department
made errors in the final determination
of the CVD investigation of cold-rolled
steel from Korea. No other interested
party submitted ministerial error
allegations or rebuttals to Hyundai
Steel’s and POSCO’s submissions. We
analyzed the allegations submitted by
1 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain
Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil: Final
Affirmative Determination, 81 FR 49940 (July 29,
2016) (Brazil CVD Final Determination);
Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain ColdRolled Steel Flat Products from India: Final
Affirmative Determination, 81 FR 49932 (July 29,
2016) (India CVD Final Determination); and
Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain ColdRolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of
Korea: Final Affirmative Determination, 81 FR
49943 (July 29, 2016) (Korea CVD Final
Determination).
2 See Department Memorandum regarding
‘‘Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain ColdRolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil: Ministerial
Error Allegation for the Final Determination,’’ dated
August 24, 2016 (Brazil Ministerial Error Decision
Memorandum).
3 Id.
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Hyundai Steel and POSCO, and
determined that ministerial errors exist,
as defined by section 705(e) of the Act
and 19 CFR 351.224(f).4 See
‘‘Amendment to the Korea Final
Determination’’ section below for
further discussion.
On September 12, 2016, the ITC
notified the Department of its final
determinations that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by
reason of subsidized imports of subject
merchandise from Brazil and Korea,
within the meaning of section
705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, and is
threatened with material injury by
reason of subsidized imports of subject
merchandise from India, within the
meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(ii) of
the Act.5
Scope of the Orders
The products covered by these orders
are certain cold-rolled steel flat
products. For a complete description of
the scope of the orders, see Appendix I.
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Amendment to the Korea CVD Final
Determination
As discussed above, after analyzing
the comments received from Hyundai
Steel and POSCO, we determined, in
accordance with section 705(e) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f), that we
made ministerial errors with regard to
certain calculations in the Korea CVD
Final Determination with respect to
Hyundai Steel and POSCO. This
amended final CVD determination
corrects these errors and revises the ad
valorem subsidy rate for Hyundai Steel
to 3.89 percent (from 3.91 percent), for
4 See Department Memorandum regarding
‘‘Countervailing Duty Investigation: Certain ColdRolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of
Korea: Response to Ministerial Error Comments
filed by Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. and POSCO,’’ dated
August 24, 2016 (Korea Ministerial Error Decision
Memorandum).
5 See Letter to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations, from Irving A. Williamson, Chairman,
U.S. International Trade Commission, regarding
certain cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil,
India, Korea, Russia, and the United Kingdom
(September 12, 2016) (ITC Letter); see also ColdRolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil, India, Korea,
Russia, and the United Kingdom, USITC
Investigation Nos. 701–TA–540, 542–544 and 731–
TA–1283, 1285, 1287, and 1289–1290 (Final),
USITC Publication 4637 (September 2016). The
Department also issued an affirmative final CVD
determination with regard to cold-rolled steel flat
products from the Russian Federation, see
Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain ColdRolled Steel Flat Products from the Russian
Federation: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination and Final Negative Critical
Circumstances Determination, 81 FR 49935 (July
29, 2016), and accompanying Issues and Decision
Memorandum. However, the ITC notified the
Department that imports of cold-rolled steel from
Russia that are subsidized by the Government of
Russia are negligible.
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POSCO to 59.72 percent (from 58.36
percent), and for the All Others rate to
3.89 percent (from 3.91 percent).6
Department’s discontinuation, effective
April 20, 2016, of the suspension of
liquidation.
Countervailing Duty Orders
In accordance with sections
705(b)(1)(A)(i), 705(b)(1)(A)(ii), and
705(d) of the Act, the ITC has notified
the Department of its final
determinations that the industry in the
United States producing cold-rolled
steel is materially injured by reason of
subsidized imports of cold-rolled steel
from Brazil and Korea, and is threatened
with material injury by reason of
subsidized imports of cold-rolled steel
from India.7 Therefore, in accordance
with section 705(c)(2) of the Act, we are
publishing these CVD orders.
India
According to section 706(b)(2) of the
Act, countervailing duties shall be
assessed on subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the date of
publication of the ITC’s notice of final
determination if that determination is
based upon the threat of material injury,
other than threat of material injury as
described in section 706(b)(1) of the Act.
Section 706(b)(1) of the Act states, ‘‘{i}f
the Commission, in its final
determination under section 705(b),
finds material injury or threat of
material injury which, but for the
suspension of liquidation under section
703(d)(2), would have led to a finding
of material injury, then entries of the
merchandise subject to the
countervailing duty order, the
liquidation of which has been
suspended under section 703(d)(2),
shall be subject to the imposition of
countervailing duties under section
701(a).’’ In addition, section 706(b)(2) of
the Act requires CBP to refund any cash
deposits of estimated countervailing
duties posted before the date of
publication of the ITC’s final affirmative
determination, if the ITC’s final
determination is based on threat other
than the threat described in section
706(b)(1) of the Act. Because the ITC’s
final determination with regard to
imports of cold-rolled steel from India is
based on the threat of material injury
and is not accompanied by a finding
that injury would have resulted but for
the imposition of suspension of
liquidation of entries since the
publication of the Department’s India
CVD Preliminary Determination in the
Federal Register,9 section 706(b)(2) of
the Act applies.
Brazil
As a result of the ITC’s final
determinations, in accordance with
section 706(a) of the Act, the
Department will direct U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) to assess,
upon further instruction by the
Department, countervailing duties on
unliquidated entries of cold-rolled steel
from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after
December 22, 2015, the date on which
the Department published its
preliminary affirmative countervailing
duty determinations in the Federal
Register,8 and before April 20, 2016, the
date on which the Department
instructed CBP to discontinue the
suspension of liquidation in accordance
with section 703(d) of the Act. Section
703(d) of the Act states that the
suspension of liquidation pursuant to a
preliminary determination may not
remain in effect for more than four
months. Therefore, entries of cold-rolled
steel from Brazil made on or after April
20, 2016, and prior to the date of
publication of the ITC’s final
determination in the Federal Register,
are not liable for assessment of
countervailing duties due to the
6 See Korea Ministerial Error Decision
Memorandum. See also Department Memorandum
regarding ‘‘Countervailing Duty Investigation of
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Amended Final Determination
Calculation Memorandum for POSCO,’’ dated
August 24, 2016. The All Others rate has changed
because it was determined by the rate calculated for
Hyundai Steel, which has now been corrected.
POSCO’s final subsidy rate was excluded from the
All Others rate because it was determined entirely
under section 776 of the Act. See section
705(c)(5)(A)(i) of the Act.
7 See ITC Letter.
8 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain
Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination With Final
Antidumping Duty Determination, 80 FR 79569
(December 22, 2015) (Brazil CVD Preliminary
Determination).
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Korea
Because the Department’s preliminary
determination in the Korea CVD
investigation was negative, we did not
instruct CBP to discontinue the
suspension of liquidation with regard to
entries of cold-rolled steel from Korea.10
9 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain
Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from India:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination With Final
Antidumping Duty Determination, 80 FR 79562
(December 22, 2015) (India CVD Preliminary
Determination).
10 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Preliminary Negative
Determination and Alignment of Final
Determination With Final Antidumping Duty
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Therefore, with regard to Korea, we will
direct CBP to assess, upon further
instruction by the Department,
countervailing duties on unliquidated
entries of cold-rolled steel entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after July 29, 2016,
the date on which the Department
published the Korea CVD Final
Determination in the Federal Register.
Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 706 of the
Act, we will direct CBP to reinstitute the
suspension of liquidation of cold-rolled
steel from Brazil and India effective on
the date of publication of the ITC’s
notice of final determinations in the
Federal Register, and to continue the
suspension of liquidation of cold-rolled
steel from Korea, effective on the date of
publication of the Department’s notice
of final determination in the Federal
Register. We will also direct CBP to
assess, upon further instruction by the
Department, pursuant to section
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing
duties for each entry of the subject
merchandise in an amount based on the
net countervailable subsidy rates for the
subject merchandise.
On or after the date of publication of
the ITC’s final injury determinations in
the Federal Register, CBP must require,
at the same time as importers would
normally deposit estimated duties on
this merchandise, a cash deposit equal
to the rates noted below:
Exporter/Producer from
Brazil
Subsidy rate
(percent)
Companhia Siderurgica
Nacional (CSN) ...........
Usinas Siderurgicas de
Minas Gerais S.A.
(Usiminas) ...................
All Others ........................
Exporter/Producer from
India
11.31
11.09
11.20
Subsidy rate
(percent)
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JSW Steel Limited and
JSW Steel Coated
Products Limited .........
All Others ........................
Exporter/Producer from
Korea
10.00
10.00
Subsidy rate
(percent)
POSCO ...........................
Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. ..
All Others ........................
59.72
3.89
3.89
Determination, 80 FR 79567 (December 22, 2015)
(Korea CVD Preliminary Determination).
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Termination of the Suspension of
Liquidation
The Department will instruct CBP to
terminate the suspension of liquidation
for entries of cold-rolled steel from
India, entered or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption prior to the
publication of the ITC’s notice of final
determination. The Department will
also instruct CBP to refund any cash
deposits made with respect to entries of
cold-rolled steel entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or
after December 22, 2015 (i.e., the date of
publication of the India CVD
Preliminary Determination), but before
April 20, 2016, (i.e., the date suspension
of liquidation was discontinued in
accordance with section 703(d) of the
Act).
Notifications to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the CVD
orders with respect to cold-rolled steel
from Brazil, India, and Korea, pursuant
to section 706(a) of the Act. Interested
parties may contact the Department’s
Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of
the main Commerce building, for copies
of an updated listed of CVD orders
currently in effect.
These orders are issued and published
in accordance with section 706(a) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: September 14, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Appendix I
The products covered by these orders are
certain cold-rolled (cold-reduced), flat-rolled
steel products, whether or not annealed,
painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or
other non-metallic substances. The products
covered do not include those that are clad,
plated, or coated with metal. The products
covered include coils that have a width or
other lateral measurement (‘‘width’’) of 12.7
mm or greater, regardless of form of coil (e.g.,
in successively superimposed layers, spirally
oscillating, etc.). The products covered also
include products not in coils (e.g., in straight
lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and
a width that is 12.7 mm or greater and that
measures at least 10 times the thickness. The
products covered also include products not
in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a
thickness of 4.75 mm or more and a width
exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least
twice the thickness. The products described
above may be rectangular, square, circular, or
other shape and include products of either
rectangular or non-rectangular cross-section
where such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process, i.e.,
products which have been ‘‘worked after
rolling’’ (e.g., products which have been
beveled or rounded at the edges). For
purposes of the width and thickness
requirements referenced above:
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(1) Where the nominal and actual
measurements vary, a product is within the
scope if application of either the nominal or
actual measurement would place it within
the scope based on the definitions set forth
above, and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for
a specific product (e.g., the thickness of
certain products with non-rectangular crosssection, the width of certain products with
non-rectangular shape, etc.), the
measurement at its greatest width or
thickness applies.
Steel products included in the scope of
these orders are products in which: (1) Iron
predominates, by weight, over each of the
other contained elements; (2) the carbon
content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and
(3) none of the elements listed below exceeds
the quantity, by weight, respectively
indicated:
• 2.50 percent of manganese, or
• 3.30 percent of silicon, or
• 1.50 percent of copper, or
• 1.50 percent of aluminum, or
• 1.25 percent of chromium, or
• 0.30 percent of cobalt, or
• 0.40 percent of lead, or
• 2.00 percent of nickel, or
• 0.30 percent of tungsten (also called
wolfram), or
• 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
• 0.10 percent of niobium (also called
columbium), or
• 0.30 percent of vanadium, or
• 0.30 percent of zirconium
Unless specifically excluded, products are
included in this scope regardless of levels of
boron and titanium.
For example, specifically included in this
scope are vacuum degassed, fully stabilized
(commonly referred to as interstitial-free (IF))
steels, high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels,
motor lamination steels, Advanced High
Strength Steels (AHSS), and Ultra High
Strength Steels (UHSS). IF steels are
recognized as low carbon steels with microalloying levels of elements such as titanium
and/or niobium added to stabilize carbon and
nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are
recognized as steels with micro-alloying
levels of elements such as chromium, copper,
niobium, titanium, vanadium, and
molybdenum. Motor lamination steels
contain micro-alloying levels of elements
such as silicon and aluminum. AHSS and
UHSS are considered high tensile strength
and high elongation steels, although AHSS
and UHSS are covered whether or not they
are high tensile strength or high elongation
steels.
Subject merchandise includes cold-rolled
steel that has been further processed in a
third country, including but not limited to
annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing,
trimming, cutting, punching, and/or slitting,
or any other processing that would not
otherwise remove the merchandise from the
scope of the investigation if performed in the
country of manufacture of the cold-rolled
steel.
All products that meet the written physical
description, and in which the chemistry
quantities do not exceed any one of the noted
element levels listed above, are within the
scope of this order unless specifically
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excluded. The following products are outside
of and/or specifically excluded from the
scope of these orders:
• Ball bearing steels;11
• Tool steels;12
• Silico-manganese steel;13
• Grain-oriented electrical steels (GOES) as
defined in the final determination of the U.S.
Department of Commerce in Grain-Oriented
Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan, and
Poland.14
• Non-Oriented Electrical Steels (NOES),
as defined in the antidumping orders issued
by the U.S. Department of Commerce in NonOriented Electrical Steel from the People’s
Republic of China, Germany, Japan, the
Republic of Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan.15
11 Ball bearing steels are defined as steels which
contain, in addition to iron, each of the following
elements by weight in the amount specified: (i) Not
less than 0.95 nor more than 1.13 percent of carbon;
(ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent
of manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03
percent of sulfur; (iv) none, or not more than 0.03
percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than 0.18 nor
more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than
1.25 nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii)
none, or not more than 0.28 percent of nickel; (viii)
none, or not more than 0.38 percent of copper; and
(ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of
molybdenum.
12 Tool steels are defined as steels which contain
the following combinations of elements in the
quantity by weight respectively indicated: (i) More
than 1.2 percent carbon and more than 10.5 percent
chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent
chromium; or (iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon
and 1 percent to 1.8 percent, inclusive, manganese;
or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent, inclusive,
chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive,
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon
and not less than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi)
not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less than
5.5 percent tungsten.
13 Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels
containing by weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent
of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or more but not more than
1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6 percent or
more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
14 See Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from
Germany, Japan, and Poland: Final Determinations
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Certain Final
Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, 79 FR 42501, 42503 (July 22, 2014).
This determination defines grain-oriented electrical
steel as ‘‘a flat-rolled alloy steel product containing
by weight at least 0.6 percent but not more than 6
percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent of
carbon, not more than 1.0 percent of aluminum, and
no other element in an amount that would give the
steel the characteristics of another alloy steel, in
coils or in straight lengths.’’
15 See Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the
People’s Republic of China, Germany, Japan, the
Republic of Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan:
Antidumping Duty Orders, 79 FR 71741, 71741–42
(December 3, 2014). The orders define NOES as
‘‘cold-rolled, flat-rolled, alloy steel products,
whether or not in coils, regardless of width, having
an actual thickness of 0.20 mm or more, in which
the core loss is substantially equal in any direction
of magnetization in the plane of the material. The
term ‘substantially equal’ means that the cross grain
direction of core loss is no more than 1.5 times the
straight grain direction (i.e., the rolling direction) of
core loss. NOES has a magnetic permeability that
does not exceed 1.65 Tesla when tested at a field
of 800 A/m (equivalent to 10 Oersteds) along (i.e.,
parallel to) the rolling direction of the sheet (i.e.,
B800 value). NOES contains by weight more than
1.00 percent of silicon but less than 3.5 percent of
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The products subject to these orders are
currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under
item numbers: 7209.15.0000, 7209.16.0030,
7209.16.0060, 7209.16.0070, 7209.16.0091,
7209.17.0030, 7209.17.0060, 7209.17.0070,
7209.17.0091, 7209.18.1530, 7209.18.1560,
7209.18.2510, 7209.18.2520, 7209.18.2580,
7209.18.6020, 7209.18.6090, 7209.25.0000,
7209.26.0000, 7209.27.0000, 7209.28.0000,
7209.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7211.23.1500,
7211.23.2000, 7211.23.3000, 7211.23.4500,
7211.23.6030, 7211.23.6060, 7211.23.6090,
7211.29.2030, 7211.29.2090, 7211.29.4500,
7211.29.6030, 7211.29.6080, 7211.90.0000,
7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7225.50.6000,
7225.50.8080, 7225.99.0090, 7226.92.5000,
7226.92.7050, and 7226.92.8050.
The products subject to the orders may also
enter under the following HTSUS numbers:
7210.90.9000, 7212.50.0000, 7215.10.0010,
7215.10.0080, 7215.50.0016, 7215.50.0018,
7215.50.0020, 7215.50.0061, 7215.50.0063,
7215.50.0065, 7215.50.0090, 7215.90.5000,
7217.10.1000, 7217.10.2000, 7217.10.3000,
7217.10.7000, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030,
7217.90.5060, 7217.90.5090, 7225.19.0000,
7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000, 7226.99.0180,
7228.50.5015, 7228.50.5040, 7228.50.5070,
7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are
provided for convenience and U.S. Customs
purposes only. The written description of the
scope of the orders is dispositive.
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National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a public meeting of its Skate
Advisory Panel to consider actions
affecting New England fisheries in the
exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Garden Hotel, One Thurber
Street, Warwick, RI 02886; telephone:
(401) 734–9600.
SUMMARY:
silicon, not more than 0.08 percent of carbon, and
not more than 1.5 percent of aluminum. NOES has
a surface oxide coating, to which an insulation
coating may be applied.’’
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Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda
The Advisory Panel will review and
discuss the draft scoping document for
the upcoming limited access
amendment to the Northeast Skate
Complex Fishery Management Plan.
They will also develop
recommendations to the Skate
Committee for 2017 Council priorities as
well as discuss other business, as
necessary.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at
(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: September 15, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a joint public meeting of its
Monkfish Advisory Panel to consider
actions affecting New England fisheries
in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
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SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-351-844, C-533-866, C-580-882]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil, India, and
the Republic of Korea: Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination and Countervailing Duty Order (the Republic of Korea) and
Countervailing Duty Orders (Brazil and India)
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (ITC),
the Department is issuing countervailing duty (CVD) orders on certain
cold-rolled steel flat products (cold-rolled steel) from Brazil, India,
and the Republic of Korea (Korea). In addition, the Department is
amending its final affirmative determination with respect to Korea to
correct the rates assigned to Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. (Hyundai Steel),
POSCO, and All Others.
DATES: Effective September 20, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sergio Balbontin at (202) 482-6478
(Brazil); Robert Bolling at (202) 482-3434 (India); and Emily Maloof at
(202) 482-5649 (Korea); AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(a) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (the Act), on July 20, 2016, the Department made
final determinations that countervailable subsidies are being provided
to producers and exporters of cold-rolled steel from Brazil, India, and
Korea. Pursuant to section 705(d) of the Act, the Department published
the affirmative final determinations on July 29, 2016.\1\
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\1\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from Brazil: Final Affirmative Determination, 81
FR 49940 (July 29, 2016) (Brazil CVD Final Determination);
Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat
Products from India: Final Affirmative Determination, 81 FR 49932
(July 29, 2016) (India CVD Final Determination); and Countervailing
Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
the Republic of Korea: Final Affirmative Determination, 81 FR 49943
(July 29, 2016) (Korea CVD Final Determination).
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On July 27, 2016, Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais S.A.
(Usiminas) timely filed ministerial error comments, alleging that the
Department made errors in the final determination of the CVD
investigation of cold-rolled steel from Brazil. No other interested
party submitted ministerial error allegations or rebuttals to Usiminas'
submission. We analyzed the allegations submitted by Usiminas and
determined that only one of the three alleged errors is a ministerial
error, as defined by section 705(e) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.224(f).\2\ However, we determined that correcting the ministerial
error within the calculations does not change the overall rate for
Usiminas.\3\
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\2\ See Department Memorandum regarding ``Countervailing Duty
Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Brazil: Ministerial Error Allegation for the Final Determination,''
dated August 24, 2016 (Brazil Ministerial Error Decision
Memorandum).
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On July 27, 2016, Hyundai Steel and POSCO timely filed ministerial
error comments, alleging that the Department made errors in the final
determination of the CVD investigation of cold-rolled steel from Korea.
No other interested party submitted ministerial error allegations or
rebuttals to Hyundai Steel's and POSCO's submissions. We analyzed the
allegations submitted by
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Hyundai Steel and POSCO, and determined that ministerial errors exist,
as defined by section 705(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f).\4\ See
``Amendment to the Korea Final Determination'' section below for
further discussion.
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\4\ See Department Memorandum regarding ``Countervailing Duty
Investigation: Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Response to Ministerial Error Comments filed by
Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. and POSCO,'' dated August 24, 2016 (Korea
Ministerial Error Decision Memorandum).
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On September 12, 2016, the ITC notified the Department of its final
determinations that an industry in the United States is materially
injured by reason of subsidized imports of subject merchandise from
Brazil and Korea, within the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the
Act, and is threatened with material injury by reason of subsidized
imports of subject merchandise from India, within the meaning of
section 705(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act.\5\
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\5\ See Letter to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, from Irving A.
Williamson, Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission, regarding
certain cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil, India, Korea,
Russia, and the United Kingdom (September 12, 2016) (ITC Letter);
see also Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil, India, Korea,
Russia, and the United Kingdom, USITC Investigation Nos. 701-TA-540,
542-544 and 731-TA-1283, 1285, 1287, and 1289-1290 (Final), USITC
Publication 4637 (September 2016). The Department also issued an
affirmative final CVD determination with regard to cold-rolled steel
flat products from the Russian Federation, see Countervailing Duty
Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Russian Federation: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination and Final Negative Critical Circumstances
Determination, 81 FR 49935 (July 29, 2016), and accompanying Issues
and Decision Memorandum. However, the ITC notified the Department
that imports of cold-rolled steel from Russia that are subsidized by
the Government of Russia are negligible.
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Scope of the Orders
The products covered by these orders are certain cold-rolled steel
flat products. For a complete description of the scope of the orders,
see Appendix I.
Amendment to the Korea CVD Final Determination
As discussed above, after analyzing the comments received from
Hyundai Steel and POSCO, we determined, in accordance with section
705(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f), that we made ministerial
errors with regard to certain calculations in the Korea CVD Final
Determination with respect to Hyundai Steel and POSCO. This amended
final CVD determination corrects these errors and revises the ad
valorem subsidy rate for Hyundai Steel to 3.89 percent (from 3.91
percent), for POSCO to 59.72 percent (from 58.36 percent), and for the
All Others rate to 3.89 percent (from 3.91 percent).\6\
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\6\ See Korea Ministerial Error Decision Memorandum. See also
Department Memorandum regarding ``Countervailing Duty Investigation
of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of
Korea: Amended Final Determination Calculation Memorandum for
POSCO,'' dated August 24, 2016. The All Others rate has changed
because it was determined by the rate calculated for Hyundai Steel,
which has now been corrected. POSCO's final subsidy rate was
excluded from the All Others rate because it was determined entirely
under section 776 of the Act. See section 705(c)(5)(A)(i) of the
Act.
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Countervailing Duty Orders
In accordance with sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i), 705(b)(1)(A)(ii), and
705(d) of the Act, the ITC has notified the Department of its final
determinations that the industry in the United States producing cold-
rolled steel is materially injured by reason of subsidized imports of
cold-rolled steel from Brazil and Korea, and is threatened with
material injury by reason of subsidized imports of cold-rolled steel
from India.\7\ Therefore, in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the
Act, we are publishing these CVD orders.
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\7\ See ITC Letter.
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Brazil
As a result of the ITC's final determinations, in accordance with
section 706(a) of the Act, the Department will direct U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further instruction by the
Department, countervailing duties on unliquidated entries of cold-
rolled steel from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after December 22, 2015, the date on which the
Department published its preliminary affirmative countervailing duty
determinations in the Federal Register,\8\ and before April 20, 2016,
the date on which the Department instructed CBP to discontinue the
suspension of liquidation in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act.
Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to a preliminary determination may not remain in effect for
more than four months. Therefore, entries of cold-rolled steel from
Brazil made on or after April 20, 2016, and prior to the date of
publication of the ITC's final determination in the Federal Register,
are not liable for assessment of countervailing duties due to the
Department's discontinuation, effective April 20, 2016, of the
suspension of liquidation.
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\8\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from Brazil: Preliminary Affirmative
Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final
Antidumping Duty Determination, 80 FR 79569 (December 22, 2015)
(Brazil CVD Preliminary Determination).
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India
According to section 706(b)(2) of the Act, countervailing duties
shall be assessed on subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the
ITC's notice of final determination if that determination is based upon
the threat of material injury, other than threat of material injury as
described in section 706(b)(1) of the Act. Section 706(b)(1) of the Act
states, ``{i{time} f the Commission, in its final determination under
section 705(b), finds material injury or threat of material injury
which, but for the suspension of liquidation under section 703(d)(2),
would have led to a finding of material injury, then entries of the
merchandise subject to the countervailing duty order, the liquidation
of which has been suspended under section 703(d)(2), shall be subject
to the imposition of countervailing duties under section 701(a).'' In
addition, section 706(b)(2) of the Act requires CBP to refund any cash
deposits of estimated countervailing duties posted before the date of
publication of the ITC's final affirmative determination, if the ITC's
final determination is based on threat other than the threat described
in section 706(b)(1) of the Act. Because the ITC's final determination
with regard to imports of cold-rolled steel from India is based on the
threat of material injury and is not accompanied by a finding that
injury would have resulted but for the imposition of suspension of
liquidation of entries since the publication of the Department's India
CVD Preliminary Determination in the Federal Register,\9\ section
706(b)(2) of the Act applies.
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\9\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from India: Preliminary Affirmative
Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final
Antidumping Duty Determination, 80 FR 79562 (December 22, 2015)
(India CVD Preliminary Determination).
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Korea
Because the Department's preliminary determination in the Korea CVD
investigation was negative, we did not instruct CBP to discontinue the
suspension of liquidation with regard to entries of cold-rolled steel
from Korea.\10\
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Therefore, with regard to Korea, we will direct CBP to assess, upon
further instruction by the Department, countervailing duties on
unliquidated entries of cold-rolled steel entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after July 29, 2016, the date on which
the Department published the Korea CVD Final Determination in the
Federal Register.
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\10\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-
Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary
Negative Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With
Final Antidumping Duty Determination, 80 FR 79567 (December 22,
2015) (Korea CVD Preliminary Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, we will direct CBP to
reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of cold-rolled steel from
Brazil and India effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
notice of final determinations in the Federal Register, and to continue
the suspension of liquidation of cold-rolled steel from Korea,
effective on the date of publication of the Department's notice of
final determination in the Federal Register. We will also direct CBP to
assess, upon further instruction by the Department, pursuant to section
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties for each entry of the
subject merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable
subsidy rates for the subject merchandise.
On or after the date of publication of the ITC's final injury
determinations in the Federal Register, CBP must require, at the same
time as importers would normally deposit estimated duties on this
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates noted below:
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Subsidy rate
Exporter/Producer from Brazil (percent)
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Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN)................. 11.31
Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (Usiminas).. 11.09
All Others........................................... 11.20
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Subsidy rate
Exporter/Producer from India (percent)
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JSW Steel Limited and JSW Steel Coated Products 10.00
Limited.............................................
All Others........................................... 10.00
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Subsidy rate
Exporter/Producer from Korea (percent)
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POSCO................................................ 59.72
Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd............................... 3.89
All Others........................................... 3.89
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Termination of the Suspension of Liquidation
The Department will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of
liquidation for entries of cold-rolled steel from India, entered or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption prior to the publication of
the ITC's notice of final determination. The Department will also
instruct CBP to refund any cash deposits made with respect to entries
of cold-rolled steel entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after December 22, 2015 (i.e., the date of
publication of the India CVD Preliminary Determination), but before
April 20, 2016, (i.e., the date suspension of liquidation was
discontinued in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act).
Notifications to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the CVD orders with respect to cold-rolled
steel from Brazil, India, and Korea, pursuant to section 706(a) of the
Act. Interested parties may contact the Department's Central Records
Unit, Room B8024 of the main Commerce building, for copies of an
updated listed of CVD orders currently in effect.
These orders are issued and published in accordance with section
706(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: September 14, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
The products covered by these orders are certain cold-rolled
(cold-reduced), flat-rolled steel products, whether or not annealed,
painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other non-metallic
substances. The products covered do not include those that are clad,
plated, or coated with metal. The products covered include coils
that have a width or other lateral measurement (``width'') of 12.7
mm or greater, regardless of form of coil (e.g., in successively
superimposed layers, spirally oscillating, etc.). The products
covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in straight
lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and a width that is 12.7
mm or greater and that measures at least 10 times the thickness. The
products covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in
straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more and a width
exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least twice the thickness. The
products described above may be rectangular, square, circular, or
other shape and include products of either rectangular or non-
rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., products which have been
``worked after rolling'' (e.g., products which have been beveled or
rounded at the edges). For purposes of the width and thickness
requirements referenced above:
(1) Where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is
within the scope if application of either the nominal or actual
measurement would place it within the scope based on the definitions
set forth above, and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product
(e.g., the thickness of certain products with non-rectangular cross-
section, the width of certain products with non-rectangular shape,
etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies.
Steel products included in the scope of these orders are
products in which: (1) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of
the other contained elements; (2) the carbon content is 2 percent or
less, by weight; and (3) none of the elements listed below exceeds
the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:
2.50 percent of manganese, or
3.30 percent of silicon, or
1.50 percent of copper, or
1.50 percent of aluminum, or
1.25 percent of chromium, or
0.30 percent of cobalt, or
0.40 percent of lead, or
2.00 percent of nickel, or
0.30 percent of tungsten (also called wolfram), or
0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium (also called columbium), or
0.30 percent of vanadium, or
0.30 percent of zirconium
Unless specifically excluded, products are included in this
scope regardless of levels of boron and titanium.
For example, specifically included in this scope are vacuum
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-
free (IF)) steels, high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels, motor
lamination steels, Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS), and Ultra
High Strength Steels (UHSS). IF steels are recognized as low carbon
steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as titanium and/
or niobium added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA
steels are recognized as steels with micro-alloying levels of
elements such as chromium, copper, niobium, titanium, vanadium, and
molybdenum. Motor lamination steels contain micro-alloying levels of
elements such as silicon and aluminum. AHSS and UHSS are considered
high tensile strength and high elongation steels, although AHSS and
UHSS are covered whether or not they are high tensile strength or
high elongation steels.
Subject merchandise includes cold-rolled steel that has been
further processed in a third country, including but not limited to
annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing, trimming, cutting,
punching, and/or slitting, or any other processing that would not
otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the investigation
if performed in the country of manufacture of the cold-rolled steel.
All products that meet the written physical description, and in
which the chemistry quantities do not exceed any one of the noted
element levels listed above, are within the scope of this order
unless specifically
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excluded. The following products are outside of and/or specifically
excluded from the scope of these orders:
Ball bearing steels;\11\
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\11\ Ball bearing steels are defined as steels which contain, in
addition to iron, each of the following elements by weight in the
amount specified: (i) Not less than 0.95 nor more than 1.13 percent
of carbon; (ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent of
manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03 percent of sulfur; (iv)
none, or not more than 0.03 percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than
0.18 nor more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than 1.25
nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii) none, or not more than
0.28 percent of nickel; (viii) none, or not more than 0.38 percent
of copper; and (ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of
molybdenum.
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Tool steels;\12\
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\12\ Tool steels are defined as steels which contain the
following combinations of elements in the quantity by weight
respectively indicated: (i) More than 1.2 percent carbon and more
than 10.5 percent chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent chromium; or
(iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon and 1 percent to 1.8
percent, inclusive, manganese; or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent,
inclusive, chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive,
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less
than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi) not less than 0.5 percent
carbon and not less than 5.5 percent tungsten.
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Silico-manganese steel;\13\
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\13\ Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels containing by
weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or
more but not more than 1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6
percent or more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
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Grain-oriented electrical steels (GOES) as defined in
the final determination of the U.S. Department of Commerce in Grain-
Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan, and Poland.\14\
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\14\ See Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan,
and Poland: Final Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
and Certain Final Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, 79 FR 42501, 42503 (July 22, 2014). This
determination defines grain-oriented electrical steel as ``a flat-
rolled alloy steel product containing by weight at least 0.6 percent
but not more than 6 percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent
of carbon, not more than 1.0 percent of aluminum, and no other
element in an amount that would give the steel the characteristics
of another alloy steel, in coils or in straight lengths.''
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Non-Oriented Electrical Steels (NOES), as defined in
the antidumping orders issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce in
Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the People's Republic of China,
Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan.\15\
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\15\ See Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the People's
Republic of China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden,
and Taiwan: Antidumping Duty Orders, 79 FR 71741, 71741-42 (December
3, 2014). The orders define NOES as ``cold-rolled, flat-rolled,
alloy steel products, whether or not in coils, regardless of width,
having an actual thickness of 0.20 mm or more, in which the core
loss is substantially equal in any direction of magnetization in the
plane of the material. The term `substantially equal' means that the
cross grain direction of core loss is no more than 1.5 times the
straight grain direction (i.e., the rolling direction) of core loss.
NOES has a magnetic permeability that does not exceed 1.65 Tesla
when tested at a field of 800 A/m (equivalent to 10 Oersteds) along
(i.e., parallel to) the rolling direction of the sheet (i.e., B800
value). NOES contains by weight more than 1.00 percent of silicon
but less than 3.5 percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent of
carbon, and not more than 1.5 percent of aluminum. NOES has a
surface oxide coating, to which an insulation coating may be
applied.''
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The products subject to these orders are currently classified in
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under
item numbers: 7209.15.0000, 7209.16.0030, 7209.16.0060,
7209.16.0070, 7209.16.0091, 7209.17.0030, 7209.17.0060,
7209.17.0070, 7209.17.0091, 7209.18.1530, 7209.18.1560,
7209.18.2510, 7209.18.2520, 7209.18.2580, 7209.18.6020,
7209.18.6090, 7209.25.0000, 7209.26.0000, 7209.27.0000,
7209.28.0000, 7209.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7211.23.1500,
7211.23.2000, 7211.23.3000, 7211.23.4500, 7211.23.6030,
7211.23.6060, 7211.23.6090, 7211.29.2030, 7211.29.2090,
7211.29.4500, 7211.29.6030, 7211.29.6080, 7211.90.0000,
7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7225.50.6000, 7225.50.8080,
7225.99.0090, 7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, and 7226.92.8050.
The products subject to the orders may also enter under the
following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000, 7212.50.0000, 7215.10.0010,
7215.10.0080, 7215.50.0016, 7215.50.0018, 7215.50.0020,
7215.50.0061, 7215.50.0063, 7215.50.0065, 7215.50.0090,
7215.90.5000, 7217.10.1000, 7217.10.2000, 7217.10.3000,
7217.10.7000, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060,
7217.90.5090, 7225.19.0000, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000,
7226.99.0180, 7228.50.5015, 7228.50.5040, 7228.50.5070,
7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of
the orders is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2016-22614 Filed 9-19-16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
