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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–469–815]
Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From
Spain: Antidumping Duty Order
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Based on affirmative final
determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the
International Trade Commission (the
ITC), the Department is issuing an
antidumping duty order on finished
carbon steel flanges from Spain.
DATES: June 14, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Flessner at (202) 482–6312,
AD/CVD Operations Office VI,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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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 April 17, 2017, the
Department published its affirmative
final determination in the less-than-fairvalue (LTFV) investigation of finished
carbon steel flanges from Spain.1 On
June 7, 2017, the ITC notified the
Department of its final affirmative
determination, pursuant to section
735(d) of the Act, 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
1 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from Spain:
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, 82 FR 18108 (April 17, 2017) (Final
Determination).
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the LTFV imports of finished carbon
steel flanges from Spain.2
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this
order is finished carbon steel flanges
from Spain.3
Antidumping Duty Order
As stated above, on June 7, 2017, in
accordance with section 735(d) of the
Act, the ITC notified the Department of
its final determination that the industry
in the United States producing finished
carbon steel flanges is materially injured
by reason of the LTFV imports of
finished carbon steel flanges from
Spain.4 Therefore, in accordance with
section 735(c)(2) of the Act, we are
issuing this antidumping duty order.
Because the ITC determined that
imports of finished carbon steel flanges
from Spain are materially injuring a U.S.
industry, unliquidated entries of such
merchandise from Spain 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withdrawn from warehouse, for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, the Department will
direct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further
instruction by the Department,
antidumping duties equal to the amount
by which the NV of the merchandise
exceeds the export price (or constructed
export price) of the merchandise, for all
relevant entries of finished carbon steel
flanges from Spain. Antidumping duties
will be assessed on unliquidated entries
of finished carbon steel flanges from
Spain entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after
February 8, 2017, the date of publication
of the Preliminary Determination,5 but
will not include entries occurring after
the expiration of the provisional
measures period and before publication
in the Federal Register of the ITC’s final
injury determination, as further
described below.
Continuation of Suspension of
Liquidation
In accordance with section
735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will instruct
CBP to continue to suspend liquidation
on all relevant entries of finished carbon
2 See Letter from the ITC regarding finished
carbon steel flanges from Spain, dated June 7, 2017
(ITC Letter). See also Finished Carbon Steel Flanges
from Spain Investigation No. 731–TA–1333 (Final)
USITC Publication 4696 (June 2017) (ITC Report).
3 For a full description of the scope of this order,
see the Appendix to this notice.
4 See ITC Letter and ITC Report.
5 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from Spain:
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value, 82 FR 9723 (February 8, 2017)
(Preliminary Determination).
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steel flanges from Spain. These
instructions suspending liquidation will
remain in effect until further notice.
We will also instruct CBP to require
cash deposits for estimated antidumping
duties equal to the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins indicated
below. Accordingly, effective on the
date of publication in the Federal
Register of the ITC’s final affirmative
injury determination, CBP will require,
at the same time as importers would
normally deposit estimated duties on
this subject merchandise, a cash deposit
equal to the estimated weighted-average
dumping margins listed below.6 The
‘‘all-others’’ rates apply to all producers
or exporters not specifically listed.
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 the Department to extend that
four-month period to no more than six
months. We received no such request. In
the underlying investigation, the
Department published the Preliminary
Determination on February 8, 2017.
Therefore, the unextended period,
beginning on the date of publication of
the Preliminary Determination, ended
on June 8, 2017. Furthermore, section
737(b) of the Act states that definitive
duties are to begin on the date of
publication of the ITC’s final injury
determination.
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 finished carbon steel flanges
from Spain entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption after June
8, 2017, the date on which the
provisional measures expired, until and
through the day preceding the date of
publication of the ITC’s injury
determinations in the Federal Register.
Suspension of liquidation will resume
on the date of publication of the ITC’s
determination in the Federal Register.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping
Margins
The estimated weighted-average
dumping margins for this antidumping
order are as follows:
6 See
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Exporter/manufacturer
Weighted-average
dumping margins
(percent)
ULMA Forja, S.Coop ....
All Others ......................
24.43
18.81
Notifications to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the
antidumping duty order with respect to
finished carbon steel flanges from Spain
pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act.
Interested parties can find a list of
antidumping duty orders currently in
effect at https://enforcement.trade.gov/
stats/iastats1.html.
This order is published in accordance
with section and 736(a) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: June 9, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
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Appendix—Scope of the Order
The scope of this order covers finished
carbon steel flanges. Finished carbon steel
flanges differ from unfinished carbon steel
flanges (also known as carbon steel flange
forgings) in that they have undergone further
processing after forging, including, but not
limited to, beveling, bore threading, center or
step boring, face machining, taper boring,
machining ends or surfaces, drilling bolt
holes, and/or de-burring or shot blasting. Any
one of these post-forging processes suffices to
render the forging into a finished carbon steel
flange for purposes of this order. However,
mere heat treatment of a carbon steel flange
forging (without any other further processing
after forging) does not render the forging into
a finished carbon steel flange for purposes of
this order.
While these finished carbon steel flanges
are generally manufactured to specification
ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 series A or
series B, the scope is not limited to flanges
produced under those specifications. All
types of finished carbon steel flanges are
included in the scope regardless of pipe size
(which may or may not be expressed in
inches of nominal pipe size), pressure class
(usually, but not necessarily, expressed in
pounds of pressure, e.g., 150, 300, 400, 600,
900, 1500, 2500, etc.), type of face (e.g., flat
face, full face, raised face, etc.), configuration
(e.g., weld neck, slip on, socket weld, lap
joint, threaded, etc.), wall thickness (usually,
but not necessarily, expressed in inches),
normalization, or whether or not heat treated.
These carbon steel flanges either meet or
exceed the requirements of the ASTM A105,
ASTM A694, ASTM A181, ASTM A350 and
ASTM A707 standards (or comparable
foreign specifications). The scope includes
any flanges produced to the above-referenced
ASTM standards as currently stated or as
may be amended. The term ‘‘carbon steel’’
under this scope is steel in which:
(a) Iron predominates, by weight, over each
of the other contained elements:
(b) the carbon content is 2 percent or less,
by weight; and
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(c) none of the elements listed below
exceeds the quantity, by weight, as indicated:
(i) 0.87 percent of aluminum;
(ii) 0.0105 percent of boron;
(iii) 10.10 percent of chromium;
(iv) 1.55 percent of columbium;
(v) 3.10 percent of copper;
(vi) 0.38 percent of lead;
(vii) 3.04 percent of manganese;
(viii) 2.05 percent of molybdenum;
(ix) 20.15 percent of nickel;
(x) 1.55 percent of niobium;
(xi) 0.20 percent of nitrogen;
(xii) 0.21 percent of phosphorus;
(xiii) 3.10 percent of silicon;
(xiv) 0.21 percent of sulfur;
(xv) 1.05 percent of titanium;
(xvi) 4.06 percent of tungsten;
(xvii) 0.53 percent of vanadium; or
(xviii) 0.015 percent of zirconium.
Finished carbon steel flanges are currently
classified under subheadings 7307.91.5010
and 7307.91.5050 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). They
may also be entered under HTSUS
subheadings 7307.91.5030 and 7307.91.5070.
The HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes; the
written description of the scope is
dispositive.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–831]
Fresh Garlic From the People’s
Republic of China: Final Results and
Partial Rescission of the 21st
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2014–2015
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) published the
Preliminary Results of the 21st
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on fresh garlic
from the People’s Republic of China
(PRC) on December 9, 2016. We gave
interested parties an opportunity to
comment on the Preliminary Results.
The period of review (POR) is November
1, 2014, and October 31, 2015. The
mandatory respondents in this review
are: Zhengzhou Harmoni Spice Co., Ltd.
(Harmoni) and Qingdao Tiantaixing
Foods Co., Ltd. (QTF).
Based upon our analysis of the
comments and information received, we
made no changes to the margin
calculated for voluntary respondent,
Shenzhen Xinboda Industrial Co., Ltd.
(Xinboda). As discussed below, the
Department continues to find that QTF
withheld requested information,
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significantly impeded the
administrative review, and did not
cooperate to the best of its ability.
Accordingly, we continue to use adverse
facts available. However, in a change
from the Preliminary Results, we find
that QTF is not eligible for separate rate
status, and thus, is a part of the PRCwide entity. The Department is also
rescinding the review with respect to
Harmoni and Jinxiang Jinma Fruits
Vegetables Products Co., Ltd. (Jinxiang
Jinma), as discussed below.
These determinations and the final
dumping margins are discussed below
in the ‘‘Final Results’’ section of this
notice.
DATES:
Effective June 14, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathryn Wallace or Alexander Cipolla,
AD/CVD Operations, Office VII,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone 202–482–6251 or
202–482–4956, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department published the Preliminary
Results on December 9, 2016, in which
it preliminarily determined that QTF
and Harmoni each failed to cooperate to
the best of its ability. As a result, the
Department preliminarily found that
Harmoni had not rebutted the
presumption that it is part of the PRCwide entity, and we preliminarily based
QTF’s dumping margin on adverse facts
available. The Department also
preliminarily found that Xinboda sold
merchandise to the United States at less
than normal value. Finally, we
preliminarily granted a separate rate to
five companies which demonstrated
their eligibility for separate rate status,
but were not selected for individual
examination.1 In accordance with 19
CFR 351.309, we invited parties to
comment on our Preliminary Results.
The petitioners,2 the New Mexico Garlic
Growers Coalition (NMGGC),3 Xinboda,
QTF, Harmoni, and Jinxiang Hejia Co.,
Ltd. (Hejia) timely filed case briefs,
pursuant to our regulations.4
1 See Fresh Garlic from the People’s Republic of
China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of
the 21st Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;
2014–2015, 81 FR 89050 (December 9, 2016)
(Preliminary Results) and accompanying Issues and
Decision Memorandum (PDM).
2 The petitioners are the Fresh Garlic Producers
Association (FGPA) and its individual members:
Christopher Ranch LLC, The Garlic Company,
Valley Garlic, and Vessey and Company, Inc.
3 The NMGGC, at the time of initiation, consisted
of Avrum Katz of Boxcar Farm and Stanley
Crawford of El Bosque Farm.
4 See NMGGC’s Case Brief, ‘‘Case Brief Filed on
Behalf of the New Mexico Garlic Growers Coalition
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-469-815]
Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From Spain: Antidumping Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (the
ITC), the Department is issuing an antidumping duty order on finished
carbon steel flanges from Spain.
DATES: June 14, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Flessner at (202) 482-6312, AD/
CVD Operations Office VI, 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 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on April 17,
2017, the Department published its affirmative final determination in
the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of finished carbon steel
flanges from Spain.\1\ On June 7, 2017, the ITC notified the Department
of its final affirmative determination, pursuant to section 735(d) of
the Act, 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
the LTFV imports of finished carbon steel flanges from Spain.\2\
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\1\ See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from Spain: Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 82 FR 18108 (April
17, 2017) (Final Determination).
\2\ See Letter from the ITC regarding finished carbon steel
flanges from Spain, dated June 7, 2017 (ITC Letter). See also
Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from Spain Investigation No. 731-TA-
1333 (Final) USITC Publication 4696 (June 2017) (ITC Report).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this order is finished carbon steel
flanges from Spain.\3\
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\3\ For a full description of the scope of this order, see the
Appendix to this notice.
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Antidumping Duty Order
As stated above, on June 7, 2017, in accordance with section 735(d)
of the Act, the ITC notified the Department of its final determination
that the industry in the United States producing finished carbon steel
flanges is materially injured by reason of the LTFV imports of finished
carbon steel flanges from Spain.\4\ Therefore, in accordance with
section 735(c)(2) of the Act, we are issuing this antidumping duty
order. Because the ITC determined that imports of finished carbon steel
flanges from Spain are materially injuring a U.S. industry,
unliquidated entries of such merchandise from Spain entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption are subject to the assessment
of antidumping duties.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the
Department will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by the Department, antidumping duties
equal to the amount by which the NV of the merchandise exceeds the
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise, for all
relevant entries of finished carbon steel flanges from Spain.
Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of finished
carbon steel flanges from Spain entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after February 8, 2017, the date of publication
of the Preliminary Determination,\5\ but will not include entries
occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and
before publication in the Federal Register of the ITC's final injury
determination, as further described below.
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\5\ See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from Spain: Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 82 FR 9723 (February
8, 2017) (Preliminary Determination).
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will
instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries
of finished carbon steel flanges from Spain. These instructions
suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice.
We will also instruct CBP to require cash deposits for estimated
antidumping duties equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins indicated below. Accordingly, effective on the date of
publication in the Federal Register of the ITC's final affirmative
injury determination, CBP will require, at the same time as importers
would normally deposit estimated duties on this subject merchandise, a
cash deposit equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins
listed below.\6\ The ``all-others'' rates apply to all producers or
exporters not specifically listed.
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\6\ See section 736(a)(3) of the Act.
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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
the Department to extend that four-month period to no more than six
months. We received no such request. In the underlying investigation,
the Department published the Preliminary Determination on February 8,
2017. Therefore, the unextended period, beginning on the date of
publication of the Preliminary Determination, ended on June 8, 2017.
Furthermore, section 737(b) of the Act states that definitive duties
are to begin on the date of publication of the ITC's final injury
determination.
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 finished carbon steel flanges from Spain
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after June 8,
2017, the date on which the provisional measures expired, until and
through the day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's injury
determinations in the Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation will
resume on the date of publication of the ITC's determination in the
Federal Register.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
The estimated weighted-average dumping margins for this antidumping
order are as follows:
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Weighted-average
Exporter/manufacturer dumping margins
(percent)
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ULMA Forja, S.Coop.................................. 24.43
All Others.......................................... 18.81
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Notifications to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to
finished carbon steel flanges from Spain pursuant to section 736(a) of
the Act. Interested parties can find a list of antidumping duty orders
currently in effect at https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
This order is published in accordance with section and 736(a) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: June 9, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix--Scope of the Order
The scope of this order covers finished carbon steel flanges.
Finished carbon steel flanges differ from unfinished carbon steel
flanges (also known as carbon steel flange forgings) in that they
have undergone further processing after forging, including, but not
limited to, beveling, bore threading, center or step boring, face
machining, taper boring, machining ends or surfaces, drilling bolt
holes, and/or de-burring or shot blasting. Any one of these post-
forging processes suffices to render the forging into a finished
carbon steel flange for purposes of this order. However, mere heat
treatment of a carbon steel flange forging (without any other
further processing after forging) does not render the forging into a
finished carbon steel flange for purposes of this order.
While these finished carbon steel flanges are generally
manufactured to specification ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 series A or
series B, the scope is not limited to flanges produced under those
specifications. All types of finished carbon steel flanges are
included in the scope regardless of pipe size (which may or may not
be expressed in inches of nominal pipe size), pressure class
(usually, but not necessarily, expressed in pounds of pressure,
e.g., 150, 300, 400, 600, 900, 1500, 2500, etc.), type of face
(e.g., flat face, full face, raised face, etc.), configuration
(e.g., weld neck, slip on, socket weld, lap joint, threaded, etc.),
wall thickness (usually, but not necessarily, expressed in inches),
normalization, or whether or not heat treated. These carbon steel
flanges either meet or exceed the requirements of the ASTM A105,
ASTM A694, ASTM A181, ASTM A350 and ASTM A707 standards (or
comparable foreign specifications). The scope includes any flanges
produced to the above-referenced ASTM standards as currently stated
or as may be amended. The term ``carbon steel'' under this scope is
steel in which:
(a) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of the other
contained elements:
(b) the carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and
(c) none of the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by
weight, as indicated:
(i) 0.87 percent of aluminum;
(ii) 0.0105 percent of boron;
(iii) 10.10 percent of chromium;
(iv) 1.55 percent of columbium;
(v) 3.10 percent of copper;
(vi) 0.38 percent of lead;
(vii) 3.04 percent of manganese;
(viii) 2.05 percent of molybdenum;
(ix) 20.15 percent of nickel;
(x) 1.55 percent of niobium;
(xi) 0.20 percent of nitrogen;
(xii) 0.21 percent of phosphorus;
(xiii) 3.10 percent of silicon;
(xiv) 0.21 percent of sulfur;
(xv) 1.05 percent of titanium;
(xvi) 4.06 percent of tungsten;
(xvii) 0.53 percent of vanadium; or
(xviii) 0.015 percent of zirconium.
Finished carbon steel flanges are currently classified under
subheadings 7307.91.5010 and 7307.91.5050 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). They may also be entered
under HTSUS subheadings 7307.91.5030 and 7307.91.5070. The HTSUS
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes; the
written description of the scope is dispositive.
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