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Review were established with
publication of the Initiation Notice on
June 2, 2017. Because of the
circumstances requiring this correction
of the Intiation Notice, and pursuant to
19 CFR 351.302(b), the Department will
consider requests from interested parties
for the extension of the deadlines
established by 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i)
for filing of a notice of intent to
particpate, by 19 CFR 351.218(d)(2)(i)
for filing of a statement of waiver, and
by 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i) for filing of
a substantive response.
This correction of the notice of
initiation is published in accordance
with section 751(c) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.218(c).
Dated: June 13, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–351–825]
Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final
Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2015–2016
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 1, 2017, the
Department of Commerce (the
Department) published the preliminary
results of the administrative review of
the antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. The period
of review (POR) is February 1, 2015,
through January 31, 2016. The review
covers one producer/exporter of the
subject merchandise, Villares Metals
S.A. (Villares). For the final results of
this review, we continue to find that
subject merchandise has not been sold
at less than normal value.
DATES: Effective June 16, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Hermes Pinilla or Minoo Hatten, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–3477, and (202) 482–1690,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
On March 1, 2017, the Department
published the Preliminary Results of the
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administrative review in which it
determined that subject merchandise
has not been sold at less than fair
value.1 The Department stated its intent
to issue a supplemental questionnaire
after the Preliminary Results in light of
pre-preliminary comments from
Carpenter Technology Corporation,
Crucible Industries LLC, Electralloy, a
Division of G.O. Carlson, Inc., North
America Stainless, and Valbruna Slater
Stainless, Inc. (collectively, the
petitioners).2 On March 10, 2017, the
Department issued a supplemental
questionnaire to Villares regarding its
reporting of certain expense and
revenue items,3 and received a response
on April 3, 2017.4 No party commented
on Villares’ April 3, 2017, supplemental
questionnaire response. The Department
also gave interested parties an
opportunity to comment on the
Preliminary Results, but received no
comments. The Department conducted
this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act).
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order
is SSB. The term SSB with respect to the
order means articles of stainless steel in
straight lengths that have been either
hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn,
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished,
or ground, having a uniform solid cross
section along their whole length in the
shape of circles, segments of circles,
ovals, rectangles (including squares),
triangles, hexagons, octagons or other
convex polygons. SSB includes coldfinished SSBs that are turned or ground
in straight lengths, whether produced
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened
and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars
that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or
other deformations produced during the
rolling process. Except as specified
above, the term does not include
stainless steel semi-finished products,
cut-length flat-rolled products (i.e., cutlength rolled products which if less than
4.75 mm in thickness have a width
measuring at least 10 times the
thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in
thickness having a width which exceeds
150 mm and measures at least twice the
1 See Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2015–2016, 82 FR 12197 (March 1, 2017)
(Preliminary Results) and Decision Memorandum
for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar from
Brazil, dated February 23, 2017 (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
2 See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 2.
3 See the Department’s supplemental
questionnaire, dated March 10. 2017.
4 See Villares’ supplemental questionnaire
response, dated April 3, 2017.
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thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed
products in coils, of any uniform solid
cross section along their whole length,
which do not conform to the definition
of flat-rolled products), and angles,
shapes and sections. The SSB subject to
the order is currently classifiable under
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00,
7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 of
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS). Although the
HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the
written description of the scope of the
order is dispositive.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
After consideration of Villares’ April
3, 2017, supplemental questionnaire
response, the Department made minor
changes to its calculations announced in
the Preliminary Results.5 Specifically,
for the final results of this
administrative review, we used Villares’
revised sales databases that it submitted
to the Department in response to a
March 10, 2017, supplemental
questionnaire, which we issued after the
Preliminary Results.6
In addition, in our March 10, 2017,
supplemental questionnaire, we
requested that Villares ensure and
confirm that it reported gross unit prices
net of any expenses and that any
expenses (freight, insurance,
merchandise processing fee, harbor
maintenance fees, entry fee, etc.) were
properly reported in their corresponding
expense field.7 Villares provided the
Department a U.S. sales database in
Excel format with the appropriate
expense fields. We reviewed the
information provided by Villares and
determined that the freight amounts
reported constituted as freight revenue
and therefore, consistent with the
Department’s practice, it is appropriate
to treat freight revenue as offsets to
certain expenses.8 Accordingly, for the
final results, we capped Villares’ freight
5 For further details, see Memorandum to the File,
‘‘Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty
Order on Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Final
Analysis Memorandum for Villares Metals S.A.;
2015–2016,’’ dated concurrently with this notice
(Final Analysis Memorandum).
6 See the Department’s supplemental
questionnaire dated March 10, 2017.
7 See the Department’s March 10, 2017, third
supplemental questionnaire at page 5.
8 See Certain Orange Juice from Brazil: Final
Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, 73 FR 46584 (August 11,
2008), and the accompanying Issues and Decision
Memorandum (I&D Memo) at Comment 7, and
Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags from the People’s
Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review, 74 FR 6857 (February
11, 2009), and the accompanying I&D Memo at
Comment 6.
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revenues in our calculation of U.S.
price.9
Final Results of Administrative Review
As a result of this review, we continue
to find that a weighted-average dumping
margin of 0.00 percent exists for Villares
for the period February 1, 2015, through
January 31, 2016.
Assessment
In accordance with section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, 19 CFR
351.212(b) and the Final Modification,10
the Department will instruct U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
liquidate all appropriate entries for
Villares without regard to antidumping
duties.
For entries of subject merchandise
during the POR produced by Villares for
which it did not know that the
merchandise was destined for the
United States, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate un-reviewed entries at the allothers rate if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in
the transaction. We intend to issue
instructions to CBP 15 days after
publication of the final results of this
review.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of final results
of the administrative review for all
shipments of SS Bar from Brazil
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the date of
publication as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash
deposit rate for Villares, will be 0.00
percent, the weighted average dumping
margin established in the final results of
this administrative review; (2) for
merchandise exported by manufacturers
or exporters not covered in this
administrative 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 of this
proceeding in which that manufacturer
or exporter participated; (3) if the
exporter is not a firm covered in this
administrative review, a prior review, or
the original investigation, but the
manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate
9 For further details, see Memorandum to the File,
‘‘Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty
Order on Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Final
Analysis Memorandum for Villares Metals S.A.;
2015–2016,’’ dated concurrently with this
memorandum.
10 See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of
the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Duty
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102
(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification).
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will be the rate established for the most
recently completed segment of this
proceeding for the manufacturer of
subject merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other manufacturers
or exporters will continue to be 64.93
percent, the all-others rate established
in the original less-than-fair-value
investigation.11 These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice 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 this review period. Failure to
comply with this requirement could
result in the Secretary’s presumption
that reimbursement of antidumping
duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping
duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative
Protective Orders
This notice also serves as a reminder
to parties subject to administrative
protective order (APO) of their
responsibility concerning the
destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely
written notification of the return or
destruction of APO materials or
conversion to judicial protective order is
hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and terms of an
APO is a violation subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these
results in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: June 12, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
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National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Smart Grid Advisory Committee
Meeting
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
AGENCY:
11 See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from
Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28, 1994).
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ACTION:
Notice of open meeting.
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart
Grid Advisory Committee (SGAC or
Committee) will meet in open session
on Thursday, August 17, 2017 from 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time and
Friday, August 18, 2017 from 8:30 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. Eastern time. The primary
purposes of this meeting are to provide
updates on NIST Smart Grid activities
and the intersections with CyberPhysical Systems program activities,
and to discuss the NIST Framework and
Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability
Standards revision and the NIST Smart
Grid research program. The agenda may
change to accommodate Committee
business. The final agenda will be
posted on the Smart Grid Web site at
https://www.nist.gov/smartgrid.
DATES: The SGAC will meet on
Thursday, August 17, 2017 from 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time and
Friday, August 18, 2017 from 8:30 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. Eastern time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
Conference Room C103, Building 215
(Advanced Measurement Laboratory),
National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 100 Bureau Drive,
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. Please
note admittance instructions under the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Cuong Nguyen, Smart Grid and CyberPhysical Systems Program Office,
National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail
Stop 8200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–
8200; telephone 301–975–2254, fax
301–948–5668; or via email at
cuong.nguyen@nist.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee was established in
accordance with the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C.
App. The Committee is composed of
nine to fifteen members, appointed by
the Director of NIST, who were selected
on the basis of established records of
distinguished service in their
professional community and their
knowledge of issues affecting Smart
Grid deployment and operations. The
Committee advises the Director of NIST
in carrying out duties authorized by
section 1305 of the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007
(Pub. L. 110–140). The Committee
provides input to NIST on Smart Grid
standards, priorities, and gaps, on the
overall direction, status, and health of
the Smart Grid implementation by the
Smart Grid industry, and on Smart Grid
Interoperability Panel activities,
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-825]
Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 1, 2017, the Department of Commerce (the Department)
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. The
period of review (POR) is February 1, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
The review covers one producer/exporter of the subject merchandise,
Villares Metals S.A. (Villares). For the final results of this review,
we continue to find that subject merchandise has not been sold at less
than normal value.
DATES: Effective June 16, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla or Minoo Hatten, AD/CVD
Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3477, and (202) 482-
1690, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 1, 2017, the Department published the Preliminary Results
of the administrative review in which it determined that subject
merchandise has not been sold at less than fair value.\1\ The
Department stated its intent to issue a supplemental questionnaire
after the Preliminary Results in light of pre-preliminary comments from
Carpenter Technology Corporation, Crucible Industries LLC, Electralloy,
a Division of G.O. Carlson, Inc., North America Stainless, and Valbruna
Slater Stainless, Inc. (collectively, the petitioners).\2\ On March 10,
2017, the Department issued a supplemental questionnaire to Villares
regarding its reporting of certain expense and revenue items,\3\ and
received a response on April 3, 2017.\4\ No party commented on
Villares' April 3, 2017, supplemental questionnaire response. The
Department also gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on
the Preliminary Results, but received no comments. The Department
conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016, 82 FR 12197
(March 1, 2017) (Preliminary Results) and Decision Memorandum for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review:
Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, dated February 23, 2017
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
\2\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 2.
\3\ See the Department's supplemental questionnaire, dated March
10. 2017.
\4\ See Villares' supplemental questionnaire response, dated
April 3, 2017.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with
respect to the order means articles of stainless steel in straight
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn,
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles,
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles,
hexagons, octagons or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished
SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the rolling process. Except as specified
above, the term does not include stainless steel semi-finished
products, cut-length flat-rolled products (i.e., cut-length rolled
products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have a width measuring
at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in thickness
having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the
thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform
solid cross section along their whole length, which do not conform to
the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, shapes and
sections. The SSB subject to the order is currently classifiable under
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is
dispositive.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
After consideration of Villares' April 3, 2017, supplemental
questionnaire response, the Department made minor changes to its
calculations announced in the Preliminary Results.\5\ Specifically, for
the final results of this administrative review, we used Villares'
revised sales databases that it submitted to the Department in response
to a March 10, 2017, supplemental questionnaire, which we issued after
the Preliminary Results.\6\
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\5\ For further details, see Memorandum to the File,
``Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Stainless
Steel Bar from Brazil: Final Analysis Memorandum for Villares Metals
S.A.; 2015-2016,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Final
Analysis Memorandum).
\6\ See the Department's supplemental questionnaire dated March
10, 2017.
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In addition, in our March 10, 2017, supplemental questionnaire, we
requested that Villares ensure and confirm that it reported gross unit
prices net of any expenses and that any expenses (freight, insurance,
merchandise processing fee, harbor maintenance fees, entry fee, etc.)
were properly reported in their corresponding expense field.\7\
Villares provided the Department a U.S. sales database in Excel format
with the appropriate expense fields. We reviewed the information
provided by Villares and determined that the freight amounts reported
constituted as freight revenue and therefore, consistent with the
Department's practice, it is appropriate to treat freight revenue as
offsets to certain expenses.\8\ Accordingly, for the final results, we
capped Villares' freight
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revenues in our calculation of U.S. price.\9\
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\7\ See the Department's March 10, 2017, third supplemental
questionnaire at page 5.
\8\ See Certain Orange Juice from Brazil: Final Results and
Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 73 FR
46584 (August 11, 2008), and the accompanying Issues and Decision
Memorandum (I&D Memo) at Comment 7, and Polyethylene Retail Carrier
Bags from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 74 FR 6857 (February 11,
2009), and the accompanying I&D Memo at Comment 6.
\9\ For further details, see Memorandum to the File,
``Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Stainless
Steel Bar from Brazil: Final Analysis Memorandum for Villares Metals
S.A.; 2015-2016,'' dated concurrently with this memorandum.
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Final Results of Administrative Review
As a result of this review, we continue to find that a weighted-
average dumping margin of 0.00 percent exists for Villares for the
period February 1, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
Assessment
In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, 19 CFR
351.212(b) and the Final Modification,\10\ the Department will instruct
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate all appropriate
entries for Villares without regard to antidumping duties.
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\10\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14,
2012) (Final Modification).
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For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by
Villares for which it did not know that the merchandise was destined
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate un-reviewed
entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate
company(ies) involved in the transaction. We intend to issue
instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of the final results of
this review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of final results of the administrative review
for all shipments of SS Bar from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication as
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate
for Villares, will be 0.00 percent, the weighted average dumping margin
established in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for
merchandise exported by manufacturers or exporters not covered in this
administrative 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 of this proceeding in
which that manufacturer or exporter participated; (3) if the exporter
is not a firm covered in this administrative review, a prior review, or
the original investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit
rate will be the rate established for the most recently completed
segment of this proceeding for the manufacturer of subject merchandise;
and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters
will continue to be 64.93 percent, the all-others rate established in
the original less-than-fair-value investigation.\11\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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\11\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December
28, 1994).
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Notification to Importers
This notice 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 this review period. Failure to comply
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the destruction of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written
notification of the return or destruction of APO materials or
conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to
comply with the regulations and terms of an APO is a violation subject
to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: June 12, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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