Magnesium Metal from the Russian Federation: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 56396-56397 [2011-23379]

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• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• International Trade Administration

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56396-56397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-23379]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-821-819]


Magnesium Metal from the Russian Federation: Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On May 6, 2011, the Department of Commerce published the 
preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on magnesium metal from the Russian Federation. The period 
of review (POR) is April 1, 2009, through March 31, 2010.
    Based on our analysis of the comments received we have made changes 
in the margin for one company. Therefore, the final results differ from 
the preliminary results. The final margin is listed below in the 
section entitled ``Final Results of the Review.''

DATES: Effective Date: September 13, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Hermes Pinilla, AD/CVD Operations, Office 5, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3477.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 6, 2011, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on magnesium metal from the Russian Federation. 
See Magnesium Metal From the Russian Federation: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 26247 (May 6, 2011) 
(Preliminary Results).
    We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results 
and received case and rebuttal briefs from interested parties. The 
Department has conducted this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order \1\ is magnesium metal (also 
referred to as magnesium), which includes primary and secondary pure 
and alloy magnesium metal, regardless of chemistry, raw material 
source, form, shape, or size. Magnesium is a metal or alloy containing 
by weight primarily the element magnesium. Primary magnesium is 
produced by decomposing raw materials into magnesium metal. Secondary 
magnesium is produced by recycling magnesium-based scrap into magnesium 
metal. The magnesium covered by the order includes blends of primary 
and secondary magnesium.
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    \1\ We revoked the order effective April 15, 2010. See Magnesium 
Metal From the Russian Federation: Revocation of Antidumping Duty 
Order Pursuant to Five-Year Sunset Review, 76 FR 13128 (March 10, 
2011).
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    The subject merchandise includes the following pure and alloy 
magnesium metal products made from primary and/or secondary magnesium, 
including, without limitation, magnesium cast into ingots, slabs, 
rounds, billets, and other shapes, and magnesium ground, chipped, 
crushed, or machined into raspings, granules, turnings, chips, powder, 
briquettes, and other shapes: (1) Products that contain at least 99.95 
percent magnesium, by weight (generally referred to as ``ultra-pure'' 
magnesium); (2) products that contain less than 99.95 percent but not 
less than 99.8 percent magnesium, by weight (generally referred to as 
``pure'' magnesium); and (3) chemical combinations of magnesium and 
other material(s) in which the magnesium content is 50 percent or 
greater, but less that 99.8 percent, by weight, whether or not 
conforming to an ``ASTM Specification for Magnesium Alloy.''
    The scope of the order excludes: (1) Magnesium that is in liquid or 
molten form and (2) mixtures containing 90 percent or less magnesium in 
granular or powder form by weight and one or more of certain non-
magnesium granular materials to make magnesium-based reagent mixtures, 
including lime, calcium metal, calcium silicon, calcium carbide, 
calcium carbonate, carbon, slag coagulants, fluorspar, nephaline 
syenite, feldspar, alumina (Al203), calcium aluminate, soda ash, 
hydrocarbons, graphite, coke, silicon, rare earth metals/mischmetal, 
cryolite, silica/fly ash, magnesium oxide, periclase, ferroalloys, 
dolomite lime, and colemanite.\2\
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    \2\ This second exclusion for magnesium-based reagent mixtures 
is based on the exclusion for reagent mixtures in the 2000-2001 
investigations of magnesium from the People's Republic of China, 
Israel, and the Russian Federation. See Notice of Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium in 
Granular Form From the People's Republic of China, 66 FR 49345 
(September 27, 2001), Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium From Israel, 66 FR 49349 (September 
27, 2001), and Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Not Less 
Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium From the Russian Federation, 66 FR 
49347 (September 27, 2001). These mixtures are not magnesium alloys 
because they are not chemically combined in liquid form and cast 
into the same ingot.
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    The merchandise subject to the order is currently classifiable 
under items 8104.11.00, 8104.19.00, 8104.30.00, and 8104.90.00 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Although the 
HTSUS item numbers are provided for convenience and customs purposes, 
the written description of the merchandise covered by the order is 
dispositive.

No-Shipment Determination

    Based on the information Solikamsk Magnesium Works (SMW) provided 
on the record, we continue to find that SMW did not have knowledge of 
exports or involvement in imports of magnesium metal into the United 
States during the POR. Thus, we did not request SMW to report such 
sales for purposes of calculating a dumping margin in this 
administrative review.
    See Preliminary Results, 76 FR at 26248-49. Therefore, we have 
determined that SMW did not make shipments of subject merchandise 
during the POR.

Analysis of the Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties to 
this administrative review of the order on magnesium metal from the 
Russian Federation are addressed in the ``Issues and Decision 
Memorandum'' from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Ronald K. Lorentzen, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, dated 
concurrently with this notice (Decision Memorandum), which is hereby 
adopted by this notice. A list of the issues which parties have raised 
and to which we have responded is in the Decision Memorandum and 
attached to this notice as an Appendix. The

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Decision Memorandum, which is a public document, is on file in the 
Central Records Unit, main Department of Commerce building, Room 7046, 
and is accessible on the Web at https://ia.ita.doc.gov/frn/. 
The paper copy and electronic version of the Decision Memorandum are 
identical in content.

Changes From the Preliminary Results

    As a result of our analysis of the comments we received, we have 
made certain changes to the margin calculation for PSC VSMPO-AVISMA 
Corporation (AVISMA) for the final results. Specifically, we have 
revised AVISMA's reported costs of production for the April 1 through 
December 31, 2009, period to reflect the treatment of chlorine gas as a 
byproduct of raw magnesium production. We then calculated AVISMA's POR 
costs as the weighted average of the revised costs for the period April 
1 through December 31, 2009, and the costs for the period January 1 
through March 31, 2010, that we calculated for the Preliminary Results. 
For further discussion of this change, see Comment 1.A of the Decision 
Memorandum.
    Our comparison of AVISMA's revised costs to its reported sales 
establishes that all of AVISMA's sales in the comparison market were 
made at prices below cost. In accordance with section 773(b)(1)(B) of 
the Act, we have relied upon the constructed value of the subject 
merchandise for purposes of these final results. For further discussion 
of this change, see Comment 1.B of the Decision Memorandum.

Final Results of the Review

    As a result of our review, we determine that the following 
weighted-average dumping margins on magnesium metal from the Russian 
Federation exist for the period April 1, 2009, through March 31, 2010:

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                                                              Margin
                 Manufacturer/exporter                      (percent)
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PSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation...........................            2.24
Solikamsk Magnesium Works..............................              *
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* No shipments or sales subject to this review.

Assessment Rates

    The Department shall determine and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we have calculated an 
importer-specific assessment rate for AVISMA reflecting these final 
results of review.
    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by AVISMA or SMW for which AVISMA 
or SMW did not know their merchandise was destined for the United 
States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed 
entries of merchandise produced by AVISMA or SMW at the all-others rate 
if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the 
transaction. For a full discussion of this clarification, see 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of 
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
    The Department intends to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after 
the publication of the final results of review.

Cash-Deposit Requirements

    Because we revoked the order effective April 15, 2010, no cash 
deposit for estimated antidumping duties on future entries of subject 
merchandise is required.

Notifications

    This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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 Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely notification of 
destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order 
is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the 
terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: September 6, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix

1. Cost Methodology
2. Affiliation
3. Zeroing

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