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directing U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to suspend liquidation of all
entries of hardwood and decorative
plywood from the PRC that are entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the date of the
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register, and to require a cash deposit
for such entries of merchandise in the
amounts indicated above. Because the
subsidy rates for Dongfang, San Fortune,
and Senda are de minimis, liquidation
will not be suspended and no cash
deposits will be required for
merchandise that are produced and
exported by Dongfang, San Fortune, and
Senda.
In accordance with sections 703(d)
and 705(c)(5)(A) of the Act, for
companies not investigated, we apply
an ‘‘all-others’’ rate, which is normally
calculated by weighting the subsidy
rates of the individual companies
selected as respondents by those
companies’ exports of the subject
merchandise to the United States. Under
section 705(c)(5)(i) of the Act, the allothers rate should exclude zero and de
minimis rates calculated for the
exporters and producers individually
investigated. Where the rates for the
investigated companies are all zero or
de minimis, section 705(c)(5)(A)(ii) of
the Act instructs the Department to
establish an all-others rate using ‘‘any
reasonable method.’’ We preliminarily
determine that a reasonable method for
establishing the all-others rate is to
calculate a simple average of the
subsidy rates for all companies to which
an individual subsidy rate was applied.
Disclosure and Public Comment
The Department will disclose
calculations performed for this
preliminary determination to the parties
within five days of the date of public
announcement of this determination in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Case briefs or other written comments
for all non-scope issues may be
submitted to the Assistant Secretary for
Import Administration no later than
seven days after the date on which the
final verification report is issued in this
proceeding, and rebuttal briefs, limited
to issues raised in case briefs, may be
submitted no later than five days after
the deadline date for case briefs.5
Following the publication of the
preliminary determination in the
companion AD investigation, the
Department will establish a separate
briefing schedule for scope issues.
Parties must file separate and identical
documents on both the AD and CVD
records for any briefs related to scope
5 See
19 CFR 351.309.
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only. Additionally, the Department
intends to address specific scope
exclusion requests in the preliminary
determination of the companion AD
investigation. A table of contents, list of
authorities used and an executive
summary of issues should accompany
any briefs submitted to the Department.
This summary should be limited to five
pages total, including footnotes.
Interested parties who wish to request
a hearing, or to participate if one is
requested, must submit a written
request to the Assistant Secretary for
Import Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce, filed electronically using
IA ACCESS. An electronically filed
document must be received successfully
in its entirety by the Department’s
electronic records system, IA ACCESS,
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice.6 Requests
should contain the party’s name,
address, and telephone number; the
number of participants; and a list of the
issues to be discussed. If a request for
a hearing is made, the Department
intends to hold the hearing at the U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230, at a date, time
and location to be determined. Parties
will be notified of the date, time and
location of any hearing.
International Trade Commission
Notification
In accordance with section 703(f) of
the Act, we will notify the International
Trade Commission (ITC) of our
determination. In addition, we are
making available to the ITC all nonprivileged and non-proprietary
information relating to this
investigation. We will allow the ITC
access to all privileged and business
proprietary information in our files,
provided the ITC confirms that it will
not disclose such information, either
publicly or under an administrative
protective order, without the written
consent of the Assistant Secretary for
Import Administration.
In accordance with section 705(b)(2)
of the Act, if our final determination is
affirmative, the ITC will make its final
determination within 45 days after the
Department makes its final
determination.
This determination is issued and
published pursuant to sections 703(f)
and 777(i) of the Act.
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Dated: March 7, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum
1. Scope Comments.
2. Scope of the Investigation.
3. Respondent Selection.
4. Injury Test.
5. Application of Countervailing Duty Law
to Imports from the PRC.
6. Subsidies Valuation.
7. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and
Adverse Inferences.
8. Analysis of Programs.
9. Verification.
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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–533–821; C–560–813; C–549–818]
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat
Products From India, Indonesia, and
Thailand: Final Results of Expedited
Sunset Reviews
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On November 1, 2010, the
Department of Commerce (‘‘the
Department’’) initiated the second
sunset reviews of the countervailing
duty (‘‘CVD’’) orders on certain hotrolled carbon steel flat products (‘‘HR
steel’’) from India, Indonesia, and
Thailand pursuant to section 751(c) of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the
Act’’). On the basis of notices of intent
to participate and adequate substantive
responses filed on behalf of the
domestic interested parties and
inadequate responses from respondent
interested parties (in these cases, no
responses), the Department conducted
expedited sunset reviews of these CVD
orders pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B)
of the Act and 19 CFR
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(B). As a result of these
sunset reviews, the Department finds
that revocation of the CVD orders would
be likely to lead to continuation or
recurrence of a countervailable subsidy
at the level indicated in the ‘‘Final
Results of Reviews’’ section of this
notice.
DATES: Effective Date: March 14, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric
Greynolds (India and Indonesia), Hilary
Sadler or Dana Mermelstein (Thailand),
AD/CVD Operations, Import
Administration, International Trade
AGENCY:
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Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–6071, (202) 482–
4340 or 482–1391, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
On November 5, 2012, the Department
initiated sunset reviews of the CVD
orders on HR steel from India,
Indonesia, and Thailand, pursuant to
section 751(c) of the Act.1 The
Department received a notice of intent
to participate in each of these reviews
from the following domestic interested
parties: United States Steel Corporation
(U.S. Steel); ArcelorMittal USA, LLC
(ArcelorMittal); Nucor Corporation
(Nucor); Gallatin Steel (Gallatin); Steel
Dynamics Inc. (Steel Dynamics), and
SSAB Americas (SSAB) (collectively,
‘‘domestic interested parties’’) within
the deadline specified in 19 CFR
351.218(d)(1)(i). The domestic
interested parties claimed interested
party status under section 771(9)(C) of
the Act.
The Department received adequate
substantive responses collectively from
the domestic interested parties within
the 30-day deadline specified in 19 CFR
351.218(d)(3)(i). The Department did
not receive a substantive response from
any government or respondent
interested party to the Indian or
Indonesian proceedings. The
Department received a substantive
response from the Royal Thai
Government but received no responses
from the respondent interested parties,
i.e., the Thai exporters and producers of
HR steel. The regulations provide, at 19
CFR 351.218 (e)(1)(ii)(A), that the
Department will normally conclude that
respondent interested parties have
provided adequate response to a notice
of initiation where it receives complete
substantive responses from respondent
interested parties accounting on average
for more than 50 percent, on a volume
basis (or a value basis, if appropriate),
of the total exports of the subject
merchandise to the United States over
the five calendar years preceding the
year of publication of the notice of
initiation. Because the Department
received no responses from the
respondent interested parties, the
Department conducted expedited
reviews of these CVD orders, pursuant
to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2).
1 See Initiation of Five-Year (‘‘Sunset’’) Reviews,
77 FR 66439 (November 5, 2012).
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Scope of the Orders
The merchandise subject to these
orders is hot-rolled steel of a rectangular
shape, of a width of 0.5 inch or greater,
neither clad, plated, nor coated with
metal and whether or not painted,
varnished, or coated with plastics or
other non-metallic substances, in coils
(whether or not in successively
superimposed layers), regardless of
thickness, and in straight lengths, of a
thickness of less than 4.75 mm and of
a width measuring at least 10 times the
thickness. Universal mill plate (i.e., flatrolled products rolled on four faces or
in a closed box pass, of a width
exceeding 150 mm, but not exceeding
1250 mm, and of a thickness of not less
than 4 mm, not in coils and without
patterns in relief) of a thickness not less
than 4.0 mm is not included within the
scope of these orders.
Specifically included within the
scope of these orders are vacuum
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly
referred to as interstitial-free (‘‘IF’’))
steels, high strength low alloy (‘‘HSLA’’)
steels, and the substrate for motor
lamination steels. IF steels are
recognized as low carbon steels with
micro-alloying levels of elements such
as titanium or niobium (also commonly
referred to as columbium), or both,
added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen
elements. HSLA steels are recognized as
steels with micro-alloying levels of
elements such as chromium, copper,
niobium, vanadium, and molybdenum.
The substrate for motor lamination
steels contains micro-alloying levels of
elements such as silicon and aluminum.
Steel products included in the scope
of the orders, regardless of definitions in
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (‘‘HTSUS’’), are products
in which: (i) Iron predominates, by
weight, over each of the other contained
elements; (ii) the carbon content is 2
percent or less, by weight; and (iii) none
of the elements listed below exceeds the
quantity, by weight, respectively
indicated:
1.80 percent of manganese, or
2.25 percent of silicon, or
1.00 percent of copper, or
0.50 percent of aluminum, or
1.25 percent of chromium, or
0.30 percent of cobalt, or
0.40 percent of lead, or
1.25 percent of nickel, or
0.30 percent of tungsten, or
0.10 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium, or
0.15 percent of vanadium, or
0.15 percent of zirconium.
All products that meet the physical
and chemical descriptions provided
above are within the scope of the orders
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unless otherwise excluded. The
following products, by way of example,
are outside or specifically excluded
from the scope of the orders:
—Alloy hot–rolled steel products in
which at least one of the chemical
elements exceeds those listed above
(including, 3, American Society for
Testing and Materials (‘‘ASTM’’)
specifications A543, A387, A514,
A517, A506).
—Society of Automotive Engineers
(‘‘SAE’’)/American Iron & Steel
Institute (‘‘AISI’’) grades of series
2300 and higher.
—Ball bearings steels, as defined in the
HTSUS.
—Tool steels, as defined in the HTSUS.
—Silico-manganese (as defined in the
HTSUS) or silicon electrical steel with
a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent.
—ASTM specifications A710 and A736.
—USS Abrasion-resistant steels (USS
AR 400, USS AR 500).
—All products (proprietary or
otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM
specification (sample specifications:
ASTM A506, A507).
—Non-rectangular shapes, not in coils,
which are the result of having been
processed by cutting or stamping and
which have assumed the character of
articles or products classified outside
chapter 72 of the HTSUS.
The merchandise subject to the orders
is classified in the HTSUS at
subheadings: 7208.10.15.00,
7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00,
7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00,
7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60,
7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60,
7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60,
7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60,
7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30,
7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15,
7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90,
7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60,
7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00,
7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90,
7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00,
7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00,
7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30,
7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90.
Certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat
products covered by the orders,
including vacuum degassed fully
stabilized, high strength low alloy, and
the substrate for motor lamination steel,
may also enter under the following tariff
numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00,
7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00,
7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90,
7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30,
7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00,
7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00,
7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and
7226.99.00.00. Subject merchandise
may also enter under 7210.70.30.00,
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Administration (NOAA) science
Producers/Exporters
programs are of the highest quality and
provide optimal support to resource
management.
Tata Iron and Steel
Time and Date: The meeting will be
Company Limited .......
540.78
held Wednesday, March 27, 2013 from
All other producers/manufacturers/exporters ...
547.71 12:00 p.m. to 3:05 p.m. and Thursday,
Analysis of Comments Received
March 28, 2013 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00
Indonesia
All issues raised in these reviews are
P.T. Krakatau Steel .......
10.21 p.m. These times and the agenda topics
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Please refer to the Web page https://
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tries Public Company
the Countervailing Duty Orders on
meetings.html for the most up-to-date
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Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat
meeting agenda.
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Place: Conference call. Public access
Products from India and Indonesia
TBD in Silver Spring, MD. Please check
(‘‘Decision Memorandum’’) and the
Notification Regarding Administrative
the SAB Web site https://
Issues and Decision Memorandum for
Protective Order
www.sab.noaa.gov/Meetings/
the Final Results of the Expedited
This notice serves as the only
meetings.html for address and
Second Sunset Review of the
directions to the meeting location.
reminder to parties subject to
Countervailing Duty Order on Certain
administrative protective order (‘‘APO’’) Members of the public will not be able
Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products
to dial in to this meeting.
of their responsibility concerning the
from Thailand (‘‘Thai Decision
Status: The meeting will be open to
return or destruction of proprietary
Memorandum’’) both of which are from
public participation with a 10 minute
information disclosed under APO in
Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
public comment period on March 28
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.
Secretary for Antidumping and
from 12:05–12:15 p.m. (check Web site
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Timely notification of return/
to confirm time). The SAB expects that
destruction of APO materials or
Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Import
conversion to judicial protective order is public statements presented at its
Administration, are dated concurrently
meetings will not be repetitive of
hereby requested. Failure to comply
with this final notice, and are hereby
with the regulations and the terms of an previously submitted verbal or written
adopted by this notice. Parties can find
statements. In general, each individual
APO is a sanctionable violation.
a complete discussion of all issues
or group making a verbal presentation
We are issuing and publishing the
raised in these expedited sunset reviews
will be limited to a total time of two (2)
results and notice in accordance with
and the corresponding
sections 751(c), 752, and 777(i)(1) of the minutes. Individuals or groups planning
recommendations in these public
to make a verbal presentation should
Act.
memoranda which are on file
contact the SAB Executive Director by
electronically via Import
Dated: March 5, 2013.
March 20, 2013 to schedule their
Administration’s Antidumping and
Paul Piquado,
presentation. Written comments should
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Assistant Secretary for Import
be received in the SAB Executive
Electronic Service System (‘‘IA
Administration.
Director’s Office by March 20, 2013 to
ACCESS’’). IA ACCESS is available to
[FR Doc. 2013–05932 Filed 3–13–13; 8:45 am]
provide sufficient time for SAB review.
registered users at https://
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
Written comments received by the SAB
iaaccess.trade.gov and in the Central
Executive Director after March 20, 2013
Records Unit, room 7046 of the main
will be distributed to the SAB, but may
Department of Commerce building. In
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
not be reviewed prior to the meeting
addition, a complete version of the
date. Seating at the meeting will be
Decision Memorandum can be accessed National Oceanic and Atmospheric
available on a first-come, first-served
directly on the Internet at https://
Administration
basis.
www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed Decision
Special Accommodations: These
(NOAA) Science Advisory Board (SAB)
Memorandum and the electronic
meetings are physically accessible to
versions of the Decision Memorandum
AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and
people with disabilities. Requests for
are identical in content.
Atmospheric Research (OAR), National
special accommodations may be
Final Results of Reviews
Oceanic and Atmospheric
directed no later than 12 p.m. on March
Administration (NOAA), Department of 20, 2013, to Dr. Cynthia Decker, SAB
The Department determines that
Commerce (DOC).
Executive Director, SSMC3, Room
revocation of the CVD orders would be
11230, 1315 East-West Hwy., Silver
ACTION: Notice of open meeting.
likely to lead to continuation or
Spring, MD 20910.
recurrence of a countervailable subsidy
SUMMARY: The Science Advisory Board
Matters To Be Considered: The
at the rates listed below:
(SAB) was established by a Decision
meeting will include the following
Memorandum dated September 25,
topics: (1) Final Report from the SAB
Net
Research and Development Portfolio
countervailable 1997, and is the only Federal Advisory
Producers/Exporters
subsidy
Committee with responsibility to advise Review Task Force; (2) Review Report
(percent)
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7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30,
7212.40.10.00, 7212.40.50.00, and
7212.50.00.00.
Although the HTSUS numbers are
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written product
description remains dispositive.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-533-821; C-560-813; C-549-818]
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From India,
Indonesia, and Thailand: Final Results of Expedited Sunset Reviews
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On November 1, 2010, the Department of Commerce (``the
Department'') initiated the second sunset reviews of the countervailing
duty (``CVD'') orders on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products
(``HR steel'') from India, Indonesia, and Thailand pursuant to section
751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). On the
basis of notices of intent to participate and adequate substantive
responses filed on behalf of the domestic interested parties and
inadequate responses from respondent interested parties (in these
cases, no responses), the Department conducted expedited sunset reviews
of these CVD orders pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(B). As a result of these sunset reviews, the
Department finds that revocation of the CVD orders would be likely to
lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable subsidy at the
level indicated in the ``Final Results of Reviews'' section of this
notice.
DATES: Effective Date: March 14, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Greynolds (India and Indonesia),
Hilary Sadler or Dana Mermelstein (Thailand), AD/CVD Operations, Import
Administration, International Trade
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Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
6071, (202) 482-4340 or 482-1391, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 5, 2012, the Department initiated sunset reviews of the
CVD orders on HR steel from India, Indonesia, and Thailand, pursuant to
section 751(c) of the Act.\1\ The Department received a notice of
intent to participate in each of these reviews from the following
domestic interested parties: United States Steel Corporation (U.S.
Steel); ArcelorMittal USA, LLC (ArcelorMittal); Nucor Corporation
(Nucor); Gallatin Steel (Gallatin); Steel Dynamics Inc. (Steel
Dynamics), and SSAB Americas (SSAB) (collectively, ``domestic
interested parties'') within the deadline specified in 19 CFR
351.218(d)(1)(i). The domestic interested parties claimed interested
party status under section 771(9)(C) of the Act.
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\1\ See Initiation of Five-Year (``Sunset'') Reviews, 77 FR
66439 (November 5, 2012).
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The Department received adequate substantive responses collectively
from the domestic interested parties within the 30-day deadline
specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i). The Department did not receive a
substantive response from any government or respondent interested party
to the Indian or Indonesian proceedings. The Department received a
substantive response from the Royal Thai Government but received no
responses from the respondent interested parties, i.e., the Thai
exporters and producers of HR steel. The regulations provide, at 19 CFR
351.218 (e)(1)(ii)(A), that the Department will normally conclude that
respondent interested parties have provided adequate response to a
notice of initiation where it receives complete substantive responses
from respondent interested parties accounting on average for more than
50 percent, on a volume basis (or a value basis, if appropriate), of
the total exports of the subject merchandise to the United States over
the five calendar years preceding the year of publication of the notice
of initiation. Because the Department received no responses from the
respondent interested parties, the Department conducted expedited
reviews of these CVD orders, pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2).
Scope of the Orders
The merchandise subject to these orders is hot-rolled steel of a
rectangular shape, of a width of 0.5 inch or greater, neither clad,
plated, nor coated with metal and whether or not painted, varnished, or
coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances, in coils
(whether or not in successively superimposed layers), regardless of
thickness, and in straight lengths, of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm
and of a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness. Universal
mill plate (i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a
closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm, but not exceeding 1250
mm, and of a thickness of not less than 4 mm, not in coils and without
patterns in relief) of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm is not included
within the scope of these orders.
Specifically included within the scope of these orders are vacuum
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-free
(``IF'')) steels, high strength low alloy (``HSLA'') steels, and the
substrate for motor lamination steels. IF steels are recognized as low
carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as titanium
or niobium (also commonly referred to as columbium), or both, added to
stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are recognized as
steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as chromium, copper,
niobium, vanadium, and molybdenum. The substrate for motor lamination
steels contains micro-alloying levels of elements such as silicon and
aluminum.
Steel products included in the scope of the orders, regardless of
definitions in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(``HTSUS''), are products in which: (i) Iron predominates, by weight,
over each of the other contained elements; (ii) the carbon content is 2
percent or less, by weight; and (iii) none of the elements listed below
exceeds the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:
1.80 percent of manganese, or
2.25 percent of silicon, or
1.00 percent of copper, or
0.50 percent of aluminum, or
1.25 percent of chromium, or
0.30 percent of cobalt, or
0.40 percent of lead, or
1.25 percent of nickel, or
0.30 percent of tungsten, or
0.10 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium, or
0.15 percent of vanadium, or
0.15 percent of zirconium.
All products that meet the physical and chemical descriptions
provided above are within the scope of the orders unless otherwise
excluded. The following products, by way of example, are outside or
specifically excluded from the scope of the orders:
--Alloy hot-rolled steel products in which at least one of the chemical
elements exceeds those listed above (including, 3, American Society for
Testing and Materials (``ASTM'') specifications A543, A387, A514, A517,
A506).
--Society of Automotive Engineers (``SAE'')/American Iron & Steel
Institute (``AISI'') grades of series 2300 and higher.
--Ball bearings steels, as defined in the HTSUS.
--Tool steels, as defined in the HTSUS.
--Silico-manganese (as defined in the HTSUS) or silicon electrical
steel with a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent.
--ASTM specifications A710 and A736.
--USS Abrasion-resistant steels (USS AR 400, USS AR 500).
--All products (proprietary or otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM
specification (sample specifications: ASTM A506, A507).
--Non-rectangular shapes, not in coils, which are the result of having
been processed by cutting or stamping and which have assumed the
character of articles or products classified outside chapter 72 of the
HTSUS.
The merchandise subject to the orders is classified in the HTSUS at
subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00,
7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60,
7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60,
7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30,
7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90,
7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00,
7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00,
7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30,
7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90.
Certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products covered by the
orders, including vacuum degassed fully stabilized, high strength low
alloy, and the substrate for motor lamination steel, may also enter
under the following tariff numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00,
7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00, 7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90,
7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30, 7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00,
7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00, 7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and
7226.99.00.00. Subject merchandise may also enter under 7210.70.30.00,
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7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30, 7212.40.10.00, 7212.40.50.00, and
7212.50.00.00.
Although the HTSUS numbers are provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written product description remains dispositive.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in these reviews are addressed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of Expedited Second Sunset
Reviews of the Countervailing Duty Orders on Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon
Steel Flat Products from India and Indonesia (``Decision Memorandum'')
and the Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the
Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order on
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand (``Thai
Decision Memorandum'') both of which are from Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, are
dated concurrently with this final notice, and are hereby adopted by
this notice. Parties can find a complete discussion of all issues
raised in these expedited sunset reviews and the corresponding
recommendations in these public memoranda which are on file
electronically via Import Administration's Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (``IA
ACCESS''). IA ACCESS is available to registered users at https://iaaccess.trade.gov and in the Central Records Unit, room 7046 of the
main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version
of the Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly on the Internet at
https://www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed Decision Memorandum and the
electronic versions of the Decision Memorandum are identical in
content.
Final Results of Reviews
The Department determines that revocation of the CVD orders would
be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable
subsidy at the rates listed below:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Net
countervailable
Producers/Exporters subsidy
(percent)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
India
Essar Steel Limited................................ 539.89
Ispat Industries Limited........................... 563.50
Steel Authority of India (``SAIL'')................ 549.88
Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited................ 540.78
All other producers/manufacturers/exporters........ 547.71
Indonesia
P.T. Krakatau Steel................................ 10.21
All Others......................................... 10.21
Thailand
Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company Limited 2.38
(``SSI'').........................................
All Others......................................... 2.38
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Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order
This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. Timely
notification of return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to
judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with
the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
We are issuing and publishing the results and notice in accordance
with sections 751(c), 752, and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: March 5, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-05932 Filed 3-13-13; 8:45 am]
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