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not established eligibility for a separate
rate and, thus, they should continue to
be part of the PRC-wide entity for these
final results.
PRC exporter that supplied that nonPRC exporter. These deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, the
Department will determine, and CBP
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries. The Department
intends to issue assessment instructions
to CBP 15 days after the date of
publication of the final results of
review. The Department recently
announced a refinement to its
assessment practice in NME cases.
Pursuant to this refinement in practice,
for entries that were not reported in the
U.S. sales databases submitted by
companies individually examined
during this review, the Department will
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at
the NME-wide rate. In addition, if the
Department determines that an exporter
under review had no shipments of the
subject merchandise, any suspended
entries that entered under that
exporter’s case number (i.e., at that
exporter’s rate) will be liquidated at the
NME-wide rate.15
Notifications
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 POR.
Failure to comply with this requirement
could result in the Department’s
presumption that reimbursement of
antidumping duties has occurred and
the subsequent assessment of doubled
antidumping duties.
This notice also serves as a reminder
to parties subject to the 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 the 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 and this notice in accordance
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective upon
publication of the final results of this
administrative review for shipments of
the subject merchandise from the PRC
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the
publication date, as provided by
sections 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For
previously investigated or reviewed PRC
and non-PRC exporters that received a
separate rate in a prior segment of this
proceeding that are not listed in
footnote 14, the cash deposit rate will
continue to be the existing exporterspecific rate; (2) for all PRC exporters of
subject merchandise that have not been
found to be entitled to a separate rate
(including the firms listed in footnote
14), the cash deposit rate will be the
existing rate for the PRC-wide entity;
and (3) for all non-PRC exporters of
subject merchandise which have not
received their own rate, the cash deposit
rate will be the rate applicable to the
Seafood Company Ltd., Yangjiang City Hongwai
Seafood Company, Ltd., Zhangzhou Xinwanya
Aquatic Product Co., Ltd., Zhangzhou Yanfeng
Aquatic Product, Zhanjiang Evergreen Aquatic
Product Science and Technology Co., Ltd.,
Zhanjiang Fuchang Aquatic Products Co., Ltd.,
Zhanjiang Jinguo Marine Foods Co., Ltd., Zhanjiang
Longwei Aquatic Products Industry Co., Ltd.,
Zhanjiang Universal Seafood Corp., Zhanjiang
Newpro Foods Co., Ltd., Zhaoan Yangli Aquatic
Co., Ltd.
15 See Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR at
65694.
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Dated: December 12, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–351–825]
Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2013–
2014
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) is conducting an
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. The period
of review (POR) is February 1, 2013,
through January 31, 2014. The review
covers one producer/exporter of the
subject merchandise, Villares Metals
S.A. (Villares). We preliminarily find
that subject merchandise has not been
sold at less than normal value.
AGENCY:
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Interested parties are invited to
comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Effective Date: December 19,
2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Catherine Cartsos or Minoo Hatten, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–1757, and (202)
482–1690, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order
is SSB. The SSB subject to the order is
currently classifiable under subheadings
7222.1000, 7222.1100, 7222.1900,
7222.2000, 7222.3000 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS). While the
HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the
written description is dispositive. A full
description of the scope of the order is
contained in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.1
Methodology
The Department conducted this
review in accordance with section
751(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). Constructed export
price and export price are calculated in
accordance with section 772 of the Act.
Normal value is calculated in
accordance with section 773 of the Act.
For a full description of the
methodology underlying our
conclusions, see Preliminary Decision
Memorandum. The Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is a public
document and is made available to the
public via Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (ACCESS).2
ACCESS is available to registered users
at https://access.trade.gov and is
1 See the memorandum from Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar from
Brazil,’’ dated concurrently with this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum), which is
hereby adopted by this notice.
2 On November 24, 2014, Enforcement and
Compliance changed the name of Enforcement and
Compliance’s AD and CVD Centralized Electronic
Service System (‘‘IA ACCESS’’) to AD and CVD
Centralized Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’).
The Web site location was changed from https://
iaaccess.trade.gov to https://access.trade.gov. The
Final Rule changing the references to the
Regulations can be found at 79 FR 69046
(November 20, 2014).
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available to all parties in the Central
Records Unit, Room 7046 of the main
Department of Commerce building. In
addition, a complete version of the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can
be found at https://enforcement.trade.
gov/frn/.
Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we
preliminarily determine that a
weighted-average dumping margin of
0.00 percent exists for Villares for the
period February 1, 2013, through
January 31, 2014.
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Disclosure and Public Comment
We intend to disclose the calculations
performed to parties in this proceeding
within five days of the date of
publication of this notice in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Pursuant to 19
CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may
submit case briefs not later than 30 days
after the date of publication of this
notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues
raised in the case briefs, may be filed
not later than five days after the date for
filing case briefs.3 Parties who submit
case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this
proceeding are encouraged to submit
with each argument: (1) A statement of
the issue; (2) a brief summary of the
argument; and (3) a table of authorities.4
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c),
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
Enforcement and Compliance, filed
electronically via ACCESS. An
electronically filed document must be
received successfully in its entirety by
the Department’s electronic records
system, ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern
Time within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice.5 Requests
should contain: (1) The party’s name,
address and telephone number; (2) the
number of participants; and (3) a list of
issues to be discussed. Issues raised in
the hearing will be limited to those
raised in the respective case briefs. The
Department intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review,
including the results of its analysis of
the issues raised in any written briefs,
not later than 120 days after the date of
publication of this notice, unless
extended, pursuant to section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Assessment Rates
Upon completion of the
administrative review, the Department
3 See
19 CFR 351.309(d).
19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing
requirements).
5 See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
4 See
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shall determine and U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) shall assess
antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries. If Villares’ weighted-average
dumping margin is above de minimis in
the final results of this review, we will
calculate an importer-specific
assessment rate on the basis of the ratio
of the total amount of antidumping
duties calculated for each importer’s
examined sales and the total entered
value of the sales in accordance with 19
CFR 351.212(b)(1). If Villares’ weightedaverage dumping margin continues to be
zero or de minimis in the final results
of review, we will instruct CBP not to
assess duties on any of its entries in
accordance with the Final Modification
for Reviews, i.e., ‘‘{w}here the weightedaverage margin of dumping for the
exporter is determined to be zero or de
minimis, no antidumping duties will be
assessed.’’6
The Department clarified its
‘‘automatic assessment’’ regulation on
May 6, 2003.7 This clarification will
apply to entries of subject merchandise
during the POR produced by Villares for
which it did not know its merchandise
was destined for the United States. In
such instances, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate unreviewed 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.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements
will be effective upon publication of the
notice of final results of administrative
review for all shipments of SSB from
Brazil entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after
the date of publication as provided by
section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash
deposit rate for Villares will be the rate
established in the final results of this
administrative review; (2) for
merchandise exported by manufacturers
or exporters not covered in this 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 recent period; (3)
if the exporter is not a firm covered in
this review, a prior review, or the
original investigation but the
6 See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of
the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102
(February 14, 2012).
7 For a full discussion of this clarification, see
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954
(May 6, 2003) (Assessment Policy Notice).
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manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate
will be the rate established for the most
recent period for the manufacturer of
the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit
rate for all other manufacturers or
exporters will continue to be 19.43
percent, the all-others rate established
in the Notice of Final Determination of
Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Stainless
Steel Bar From Brazil, 59 FR 66914
(December 28, 1994). These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary
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.
We are issuing and publishing these
results in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: December 15, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
(1) Comparisons to Normal Value
A. Determination of Comparison Method
B. Results of Differential Pricing Analysis
(2) Product Comparisons
(3) Date of Sale
(4) Constructed Export Price
(5) Export Price
(6) Normal Value
A. Home Market Viability and Comparison
Market
B. Level of Trade
C. Cost of Production
1. Calculation of Cost of Production
2. Test of Comparison Market Sales Prices
3. Results of the COP Test
D. Calculation of Normal Value Based on
Comparison Market Prices
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-825]
Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel
bar (SSB) from Brazil. The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2013,
through January 31, 2014. The review covers one producer/exporter of
the subject merchandise, Villares Metals S.A. (Villares). We
preliminarily find that subject merchandise has not been sold at less
than normal value. Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Effective Date: December 19, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Cartsos or Minoo Hatten, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
1757, and (202) 482-1690, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The SSB subject to the
order is currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.1000, 7222.1100,
7222.1900, 7222.2000, 7222.3000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (HTSUS). While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the written description is
dispositive. A full description of the scope of the order is contained
in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\1\
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\1\ See the memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to
Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance,
``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil,'' dated
concurrently with this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum),
which is hereby adopted by this notice.
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Methodology
The Department conducted this review in accordance with section
751(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Constructed
export price and export price are calculated in accordance with section
772 of the Act. Normal value is calculated in accordance with section
773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying
our conclusions, see Preliminary Decision Memorandum. The Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is a public document and is made available to the
public via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS).\2\ ACCESS is
available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov and is
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available to all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the
main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version
of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be found at https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
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\2\ On November 24, 2014, Enforcement and Compliance changed the
name of Enforcement and Compliance's AD and CVD Centralized
Electronic Service System (``IA ACCESS'') to AD and CVD Centralized
Electronic Service System (``ACCESS''). The Web site location was
changed from https://iaaccess.trade.gov to https://access.trade.gov.
The Final Rule changing the references to the Regulations can be
found at 79 FR 69046 (November 20, 2014).
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that a
weighted-average dumping margin of 0.00 percent exists for Villares for
the period February 1, 2013, through January 31, 2014.
Disclosure and Public Comment
We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties in this
proceeding within five days of the date of publication of this notice
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c),
interested parties may submit case briefs not later than 30 days after
the date of publication of this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days
after the date for filing case briefs.\3\ Parties who submit case
briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are encouraged to submit
with each argument: (1) A statement of the issue; (2) a brief summary
of the argument; and (3) a table of authorities.\4\
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\3\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
\4\ See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements).
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 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 Enforcement and
Compliance, filed electronically via ACCESS. An electronically filed
document must be received successfully in its entirety by the
Department's electronic records system, ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern Time
within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice.\5\
Requests should contain: (1) The party's name, address and telephone
number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be
discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised
in the respective case briefs. The Department intends to issue the
final results of this administrative review, including the results of
its analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, not later than
120 days after the date of publication of this notice, unless extended,
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
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\5\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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Assessment Rates
Upon completion of the administrative review, the Department shall
determine and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. If Villares' weighted-
average dumping margin is above de minimis in the final results of this
review, we will calculate an importer-specific assessment rate on the
basis of the ratio of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated
for each importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). If Villares' weighted-
average dumping margin continues to be zero or de minimis in the final
results of review, we will instruct CBP not to assess duties on any of
its entries in accordance with the Final Modification for Reviews,
i.e., ``{w{time} here the weighted-average margin of dumping for the
exporter is determined to be zero or de minimis, no antidumping duties
will be assessed.''\6\
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\6\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14,
2012).
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The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on
May 6, 2003.\7\ This clarification will apply to entries of subject
merchandise during the POR produced by Villares for which it did not
know its merchandise was destined for the United States. In such
instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.
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\7\ For a full discussion of this clarification, see Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping
Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (Assessment Policy Notice).
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We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of
the final results of this review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for
all shipments of SSB from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the date of publication as provided by
section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Villares
will be the rate established in the final results of this
administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by manufacturers or
exporters not covered in this 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 recent period; (3) if the exporter
is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original
investigation but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be
the rate established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of
the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers
or exporters will continue to be 19.43 percent, the all-others rate
established in the Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28,
1994). These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in
effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary 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.
We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: December 15, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
(1) Comparisons to Normal Value
A. Determination of Comparison Method
B. Results of Differential Pricing Analysis
(2) Product Comparisons
(3) Date of Sale
(4) Constructed Export Price
(5) Export Price
(6) Normal Value
A. Home Market Viability and Comparison Market
B. Level of Trade
C. Cost of Production
1. Calculation of Cost of Production
2. Test of Comparison Market Sales Prices
3. Results of the COP Test
D. Calculation of Normal Value Based on Comparison Market Prices
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
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