Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the Russian Federation: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, 49950-49953 [2016-17938]
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Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From the Russian Federation: Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value and Final Affirmative
Determination of Critical
Circumstances, in Part
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘Department’’) determines that coldrolled steel flat products (‘‘cold-rolled
steel’’) from the Russian Federation
(‘‘Russia’’) are being, or are likely to be,
sold in the United States at less than fair
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value (‘‘LTFV’’). The period of
investigation (‘‘POI’’) is July 31, 2014,
through June 30, 2015. The final
dumping margins of sales at LTFV are
listed below in the ‘‘Final
Determination’’ section of this notice.
DATES: Effective July 29, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laurel LaCivita, Eve Wang or Alex
Rosen, AD/CVD Operations, Office III,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–4243, (202) 482–6231 or (202) 482–
7814, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 8, 2016, the Department
published the Preliminary
Determination of this antidumping duty
(‘‘AD’’) investigation and invited parties
to comment.1 As provided in section
782(i) of the Act, in April and May
2016, the Department verified the sales
and cost data reported by Severstal
Export GmbH and PAO Severstal
(collectively ‘‘Severstal’’) and Novex
Trading (Swiss) SA and Novolipetsk
Steel OJSC (collectively ‘‘NLMK’’), the
two mandatory respondents in this
investigation. In June 2016,
ArcelorMittal USA LLC
(‘‘ArcelorMittal’’), on behalf of
Petitioners,2 Severstal, and NLMK
submitted case briefs and rebuttal briefs.
For a complete discussion of the events
that occurred since the Preliminary
Determination, see the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.3
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this
investigation are cold-rolled steel from
the Russian Federation. For a complete
description of the scope of this
investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of the
Investigation,’’ in Attachment II of this
notice.
1 See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
the Russian Federation: Affirmative Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Critical
Circumstances, and Postponement of Final
Determination, 81 FR 12072 (March 8, 2016)
(‘‘Preliminary Determination’’).
2 Petitioners are AK Steel Corporation,
ArcelorMittal USA LLC, Nucor Corporation, Steel
Dynamics, Inc., and United States Steel
Corporation.
3 See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, ‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum for
the Final Determination in the Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat
Products from the Russian Federation,’’ dated
concurrently with this notice (‘‘Issues and Decision
Memorandum’’).
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Scope Comments
All-Others Rate
In accordance with the Preliminary
Scope Decision Memorandum,4 the
Department set aside a period of time
for parties to address scope issues in
case briefs or other written comments
on scope issues.
For a summary of the product
coverage comments and rebuttal
responses submitted to the record of the
cold-rolled steel investigations, and
accompanying discussion and analysis
of all comments timely received, see the
Final Scope Decision Memorandum.5
The Final Scope Decision Memorandum
is incorporated by, and hereby adopted
by, this notice.
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’)
provides that the estimated all-others
rate shall be an amount equal to the
weighted-average of the estimated
weighted-average dumping margins
established for exporters and producers
individually investigated excluding any
zero or de minimis margins, and
margins determined entirely under
section 776 of the Act. In this case,
because the final dumping margin
calculated for NLMK is de minimis, we
assigned the rate calculated for Severstal
as the ‘‘all-others’’ rate in the final
determination, in accordance with
section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and
rebuttal briefs by parties in this
investigation are addressed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum, which is
incorporated by reference and hereby
adopted by this notice. A list of the
issues raised is attached to this notice as
Attachment I. The Issues and Decision
Memorandum is a public document and
is on file electronically via Enforcement
and Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’).
ACCESS is available to registered users
at https://access.trade.gov and it is
available to all parties in the Central
Records Unit, Room B–8024 of the main
Department of Commerce building. In
addition, a complete version of the
Issues and Decision Memorandum can
be accessed directly at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
The signed and electronic versions of
the Issues and Decision Memorandum
are identical in content.
Changes Since the Preliminary
Determination
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Based on our analysis of the
comments received and our findings at
verification, we made certain changes to
the margin calculations. For a
discussion of these changes, see the
Issues and Decision Memorandum. We
have also revised the all-others rate.
4 See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Certain ColdRolled Steel Products From Brazil, the People’s
Republic of China, India, Japan, the Republic of
Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United
Kingdom: Scope Comments Decision Memorandum
for the Preliminary Determinations,’’ dated
February 29, 2016 (‘‘Preliminary Scope Decision
Memorandum’’).
5 See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Scope Comments
Decision Memorandum for the Final
Determinations,’’ dated concurrently with this
notice (‘‘Final Scope Decision Memorandum’’).
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Final Determination
The Department determines that the
final weighted-average dumping
margins are as follows:
Exporter/producer
Severstal Export GmbH and
PAO Severstal.
Novex Trading (Swiss) SA and
Novolipetsk Steel OJSC.
All Others ..................................
Weightedaverage
margin
(percent)
13.36.
1.04 (de
minimis).
13.36.
Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations
performed within five days of the
publication of this notice to interested
parties, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224(b).
Final Affirmative Determination of
Critical Circumstances, In Part
On February 29, 2016 the Department
found that critical circumstances existed
for merchandise exported by Severstal
and NLMK, as well as for ‘‘all others.’’ 6
Based on the final sales data submitted
by Severstal and NLMK and further
analysis following the Preliminary
Determination, we are modifying our
findings for the final determination, in
part. For the final determination, with
respect to NLMK, we have determined
that cold-rolled steel is not being, or is
not likely to be, sold in the United
States at LTFV and, thus, we are issuing
a negative critical circumstances
determination. With respect to
Severstal, our analysis of Severstal
revised reported monthly data
demonstrates that Severstal’s shipments
of cold-rolled steel during the
comparison period increased less than
15 percent over the respective imports
in the base period, and thus, we are
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issuing a negative critical circumstances
determination. For all others, we relied
on NLMK’s reported shipment data and
Severstal’s revised shipment data and
determined that the imports during the
comparison period increased more than
15 percent over the respective imports
under the same methodology as in the
Preliminary Determination.
Accordingly, we determine that critical
circumstances did not exist with regard
to NLMK’s or Sevestal’s imports of coldrolled steel, but existed with regard to
all others. For a complete discussion of
this issue, see the ‘‘Final Determination
of Critical Circumstances, In Part’’
section of the Issues and Decision
Memorandum.
Continuation of Suspension of
Liquidation
In accordance with section
735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (‘‘CBP’’) to continue to
suspend liquidation of all appropriate
entries of cold-rolled steel from Russia
as described in the ‘‘Scope of the
Investigation’’ section, which are
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after March 8,
2016, the date of publication in the
Federal Register of the affirmative
Preliminary Determination. Because of
our affirmative determination of critical
circumstances for ‘‘all others,’’ in
accordance with section 735(a)(3) and
(c)(4)(C) of the Act, suspension of
liquidation of cold-rolled steel from
Russia, as described in the ‘‘Scope of the
Investigation’’ section, shall apply, for
‘‘all others,’’ to unliquidated entries of
merchandise entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or
after the date which is 90 days before
the publication of the Preliminary
Determination. Because we find in this
final determination that critical
circumstances do not exist for Severstal,
we will terminate the retroactive
suspension of liquidation ordered at the
Preliminary Determination and release
any cash deposits that were required
during that period, consistent with
section 735(c)(3) of the Act. For NLMK,
which includes Novex Trading (Swiss)
SA and Novolipetsk Steel OJSC, because
this entity’s estimated weighted-average
final dumping margin is de minimis, we
are directing CBP to terminate
suspension of liquidation of entries of
cold-rolled steel produced and exported
by this entity.
Further, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.205(d), the Department will instruct
CBP to require a cash deposit equal to
the weighted-average amount by which
normal value exceeds U.S. price as
follows: (1) For the mandatory
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respondent listed above, the cash
deposit rate will be equal to the
dumping margin which the Department
determined in this final determination
adjusted, as appropriate, for export
subsidies found in the final
determination of the companion
countervailing duty investigation; 7 (2) if
the exporter is not a firm identified in
this investigation, but the producer is,
the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established for the producer of the
subject merchandise; and (3) the cash
deposit rates for all other producers or
exporters will be 13.36 percent, as
discussed in the ‘‘All-Others Rate’’
section above. The suspension of
liquidation instructions will remain in
effect until further notice.
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International Trade Commission
Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of
the Act, we will notify the International
Trade Commission (‘‘ITC’’) of the final
affirmative determination of sales at
LTFV. Because the final determination
in this proceeding is affirmative, in
accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the
Act, the ITC will make its final
determination as to whether the
domestic industry in the United States
is materially injured, or threatened with
material injury, by reason of imports of
certain cold-rolled steel from Russia no
later than 45 days after our final
determination. If the ITC determines
that material injury or threat of material
injury does not exist, the proceeding
will be terminated and all cash deposits
will be refunded. If the ITC determines
that such injury does exist, the
Department will issue an antidumping
duty order directing CBP to assess, upon
further instruction by the Department,
antidumping duties on all imports of the
subject merchandise entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the effective
date of the suspension of liquidation.
Notification Regarding Administrative
Protective Orders (‘‘APO’’)
This notice serves as a reminder to
parties subject to 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 return or destruction
of APO materials, or conversion to
judicial protective order, is hereby
7 In this case, although the product under
investigation is also subject to a countervailing duty
investigation, the Department found no
countervailing duty determined to constitute an
export subsidy. Therefore, we did not offset the
cash deposit rates shown above for purposes of this
determination.
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requested. Failure to comply with the
regulations and the terms of an APO is
a violation subject to sanction.
This determination and this notice are
issued and published pursuant to
sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: July 20, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Attachment I
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Investigation
IV. Final Determination of Critical
Circumstances, In Part
V. Changes Since the Preliminary
Determination
VI. List of Comments
VII. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Application of Adverse Facts
Available (‘‘AFA’’) for Severstal
Comment 2: Classification of Severstal
Export’s Sales through SSE Miami
Comment 3: Treatment of SSE Miami’s
Indirect Selling Expenses in the
Determination of U.S. Price
Comment 4: The Use of Zeroing in
Severstal’s Margin Analysis
Comment 5: Calculation of Severstal
Export’s U.S. Customs Clearance Costs
Comment 6: Financial Expenses and
Foreign Exchange Losses for Severstal
Comment 7: Missing Costs for Severstal
Comment 8: Cost for Products Sold but not
Produced During the POI for Severstal
Comment 9: Major Inputs for Severstal
Comment 10: Financial Expense Ratio
Calculation for Severstal
Comment 11: Ministerial Errors for
Severstal
Comment 12: NLMK’s Date of Sale for the
U.S. Sales
Comment 13: Reserve for Doubtful Debts in
NLMK’s Indirect Selling Expenses
Comment 14: NLMK’s Other Income and
Expense Items
Comment 15: Allocation of the Parent
Company’s Expenses to NLMK
Comment 16: NLMK’s Net Financial
Expense Ratio
Comment 17: Minor Corrections in
NLMK’s Margin Calculation
VIII. Recommendation
Attachment II
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation
are certain cold-rolled (cold-reduced), flatrolled steel products, whether or not
annealed, painted, varnished, or coated with
plastics or other non-metallic substances.
The products covered do not include those
that are clad, plated, or coated with metal.
The products covered include coils that have
a width or other lateral measurement
(‘‘width’’) of 12.7 mm or greater, regardless
of form of coil (e.g., in successively
superimposed layers, spirally oscillating,
etc.). The products covered also include
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products not in coils (e.g., in straight lengths)
of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and a width
that is 12.7 mm or greater and that measures
at least 10 times the thickness. The products
covered also include products not in coils
(e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75
mm or more and a width exceeding 150 mm
and measuring at least twice the thickness.
The products described above may be
rectangular, square, circular, or other shape
and include products of either rectangular or
non-rectangular cross-section where such
cross-section is achieved subsequent to the
rolling process, i.e., products which have
been ‘‘worked after rolling’’ (e.g., products
which have been beveled or rounded at the
edges). For purposes of the width and
thickness requirements referenced above:
(1) Where the nominal and actual
measurements vary, a product is within the
scope if application of either the nominal or
actual measurement would place it within
the scope based on the definitions set forth
above, and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for
a specific product (e.g., the thickness of
certain products with non-rectangular crosssection, the width of certain products with
non-rectangular shape, etc.), the
measurement at its greatest width or
thickness applies.
Steel products included in the scope of this
investigation are products in which: (1) Iron
predominates, by weight, over each of the
other contained elements; (2) the carbon
content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and
(3) none of the elements listed below exceeds
the quantity, by weight, respectively
indicated:
• 2.50 percent of manganese, or
• 3.30 percent of silicon, or
• 1.50 percent of copper, or
• 1.50 percent of aluminum, or
• 1.25 percent of chromium, or
• 0.30 percent of cobalt, or
• 0.40 percent of lead, or
• 2.00 percent of nickel, or
• 0.30 percent of tungsten (also called
wolfram), or
• 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
• 0.10 percent of niobium (also called
columbium), or
• 0.30 percent of vanadium, or
• 0.30 percent of zirconium
Unless specifically excluded, products are
included in this scope regardless of levels of
boron and titanium.
For example, specifically included in this
scope are vacuum degassed, fully stabilized
(commonly referred to as interstitial-free
(‘‘IF’’)) steels, high strength low alloy
(‘‘HSLA’’) steels, motor lamination steels,
Advanced High Strength Steels (‘‘AHSS’’),
and Ultra High Strength Steels (‘‘UHSS’’). IF
steels are recognized as low carbon steels
with micro-alloying levels of elements such
as titanium and/or niobium added to
stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements.
HSLA steels are recognized as steels with
micro-alloying levels of elements such as
chromium, copper, niobium, titanium,
vanadium, and molybdenum. Motor
lamination steels contain micro-alloying
levels of elements such as silicon and
aluminum. AHSS and UHSS are considered
high tensile strength and high elongation
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steels, although AHSS and UHSS are covered
whether or not they are high tensile strength
or high elongation steels.
Subject merchandise includes cold-rolled
steel that has been further processed in a
third country, including but not limited to
annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing,
trimming, cutting, punching, and/or slitting,
or any other processing that would not
otherwise remove the merchandise from the
scope of the investigation if performed in the
country of manufacture of the cold-rolled
steel.
All products that meet the written physical
description, and in which the chemistry
quantities do not exceed any one of the noted
element levels listed above, are within the
scope of this investigation unless specifically
excluded. The following products are outside
of and/or specifically excluded from the
scope of this investigation:
• Ball bearing steels; 8
• Tool steels; 9
• Silico-manganese steel; 10
• Grain-oriented electrical steels (‘‘GOES’’)
as defined in the final determination of the
U.S. Department of Commerce in GrainOriented Electrical Steel from Germany,
Japan, and Poland.11
• Non-Oriented Electrical Steels
(‘‘NOES’’), as defined in the antidumping
orders issued by the U.S. Department of
8 Ball bearing steels are defined as steels which
contain, in addition to iron, each of the following
elements by weight in the amount specified: (i) Not
less than 0.95 nor more than 1.13 percent of carbon;
(ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent
of manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03
percent of sulfur; (iv) none, or not more than 0.03
percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than 0.18 nor
more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than
1.25 nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii)
none, or not more than 0.28 percent of nickel; (viii)
none, or not more than 0.38 percent of copper; and
(ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of
molybdenum.
9 Tool steels are defined as steels which contain
the following combinations of elements in the
quantity by weight respectively indicated: (i) More
than 1.2 percent carbon and more than 10.5 percent
chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent
chromium; or (iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon
and 1 percent to 1.8 percent, inclusive, manganese;
or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent, inclusive,
chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive,
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon
and not less than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi)
not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less than
5.5 percent tungsten.
10 Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels
containing by weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent
of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or more but not more than
1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6 percent or
more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
11 Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany,
Japan, and Poland: Final Determinations of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value and Certain Final Affirmative
Determination of Critical Circumstances, 79 FR
42,501, 42,503 (Dep’t of Commerce, July 22, 2014)
(‘‘Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany,
Japan, and Poland’’). This determination defines
grain-oriented electrical steel as ‘‘a flat-rolled alloy
steel product containing by weight at least 0.6
percent but not more than 6 percent of silicon, not
more than 0.08 percent of carbon, not more than 1.0
percent of aluminum, and no other element in an
amount that would give the steel the characteristics
of another alloy steel, in coils or in straight
lengths.’’
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Commerce in Non-Oriented Electrical Steel
from the People’s Republic of China,
Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea,
Sweden, and Taiwan.12
The products subject to this investigation
are currently classified in the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
under item numbers: 7209.15.0000,
7209.16.0030, 7209.16.0060, 7209.16.0070,
7209.16.0091, 7209.17.0030, 7209.17.0060,
7209.17.0070, 7209.17.0091, 7209.18.1530,
7209.18.1560, 7209.18.2510, 7209.18.2520,
7209.18.2580, 7209.18.6020, 7209.18.6090,
7209.25.0000, 7209.26.0000, 7209.27.0000,
7209.28.0000, 7209.90.0000, 7210.70.3000,
7211.23.1500, 7211.23.2000, 7211.23.3000,
7211.23.4500, 7211.23.6030, 7211.23.6060,
7211.23.6090, 7211.29.2030, 7211.29.2090,
7211.29.4500, 7211.29.6030, 7211.29.6080,
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7225.50.6000, 7225.50.8080, 7225.99.0090,
7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, and
7226.92.8050. The products subject to the
investigation may also enter under the
following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000,
7212.50.0000, 7215.10.0010, 7215.10.0080,
7215.50.0016, 7215.50.0018, 7215.50.0020,
7215.50.0061, 7215.50.0063, 7215.50.0065,
7215.50.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7217.10.1000,
7217.10.2000, 7217.10.3000, 7217.10.7000,
7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060,
7217.90.5090, 7225.19.0000, 7226.19.1000,
7226.19.9000, 7226.99.0180, 7228.50.5015,
7228.50.5040, 7228.50.5070, 7228.60.8000,
and 7229.90.1000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are
provided for convenience and U.S. Customs
purposes only. The written description of the
scope of the investigation is dispositive.
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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
12 Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From the People’s
Republic of China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of
Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan: Antidumping Duty
Orders, 79 FR 71,741, 71,741–42 (Dep’t of
Commerce, Dec. 3, 2014) (‘‘Non-Oriented Electrical
Steel from the People’s Republic of China,
Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden,
and Taiwan’’). The orders define NOES as ‘‘coldrolled, flat-rolled, alloy steel products, whether or
not in coils, regardless of width, having an actual
thickness of 0.20 mm or more, in which the core
loss is substantially equal in any direction of
magnetization in the plane of the material. The term
‘substantially equal’ means that the cross grain
direction of core loss is no more than 1.5 times the
straight grain direction (i.e., the rolling direction) of
core loss. NOES has a magnetic permeability that
does not exceed 1.65 Tesla when tested at a field
of 800 A/m (equivalent to 10 Oersteds) along (i.e.,
parallel to) the rolling direction of the sheet (i.e.,
B800 value). NOES contains by weight more than
1.00 percent of silicon but less than 3.5 percent of
silicon, not more than 0.08 percent of carbon, and
not more than 1.5 percent of aluminum. NOES has
a surface oxide coating, to which an insulation
coating may be applied.’’
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–580–881]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From the Republic of Korea: Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) determines that
certain cold-rolled steel flat products
(‘‘cold-rolled steel’’) from the Republic
of Korea (Korea) are being, or are likely
to be, sold in the United States at less
than fair value (‘‘LTFV’’). The final
estimated weighted-average dumping
margins are listed below in the ‘‘Final
Determination’’ section of this notice.
The period of investigation (‘‘POI’’) is
July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015.
DATES: Effective July 29, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Victoria Cho or Robert James, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–5075 or (202) 482–
0649, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
The Department published the
preliminary determination on March 7,
2016.1 A summary of the events that
occurred since the Department
published the Preliminary
Determination, as well as a full
discussion of the issues raised by parties
for this final determination, may be
found in the Final Issues and Decision
Memorandum.2
Also, as explained in the
memorandum from the Acting Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, the Department exercised
1 See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From the Republic of Korea: Affirmative
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value and Postponement of Final
Determination, 81 FR 11757 (March 7, 2016)
(Preliminary Determination) and accompanying
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
2 See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, ‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum for
the Final Affirmative Determination in the
Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain ColdRolled Steel Products from the Republic of Korea,’’
(Final Issues and Decision Memorandum), dated
concurrently with this determination and hereby
adopted by this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 146 (Friday, July 29, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49950-49953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17938]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-821-822]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the Russian
Federation: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``Department'') determines that
cold-rolled steel flat products (``cold-rolled steel'') from the
Russian Federation (``Russia'') are being, or are likely to be, sold in
the United States at less than fair value (``LTFV''). The period of
investigation (``POI'') is July 31, 2014, through June 30, 2015. The
final dumping margins of sales at LTFV are listed below in the ``Final
Determination'' section of this notice.
DATES: Effective July 29, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurel LaCivita, Eve Wang or Alex
Rosen, AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482-4243, (202) 482-6231 or (202) 482-7814, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 8, 2016, the Department published the Preliminary
Determination of this antidumping duty (``AD'') investigation and
invited parties to comment.\1\ As provided in section 782(i) of the
Act, in April and May 2016, the Department verified the sales and cost
data reported by Severstal Export GmbH and PAO Severstal (collectively
``Severstal'') and Novex Trading (Swiss) SA and Novolipetsk Steel OJSC
(collectively ``NLMK''), the two mandatory respondents in this
investigation. In June 2016, ArcelorMittal USA LLC (``ArcelorMittal''),
on behalf of Petitioners,\2\ Severstal, and NLMK submitted case briefs
and rebuttal briefs. For a complete discussion of the events that
occurred since the Preliminary Determination, see the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.\3\
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\1\ See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Russian
Federation: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value, Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Critical
Circumstances, and Postponement of Final Determination, 81 FR 12072
(March 8, 2016) (``Preliminary Determination'').
\2\ Petitioners are AK Steel Corporation, ArcelorMittal USA LLC,
Nucor Corporation, Steel Dynamics, Inc., and United States Steel
Corporation.
\3\ See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to
Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance,
``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Determination in the
Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat
Products from the Russian Federation,'' dated concurrently with this
notice (``Issues and Decision Memorandum'').
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Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation are cold-rolled steel
from the Russian Federation. For a complete description of the scope of
this investigation, see the ``Scope of the Investigation,'' in
Attachment II of this notice.
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Scope Comments
In accordance with the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum,\4\
the Department set aside a period of time for parties to address scope
issues in case briefs or other written comments on scope issues.
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\4\ See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
``Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Products From Brazil, the People's
Republic of China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian
Federation, and the United Kingdom: Scope Comments Decision
Memorandum for the Preliminary Determinations,'' dated February 29,
2016 (``Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum'').
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For a summary of the product coverage comments and rebuttal
responses submitted to the record of the cold-rolled steel
investigations, and accompanying discussion and analysis of all
comments timely received, see the Final Scope Decision Memorandum.\5\
The Final Scope Decision Memorandum is incorporated by, and hereby
adopted by, this notice.
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\5\ See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
``Scope Comments Decision Memorandum for the Final Determinations,''
dated concurrently with this notice (``Final Scope Decision
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Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties in
this investigation are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum,
which is incorporated by reference and hereby adopted by this notice. A
list of the issues raised is attached to this notice as Attachment I.
The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file
electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (``ACCESS'').
ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov and
it is available to all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room B-8024
of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete
version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly
at https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed and
electronic versions of the Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical
in content.
Changes Since the Preliminary Determination
Based on our analysis of the comments received and our findings at
verification, we made certain changes to the margin calculations. For a
discussion of these changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum. We
have also revised the all-others rate.
All-Others Rate
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the
Act'') provides that the estimated all-others rate shall be an amount
equal to the weighted-average of the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins established for exporters and producers individually
investigated excluding any zero or de minimis margins, and margins
determined entirely under section 776 of the Act. In this case, because
the final dumping margin calculated for NLMK is de minimis, we assigned
the rate calculated for Severstal as the ``all-others'' rate in the
final determination, in accordance with section 735(c)(5)(A) of the
Act.
Final Determination
The Department determines that the final weighted-average dumping
margins are as follows:
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Weighted-average margin
Exporter/producer (percent)
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Severstal Export GmbH and PAO Severstal... 13.36.
Novex Trading (Swiss) SA and Novolipetsk 1.04 (de minimis).
Steel OJSC.
All Others................................ 13.36.
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations performed within five days
of the publication of this notice to interested parties, in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, In Part
On February 29, 2016 the Department found that critical
circumstances existed for merchandise exported by Severstal and NLMK,
as well as for ``all others.'' \6\ Based on the final sales data
submitted by Severstal and NLMK and further analysis following the
Preliminary Determination, we are modifying our findings for the final
determination, in part. For the final determination, with respect to
NLMK, we have determined that cold-rolled steel is not being, or is not
likely to be, sold in the United States at LTFV and, thus, we are
issuing a negative critical circumstances determination. With respect
to Severstal, our analysis of Severstal revised reported monthly data
demonstrates that Severstal's shipments of cold-rolled steel during the
comparison period increased less than 15 percent over the respective
imports in the base period, and thus, we are issuing a negative
critical circumstances determination. For all others, we relied on
NLMK's reported shipment data and Severstal's revised shipment data and
determined that the imports during the comparison period increased more
than 15 percent over the respective imports under the same methodology
as in the Preliminary Determination. Accordingly, we determine that
critical circumstances did not exist with regard to NLMK's or
Sevestal's imports of cold-rolled steel, but existed with regard to all
others. For a complete discussion of this issue, see the ``Final
Determination of Critical Circumstances, In Part'' section of the
Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to continue
to suspend liquidation of all appropriate entries of cold-rolled steel
from Russia as described in the ``Scope of the Investigation'' section,
which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after March 8, 2016, the date of publication in the Federal Register of
the affirmative Preliminary Determination. Because of our affirmative
determination of critical circumstances for ``all others,'' in
accordance with section 735(a)(3) and (c)(4)(C) of the Act, suspension
of liquidation of cold-rolled steel from Russia, as described in the
``Scope of the Investigation'' section, shall apply, for ``all
others,'' to unliquidated entries of merchandise entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date which is 90 days
before the publication of the Preliminary Determination. Because we
find in this final determination that critical circumstances do not
exist for Severstal, we will terminate the retroactive suspension of
liquidation ordered at the Preliminary Determination and release any
cash deposits that were required during that period, consistent with
section 735(c)(3) of the Act. For NLMK, which includes Novex Trading
(Swiss) SA and Novolipetsk Steel OJSC, because this entity's estimated
weighted-average final dumping margin is de minimis, we are directing
CBP to terminate suspension of liquidation of entries of cold-rolled
steel produced and exported by this entity.
Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(d), the Department will
instruct CBP to require a cash deposit equal to the weighted-average
amount by which normal value exceeds U.S. price as follows: (1) For the
mandatory
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respondent listed above, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the
dumping margin which the Department determined in this final
determination adjusted, as appropriate, for export subsidies found in
the final determination of the companion countervailing duty
investigation; \7\ (2) if the exporter is not a firm identified in this
investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the
rate established for the producer of the subject merchandise; and (3)
the cash deposit rates for all other producers or exporters will be
13.36 percent, as discussed in the ``All-Others Rate'' section above.
The suspension of liquidation instructions will remain in effect until
further notice.
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\7\ In this case, although the product under investigation is
also subject to a countervailing duty investigation, the Department
found no countervailing duty determined to constitute an export
subsidy. Therefore, we did not offset the cash deposit rates shown
above for purposes of this determination.
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International Trade Commission Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we will notify the
International Trade Commission (``ITC'') of the final affirmative
determination of sales at LTFV. Because the final determination in this
proceeding is affirmative, in accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the
Act, the ITC will make its final determination as to whether the
domestic industry in the United States is materially injured, or
threatened with material injury, by reason of imports of certain cold-
rolled steel from Russia no later than 45 days after our final
determination. If the ITC determines that material injury or threat of
material injury does not exist, the proceeding will be terminated and
all cash deposits will be refunded. If the ITC determines that such
injury does exist, the Department will issue an antidumping duty order
directing CBP to assess, upon further instruction by the Department,
antidumping duties on all imports of the subject merchandise entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the effective
date of the suspension of liquidation.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders (``APO'')
This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to 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 return or 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 violation
subject to sanction.
This determination and this notice are issued and published
pursuant to sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: July 20, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Attachment I
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Investigation
IV. Final Determination of Critical Circumstances, In Part
V. Changes Since the Preliminary Determination
VI. List of Comments
VII. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Application of Adverse Facts Available (``AFA'') for
Severstal
Comment 2: Classification of Severstal Export's Sales through
SSE Miami
Comment 3: Treatment of SSE Miami's Indirect Selling Expenses in
the Determination of U.S. Price
Comment 4: The Use of Zeroing in Severstal's Margin Analysis
Comment 5: Calculation of Severstal Export's U.S. Customs
Clearance Costs
Comment 6: Financial Expenses and Foreign Exchange Losses for
Severstal
Comment 7: Missing Costs for Severstal
Comment 8: Cost for Products Sold but not Produced During the
POI for Severstal
Comment 9: Major Inputs for Severstal
Comment 10: Financial Expense Ratio Calculation for Severstal
Comment 11: Ministerial Errors for Severstal
Comment 12: NLMK's Date of Sale for the U.S. Sales
Comment 13: Reserve for Doubtful Debts in NLMK's Indirect
Selling Expenses
Comment 14: NLMK's Other Income and Expense Items
Comment 15: Allocation of the Parent Company's Expenses to NLMK
Comment 16: NLMK's Net Financial Expense Ratio
Comment 17: Minor Corrections in NLMK's Margin Calculation
VIII. Recommendation
Attachment II
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation are certain cold-
rolled (cold-reduced), flat-rolled steel products, whether or not
annealed, painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other non-
metallic substances. The products covered do not include those that
are clad, plated, or coated with metal. The products covered include
coils that have a width or other lateral measurement (``width'') of
12.7 mm or greater, regardless of form of coil (e.g., in
successively superimposed layers, spirally oscillating, etc.). The
products covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in
straight lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and a width that
is 12.7 mm or greater and that measures at least 10 times the
thickness. The products covered also include products not in coils
(e.g., in straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more and a
width exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least twice the thickness.
The products described above may be rectangular, square, circular,
or other shape and include products of either rectangular or non-
rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., products which have been
``worked after rolling'' (e.g., products which have been beveled or
rounded at the edges). For purposes of the width and thickness
requirements referenced above:
(1) Where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is
within the scope if application of either the nominal or actual
measurement would place it within the scope based on the definitions
set forth above, and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product
(e.g., the thickness of certain products with non-rectangular cross-
section, the width of certain products with non-rectangular shape,
etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies.
Steel products included in the scope of this investigation are
products in which: (1) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of
the other contained elements; (2) the carbon content is 2 percent or
less, by weight; and (3) none of the elements listed below exceeds
the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:
2.50 percent of manganese, or
3.30 percent of silicon, or
1.50 percent of copper, or
1.50 percent of aluminum, or
1.25 percent of chromium, or
0.30 percent of cobalt, or
0.40 percent of lead, or
2.00 percent of nickel, or
0.30 percent of tungsten (also called wolfram), or
0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium (also called columbium), or
0.30 percent of vanadium, or
0.30 percent of zirconium
Unless specifically excluded, products are included in this
scope regardless of levels of boron and titanium.
For example, specifically included in this scope are vacuum
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-
free (``IF'')) steels, high strength low alloy (``HSLA'') steels,
motor lamination steels, Advanced High Strength Steels (``AHSS''),
and Ultra High Strength Steels (``UHSS''). IF steels are recognized
as low carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as
titanium and/or niobium added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen
elements. HSLA steels are recognized as steels with micro-alloying
levels of elements such as chromium, copper, niobium, titanium,
vanadium, and molybdenum. Motor lamination steels contain micro-
alloying levels of elements such as silicon and aluminum. AHSS and
UHSS are considered high tensile strength and high elongation
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steels, although AHSS and UHSS are covered whether or not they are
high tensile strength or high elongation steels.
Subject merchandise includes cold-rolled steel that has been
further processed in a third country, including but not limited to
annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing, trimming, cutting,
punching, and/or slitting, or any other processing that would not
otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the investigation
if performed in the country of manufacture of the cold-rolled steel.
All products that meet the written physical description, and in
which the chemistry quantities do not exceed any one of the noted
element levels listed above, are within the scope of this
investigation unless specifically excluded. The following products
are outside of and/or specifically excluded from the scope of this
investigation:
Ball bearing steels; \8\
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\8\ Ball bearing steels are defined as steels which contain, in
addition to iron, each of the following elements by weight in the
amount specified: (i) Not less than 0.95 nor more than 1.13 percent
of carbon; (ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent of
manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03 percent of sulfur; (iv)
none, or not more than 0.03 percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than
0.18 nor more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than 1.25
nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii) none, or not more than
0.28 percent of nickel; (viii) none, or not more than 0.38 percent
of copper; and (ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of
molybdenum.
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Tool steels; \9\
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\9\ Tool steels are defined as steels which contain the
following combinations of elements in the quantity by weight
respectively indicated: (i) More than 1.2 percent carbon and more
than 10.5 percent chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent chromium; or
(iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon and 1 percent to 1.8
percent, inclusive, manganese; or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent,
inclusive, chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive,
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less
than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi) not less than 0.5 percent
carbon and not less than 5.5 percent tungsten.
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Silico-manganese steel; \10\
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\10\ Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels containing by
weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or
more but not more than 1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6
percent or more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
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Grain-oriented electrical steels (``GOES'') as defined
in the final determination of the U.S. Department of Commerce in
Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan, and Poland.\11\
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\11\ Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan, and
Poland: Final Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Certain Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances,
79 FR 42,501, 42,503 (Dep't of Commerce, July 22, 2014) (``Grain-
Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan, and Poland''). This
determination defines grain-oriented electrical steel as ``a flat-
rolled alloy steel product containing by weight at least 0.6 percent
but not more than 6 percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent
of carbon, not more than 1.0 percent of aluminum, and no other
element in an amount that would give the steel the characteristics
of another alloy steel, in coils or in straight lengths.''
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Non-Oriented Electrical Steels (``NOES''), as defined
in the antidumping orders issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce
in Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the People's Republic of
China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and
Taiwan.\12\
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\12\ Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From the People's Republic of
China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan:
Antidumping Duty Orders, 79 FR 71,741, 71,741-42 (Dep't of Commerce,
Dec. 3, 2014) (``Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the People's
Republic of China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden,
and Taiwan''). The orders define NOES as ``cold-rolled, flat-rolled,
alloy steel products, whether or not in coils, regardless of width,
having an actual thickness of 0.20 mm or more, in which the core
loss is substantially equal in any direction of magnetization in the
plane of the material. The term `substantially equal' means that the
cross grain direction of core loss is no more than 1.5 times the
straight grain direction (i.e., the rolling direction) of core loss.
NOES has a magnetic permeability that does not exceed 1.65 Tesla
when tested at a field of 800 A/m (equivalent to 10 Oersteds) along
(i.e., parallel to) the rolling direction of the sheet (i.e., B800
value). NOES contains by weight more than 1.00 percent of silicon
but less than 3.5 percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent of
carbon, and not more than 1.5 percent of aluminum. NOES has a
surface oxide coating, to which an insulation coating may be
applied.''
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The products subject to this investigation are currently
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) under item numbers: 7209.15.0000, 7209.16.0030,
7209.16.0060, 7209.16.0070, 7209.16.0091, 7209.17.0030,
7209.17.0060, 7209.17.0070, 7209.17.0091, 7209.18.1530,
7209.18.1560, 7209.18.2510, 7209.18.2520, 7209.18.2580,
7209.18.6020, 7209.18.6090, 7209.25.0000, 7209.26.0000,
7209.27.0000, 7209.28.0000, 7209.90.0000, 7210.70.3000,
7211.23.1500, 7211.23.2000, 7211.23.3000, 7211.23.4500,
7211.23.6030, 7211.23.6060, 7211.23.6090, 7211.29.2030,
7211.29.2090, 7211.29.4500, 7211.29.6030, 7211.29.6080,
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7225.50.6000,
7225.50.8080, 7225.99.0090, 7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, and
7226.92.8050. The products subject to the investigation may also
enter under the following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000, 7212.50.0000,
7215.10.0010, 7215.10.0080, 7215.50.0016, 7215.50.0018,
7215.50.0020, 7215.50.0061, 7215.50.0063, 7215.50.0065,
7215.50.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7217.10.1000, 7217.10.2000,
7217.10.3000, 7217.10.7000, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030,
7217.90.5060, 7217.90.5090, 7225.19.0000, 7226.19.1000,
7226.19.9000, 7226.99.0180, 7228.50.5015, 7228.50.5040,
7228.50.5070, 7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of
the investigation is dispositive.
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