Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the United Kingdom: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 53436-53439 [2016-19374]
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• Tool steels; 11 and
• Silico-manganese steels; 12
The products subject to this investigation
are currently classified in the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
under item numbers: 7208.10.1500,
7208.10.3000, 7208.10.6000, 7208.25.3000,
7208.25.6000, 7208.26.0030, 7208.26.0060,
7208.27.0030, 7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030,
7208.36.0060, 7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060,
7208.38.0015, 7208.38.0030, 7208.38.0090,
7208.39.0015, 7208.39.0030, 7208.39.0090,
7208.40.6030, 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000,
7208.54.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000,
7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0090, 7211.19.1500,
7211.19.2000, 7211.19.3000, 7211.19.4500,
7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560,
7211.19.7590, 7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000,
7225.30.3050, 7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000,
7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9030,
7226.11.9060, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000,
7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, and
7226.91.8000. The products subject to the
investigation may also enter under the
following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000,
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7212.50.0000, 7214.91.0015, 7214.91.0060,
7214.91.0090, 7214.99.0060, 7214.99.0075,
7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7226.99.0180,
and 7228.60.6000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are
provided for convenience and U.S. Customs
and Border Protection purposes only. The
written description of the scope of the
investigation is dispositive.
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Investigation
IV. Scope Comments
V. Subsidies Valuation Information
VI. Benchmarks and Interest Rates
VII. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and
Adverse Inferences
VIII. Analysis of Programs
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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.
11 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.
12 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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events occurred since the Preliminary
Determination was issued.
In March 2016, the Department
received supplemental cost responses
and revised sales files from Tata Steel
UK Ltd. (TSUK), the sole mandatory
respondent in this investigation.2
In June 2016, AK Steel (one of the
petitioners),3 and TSUK submitted case
briefs 4 and rebuttal briefs.5 A hearing
was held on June 21, 2016.
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this
investigation are certain hot-rolled steel
flat products from the United Kingdom.
For a complete description of the scope
of this investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of
the Investigation,’’ in Appendix I of this
notice.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Scope Comments
International Trade Administration
In the Preliminary Scope Decision
Memorandum,6 the Department set
aside a period of time for parties to
address scope issues in case briefs or
other written comments on scope issues.
In the Preliminary Determination, we
did not modify the scope language as it
appeared in the Initiation Notice.7 No
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Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From the United Kingdom: 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
imports of certain hot-rolled steel flat
products (hot-rolled steel) from the
United Kingdom 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 1, 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 August 12, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Catherine Cartsos, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1757.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Appendix II
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IX. Analysis of Comments
Comment 1: Whether Changes in the
Ownership (CIO) of Erdemir’s Affiliates
Resulted in Countervailable Subsidies to
Erdemir
Comment 2: Whether the Government of
Turkey’s (GOT’s) Sale of Erdemir to
OYAK Resulted in a Privatization that
Extinguished the Benefits of Prior
Subsidies to Erdemir
Comment 3: Export Sales Denominator for
COTAS and Colakoglu Metalurji
Comment 4: COTAS’s Rediscount Program
Benchmark
Comment 5: Whether the Department
Should Correct Certain Errors in
Erdemir’s Preliminary Calculations
X. Recommendation
Background
On March 22, 2016, the Department
published the Preliminary
Determination of this antidumping duty
(AD) investigation.1 The following
1 See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From
the United Kingdom: Affirmative Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
Postponement of Final Determination and
Extension of Provisional Measures, 81 FR 15244
(March 22, 2016) (Preliminary Determination).
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2 See Letter from TSUK, ‘‘Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat
Products from the United Kingdom: TSUK’s Section
D Second Supplemental Questionnaire Response’’
(March 22, 2016). See also Letter from TSUK,
‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products from the United
Kingdom: TSUK’s Submission of Revised Sales
Files Due to Minor Corrections Presented at Sales
Verification’’ (March 25, 2016).
3 AK Steel Corporation (AK Steel), ArcelorMittal
USA LLC, Nucor Corporation, SSAB Enterprises,
LLC, Steel Dynamics, Inc., and United States Steel
Corporation (collectively, the petitioners).
4 See Letter from the petitioners, ‘‘Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products From The United
Kingdom/Petitioner’s Case Brief’’ (June 8, 2016);
and Letter from TSUK, ‘‘Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat
Products from the United Kingdom: Case Brief of
Tata Steel UK Ltd. and Tata Steel International
(Americas) Inc.’’ (June 8, 2016).
5 See Letter from the petitioners, ‘‘Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products From The United
Kingdom/Petitioner’s Rebuttal Brief’’ (June 13,
2016); and Letter from TSUK, ‘‘Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat
Products from the United Kingdom: Rebuttal Brief
of Tata Steel UK Ltd. and Tata Steel International
(Americas) Inc.’’ (June 13, 2016).
6 See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Certain HotRolled Steel Products From Australia, Brazil, Japan,
the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, and
the United Kingdom: Scope Comments Decision
Memorandum for the Preliminary Determinations,’’
dated March 14, 2016 (Preliminary Scope Decision
Memorandum).
7 See Preliminary Determination and
accompanying Memorandum from Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, entitled ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
the Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-
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interested parties submitted scope
comments in case or rebuttal briefs;
therefore, the scope of this investigation
remains unchanged for this final
determination.
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
hereby adopted by this notice.8 A list of
the issues raised is attached to this
notice as Appendix II. 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.
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Verification
As provided in section 782(i) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
in March and April 2016, the
Department verified the sales and cost
data reported by the mandatory
respondent. We used standard
verification procedures, including an
examination of relevant accounting and
production records, and original source
documents provided by the
respondent.9
Fair-Value Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel
Flat Products from the United Kingdom’’ at page 4.
See also Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of
Korea, the Netherlands, The Republic of Turkey,
and the United Kingdom: Initiation of Less-ThanFair-Value Investigations, 80 FR 54261, 54262
(September 9, 2015) (Initiation Notice).
8 See Memorandum to Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, from Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations ‘‘Issues and
Decision Memorandum for the Final Determination
of the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain
Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United
Kingdom’’ (August 4, 2016) (Issues and Decision
Memorandum).
9 See Memorandum to the File entitled ‘‘Certain
Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United
Kingdom: Home-Market and Export-Price Sales
Verification of Tata Steel UK Ltd.,’’ dated April 12,
2016, Memorandum to the File entitled ‘‘Certain
Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United
Kingdom: Constructed-Export-Price Sales
Verification of Tata Steel UK Ltd.,’’ dated May 18,
2016, and Memorandum to the File entitled
‘‘Verification of the Cost Response of Tata Steel UK
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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 TSUK. For a
discussion of these changes, see the
‘‘Margin Calculations’’ and
‘‘Comparisons to Fair Value’’ sections of
the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
We have also revised the all-others rate.
All-Others Rate
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of 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. We calculated a
company-specific rate for Tata Steel UK
Ltd. that is not zero, de minimis or
determined entirely under section 776
of the Act. Therefore, for purposes of
determining the ‘‘all-others’’ rate and
pursuant to section 735(c)(5)(A) of the
Act, we are using the weighted-average
dumping margin calculated for Tata
Steel UK Ltd. as the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin assigned to all
other producers and exporters of the
merchandise under consideration.
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withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after March 22,
2016, the date of publication of the
Preliminary Determination of this
investigation in the Federal Register.
Further, pursuant to section
735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act, CBP shall
require a cash deposit equal to the
estimated amount by which the normal
value exceeds the U.S. price, as follows:
(1) For the exporter/producer listed in
the table above, the cash deposit rate
will be equal to the weighted average
dumping margin which the Department
determined in this final determination;
(2) if the exporter is not a firm identified
in this investigation but the producer is,
the rate will be the rate established for
the producer of the subject
merchandise; (3) the rate for all other
producers or exporters will be 33.06
percent, as discussed in the ‘‘All Others
Rate’’ section, above. These instructions
suspending liquidation will remain in
effect until further notice.
U.S. International Trade Commission
Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of
the Act, we will notify the U.S.
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
Final Determination
its final determination as to whether the
domestic industry in the United States
The Department determines that the
is materially injured, or threatened with
final weighted-average dumping
material injury, by reason of imports of
margins are as follows:
hot-rolled steel from the United
Kingdom no later than 45 days after our
Weightedaverage
final determination. If the ITC
Exporter/producer
margin
determines that material injury or threat
(percent)
of material injury does not exist, the
Tata Steel UK Ltd. ....................
33.06 proceeding will be terminated and all
All-Others ..................................
33.06 cash deposits will be refunded. If the
ITC determines that such injury does
exist, the Department will issue an
Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations antidumping duty order directing CBP
to assess, upon further instruction by
performed to interested parties within
five days of the public announcement of the Department, antidumping duties on
all imports of the subject merchandise
this final determination in accordance
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
for consumption on or after the effective
Continuation of Suspension of
date of the suspension of liquidation, as
Liquidation
discussed above in the ‘‘Continuation of
Suspension of Liquidation’’ section. If
In accordance with section
the ITC determines that material injury
735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department
or threat of material injury does not
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend exist, the proceeding will be terminated
and all cash deposits will be refunded.
liquidation of all appropriate entries of
hot-rolled steel from the United
Notification Regarding Administrative
Kingdom, as described in Appendix I of Protective Orders
this notice, which were entered, or
This notice serves as a reminder to
parties subject to an administrative
Ltd. in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of
protective order (APO) of their
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
United Kingdom,’’ dated May 31, 2016.
responsibility concerning the
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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: August 4, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
Appendix I
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Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation
are certain hot-rolled, flat-rolled steel
products, with or without patterns in relief,
and 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 thickness, and
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 of 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 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 achieve 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 unless the resulting measurement
makes the product covered by the existing
antidumping 10 or countervailing duty 11
orders on Certain Cut-To-Length CarbonQuality Steel Plate Products From the
Republic of Korea (A–580–836; C–580–837),
and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for
a specific product (e.g., the thickness of
10 Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping
Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality
Steel Plate Products From France, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585
(February 10, 2000).
11 Notice of Amended Final Determinations:
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate
From India and the Republic of Korea; and Notice
of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-ToLength Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From France,
India, Indonesia, Italy, and the Republic of Korea,
65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000).
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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, or
• 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
• 0.10 percent of niobium, 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,
the substrate for 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. The substrate for motor
lamination steels contains micro-alloying
levels of elements such as silicon and
aluminum. AHSS and UHSS are considered
high tensile strength and high elongation
steels, although AHSS and UHSS are covered
whether or not they are high tensile strength
or high elongation steels.
Subject merchandise includes hot-rolled
steel that has been further processed in a
third country, including but not limited to
pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing,
tempering, temper rolling, skin passing,
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 hot-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:
• Universal mill plates (i.e., hot-rolled,
flat-rolled products not in coils that have
been rolled on four faces or in a closed box
pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not
exceeding 1250 mm, of a thickness not less
than 4.0 mm, and without patterns in relief);
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• Products that have been cold-rolled
(cold-reduced) after hot-rolling; 12
• Ball bearing steels; 13
• Tool steels; 14 and
• Silico-manganese steels; 15
The products subject to this investigation
are currently classified in the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
under item numbers: 7208.10.1500,
7208.10.3000, 7208.10.6000, 7208.25.3000,
7208.25.6000, 7208.26.0030, 7208.26.0060,
7208.27.0030, 7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030,
7208.36.0060, 7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060,
7208.38.0015, 7208.38.0030, 7208.38.0090,
7208.39.0015, 7208.39.0030, 7208.39.0090,
7208.40.6030, 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000,
7208.54.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000,
7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0090, 7211.19.1500,
7211.19.2000, 7211.19.3000, 7211.19.4500,
7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560,
7211.19.7590, 7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000,
7225.30.3050, 7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000,
7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9030,
7226.11.9060, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000,
7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, and
7226.91.8000. The products subject to the
investigation may also enter under the
following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000,
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7212.50.0000, 7214.91.0015, 7214.91.0060,
7214.91.0090, 7214.99.0060, 7214.99.0075,
7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7226.99.0180,
and 7228.60.6000.
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.
12 For purposes of this scope exclusion, rolling
operations such as a skin pass, levelling, temper
rolling or other minor rolling operations after the
hot-rolling process for purposes of surface finish,
flatness, shape control, or gauge control do not
constitute cold-rolling sufficient to meet this
exclusion.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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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Appendix II
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Investigation
IV. Margin Calculations
V. Comparisons to Fair Value
VI. Discussion of Issues
Comment 1: Total Adverse Facts Available
Comment 2: Level of Trade
Comment 3: Home-Market Freight Revenue
Comment 4: CEP Credit Expense
Comment 5: Restructuring and Impairment
Costs
Comment 6: Raw Material Costs
Comment 7: Energy Costs
Comment 8: Partial Adverse Facts
Available for Certain Sales
Comment 9: Verification Correction
VII. Recommendation
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–580–884]
Countervailing Duty Investigation of
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From the Republic of Korea: Final
Affirmative Determination
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) determines that
countervailable subsidies are being
provided to producers/exporters of
certain hot-rolled steel flat products
(hot-rolled steel) from the Republic of
Korea (Korea). For information on the
subsidy rates, see the ‘‘Final
Determination’’ section of this notice.
The period of investigation is January 1,
2014, through December 31, 2014.
DATES: Effective August 12, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katie Marksberry, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202)
482–7906.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
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Background
The Department published the
Preliminary Determination on January
15, 2016.1 A summary of events that
1 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain
Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the Republic of
Korea: Preliminary Negative Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination With Final
Antidumping Duty Determination, 81 FR 2172
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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 Issues and Decision
Memorandum.2 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 is
available to all parties in the Central
Records Unit, Room B8024, 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
Issues and Decision Memorandum and
the electronic version are identical in
content.
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this
investigation are hot-rolled steel flat
products from Korea. For a complete
description of the scope of this
investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of the
Investigation,’’ in Appendix II of this
notice.
Analysis of Subsidy Programs and
Comments Received
The subsidy programs under
investigation and the issues raised in
the case and rebuttal briefs by parties in
this investigation are discussed in the
Issues and Decision Memorandum. A
list of the issues that parties raised, and
to which we responded in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum, is attached
to this notice as Appendix I.
Use of Adverse Facts Available
In making this final determination,
the Department relied, in part, on facts
available and, because POSCO and
Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. (Hyundai Steel)
did not act to the best of their ability in
responding to the Department’s requests
for information, we drew an adverse
inference where appropriate in selecting
from among the facts otherwise
available.3 Specifically, we find that the
application of adverse facts available is
warranted for POSCO for its failure to
report certain cross-owned input
(January 15, 2016) (Preliminary Determination), and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum
(PDM).
2 See Memorandum to Paul Piquado, ‘‘Issues and
Decision Memorandum for the Final Determination
in the Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain
Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of
Korea,’’ dated August 4, 2016 (Issues and Decision
Memorandum).
3 See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act.
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suppliers, and facilities located in a
foreign economic zone (FEZ). We are
also applying adverse facts available to
POSCO’s affiliated trading company,
Daewoo International Corporation
(DWI) 4 for certain loans presented at
verification. Further, we find that the
application of adverse facts available is
warranted for Hyundai Steel for its
failure to report its location in an FEZ.
For further information, see the section
‘‘Use of Facts Otherwise Available and
Adverse Inferences’’ in the
accompanying Issues and Decision
Memorandum.
Changes Since the Preliminary
Determination
Based on our analysis of the
comments received from parties and the
minor corrections presented, and
additional items discovered at
verification, we made certain changes to
the respondents’ subsidy rate
calculations. For a discussion of these
changes, see the Issues and Decision
Memorandum.
Final Determination
In accordance with section
705(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Act, we calculated
a rate for POSCO and Hyundai Steel, the
two exporters/producers of subject
merchandise selected for individual
examination in this investigation.
In accordance with sections
705(c)(1)(B)(i)(I) and 705(c)(5)(A) of the
Act, for companies not individually
investigated, we apply an ‘‘all-others’’
rate, which is normally calculated by
weighting the subsidy rates of the
individual companies selected as
respondents with those companies’
export sales of the subject merchandise
to the United States. Under section
705(c)(5)(A)(i) of the Act, the all-others
rate should exclude zero and de
minimis rates calculated for the
exporters and producers individually
investigated, and any rates determined
entirely under section 776 of the Act.
Therefore, we have excluded the rate
calculated for POSCO because it was
determined entirely under section 776
of the Act. Thus, for the ‘‘all-others’’
rate, we applied the rate calculated for
Hyundai Steel.
Company
POSCO .................................
Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd. ........
All-Others ..............................
Subsidy rate
(percent)
57.04
3.89
3.89
4 POSCO reported at verification that DWI
changed its name to POSCO Daewoo Corporation
(PDC) in March 2016. See IDM at 6.
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 156 (Friday, August 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53436-53439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-19374]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-412-825]
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the United Kingdom:
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) determines that
imports of certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel)
from the United Kingdom 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 1, 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 August 12, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Cartsos, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1757.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 22, 2016, the Department published the Preliminary
Determination of this antidumping duty (AD) investigation.\1\ The
following events occurred since the Preliminary Determination was
issued.
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\1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the United
Kingdom: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of
Provisional Measures, 81 FR 15244 (March 22, 2016) (Preliminary
Determination).
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In March 2016, the Department received supplemental cost responses
and revised sales files from Tata Steel UK Ltd. (TSUK), the sole
mandatory respondent in this investigation.\2\
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\2\ See Letter from TSUK, ``Antidumping Duty Investigation of
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United Kingdom:
TSUK's Section D Second Supplemental Questionnaire Response'' (March
22, 2016). See also Letter from TSUK, ``Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
United Kingdom: TSUK's Submission of Revised Sales Files Due to
Minor Corrections Presented at Sales Verification'' (March 25,
2016).
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In June 2016, AK Steel (one of the petitioners),\3\ and TSUK
submitted case briefs \4\ and rebuttal briefs.\5\ A hearing was held on
June 21, 2016.
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\3\ AK Steel Corporation (AK Steel), ArcelorMittal USA LLC,
Nucor Corporation, SSAB Enterprises, LLC, Steel Dynamics, Inc., and
United States Steel Corporation (collectively, the petitioners).
\4\ See Letter from the petitioners, ``Certain Hot-Rolled Steel
Flat Products From The United Kingdom/Petitioner's Case Brief''
(June 8, 2016); and Letter from TSUK, ``Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
United Kingdom: Case Brief of Tata Steel UK Ltd. and Tata Steel
International (Americas) Inc.'' (June 8, 2016).
\5\ See Letter from the petitioners, ``Certain Hot-Rolled Steel
Flat Products From The United Kingdom/Petitioner's Rebuttal Brief''
(June 13, 2016); and Letter from TSUK, ``Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
United Kingdom: Rebuttal Brief of Tata Steel UK Ltd. and Tata Steel
International (Americas) Inc.'' (June 13, 2016).
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Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation are certain hot-rolled
steel flat products from the United Kingdom. For a complete description
of the scope of this investigation, see the ``Scope of the
Investigation,'' in Appendix I of this notice.
Scope Comments
In the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum,\6\ 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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\6\ See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
``Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Products From Australia, Brazil, Japan,
the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, and the United
Kingdom: Scope Comments Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Determinations,'' dated March 14, 2016 (Preliminary Scope Decision
Memorandum).
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In the Preliminary Determination, we did not modify the scope
language as it appeared in the Initiation Notice.\7\ No
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interested parties submitted scope comments in case or rebuttal briefs;
therefore, the scope of this investigation remains unchanged for this
final determination.
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\7\ See Preliminary Determination and accompanying Memorandum
from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary
for Enforcement and Compliance, entitled ``Decision Memorandum for
the Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value
Investigation of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
United Kingdom'' at page 4. See also Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat
Products From Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the
Netherlands, The Republic of Turkey, and the United Kingdom:
Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 80 FR 54261,
54262 (September 9, 2015) (Initiation Notice).
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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 hereby adopted by this notice.\8\ A list of the issues raised
is attached to this notice as Appendix II. 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.
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\8\ See Memorandum to Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, from Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final
Determination of the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain Hot-
Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United Kingdom'' (August 4,
2016) (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Verification
As provided in section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), in March and April 2016, the Department verified the sales
and cost data reported by the mandatory respondent. We used standard
verification procedures, including an examination of relevant
accounting and production records, and original source documents
provided by the respondent.\9\
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\9\ See Memorandum to the File entitled ``Certain Hot-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from the United Kingdom: Home-Market and Export-
Price Sales Verification of Tata Steel UK Ltd.,'' dated April 12,
2016, Memorandum to the File entitled ``Certain Hot-Rolled Steel
Flat Products from the United Kingdom: Constructed-Export-Price
Sales Verification of Tata Steel UK Ltd.,'' dated May 18, 2016, and
Memorandum to the File entitled ``Verification of the Cost Response
of Tata Steel UK Ltd. in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the United Kingdom,''
dated May 31, 2016.
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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
TSUK. For a discussion of these changes, see the ``Margin
Calculations'' and ``Comparisons to Fair Value'' sections of the Issues
and Decision Memorandum. We have also revised the all-others rate.
All-Others Rate
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of 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. We calculated a company-specific rate for Tata Steel UK Ltd.
that is not zero, de minimis or determined entirely under section 776
of the Act. Therefore, for purposes of determining the ``all-others''
rate and pursuant to section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, we are using the
weighted-average dumping margin calculated for Tata Steel UK Ltd. as
the estimated weighted-average dumping margin assigned to all other
producers and exporters of the merchandise under consideration.
Final Determination
The Department determines that the final weighted-average dumping
margins are as follows:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter/producer margin
(percent)
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Tata Steel UK Ltd.......................................... 33.06
All-Others................................................. 33.06
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations performed to interested
parties within five days of the public announcement of this final
determination in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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 hot-rolled steel from
the United Kingdom, as described in Appendix I of this notice, which
were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after
March 22, 2016, the date of publication of the Preliminary
Determination of this investigation in the Federal Register.
Further, pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act, CBP shall
require a cash deposit equal to the estimated amount by which the
normal value exceeds the U.S. price, as follows: (1) For the exporter/
producer listed in the table above, the cash deposit rate will be equal
to the weighted average dumping margin which the Department determined
in this final determination; (2) if the exporter is not a firm
identified in this investigation but the producer is, the rate will be
the rate established for the producer of the subject merchandise; (3)
the rate for all other producers or exporters will be 33.06 percent, as
discussed in the ``All Others Rate'' section, above. These instructions
suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice.
U.S. International Trade Commission Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we will notify the
U.S. 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 hot-rolled
steel from the United Kingdom 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, as discussed above in the
``Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation'' section. 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.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders
This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to an
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the
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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: August 4, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation are certain hot-
rolled, flat-rolled steel products, with or without patterns in
relief, and 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
thickness, and 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 of 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 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 achieve
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 unless the resulting measurement makes the product
covered by the existing antidumping \10\ or countervailing duty \11\
orders on Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products
From the Republic of Korea (A-580-836; C-580-837), and
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\10\ Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From France, India,
Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585
(February 10, 2000).
\11\ Notice of Amended Final Determinations: Certain Cut-to-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From India and the Republic of
Korea; and Notice of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From France, India, Indonesia,
Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000).
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(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, or
0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium, 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, the
substrate for 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. The substrate for motor
lamination steels contains micro-alloying levels of elements such as
silicon and aluminum. AHSS and UHSS are considered high tensile
strength and high elongation steels, although AHSS and UHSS are
covered whether or not they are high tensile strength or high
elongation steels.
Subject merchandise includes hot-rolled steel that has been
further processed in a third country, including but not limited to
pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing, tempering, temper rolling,
skin passing, 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 hot-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:
Universal mill plates (i.e., hot-rolled, flat-rolled
products not in coils that have been rolled on four faces or in a
closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not exceeding 1250
mm, of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm, and without patterns in
relief);
Products that have been cold-rolled (cold-reduced)
after hot-rolling; \12\
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\12\ For purposes of this scope exclusion, rolling operations
such as a skin pass, levelling, temper rolling or other minor
rolling operations after the hot-rolling process for purposes of
surface finish, flatness, shape control, or gauge control do not
constitute cold-rolling sufficient to meet this exclusion.
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Ball bearing steels; \13\
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\13\ 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; \14\ and
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\14\ 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 steels; \15\
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\15\ 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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The products subject to this investigation are currently
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) under item numbers: 7208.10.1500, 7208.10.3000,
7208.10.6000, 7208.25.3000, 7208.25.6000, 7208.26.0030,
7208.26.0060, 7208.27.0030, 7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030,
7208.36.0060, 7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060, 7208.38.0015,
7208.38.0030, 7208.38.0090, 7208.39.0015, 7208.39.0030,
7208.39.0090, 7208.40.6030, 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000,
7208.54.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7211.14.0030,
7211.14.0090, 7211.19.1500, 7211.19.2000, 7211.19.3000,
7211.19.4500, 7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560,
7211.19.7590, 7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000, 7225.30.3050,
7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000, 7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000,
7226.11.9030, 7226.11.9060, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000,
7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, and 7226.91.8000. The products subject
to the investigation may also enter under the following HTSUS
numbers: 7210.90.9000, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7212.50.0000, 7214.91.0015, 7214.91.0060, 7214.91.0090,
7214.99.0060, 7214.99.0075, 7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000,
7226.99.0180, and 7228.60.6000.
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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Appendix II
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Investigation
IV. Margin Calculations
V. Comparisons to Fair Value
VI. Discussion of Issues
Comment 1: Total Adverse Facts Available
Comment 2: Level of Trade
Comment 3: Home-Market Freight Revenue
Comment 4: CEP Credit Expense
Comment 5: Restructuring and Impairment Costs
Comment 6: Raw Material Costs
Comment 7: Energy Costs
Comment 8: Partial Adverse Facts Available for Certain Sales
Comment 9: Verification Correction
VII. Recommendation
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