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subtract the amount of the CEP offset, if
warranted, and add in U.S. packing expenses.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–469–805]
Stainless Steel Bar From Spain:
Initiation and Preliminary Results of
Changed Circumstances Review
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) is initiating a changed
circumstances review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar (SSB) from Spain with respect
to Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L. Based
on the information on the record, we
preliminarily determine that Sidenor
Aceros Especiales S.L. is the successorin-interest to Gerdau Aceros Especiales
Europa for purposes of determining
antidumping duty liability. We invite
interested parties to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Effective October 26, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael A. Romani, 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) 482–0198.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
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Background
The Department published the
antidumping duty order on SSB from
Spain on March 2, 1995.1 In its
September 6, 2016, request for a
changed circumstances review, Sidenor
Aceros Especiales S.L. (Sidenor),
informed the Department that, effective
May 20, 2016, the following occurred:
(1) Gerdau S.A., the Brazilian owner of
Gerdau Holdings Europa S.A.U.,
including its Spanish subsidiary
company Gerdau Aceros Especiales
Europa, S.L. (Gerdau), sold its European
holdings to Clerbil S.L.; and (2) Clerbil
S.L. renamed Gerdau Holdings Europa
S.A.U. to be Sidenor Holdings Europa
2 If there are not commissions in both markets,
then the Department will apply a commission
offset. See, e.g., 19 C.F.R. § 351.410(e).
1 See Amended Final Determination and
Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From
Spain, 60 FR 11656 (March 2, 1995).
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The SSB subject to the order is
currently classifiable under subheadings
7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00,
7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS).
Although the HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the
scope of the order is dispositive.5
S.A.U., and Gerdau Aceros Especiales
Europa, S.L., to be Sidenor Aceros
Especiales S.L. leaving its operations
mostly unchanged.2 Gerdau is a
respondent in the ongoing
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on SSB from
Spain covering the period March 1,
2015, through February 29, 2016.3
Because this changed circumstances
review was requested for an effective
date after the POR of the ongoing
administrative review, it does not have
any bearing on that review.4 Citing
section 751(b) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.216 Sidenor, requested that the
Department initiate a changed
circumstances review and determine
that Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L., is
the successor-in-interest to Gerdau.
Sidenor also requested that the
Department issue the initiation and
preliminary results as a single notice,
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.221(c)(ii).
Initiation of Changed Circumstances
Review
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order
is SSB. The term SSB with respect to the
order means articles of stainless steel in
straight lengths that have been either
hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn,
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished,
or ground, having a uniform solid cross
section along their whole length in the
shape of circles, segments of circles,
ovals, rectangles (including squares),
triangles, hexagons, octagons or other
convex polygons. SSB includes coldfinished SSBs that are turned or ground
in straight lengths, whether produced
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened
and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars
that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or
other deformations produced during the
rolling process. Except as specified
above, the term does not include
stainless steel semi-finished products,
cut-length flat-rolled products (i.e., cutlength rolled products which if less than
4.75 mm in thickness have a width
measuring at least 10 times the
thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in
thickness having a width which exceeds
150 mm and measures at least twice the
thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed
products in coils, of any uniform solid
cross section along their whole length,
which do not conform to the definition
of flat-rolled products), and angles,
shapes and sections.
Preliminary Results of Expedited
Changed Circumstances Review
2 See Sidenor’s Letter to the Secretary of
Commerce, entitled, ‘‘Stainless Steel Bar from
Spain: Sidenor request for changed-circumstances
review,’’ dated September 22, 2016, (Sidenor
Request) at 3–6.
3 See Initiation of Antidumping Duty and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 81 FR
26203 (May 2, 2016).
4 Id.
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Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act)
and 19 CFR 351.216(d), the Department
will conduct a changed circumstances
review upon receipt of a request from an
interested party or receipt of
information concerning an antidumping
duty order which shows changed
circumstances sufficient to warrant a
review of the order. Based on the
request from Sidenor, and in accordance
with section 751(b)(1) of Act and 19
CFR 351.216(b), we are initiating a
changed circumstances review to
determine whether Sidenor is the
successor-in-interest to Gerdau. The
Department’s regulations at section
351.221(c)(3)(ii) instruct that, if we
conclude that an expedited action is
warranted, we may combine the notices
of initiation and preliminary results of
a changed circumstances review. In this
instance, because we have the
information necessary on the record to
make a preliminary finding, we find that
an expedited action is warranted and
are combining the notices of initiation
and preliminary results.
In making a successor-in-interest
determination, the Department
examines several factors including, but
not limited to, changes in management,
production facilities, supplier
relationships, and customer base.6
While no single factor or combination of
these factors will necessarily provide a
5 The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope
changed since the publication of the order. See
Amended Final Determination and Antidumping
Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From Spain, 60 FR
11656 (March 2, 1995).
6 See, e.g., Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape from
Italy: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Changed Circumstances Review, 75 FR 8925
(February 26, 2010), unchanged in Pressure
Sensitive Plastic Tape From Italy: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,
75 FR 27706 (May 18, 2010); and Brake Rotors From
the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of
Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, 70 FR 69941 (November 18,
2005) (Brake Rotors), citing Brass Sheet and Strip
from Canada; Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, 57 FR 20460 (May 13,
1992).
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dispositive indication of a successor-ininterest relationship, the Department
will generally consider the new
company to be the successor to the
previous company if the new company’s
operations are not materially dissimilar
to those of its predecessor.7 Thus, if the
evidence demonstrates that, with
respect to the production and sales of
the subject merchandise, the new
company operates as the same business
entity as the former company, the
Department will accord the new
company the same antidumping
treatment as its predecessor.8
In its review request,9 and its
response to our supplemental
questionnaire,10 Sidenor has provided
evidence for us to determine
preliminarily that it is the successor-ininterest to Gerdau. Sidenor states that its
management, production facilities, and
customer/supplier relationships have
not changed as a result of the changes
in ownership or name of the company.11
Sidenor provided corporate structure
documentation showing changes to the
ownership and name of the company.12
Furthermore, Sidenor provided internal
documents evidencing that its domestic
and overseas customers and suppliers
remained the same after the changes, as
they were prior to them.13 Sidenor
provided internal documentation
evidencing that its production facilities
are the same before and after the
changes in ownership and the name
change.14 Sidenor also provided a list of
members of the management team and
supporting documentation indicating
that Gerdau’s managers hold the same
positions in Sidenor that they did in
Gerdau, with the exception of the
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7 See,
e.g., Brake Rotors.
8 Id. See also e.g., Notice of Initiation and
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed
Circumstances Review: Certain Frozen Warmwater
Shrimp From India, 77 FR 64953 (October 24,
2012), unchanged in Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Changed Circumstances Review: Certain
Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India, 77 FR
73619 (December 11, 2012).
9 See Sidenor Request.
10 See Sidenor’s Letter to the Secretary of
Commerce, entitled, ‘‘Stainless Steel Bar from
Spain, CCR (Sidenor): Sidenor response to
supplemental questions,’’ dated October 7, 2016
(SQR).
11 Id.
12 See Sidenor Request at Exhibit 1 (the two
structures are identical except for the parent),
Exhibit 2 (public deed registered in the Central
Mercantile Registry reflecting name change),
Exhibit 3 (registration of the name change), Exhibits
4–5 (taxpayer identification certificates before and
after), and Exhibit 6 (SEC form 6–K filing at note
3 and 4).
13 See SQR at 3–5, and Exhibit 2 (customers), and
at 2–3, and Exhibit 1 (supplier).
14 See Sidenor Request at 4, and Exhibit 9 (list of
production assets).
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replacement of the Human Resources
Director.15
Based on record evidence, we
preliminarily determine that Sidenor is
the successor-in-interest to Gerdau for
purposes of antidumping duty liability
because the ownership and name
changes of the company resulted in no
significant changes to management,
production facilities, supplier
relationships, and customers. As a
result, we preliminarily determine that
Sidenor operates as the same business
entity as Gerdau. Thus, we preliminarily
determine that Sidenor should receive
the same antidumping duty cash deposit
rate with respect to the subject
merchandise as Gerdau, its predecessor
company.
Because cash deposits are only
estimates of the amount of antidumping
duties that will be due, changes in cash
deposit rates are not made retroactive
and, therefore, no change will be made
to Sidenor’s cash deposit rate as a result
of these preliminary results. If Sidenor
believes that the deposits paid exceed
the actual amount of dumping, it is
entitled to request an administrative
review during the anniversary month of
the publication of the order of those
entries, i.e., March, to determine the
proper assessment rate and receive a
refund of any excess deposits.16 As a
result, if these preliminary results are
adopted in our final results of this
changed circumstances review, we will
instruct CBP to suspend shipments of
subject merchandise made by Sidenor,
at Gerdau’s cash deposit rate, effective
on the publication date of our final
results.
Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case
briefs no later than 14 days after the
publication of this notice.17 Rebuttal
briefs, which must be limited to issues
raised in case briefs, may be filed not
later than five days after the deadline for
filing case briefs.18 Parties who submit
case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this
changed circumstance review are
requested to submit with each
argument: (1) A statement of the issue;
(2) a brief summary of the argument;
and (3) a table of authorities. Interested
15 Id., at 4 and Exhibit 7 (organization charts
before, unchanged with one exception after). The
administration of the company changed from a
Board of Directors to a Sole Administrator. See
Sidenor Request at Exhibit 2.
16 See Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth
Carbon Steel Products From the United Kingdom:
Final Results of Changed-Circumstances
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 64 FR 66880 (November
30, 1999).
17 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
18 See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
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parties who wish to comment on the
preliminary results must file briefs
electronically using Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (ACCESS)
and is available to registered users at
http://access.trade.gov. An
electronically-filed document must be
received successfully in its entirety by
the ACCESS no later than 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on the date the document
is due. Interested parties that wish to
request a hearing must submit a written
request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, filed
electronically via ACCESS, within 14
days of publication of this notice.19
Parties will be notified of the time and
date of any hearing, if requested.20
Notifications to Interested Parties
Consistent with 19 CFR 351.216(e),
we intend to issue the final results of
this changed circumstances review no
later than 270 days after the date on
which this review was initiated, or
within 45 days after the publication of
the preliminary results if all parties in
this review agree to our preliminary
results. The final results will include
the Department’s analysis of issues
raised in any written comments.
This notice of initiation and
preliminary results is in accordance
with section 751(b)(1) of the Act, 19
CFR 351.216(b) and (d), and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(1).
Dated: October 18, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
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Administration
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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council (MAFMC); Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public hearing
meetings.
AGENCY:
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council will hold three
public hearings in November 2016 to
SUMMARY:
19 See 19 CFR 351.310(c). See also 19 CFR
351.303 for general filing requirements.
20 See 19 CFR 351.310.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-469-805]
Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: Initiation and Preliminary
Results of Changed Circumstances Review
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is initiating a
changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar (SSB) from Spain with respect to Sidenor Aceros Especiales
S.L. Based on the information on the record, we preliminarily determine
that Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L. is the successor-in-interest to
Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa for purposes of determining antidumping
duty liability. We invite interested parties to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Effective October 26, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael A. Romani, 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) 482-0198.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department published the antidumping duty order on SSB from
Spain on March 2, 1995.\1\ In its September 6, 2016, request for a
changed circumstances review, Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L. (Sidenor),
informed the Department that, effective May 20, 2016, the following
occurred: (1) Gerdau S.A., the Brazilian owner of Gerdau Holdings
Europa S.A.U., including its Spanish subsidiary company Gerdau Aceros
Especiales Europa, S.L. (Gerdau), sold its European holdings to Clerbil
S.L.; and (2) Clerbil S.L. renamed Gerdau Holdings Europa S.A.U. to be
Sidenor Holdings Europa S.A.U., and Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa,
S.L., to be Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L. leaving its operations
mostly unchanged.\2\ Gerdau is a respondent in the ongoing
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from Spain
covering the period March 1, 2015, through February 29, 2016.\3\
Because this changed circumstances review was requested for an
effective date after the POR of the ongoing administrative review, it
does not have any bearing on that review.\4\ Citing section 751(b) of
the Act, and 19 CFR 351.216 Sidenor, requested that the Department
initiate a changed circumstances review and determine that Sidenor
Aceros Especiales S.L., is the successor-in-interest to Gerdau. Sidenor
also requested that the Department issue the initiation and preliminary
results as a single notice, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.221(c)(ii).
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\1\ See Amended Final Determination and Antidumping Duty Order:
Stainless Steel Bar From Spain, 60 FR 11656 (March 2, 1995).
\2\ See Sidenor's Letter to the Secretary of Commerce, entitled,
``Stainless Steel Bar from Spain: Sidenor request for changed-
circumstances review,'' dated September 22, 2016, (Sidenor Request)
at 3-6.
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 81 FR 26203 (May 2, 2016).
\4\ Id.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with
respect to the order means articles of stainless steel in straight
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn,
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles,
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles,
hexagons, octagons or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished
SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the rolling process. Except as specified
above, the term does not include stainless steel semi-finished
products, cut-length flat-rolled products (i.e., cut-length rolled
products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have a width measuring
at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in thickness
having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the
thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform
solid cross section along their whole length, which do not conform to
the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, shapes and
sections.
The SSB subject to the order is currently classifiable under
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is
dispositive.\5\
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\5\ The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope changed since the
publication of the order. See Amended Final Determination and
Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From Spain, 60 FR 11656
(March 2, 1995).
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Initiation of Changed Circumstances Review
Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act) and 19 CFR 351.216(d), the Department will conduct a changed
circumstances review upon receipt of a request from an interested party
or receipt of information concerning an antidumping duty order which
shows changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review of the
order. Based on the request from Sidenor, and in accordance with
section 751(b)(1) of Act and 19 CFR 351.216(b), we are initiating a
changed circumstances review to determine whether Sidenor is the
successor-in-interest to Gerdau. The Department's regulations at
section 351.221(c)(3)(ii) instruct that, if we conclude that an
expedited action is warranted, we may combine the notices of initiation
and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. In this
instance, because we have the information necessary on the record to
make a preliminary finding, we find that an expedited action is
warranted and are combining the notices of initiation and preliminary
results.
Preliminary Results of Expedited Changed Circumstances Review
In making a successor-in-interest determination, the Department
examines several factors including, but not limited to, changes in
management, production facilities, supplier relationships, and customer
base.\6\ While no single factor or combination of these factors will
necessarily provide a
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dispositive indication of a successor-in-interest relationship, the
Department will generally consider the new company to be the successor
to the previous company if the new company's operations are not
materially dissimilar to those of its predecessor.\7\ Thus, if the
evidence demonstrates that, with respect to the production and sales of
the subject merchandise, the new company operates as the same business
entity as the former company, the Department will accord the new
company the same antidumping treatment as its predecessor.\8\
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\6\ See, e.g., Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape from Italy:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances
Review, 75 FR 8925 (February 26, 2010), unchanged in Pressure
Sensitive Plastic Tape From Italy: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Changed Circumstances Review, 75 FR 27706 (May 18, 2010); and Brake
Rotors From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 69941
(November 18, 2005) (Brake Rotors), citing Brass Sheet and Strip
from Canada; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 57 FR 20460 (May 13, 1992).
\7\ See, e.g., Brake Rotors.
\8\ Id. See also e.g., Notice of Initiation and Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review: Certain
Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India, 77 FR 64953 (October 24, 2012),
unchanged in Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances
Review: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India, 77 FR 73619
(December 11, 2012).
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In its review request,\9\ and its response to our supplemental
questionnaire,\10\ Sidenor has provided evidence for us to determine
preliminarily that it is the successor-in-interest to Gerdau. Sidenor
states that its management, production facilities, and customer/
supplier relationships have not changed as a result of the changes in
ownership or name of the company.\11\ Sidenor provided corporate
structure documentation showing changes to the ownership and name of
the company.\12\ Furthermore, Sidenor provided internal documents
evidencing that its domestic and overseas customers and suppliers
remained the same after the changes, as they were prior to them.\13\
Sidenor provided internal documentation evidencing that its production
facilities are the same before and after the changes in ownership and
the name change.\14\ Sidenor also provided a list of members of the
management team and supporting documentation indicating that Gerdau's
managers hold the same positions in Sidenor that they did in Gerdau,
with the exception of the replacement of the Human Resources
Director.\15\
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\9\ See Sidenor Request.
\10\ See Sidenor's Letter to the Secretary of Commerce,
entitled, ``Stainless Steel Bar from Spain, CCR (Sidenor): Sidenor
response to supplemental questions,'' dated October 7, 2016 (SQR).
\11\ Id.
\12\ See Sidenor Request at Exhibit 1 (the two structures are
identical except for the parent), Exhibit 2 (public deed registered
in the Central Mercantile Registry reflecting name change), Exhibit
3 (registration of the name change), Exhibits 4-5 (taxpayer
identification certificates before and after), and Exhibit 6 (SEC
form 6-K filing at note 3 and 4).
\13\ See SQR at 3-5, and Exhibit 2 (customers), and at 2-3, and
Exhibit 1 (supplier).
\14\ See Sidenor Request at 4, and Exhibit 9 (list of production
assets).
\15\ Id., at 4 and Exhibit 7 (organization charts before,
unchanged with one exception after). The administration of the
company changed from a Board of Directors to a Sole Administrator.
See Sidenor Request at Exhibit 2.
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Based on record evidence, we preliminarily determine that Sidenor
is the successor-in-interest to Gerdau for purposes of antidumping duty
liability because the ownership and name changes of the company
resulted in no significant changes to management, production
facilities, supplier relationships, and customers. As a result, we
preliminarily determine that Sidenor operates as the same business
entity as Gerdau. Thus, we preliminarily determine that Sidenor should
receive the same antidumping duty cash deposit rate with respect to the
subject merchandise as Gerdau, its predecessor company.
Because cash deposits are only estimates of the amount of
antidumping duties that will be due, changes in cash deposit rates are
not made retroactive and, therefore, no change will be made to
Sidenor's cash deposit rate as a result of these preliminary results.
If Sidenor believes that the deposits paid exceed the actual amount of
dumping, it is entitled to request an administrative review during the
anniversary month of the publication of the order of those entries,
i.e., March, to determine the proper assessment rate and receive a
refund of any excess deposits.\16\ As a result, if these preliminary
results are adopted in our final results of this changed circumstances
review, we will instruct CBP to suspend shipments of subject
merchandise made by Sidenor, at Gerdau's cash deposit rate, effective
on the publication date of our final results.
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\16\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel
Products From the United Kingdom: Final Results of Changed-
Circumstances Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative
Reviews, 64 FR 66880 (November 30, 1999).
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Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 14 days
after the publication of this notice.\17\ Rebuttal briefs, which must
be limited to issues raised in case briefs, may be filed not later than
five days after the deadline for filing case briefs.\18\ Parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this changed circumstance
review are requested to submit with each argument: (1) A statement of
the issue; (2) a brief summary of the argument; and (3) a table of
authorities. Interested parties who wish to comment on the preliminary
results must file briefs electronically using Enforcement and
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic
Service System (ACCESS) and is available to registered users at http://access.trade.gov. An electronically-filed document must be received
successfully in its entirety by the ACCESS no later than 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on the date the document is due. Interested parties that
wish to request a hearing must submit a written request to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed
electronically via ACCESS, within 14 days of publication of this
notice.\19\ Parties will be notified of the time and date of any
hearing, if requested.\20\
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
\18\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
\19\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c). See also 19 CFR 351.303 for general
filing requirements.
\20\ See 19 CFR 351.310.
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Notifications to Interested Parties
Consistent with 19 CFR 351.216(e), we intend to issue the final
results of this changed circumstances review no later than 270 days
after the date on which this review was initiated, or within 45 days
after the publication of the preliminary results if all parties in this
review agree to our preliminary results. The final results will include
the Department's analysis of issues raised in any written comments.
This notice of initiation and preliminary results is in accordance
with section 751(b)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.216(b) and (d), and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(1).
Dated: October 18, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2016-25906 Filed 10-25-16; 8:45 am]
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