Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent To Revoke Order in Part, 821-825 [2016-31890]
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Partial Rescission of Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the
Department will rescind an
administrative review, in whole or in
part, if the party or parties that
requested a review withdraws the
request within 90 days of the
publication date of the notice of
initiation of the requested review. As
noted above, requests for review were
withdrawn, and parties withdrew their
requests within 90 days of the
publication date of the notice of
initiation. Therefore, in accordance with
1 9 CFR 351.213(d)(1), we are rescinding
this review with respect to Tesa, La
Fabbrica, GR.A.M.M., Labor, Afeltra,
Zaffiri, and Andalini. The
administrative review will continue
with respect to Liguori.
Assessment
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess countervailing duties on all
appropriate entries of certain pasta from
Italy. For the companies for which this
review is rescinded, countervailing
duties shall be assessed at rates equal to
the cash deposit of estimated
countervailing duties required at the
time of entry, or withdrawal from
warehouse, for consumption in
accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(c)(1)(i). The Department
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Pasta from Italy, C–475–819; Withdrawal of Request
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Dated: December 28, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–588–873]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From Japan: Initiation and Preliminary
Results of Changed Circumstances
Review, and Intent To Revoke Order in
Part
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the ‘‘Department’’) has initiated a
changed circumstances review of, and is
preliminarily revoking, in part, the
antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’) order on
certain cold-rolled steel flat products
from Japan with respect to certain light
gage cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for
porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1.
The Department invites interested
parties to comment on these preliminary
results.
DATES: Effective January 4, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Bolling, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–3434.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
On July 14, 2016, the Department
published an AD order on certain coldrolled steel flat products from Japan.1
On November 14, 2016, members of
the domestic cold-rolled steel industry,
ArcelorMittal USA LLC, AK Steel
Corporation, Nucor Corporation, Steel
Dynamics Inc., and United States Steel
Corporation (collectively, ‘‘domestic
1 See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Japan and the People’s Republic of China:
Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 45956 (July 14,
2016).
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producers’’ or ‘‘Petitioners’’ 2), requested
that the Department conduct a changed
circumstances review, to revoke, in part,
the AD order on certain cold-rolled steel
flat products from Japan with respect to
certain light gage cold-rolled flat-rolled
steel for porcelain enameling meeting
the requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1.
We did not receive comments from any
other party.
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order
are certain cold-rolled (coldreduced),
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 nonrectangular cross-section, the width of
certain products with non-rectangular
shape, etc.), the measurement at its
greatest width or thickness applies.
2 Each of these domestic producers was a
petitioner in the investigation on cold-rolled steel
flat products from Japan. See Certain Cold-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from Japan: Affirmative
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value and Preliminary Affirmative
Determination of Critical Circumstances, 81 FR
11747, 11748 n. 10 (March 7, 2016).
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Steel products included in the scope
of this order 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
Element
C
Weight % ...........................
Si
0.90–1.05
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Width of 150 to
330mm.
Flatness of less than
0.2% of nominal
strip width.
Flatness of less than
5 mm of nominal
strip width.
3 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.
4 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
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Mn
0.15–0.35
• Physical properties:
Width less than or
equal to 150mm.
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 microalloying levels of elements such as
silicon and aluminum. AHSS and UHSS
are considered high tensile strength and
high elongation steels, although AI–ISS
and UHSS are covered whether or not
they are high tensile strength or high
elongation steels.
Subject merchandise includes coldrolled 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 order 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
0.30–0.50
above, are within the scope of this order
unless specifically excluded. The
following products are outside of and/
or specifically excluded from the scope
of this order:
• Ball bearing steels; 3
• Tool steels; 4
• Silico-manganese steel; 5
• 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.6
• Non-Oriented Electrical Steels
(‘‘NOES’’), as defined in the
antidumping orders issued by the U.S.
Department of Commerce in NonOriented Electrical Steel From the
People’s Republic of China, Germany,
Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden,
and Taiwan.7
Also excluded from the scope of this
order is ultra-tempered automotive
steel, which is hardened, tempered,
surface polished, and meets the
following specifications:
• Thickness: less than or equal to 1.0
mm;
• Width: less than or equal to 330 mm;
• Chemical composition:
P
S
Less than or equal to 0.03 ............
Less than or equal to 0.006.
• Microstructure: Completely free from
decarburization. Carbides are
spheroidal and fine within 1% to 4%
(area percentage) and are undissolved
in the uniform tempered martensite;
• Surface roughness: Less than or equal
to 0.80 mm Rz;
• Non-metallic inclusion:
D Sulfide inclusion less than or equal
to 0.04% (area percentage);
D Oxide inclusion less than or equal
to 0.05% (area percentage); and
• The mill test certificate must
demonstrate that the steel is
proprietary grade ‘‘PK’’ and specify
the following:
D The exact tensile strength, which
must be greater than or equal to
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.
5 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.
6 See 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 (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.’’
7 See 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 (December 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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1600 N/mm2;
D The exact hardness, which must be
greater than or equal to 465 Vickers
hardness number;
D The exact elongation, which must
be between 2.5% and 9.5%; and
D Certified as having residual
compressive stress within a range of
100 to 400 N/mm2.
The products subject to this order 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 order 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 CBP
purposes only. The written description
of the scope of the order is dispositive.
Initiation and Preliminary Results of
Changed Circumstances Review, and
Intent To Revoke Order in Part
Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the
Act’’), the Department will conduct a
changed circumstances review upon
receipt of information concerning, or a
request from an interested party for a
review of, a final affirmative
determination that resulted in an AD
order which shows changed
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circumstances sufficient to warrant a
review. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) provide that the
Department may revoke an order (in
whole or in part) if it determines that
producers accounting for substantially
all of the production of the domestic
like product have no further interest in
the order, in whole or in part. In
addition, in the event the Department
determines that expedited action is
warranted, 19 CFR 351.222(c)(3)(ii)
permits the Department to combine the
notices of initiation and preliminary
results.
At the request of the domestic
industry, and in accordance with
section 751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.216(b), the Department is initiating
a changed circumstances review of
certain cold-rolled steel flat products
from Japan to determine whether partial
revocation of the antidumping duty
order is warranted with respect to
certain light gage cold-rolled flat-rolled
steel for porcelain enameling meeting
the requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1.
In accordance with section 751(b) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3), we have
determined that expedited action is
warranted because the record contains
information necessary to make a
preliminary finding.
The five domestic producers named
above assert that they account for
‘‘substantially all’’ of the cold-rolled
steel production in the United States.
Because there is no record information
that contradicts this claim, in
accordance with section 751(b) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i), we find
that Petitioners comprise substantially
all of the production of the domestic
like product.8
Petitioners have expressed a lack of
interest in the order, in part, with
respect to certain light gage cold-rolled
flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling
meeting the requirements of ASTM
A424 Type 1.9 Because this changed
circumstances request was filed less
than 24 months after the date of
publication of notice of the final
determination in an investigation,
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.216(c), the
Department must determine whether
good cause exists. We find that the
Petitioners’ affirmative statement of no
interest in the order with respect to
certain light gage cold-rolled flat-rolled
steel for porcelain enameling meeting
the requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1
constitutes good cause for the conduct
8 See Letter from the Domestic Industry, ‘‘Certain
Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan—
Changed Circumstances Review and Parital
Revocation Request,’’ dated November 14, 2016 at
page 5.
9 Id. at page 4.
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of this review. Based on the expression
of no interest by Petitioners and in the
absence of any objection by any other
interested parties, we have preliminarily
determined that substantially all 10 of
the domestic industry of the like
product has no interest in the continued
application of the antidumping duty
order on certain cold-rolled steel flat
products to the merchandise that is
subject to this request. Accordingly, we
are notifying the public of our intent to
revoke, in part, the antidumping duty
order as it relates to imports of certain
light gage cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for
porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1.
Therefore, we intend to change the
scope of the order on cold-rolled steel
flat products from Japan to include the
following exclusion: 11
Also excluded from the scope of this order
is certain cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for
porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM 424 Type 1 and
having the following characteristics:
—continuous annealed cold-reduced steel in
coils with a thickness of between 0.30 mm
and 0.36 mm, that is in in widths either
from 875 mm to 940 mm or from 1,168 to
1,232 mm;
—a chemical composition, by weight, of:
—not more than 0.004% carbon;
—not more than 0.010% aluminum;
—0.006%–0.010% nitrogen
—0.012%–0.030% boron
—0.010%–0.025% oxygen
—less than 0.002% of titanium;
—less than 0.002% by weight of vanadium;
—less than 0.002% by weight of niobium,
—less than 0.002% by weight of antimony;
—a yield strength of from 179.3 MPa to
344.7 MPa;
—a tensile strength of from 303.7 MPa to
413.7 MPa,
—a percent of elongation of from 28% to
46% on a standard ASTM sample with a
5.08 mm gauge length;
—a product shape of flat after annealing,
with flat defined as less than or equal to
1 I unit with no coil set. As set forth, in
ASTM A568, Appendix X5 (alternate
methods for expressing flatness).12
10 In its administrative practice, the Department
has interpreted ‘‘substantially all’’ to mean at least
85 percent of the total production of the domestic
like product covered by the order. See, e.g., Certain
Pasta from Italy: Final Results of Countervailing
Duty Changed Circumstances Review and
Revocation, In Part, 76 FR 27634, 27635 (May 12,
2011).
11 For a full description of the scope, see
Appendix I.
12 The Department intends to adopt the
exclusionary language included in the proposed
amended scope that Petitioners submitted on
December 13, 2016. See Letter from the Domestic
Industry, ‘‘Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
from Japan—Changed Circumstances Review and
Partial Revocation Request—Proposed Amended
Scope Language,’’ dated December 13, 2016 at
Attachment.
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Public Comment
Interested parties are invited to
provide comments to comment on these
preliminary results. Written comments
may be submitted to the Department no
later than 14 days after the date of
publication of this notice. Rebuttal
comments to written comments, limited
to issues raised in such comments, may
be filed with the Department no later
than 10 days after the comments are
filed. All submissions must be filed
electronically using Enforcement and
Compliance’s AD and CVD Centralized
Electronic Service System
(‘‘ACCESS’’).13 An electronically filed
document must be received successfully
in its entirety by ACCESS, by 5 p.m.
Eastern Time on the due dates set forth
in this notice.
In accordance with 19 CFR
351.216(e), the Department intends to
issue the final results of this changed
circumstance review within 270 days
after the date on which this review was
initiated, or within 45 days if all parties
to the proceeding agree to the outcome
of the review.
If final revocation occurs, we will
instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to end the suspension of
liquidation for the merchandise covered
by the revocation on the effective date
of the notice of revocation and to release
any cash deposit or bond.14 The current
requirement for a cash deposit of
estimated antidumping duties on all
subject merchandise will continue
unless and until it is modified pursuant
to the final results of this changed
circumstances review.
This initiation and preliminary results
of review and notice are in accordance
with sections 751(b) and 777(i) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.216, 351.221(b)(1)
and (4), and 351.222(g).
Dated: December 27, 2016.
Paul Piquado
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
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Appendix I
The products covered by this order 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
13 See,
14 See
generally, 19 CFR 351.303.
19 CFR 351.22(g)(4).
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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
order 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
steels, although AHSS and UHSS are covered
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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 order 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 order unless specifically
excluded. The following products are outside
of and/or specifically excluded from the
scope of this order:
• Ball bearing steels; 1
• Tool steels; 2
• Silico-manganese steel; 3
• Grain-oriented electrical steel (‘‘GOES’’) as
defined in the final determination of the
U.S. Department of Commerce in GrainOriented Electrical Steel from Germany,
Japan, and Poland.4
• 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,
1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 See 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
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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Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea,
Sweden, and Taiwan.5
Weight % ....................................
Also excluded from the scope of this order
is ultra-tempered automotive steel, which is
hardened, tempered, surface polished, and
meets the following specifications:
0.90–1.05
• Physical properties:
Width less than or
equal to 150mm.
Width of 150 to
330mm.
Flatness of less than
0.2% of nominal
strip width.
Flatness of less than
5 mm of nominal
strip width.
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• Microstructure: Completely free from
decarburization. Carbides are spheroidal
and fine within 1% to 4% (area percentage)
and are undissolved in the uniform
tempered martensite;
• Surface roughness: less than or equal to
0.80 to mm Rz;
• Non-metallic inclusion:
D Sulfide inclusion less than or equal to
0.04% (area percentage)
D Oxide inclusion less than or equal to
0.05% (area percentage); and
• The mill test certificate must demonstrate
that the steel is proprietary grade ‘‘PK’’ and
specify the following:
D The exact tensile strength, which must
be greater than or equal to 1600 N/mm2;
• The exact hardness, which must be greater
than or equal to 465 Vickers hardness
number;
• The exact elongation, which must be
between 2.5% and 9.5%; and
• Certified as having residual compressive
stress within a range of 100 to 400 N/mm2.
Also excluded from the scope of this order
is certain cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for
porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1 and
having each of the following characteristics:
• Continuous annealed cold-reduced steel in
coils with a thickness of between 0.30 mm
and 0.36 mm that is in widths either from
875 mm to 940 mm or from 1,168 to 1,232
mm;
• a chemical composition, by weight, of:
D not more than 0.004% carbon;
D not more than 0.010% aluminum;
D 0.006%–0.010% nitrogen
D 0.012%–0.030% boron
D 0.010%–0.025% oxygen
D less than 0.002% of titanium;
D less than 0.002% by weight of vanadium;
D less than 0.002% by weight of niobium,
D less than 0.002% by weight of antimony;
• a yield strength of from 179.3 MPa to 344.7
MPa;
• a tensile strength of from 303.7 MPa to
413.7 MPa;
5 See 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 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
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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
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• Thickness: less than or equal to 1.0 mm;
• Width: less than or equal to 330 mm;
• Chemical composition:
Less than or equal to 0.03
• a percent of elongation of from 28% to
46% on a standard ASTM sample with a
5.08 mm gauge length;
• a product shape of flat after annealing,
with flat defined as less than or equal to
1 I unit with no coil set as set forth in
ASTM A568, Appendix X5 (alternate
methods for expressing flatness).
The products subject to this order 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
order 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 CBP
purposes only. The written description of the
scope of the order is dispositive.
825
Less than or equal to
0.006.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XF094
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Northeast Skate Complex
Fishery; Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement;
Scoping Process; Request for
Comments
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
draft environmental impact statement
and initiate scoping process; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council announces its
intent to prepare, in cooperation with
NMFS, a draft environmental impact
statement consistent with the National
Environmental Policy Act. A draft
environmental impact statement may be
necessary to provide analytic support
for Amendment 5 to the Northeast Skate
Complex Fishery Management Plan.
This notice alerts the interested public
of the scoping process for a potential
draft environmental impact statement
and outlines opportunity for public
participation in that process.
DATES: Written and electronic scoping
comments must be received on or before
March 6, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments
on Amendment 5 may be sent by any of
the following methods:
• Email to the following address:
comments@nefmc.org;
• Mail to Thomas A. Nies, Executive
Director, New England Fishery
Management Council, 50 Water Street,
Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; or
• Fax to (978) 465–3116.
Requests for copies of the
Amendment 5 scoping document and
SUMMARY:
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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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 821-825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31890]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-873]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Initiation
and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent To
Revoke Order in Part
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') has initiated
a changed circumstances review of, and is preliminarily revoking, in
part, the antidumping duty (``AD'') order on certain cold-rolled steel
flat products from Japan with respect to certain light gage cold-rolled
flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling meeting the requirements of
ASTM A424 Type 1. The Department invites interested parties to comment
on these preliminary results.
DATES: Effective January 4, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Bolling, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3434.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 14, 2016, the Department published an AD order on certain
cold-rolled steel flat products from Japan.\1\
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\1\ See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan and
the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 45956
(July 14, 2016).
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On November 14, 2016, members of the domestic cold-rolled steel
industry, ArcelorMittal USA LLC, AK Steel Corporation, Nucor
Corporation, Steel Dynamics Inc., and United States Steel Corporation
(collectively, ``domestic producers'' or ``Petitioners'' \2\),
requested that the Department conduct a changed circumstances review,
to revoke, in part, the AD order on certain cold-rolled steel flat
products from Japan with respect to certain light gage cold-rolled
flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling meeting the requirements of
ASTM A424 Type 1. We did not receive comments from any other party.
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\2\ Each of these domestic producers was a petitioner in the
investigation on cold-rolled steel flat products from Japan. See
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Affirmative
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 81
FR 11747, 11748 n. 10 (March 7, 2016).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are certain cold-rolled
(coldreduced), 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.
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Steel products included in the scope of this order 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 steels, although AI-ISS 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 order 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 order unless
specifically excluded. The following products are outside of and/or
specifically excluded from the scope of this order:
Ball bearing steels; \3\
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\3\ 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; \4\
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\4\ 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; \5\
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\5\ 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.\6\
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\6\ See 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 (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.\7\
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\7\ See 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 (December 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.''
Also excluded from the scope of this order is ultra-tempered
automotive steel, which is hardened, tempered, surface polished, and
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meets the following specifications:
Thickness: less than or equal to 1.0 mm;
Width: less than or equal to 330 mm;
Chemical composition:
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Element C Si Mn P S
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Weight %.................... 0.90-1.05 0.15-0.35 0.30-0.50 Less than or equal to 0.03............... Less than or equal to 0.006.
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Physical properties:
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Width less than or equal to 150mm......... Flatness of less than 0.2%
of nominal strip width.
Width of 150 to 330mm..................... Flatness of less than 5 mm
of nominal strip width.
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Microstructure: Completely free from decarburization. Carbides
are spheroidal and fine within 1% to 4% (area percentage) and are
undissolved in the uniform tempered martensite;
Surface roughness: Less than or equal to 0.80 [micro]m Rz;
Non-metallic inclusion:
[ssquf] Sulfide inclusion less than or equal to 0.04% (area
percentage);
[ssquf] Oxide inclusion less than or equal to 0.05% (area
percentage); and
The mill test certificate must demonstrate that the steel is
proprietary grade ``PK'' and specify the following:
[ssquf] The exact tensile strength, which must be greater than or
equal to
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1600 N/mm\2\;
[ssquf] The exact hardness, which must be greater than or equal to
465 Vickers hardness number;
[ssquf] The exact elongation, which must be between 2.5% and 9.5%;
and
[ssquf] Certified as having residual compressive stress within a
range of 100 to 400 N/mm\2\.
The products subject to this order 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 order 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 CBP
purposes only. The written description of the scope of the order is
dispositive.
Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and
Intent To Revoke Order in Part
Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(``the Act''), the Department will conduct a changed circumstances
review upon receipt of information concerning, or a request from an
interested party for a review of, a final affirmative determination
that resulted in an AD order which shows changed circumstances
sufficient to warrant a review. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.222(g)(1)(i) provide that the Department may revoke an order (in
whole or in part) if it determines that producers accounting for
substantially all of the production of the domestic like product have
no further interest in the order, in whole or in part. In addition, in
the event the Department determines that expedited action is warranted,
19 CFR 351.222(c)(3)(ii) permits the Department to combine the notices
of initiation and preliminary results.
At the request of the domestic industry, and in accordance with
section 751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(b), the Department is
initiating a changed circumstances review of certain cold-rolled steel
flat products from Japan to determine whether partial revocation of the
antidumping duty order is warranted with respect to certain light gage
cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1. In accordance with section 751(b) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3), we have determined that expedited
action is warranted because the record contains information necessary
to make a preliminary finding.
The five domestic producers named above assert that they account
for ``substantially all'' of the cold-rolled steel production in the
United States. Because there is no record information that contradicts
this claim, in accordance with section 751(b) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.222(g)(1)(i), we find that Petitioners comprise substantially all
of the production of the domestic like product.\8\
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\8\ See Letter from the Domestic Industry, ``Certain Cold-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from Japan--Changed Circumstances Review and
Parital Revocation Request,'' dated November 14, 2016 at page 5.
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Petitioners have expressed a lack of interest in the order, in
part, with respect to certain light gage cold-rolled flat-rolled steel
for porcelain enameling meeting the requirements of ASTM A424 Type
1.\9\ Because this changed circumstances request was filed less than 24
months after the date of publication of notice of the final
determination in an investigation, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.216(c), the
Department must determine whether good cause exists. We find that the
Petitioners' affirmative statement of no interest in the order with
respect to certain light gage cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for
porcelain enameling meeting the requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1
constitutes good cause for the conduct of this review. Based on the
expression of no interest by Petitioners and in the absence of any
objection by any other interested parties, we have preliminarily
determined that substantially all \10\ of the domestic industry of the
like product has no interest in the continued application of the
antidumping duty order on certain cold-rolled steel flat products to
the merchandise that is subject to this request. Accordingly, we are
notifying the public of our intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping
duty order as it relates to imports of certain light gage cold-rolled
flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling meeting the requirements of
ASTM A424 Type 1. Therefore, we intend to change the scope of the order
on cold-rolled steel flat products from Japan to include the following
exclusion: \11\
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\9\ Id. at page 4.
\10\ In its administrative practice, the Department has
interpreted ``substantially all'' to mean at least 85 percent of the
total production of the domestic like product covered by the order.
See, e.g., Certain Pasta from Italy: Final Results of Countervailing
Duty Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation, In Part, 76 FR
27634, 27635 (May 12, 2011).
\11\ For a full description of the scope, see Appendix I.
Also excluded from the scope of this order is certain cold-
rolled flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM 424 Type 1 and having the following
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characteristics:
--continuous annealed cold-reduced steel in coils with a thickness
of between 0.30 mm and 0.36 mm, that is in in widths either from 875
mm to 940 mm or from 1,168 to 1,232 mm;
--a chemical composition, by weight, of:
--not more than 0.004% carbon;
--not more than 0.010% aluminum;
--0.006%-0.010% nitrogen
--0.012%-0.030% boron
--0.010%-0.025% oxygen
--less than 0.002% of titanium;
--less than 0.002% by weight of vanadium;
--less than 0.002% by weight of niobium,
--less than 0.002% by weight of antimony;
--a yield strength of from 179.3 MPa to 344.7 MPa;
--a tensile strength of from 303.7 MPa to 413.7 MPa,
--a percent of elongation of from 28% to 46% on a standard ASTM
sample with a 5.08 mm gauge length;
--a product shape of flat after annealing, with flat defined as less
than or equal to 1 I unit with no coil set. As set forth, in ASTM
A568, Appendix X5 (alternate methods for expressing flatness).\12\
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\12\ The Department intends to adopt the exclusionary language
included in the proposed amended scope that Petitioners submitted on
December 13, 2016. See Letter from the Domestic Industry, ``Certain
Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan--Changed Circumstances
Review and Partial Revocation Request--Proposed Amended Scope
Language,'' dated December 13, 2016 at Attachment.
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Public Comment
Interested parties are invited to provide comments to comment on
these preliminary results. Written comments may be submitted to the
Department no later than 14 days after the date of publication of this
notice. Rebuttal comments to written comments, limited to issues raised
in such comments, may be filed with the Department no later than 10
days after the comments are filed. All submissions must be filed
electronically using Enforcement and Compliance's AD and CVD
Centralized Electronic Service System (``ACCESS'').\13\ An
electronically filed document must be received successfully in its
entirety by ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the due dates set forth
in this notice.
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\13\ See, generally, 19 CFR 351.303.
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In accordance with 19 CFR 351.216(e), the Department intends to
issue the final results of this changed circumstance review within 270
days after the date on which this review was initiated, or within 45
days if all parties to the proceeding agree to the outcome of the
review.
If final revocation occurs, we will instruct U.S. Customs and
Border Protection to end the suspension of liquidation for the
merchandise covered by the revocation on the effective date of the
notice of revocation and to release any cash deposit or bond.\14\ The
current requirement for a cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties
on all subject merchandise will continue unless and until it is
modified pursuant to the final results of this changed circumstances
review.
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.22(g)(4).
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This initiation and preliminary results of review and notice are in
accordance with sections 751(b) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.216, 351.221(b)(1) and (4), and 351.222(g).
Dated: December 27, 2016.
Paul Piquado
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
The products covered by this order 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 order 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
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 order 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 order
unless specifically excluded. The following products are outside of
and/or specifically excluded from the scope of this order:
Ball bearing steels; \1\
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\1\ 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; \2\
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\2\ 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; \3\
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\3\ 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 steel (``GOES'') as defined in
the final determination of the U.S. Department of Commerce in Grain-
Oriented Electrical Steel from Germany, Japan, and Poland.\4\
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\4\ See 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 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,
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\5\ See 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 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.''
Also excluded from the scope of this order is ultra-tempered
automotive steel, which is hardened, tempered, surface polished, and
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meets the following specifications:
Thickness: less than or equal to 1.0 mm;
Width: less than or equal to 330 mm;
Chemical composition:
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Element C Si Mn P S
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Weight %....................... 0.90-1.05 0.15-0.35 0.30-0.50 Less than or equal to 0.03......... Less than or equal to 0.006.
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Physical properties:
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Width less than or equal to 150mm......... Flatness of less than 0.2%
of nominal strip width.
Width of 150 to 330mm..................... Flatness of less than 5 mm
of nominal strip width.
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Microstructure: Completely free from decarburization.
Carbides are spheroidal and fine within 1% to 4% (area percentage)
and are undissolved in the uniform tempered martensite;
Surface roughness: less than or equal to 0.80 to [micro]m
Rz;
Non-metallic inclusion:
[ssquf] Sulfide inclusion less than or equal to 0.04% (area
percentage)
[ssquf] Oxide inclusion less than or equal to 0.05% (area
percentage); and
The mill test certificate must demonstrate that the steel
is proprietary grade ``PK'' and specify the following:
[ssquf] The exact tensile strength, which must be greater than
or equal to 1600 N/mm\2\;
The exact hardness, which must be greater than or equal to
465 Vickers hardness number;
The exact elongation, which must be between 2.5% and 9.5%;
and
Certified as having residual compressive stress within a
range of 100 to 400 N/mm\2\.
Also excluded from the scope of this order is certain cold-
rolled flat-rolled steel for porcelain enameling meeting the
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1 and having each of the following
characteristics:
Continuous annealed cold-reduced steel in coils with a
thickness of between 0.30 mm and 0.36 mm that is in widths either
from 875 mm to 940 mm or from 1,168 to 1,232 mm;
a chemical composition, by weight, of:
[ssquf] not more than 0.004% carbon;
[ssquf] not more than 0.010% aluminum;
[ssquf] 0.006%-0.010% nitrogen
[ssquf] 0.012%-0.030% boron
[ssquf] 0.010%-0.025% oxygen
[ssquf] less than 0.002% of titanium;
[ssquf] less than 0.002% by weight of vanadium;
[ssquf] less than 0.002% by weight of niobium,
[ssquf] less than 0.002% by weight of antimony;
a yield strength of from 179.3 MPa to 344.7 MPa;
a tensile strength of from 303.7 MPa to 413.7 MPa;
a percent of elongation of from 28% to 46% on a standard
ASTM sample with a 5.08 mm gauge length;
a product shape of flat after annealing, with flat defined
as less than or equal to 1 I unit with no coil set as set forth in
ASTM A568, Appendix X5 (alternate methods for expressing flatness).
The products subject to this order 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 order 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 CBP purposes only. The written
description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2016-31890 Filed 1-3-17; 8:45 am]
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