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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–533–810]
Stainless Steel Bar From India:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2015–
2016
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) is conducting an
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar (SSB) from India. The period
of review (POR) is February 1, 2015,
through January 31, 2016. This review
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covers two producers or exporters of the
subject merchandise: Ambica Steels
Limited (Ambica), and Bhansali Bright
Bars Pvt. Ltd. (Bhansali). We
preliminarily determine that Bhansali
had no shipments of subject
merchandise during the POR and that
Ambica did have an entry of subject
merchandise during the POR. Interested
parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Effective March 1, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joseph Shuler, 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) 482–1293.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order
is SSB. SSB means articles of stainless
steel in straight lengths that have been
either hot-rolled, forged, turned, colddrawn, cold-rolled or otherwise coldfinished, 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 semifinished products, cut-to-length flatrolled products (i.e., cut-to-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.
Imports of these products are
currently classifiable under subheadings
7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00,
7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS).
Although the HTS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs
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purposes, our written description of the
scope of the Order is dispositive.
Background
Carpenter Technology Corporation,
Crucible Industries LLC, Electralloy, a
Division of G,O, Carlson, Inc., North
American Stainless, Universal Stainless
& Alloy Products, Inc., and Valbruna
Slater Stainless, Inc. (the petitioners)
timely requested an administrative
review of Ambica and Bhansali.1 The
Department published in the Federal
Register a notice of initiation of this
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on SSB from
India for Ambica and Bhansali.2
Preliminary Determination of No
Shipments (Bhansali)
We received a timely claim from
Bhansali reporting that it had no
shipments of the subject merchandise to
the United States during the POR and
requested that the Department rescind
the review with respect to it.3 Following
Bhansali’s claim of no shipments during
the POR, the Department placed U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
entry data on the record for comment,4
and transmitted a ‘‘No-Shipment
Inquiry’’ to CBP regarding Bhansali.5
Pursuant to this inquiry, CBP submitted
no information contrary to Bhansali’s
claim. Accordingly, the Department
preliminarily determines that Bhansali
had no shipments during the POR.
Consistent with our practice, we will
complete the review and issue
appropriate instructions to CBP based
on the final results of this review.
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Preliminary Results of Review
(Ambica)
The Department received a timely
claim from Ambica reporting that it had
‘‘no shipments’’ of the subject
merchandise to the United States during
the POR and requested that the
Department rescind the review with
respect to it.6 Following Ambica’s claim
1 See Letter from the petitioners to the
Department, ‘‘Stainless Steel Bar from India:
Petitioners’ Request for 2015/16 Administrative
Review,’’ dated February 29, 2016.
2 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 81 FR
20324 (April 7, 2016) (Notice of Initiation).
3 See Letter from Bhansali to the Department,
‘‘Request for No Shipment during the Period of
Review (POR),’’ dated May 4, 2016.
4 See Memorandum from Joseph Shuler,
International Trade Analyst, to the File regarding,
‘‘Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) Entry Data to Interested Parties for
Comment,’’ (CBP Entry Data Release Memo) dated
June 29, 2016.
5 See CBP message 6264303 dated September 21,
2016.
6 See Letter from Ambica to the Department,
‘‘Request for No Shipment during the Period of
Review (POR),’’ dated May 4, 2016.
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of no shipments during the POR, the
Department placed CBP entry data on
the record for comment.7 Subsequently,
we requested entry documents from
CBP for specific shipments attributed to
Ambica and placed this information on
the record for comment.8 The
Department preliminarily finds that
Ambica had one suspended entry of
subject merchandise during this POR for
which it had knowledge of its sale to an
unaffiliated U.S. customer. However,
the Department inadvertently included
the sales associated with this 2015/16
entry of subject merchandise in its
analysis for the 2014–15 administrative
review. Therefore, we have
preliminarily determined to apply the
importer-specific assessment rate
calculated for Ambica in the 2014–15
review to this suspended entry in the
instant review. For all other entries of
subject merchandise attributed to
Ambica during the instant POR, Ambica
has reasonably explained that it had no
knowledge of these entries into the
United States or the sales associated
with these entries. Accordingly, these
entries will be liquidated at the allothers rate. For additional information
and analysis, see the Preliminary
Analysis Memorandum.9
interested parties.13 An electronically
filed document must be received
successfully in its entirety by the
Department’s electronic records system,
ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
the date that the document is due.
Interested parties who wish to request
a hearing must submit a written request
to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S.
Department of Commerce, using
Enforcement and Compliance’s ACCESS
system within 30 days of publication of
this notice.14 Requests should contain
(1) the party’s name, address, and
telephone number; (2) the number of
participants; and (3) a list of the issues
to be discussed. Issues raised in the
hearing will be limited to those raised
in the respective case briefs.
Unless the deadline is extended
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of
the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) and 19
CFR 351.213(h)(2), the Department
intends to issue the final results of this
administrative review, including the
results of our analysis of the issues
raised by the parties in their case and
rebuttal briefs, within 120 days after the
publication of these preliminary results,
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case
briefs no later than 30 days after the
date of publication of the preliminary
results.10 Rebuttal briefs, limited to the
issues raised in the case briefs, may be
filed no later than five days after the
submission of case briefs.11 Parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in
this proceeding are encouraged to
submit with each argument: (1) A
statement of the issue; (2) a brief
summary of the argument; and (3) a
table of authorities.12
All submissions to the Department
must be filed electronically using
ACCESS, and must also be served on
Assessment of Antidumping Duties
For the single suspended AD/CVD
entry attributable to Ambica, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate this entry at
the importer-specific assessment rate
calculated in the 2014–15
administrative review.
In accordance with the Department’s
practice, for entries of subject
merchandise during the POR for which
Ambica or Bhansali did not know that
the merchandise was destined for the
United States, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate such entries at the all-others
rate if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in
the transaction.
We intend to issue instructions to
CBP 15 days after the publication date
of the final results of this review.
7 See
CBP Entry Data Release Memo.
Memorandum from Joseph Shuler,
International Trade Analyst, to the File regarding,
‘‘Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty
order on Stainless Steel Bar from India: Placing of
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Entry
documents on the Record,’’ dated December 7,
2016.
9 Because of the proprietary nature of the entry
documents, see the memorandum from Joseph
Shuler, International Trade Analyst to Alex
Villanueva, Director, Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations Training and
Professional Development Unit, ‘‘Stainless Steel Bar
from India: Preliminary Analysis Memorandum,’’
(Preliminary Analysis Memorandum) dated
concurrently with this notice.
10 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR
351.303 (for general filing requirements).
11 See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1).
12 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
8 See
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the
publication date of the final results of
this administrative review, as provided
by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1)
The cash deposit rate for Ambica and
Bhansali will remain unchanged from
the rate assigned to each company in the
13 See
14 See
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19 CFR 351.303(f).
19 CFR 351.310(c).
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completed segment for the most recent
period for each company; (2) for other
producers and exporters covered in a
prior segment of the proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the
company-specific rate published for the
completed segment for the most recent
period of this proceeding in which that
producer or exporter participated; (3) if
the exporter is not a firm covered in this
review, a prior review, or the original
investigation, but the producer is, then
the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established for the completed segment
for the most recent period of this
proceeding for the producer of subject
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit
rate for all other producers or exporters
will continue to be 12.45 percent, the
all-others rate established in the
investigation.15 These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary
reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR
351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of
antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this
review period. Failure to comply with
this requirement could result in the
Secretary’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these
preliminary results of administrative
review in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: February 22, 2017.
Carole Showers,
Executive Director, Office of Policy, Policy
& Negotiations.
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15 See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from
India, 59 FR 66915, 66921 (December 28, 1994).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–044]
1,1,1,2 Tetrafluoroethane (R–134a)
From the People’s Republic of China:
Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value and Affirmative
Determination of Critical
Circumstances, in Part
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘Department’’) determines that 1,1,1,2
Tetrafluoroethane (R–134a) (‘‘R134a’’)
from the People’s Republic of China
(‘‘PRC’’) is being, or is likely to be, sold
in the United States at less than fair
value (‘‘LTFV’’). The final weightedaverage dumping margins of sales at
LTFV are listed below in the ‘‘Final
Determination Margins’’ section of this
notice.
DATES: Effective March 1, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
Stolz or Keith Haynes, AD/CVD
Operations, Office III, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–4474, and (202) 482–5139,
respectively.
AGENCY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 7, 2016, the Department
published the Preliminary
Determination of this antidumping duty
(‘‘AD’’) investigation.1 In the
Preliminary Determination, we
postponed the final determination until
no later than 135 days after the date of
publication of the Preliminary
Determination in accordance with
section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’) and
invited interested parties to comment on
our preliminary findings. A summary of
the events that occurred since the
Department published the Preliminary
Determination, as well as a full
discussion of the issues raised by parties
1 See 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (R–134a) from the
People’s Republic of China: Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value and
Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, in Part, and Postponement of Final
Determination, 81 FR 69786 (October 7, 2016) and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum,
as later amended by 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane
(R–134a) from the People’s Republic of China;
Amended Preliminary Affirmative Determination of
Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value, 81 FR 86699
(December 1, 2016) (collectively, ‘‘Preliminary
Determination’’).
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for this final determination, may be
found in the accompanying Issues and
Decision Memorandum.2
Period of Investigation
The period of investigation (‘‘POI’’) is
July 1, 2015, through December 31,
2015. This period corresponds to the
two most recent fiscal quarters prior to
the month of the filing of the petition,
which was March, 2016.3
Scope Comments
In the Initiation Notice, the
Department set aside a period of time
for parties to address scope issues in
case briefs or other written comments
on scope issues.4 No interested party
provided comments on scope issues for
the Preliminary Determination;
however, certain parties did submit
comments on the scope of the
investigation in the case and rebuttal
briefs. The Department addresses these
comments in the accompanying Issues
and Decision Memorandum, but the
scope of this investigation remains
unchanged for this final determination.5
Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this
investigation is 1,1,1,2
Tetrafluoroethane (R–134a) from the
PRC. For a full description of the scope
of this investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of
the Investigation,’’ in Appendix I of this
notice.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and
rebuttal briefs by interested parties in
this investigation that are not related to
the scope of this investigation are
addressed in the Issues and Decision
Memorandum, which is incorporated by
reference by, and hereby adopted by,
this notice.6 A list of these issues is
attached to this notice at Appendix II.
The Issues and Decision Memorandum
is a public document and is on file
electronically via Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
2 See Memorandum to Carole Showers, Executive
Director, Office of Policy, Policy & Negotiations,
(insert Carole’s title), ‘‘Issues and Decision
Memorandum for the 1,1,1,2 Tetrafluoroethane
(R–134a) from the People’s Republic of China: Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, in Part,’’ dated concurrently with
this notice (‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum’’).
3 See 19 CFR 351.204(b)(1) and the Initiation
Notice.
4 See 1, 1, 1, 2-Tetrafluoroethane from the
People’s Republic of China: Initiation of Less Than
Fair Value Investigation, 81 FR 18830 (April 1,
2016) (‘‘Initiation Notice’’).
5 See the Issues and Decision Memorandum at
Comment 2.
6 Id.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-810]
Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel
bar (SSB) from India. The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2015,
through January 31, 2016. This review covers two producers or exporters
of the subject merchandise: Ambica Steels Limited (Ambica), and
Bhansali Bright Bars Pvt. Ltd. (Bhansali). We preliminarily determine
that Bhansali had no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR
and that Ambica did have an entry of subject merchandise during the
POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary
results.
DATES: Effective March 1, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Shuler, 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) 482-1293.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. SSB 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-to-length flat-rolled products (i.e.,
cut-to-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.
Imports of these products are currently classifiable under
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). Although the HTS subheadings
are provided for convenience and customs
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purposes, our written description of the scope of the Order is
dispositive.
Background
Carpenter Technology Corporation, Crucible Industries LLC,
Electralloy, a Division of G,O, Carlson, Inc., North American
Stainless, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., and Valbruna
Slater Stainless, Inc. (the petitioners) timely requested an
administrative review of Ambica and Bhansali.\1\ The Department
published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of this
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from India
for Ambica and Bhansali.\2\
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\1\ See Letter from the petitioners to the Department,
``Stainless Steel Bar from India: Petitioners' Request for 2015/16
Administrative Review,'' dated February 29, 2016.
\2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 81 FR 20324 (April 7, 2016) (Notice of
Initiation).
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Preliminary Determination of No Shipments (Bhansali)
We received a timely claim from Bhansali reporting that it had no
shipments of the subject merchandise to the United States during the
POR and requested that the Department rescind the review with respect
to it.\3\ Following Bhansali's claim of no shipments during the POR,
the Department placed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry
data on the record for comment,\4\ and transmitted a ``No-Shipment
Inquiry'' to CBP regarding Bhansali.\5\ Pursuant to this inquiry, CBP
submitted no information contrary to Bhansali's claim. Accordingly, the
Department preliminarily determines that Bhansali had no shipments
during the POR. Consistent with our practice, we will complete the
review and issue appropriate instructions to CBP based on the final
results of this review.
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\3\ See Letter from Bhansali to the Department, ``Request for No
Shipment during the Period of Review (POR),'' dated May 4, 2016.
\4\ See Memorandum from Joseph Shuler, International Trade
Analyst, to the File regarding, ``Release of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) Entry Data to Interested Parties for Comment,''
(CBP Entry Data Release Memo) dated June 29, 2016.
\5\ See CBP message 6264303 dated September 21, 2016.
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Preliminary Results of Review (Ambica)
The Department received a timely claim from Ambica reporting that
it had ``no shipments'' of the subject merchandise to the United States
during the POR and requested that the Department rescind the review
with respect to it.\6\ Following Ambica's claim of no shipments during
the POR, the Department placed CBP entry data on the record for
comment.\7\ Subsequently, we requested entry documents from CBP for
specific shipments attributed to Ambica and placed this information on
the record for comment.\8\ The Department preliminarily finds that
Ambica had one suspended entry of subject merchandise during this POR
for which it had knowledge of its sale to an unaffiliated U.S.
customer. However, the Department inadvertently included the sales
associated with this 2015/16 entry of subject merchandise in its
analysis for the 2014-15 administrative review. Therefore, we have
preliminarily determined to apply the importer-specific assessment rate
calculated for Ambica in the 2014-15 review to this suspended entry in
the instant review. For all other entries of subject merchandise
attributed to Ambica during the instant POR, Ambica has reasonably
explained that it had no knowledge of these entries into the United
States or the sales associated with these entries. Accordingly, these
entries will be liquidated at the all-others rate. For additional
information and analysis, see the Preliminary Analysis Memorandum.\9\
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\6\ See Letter from Ambica to the Department, ``Request for No
Shipment during the Period of Review (POR),'' dated May 4, 2016.
\7\ See CBP Entry Data Release Memo.
\8\ See Memorandum from Joseph Shuler, International Trade
Analyst, to the File regarding, ``Administrative Review of the
Antidumping Duty order on Stainless Steel Bar from India: Placing of
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Entry documents on the Record,''
dated December 7, 2016.
\9\ Because of the proprietary nature of the entry documents,
see the memorandum from Joseph Shuler, International Trade Analyst
to Alex Villanueva, Director, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations Training and Professional Development Unit, ``Stainless
Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Analysis Memorandum,''
(Preliminary Analysis Memorandum) dated concurrently with this
notice.
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Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days
after the date of publication of the preliminary results.\10\ Rebuttal
briefs, limited to the issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed
no later than five days after the submission of case briefs.\11\
Parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding
are encouraged to submit with each argument: (1) A statement of the
issue; (2) a brief summary of the argument; and (3) a table of
authorities.\12\
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\10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for
general filing requirements).
\11\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1).
\12\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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All submissions to the Department must be filed electronically
using ACCESS, and must also be served on interested parties.\13\ An
electronically filed document must be received successfully in its
entirety by the Department's electronic records system, ACCESS, by 5:00
p.m. Eastern Time on the date that the document is due.
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\13\ See 19 CFR 351.303(f).
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Interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, using Enforcement and
Compliance's ACCESS system within 30 days of publication of this
notice.\14\ Requests should contain (1) the party's name, address, and
telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of the
issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to
those raised in the respective case briefs.
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) and 19 CFR
351.213(h)(2), the Department intends to issue the final results of
this administrative review, including the results of our analysis of
the issues raised by the parties in their case and rebuttal briefs,
within 120 days after the publication of these preliminary results,
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Assessment of Antidumping Duties
For the single suspended AD/CVD entry attributable to Ambica, we
will instruct CBP to liquidate this entry at the importer-specific
assessment rate calculated in the 2014-15 administrative review.
In accordance with the Department's practice, for entries of
subject merchandise during the POR for which Ambica or Bhansali did not
know that the merchandise was destined for the United States, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the all-others rate if there
is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the
transaction.
We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after the
publication date of the final results of this review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Ambica and
Bhansali will remain unchanged from the rate assigned to each company
in the
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completed segment for the most recent period for each company; (2) for
other producers and exporters covered in a prior segment of the
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the completed segment for the most recent
period of this proceeding in which that producer or exporter
participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review,
a prior review, or the original investigation, but the producer is,
then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the
completed segment for the most recent period of this proceeding for the
producer of subject merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all
other producers or exporters will continue to be 12.45 percent, the
all-others rate established in the investigation.\15\ These cash
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
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\15\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from India, 59 FR 66915, 66921
(December 28, 1994).
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of
administrative review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: February 22, 2017.
Carole Showers,
Executive Director, Office of Policy, Policy & Negotiations.
[FR Doc. 2017-03959 Filed 2-28-17; 8:45 am]
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