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Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From Japan: Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and
Revocation of Antidumping Duty
Order, in Part
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 4, 2017, the
Department of Commerce (the
‘‘Department’’) published its initiation
and preliminary results of a changed
circumstances review (‘‘CCR’’) and
stated its intention to revoke, in part,
the antidumping duty order on certain
cold-rolled steel flat products from
Japan (the ‘‘Order’’). The Department
preliminarily determined that producers
accounting for substantially all of the
domestic production of the like product
had no interest in the continued
application of the Order with respect to
certain light gauge cold-rolled flat-rolled
steel meeting the requirements of ASTM
A424 Type 1. For the final results, the
Department is revoking, in part, the
Order with respect to the cold-rolled
steel flat products described above.
DATES: Effective March 2, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Bolling, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3434.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
On January 4, 2017, the Department
published a notice of Initiation and
Preliminary Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and Intent to
Revoke Order in Part.1 In the
Preliminary Results, the Department
determined that five domestic
producers,2 which account for
1 See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Japan: Initiation and Preliminary Results of
Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent to
Revoke Order in Part, 82 FR 821 (January 4, 2017)
(‘‘Preliminary Results’’).
2 The five domestic producers are ArcelorMittal
USA LLC, AK Steel Corporation, Nucor
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‘‘substantially all’’ of the cold-rolled
steel production in the United States,3
expressed a lack of interest with respect
to certain light gauge cold-rolled flatrolled steel meeting the requirements of
ASTM A424 Type 1. As a result, the
Department preliminarily determined
that the domestic industry producing
the like product has no interest in the
continued application of the Order with
respect to the above-referenced
merchandise.
We invited interested parties to
comment on the Preliminary Results.4
ArcelorMittal USA LLC
(‘‘ArcelorMittal’’) was the only
interested party that submitted
comments.5 Specifically, ArcelorMittal
asked the Department to modify
language describing Petitioners’ scope
exclusion request in the narrative
portion of the Preliminary Results to
reflect more closely the language
contained in Petitioners’ proposed
scope.6
On February 9, 2017, the Department
extended the deadline for issuance of
the final results of this CCR, and
requested additional information from
Petitioners regarding the proposed
scope language.7 On February 16, 2017,
Petitioners submitted a letter containing
a modification to their proposed
exclusionary language, in which they
proposed removing the words ‘‘for
porcelain enameling’’ from the
exclusion language.8 No interested party
commented in response to Petitioners’
proposed modification.
Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and Revocation
of the Order, in Part
After an analysis of the comments
received, the Department continues to
find that ‘‘substantially all’’ of the
domestic industry has no interest in the
continued application of the Order with
Corporation, Steel Dynamics Inc., and United States
Steel Corporation (collectively, ‘‘Petitioners’’).
3 See Preliminary Results, 82 FR at 823.
4 See id. at 824.
5 See Letter from ArcelorMittal to Department,
‘‘Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Japan—Comments on the Preliminary Results of
Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent to
Revoke Order in Part,’’ dated January 18, 2017
(‘‘ArcelorMittal Comments’’).
6 The modified scope was attached as Appendix
1 to the Preliminary Results.
7 See Memo to the file, ‘‘Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and Revocation of
Antidumping Duty Order, in Part—Extension of
Final,’’ dated February 9, 2017.
8 See Letter from Petitioners to Department,
‘‘Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Japan—Changed Circumstances Review and Partial
Revocation Request—Response to the Department’s
Request to Remove Certain Language from the
Proposed Amended Scope of the Order,’’ dated
February 16, 2017 (‘‘Petitioners’ Amendment to
Exclusionary Language’’).
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respect to the merchandise that is
subject to this CCR. Accordingly, we are
notifying the public of our revocation,
in part, of the Order as it relates to
imports of certain light gauge coldrolled flat-rolled steel meeting the
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1.
Consistent with the discussion above,
we intend to modify the scope of the
Order to include the following
exclusion: 9
Also excluded from the scope of this
order is certain cold-rolled flat-rolled
steel 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:
—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).
The full scope of the Order,
incorporating the exclusion described
above, is provided in Appendix 1 of this
notice.
Instructions to U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’)
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Because we determine that there are
changed circumstances that warrant the
revocation of the Order, in part, we will
9 The Department adopts the exclusionary
language included in the proposed amended scope
that Petitioners submitted on December 13, 2016, as
modified by the Petitioners’ February 16, 2017,
submission. See Letter from Petitioners to
Department, ‘‘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; see also Petitioners’
Amendment to Exclusionary Language;
ArcelorMittal Comments at 2–3.
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instruct CBP to liquidate without regard
to antidumping duties, and to refund
any estimated antidumping duties on,
all unliquidated entries of the
merchandise covered by this partial
revocation that are not covered by the
final results of an administrative review
or automatic liquidation.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice serves as the only
reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (‘‘APO’’)
of their responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely
written notification of return or
destruction of APO materials, or
conversion to judicial protective order,
is hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and the terms of an
APO is a sanctionable violation.
We are issuing and publishing these
results of review in accordance with
sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.216.
Dated: February 23, 2017.
Carole Showers,
Executive Director, Office of Policy, Policy
& Negotiations.
Appendix
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
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certain products with non-rectangular crosssection, the width of certain products with
non-rectangular shape, etc.), the
measurement at its greatest width or
thickness applies.
Steel products included in the scope of this
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; 10
10 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;
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• Tool steels; 11
• Silico-manganese steel; 12
• 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.13
Element
• 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.14
C
Weight % ...........................
Si
0.90–1.05
• Physical properties:
0.15–0.35
Mn
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
0.30–0.50
S
Less than or equal to 0.03
Less than or equal to 0.006.
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 U.S.
Customs and Border Protection purposes
only. The written description of the scope of
the order is dispositive.
• 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 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;
• 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,
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(ii) not less than 0.22 nor more than 0.48 percent
of manganese; (iii) none, or not more than 0.03
percent of sulfur; (iv) none, or not more than 0.03
percent of phosphorus; (v) not less than 0.18 nor
more than 0.37 percent of silicon; (vi) not less than
1.25 nor more than 1.65 percent of chromium; (vii)
none, or not more than 0.28 percent of nickel; (viii)
none, or not more than 0.38 percent of copper; and
(ix) none, or not more than 0.09 percent of
molybdenum.
11 Tool steels are defined as steels which contain
the following combinations of elements in the
quantity by weight respectively indicated: (i) More
than 1.2 percent carbon and more than 10.5 percent
chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent
chromium; or (iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon
and 1 percent to 1.8 percent, inclusive, manganese;
or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent, inclusive,
chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive,
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon
and not less than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi)
not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less than
5.5 percent tungsten.
12 Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels
containing by weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent
of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or more but not more than
1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6 percent or
more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
13 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 42501, 42503 (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.’’
14 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 71741, 71741–
71742 (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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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-873]
Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Final Results
of Changed Circumstances Review, and Revocation of Antidumping Duty
Order, in Part
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 4, 2017, the Department of Commerce (the
``Department'') published its initiation and preliminary results of a
changed circumstances review (``CCR'') and stated its intention to
revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order on certain cold-rolled
steel flat products from Japan (the ``Order''). The Department
preliminarily determined that producers accounting for substantially
all of the domestic production of the like product had no interest in
the continued application of the Order with respect to certain light
gauge cold-rolled flat-rolled steel meeting the requirements of ASTM
A424 Type 1. For the final results, the Department is revoking, in
part, the Order with respect to the cold-rolled steel flat products
described above.
DATES: Effective March 2, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Bolling, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3434.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 4, 2017, the Department published a notice of Initiation
and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent to
Revoke Order in Part.\1\ In the Preliminary Results, the Department
determined that five domestic producers,\2\ which account for
``substantially all'' of the cold-rolled steel production in the United
States,\3\ expressed a lack of interest with respect to certain light
gauge cold-rolled flat-rolled steel meeting the requirements of ASTM
A424 Type 1. As a result, the Department preliminarily determined that
the domestic industry producing the like product has no interest in the
continued application of the Order with respect to the above-referenced
merchandise.
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\1\ See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan:
Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review,
and Intent to Revoke Order in Part, 82 FR 821 (January 4, 2017)
(``Preliminary Results'').
\2\ The five domestic producers are ArcelorMittal USA LLC, AK
Steel Corporation, Nucor Corporation, Steel Dynamics Inc., and
United States Steel Corporation (collectively, ``Petitioners'').
\3\ See Preliminary Results, 82 FR at 823.
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We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary
Results.\4\ ArcelorMittal USA LLC (``ArcelorMittal'') was the only
interested party that submitted comments.\5\ Specifically,
ArcelorMittal asked the Department to modify language describing
Petitioners' scope exclusion request in the narrative portion of the
Preliminary Results to reflect more closely the language contained in
Petitioners' proposed scope.\6\
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\4\ See id. at 824.
\5\ See Letter from ArcelorMittal to Department, ``Certain Cold-
Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan--Comments on the Preliminary
Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent to Revoke Order
in Part,'' dated January 18, 2017 (``ArcelorMittal Comments'').
\6\ The modified scope was attached as Appendix 1 to the
Preliminary Results.
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On February 9, 2017, the Department extended the deadline for
issuance of the final results of this CCR, and requested additional
information from Petitioners regarding the proposed scope language.\7\
On February 16, 2017, Petitioners submitted a letter containing a
modification to their proposed exclusionary language, in which they
proposed removing the words ``for porcelain enameling'' from the
exclusion language.\8\ No interested party commented in response to
Petitioners' proposed modification.
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\7\ See Memo to the file, ``Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order, in
Part--Extension of Final,'' dated February 9, 2017.
\8\ See Letter from Petitioners to Department, ``Certain Cold-
Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan--Changed Circumstances Review
and Partial Revocation Request--Response to the Department's Request
to Remove Certain Language from the Proposed Amended Scope of the
Order,'' dated February 16, 2017 (``Petitioners' Amendment to
Exclusionary Language'').
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Revocation of the
Order, in Part
After an analysis of the comments received, the Department
continues to find that ``substantially all'' of the domestic industry
has no interest in the continued application of the Order with
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respect to the merchandise that is subject to this CCR. Accordingly, we
are notifying the public of our revocation, in part, of the Order as it
relates to imports of certain light gauge cold-rolled flat-rolled steel
meeting the requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1.
Consistent with the discussion above, we intend to modify the scope
of the Order to include the following exclusion: \9\
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\9\ The Department adopts the exclusionary language included in
the proposed amended scope that Petitioners submitted on December
13, 2016, as modified by the Petitioners' February 16, 2017,
submission. See Letter from Petitioners to Department, ``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; see also
Petitioners' Amendment to Exclusionary Language; ArcelorMittal
Comments at 2-3.
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Also excluded from the scope of this order is certain cold-rolled
flat-rolled steel 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:
--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).
The full scope of the Order, incorporating the exclusion described
above, is provided in Appendix 1 of this notice.
Instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'')
Because we determine that there are changed circumstances that
warrant the revocation of the Order, in part, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate without regard to antidumping duties, and to refund any
estimated antidumping duties on, all unliquidated entries of the
merchandise covered by this partial revocation that are not covered by
the final results of an administrative review or automatic liquidation.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written
notification of return or destruction of APO materials, or conversion
to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable
violation.
We are issuing and publishing these results of review in accordance
with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216.
Dated: February 23, 2017.
Carole Showers,
Executive Director, Office of Policy, Policy & Negotiations.
Appendix
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; \10\
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\10\ 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; \11\
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\11\ Tool steels are defined as steels which contain the
following combinations of elements in the quantity by weight
respectively indicated: (i) More than 1.2 percent carbon and more
than 10.5 percent chromium; or (ii) not less than 0.3 percent carbon
and 1.25 percent or more but less than 10.5 percent chromium; or
(iii) not less than 0.85 percent carbon and 1 percent to 1.8
percent, inclusive, manganese; or (iv) 0.9 percent to 1.2 percent,
inclusive, chromium and 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent, inclusive,
molybdenum; or (v) not less than 0.5 percent carbon and not less
than 3.5 percent molybdenum; or (vi) not less than 0.5 percent
carbon and not less than 5.5 percent tungsten.
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Silico-manganese steel; \12\
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\12\ Silico-manganese steel is defined as steels containing by
weight: (i) Not more than 0.7 percent of carbon; (ii) 0.5 percent or
more but not more than 1.9 percent of manganese, and (iii) 0.6
percent or more but not more than 2.3 percent of silicon.
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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.\13\
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\13\ 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 42501, 42503 (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.\14\
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\14\ 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 71741, 71741-71742
(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.''
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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:
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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 Less than or equal to 0.006.
0.03.
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Physical properties:
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Width less than or equal to 150 mm........ Flatness of less than 0.2%
of nominal strip width.
Width of 150 to 330 mm.................... 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 [mu]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 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 U.S. Customs and Border Protection
purposes only. The written description of the scope of the order is
dispositive.
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