Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016, 12441-12443 [2017-04129]
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on February 22, 2017. Furthermore,
section 737(b) of the Act states that
definitive duties are to begin on the date
of publication of the ITC’s final injury
determination.
Therefore, in accordance with section
733(d) of the Act and our practice, we
will instruct CBP to terminate the
suspension of liquidation and to
liquidate, without regard to
antidumping duties, unliquidated
entries of geogrids from the PRC
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption after February 22,
2017, the date the provisional measures
expired, until and through the day
preceding the date of publication of the
ITC’s final injury determination in the
Federal Register. Suspension of
liquidation will resume on the date of
publication of the ITC’s final
determination in the Federal Register.
Critical Circumstances
With regard to the ITC’s negative
critical circumstances determination on
imports of geogrids from the PRC, we
will instruct CBP to lift suspension and
to refund any cash deposits made to
secure the payment of estimated
antidumping duties with respect to
geogrids from the PRC entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after May 24, 2016
(i.e., 90 days prior to the date of
publication of the Preliminary
Determination), but before August 22,
2016 (i.e., the date of publication of the
Preliminary Determination).
However, for the one respondent,
BOSTD, where we found critical
circumstances at the Final
Determination, we will instruct CBP to
lift suspension and to refund any cash
deposits made to secure payment of
estimated antidumping duties with
respect to geogrids entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption by BOSTD on or after
October 13, 2016 (i.e., 90 days prior to
the date of publication of the Final
Determination), but before January 11,
2017 (i.e., the date of publication of the
Final Determination).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the
antidumping duty order with respect to
geogrids from the PRC pursuant to
section 736(a) of the Act. Interested
parties can find a list of antidumping
duty orders currently in effect at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/stats/
iastats1.html.
This order is issued and published in
accordance with section 736(a) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
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Dated: February 24, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Appendix
Stainless Steel Bar From Spain:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2015–
2016
The products covered by the scope are
certain biaxial integral geogrid products.
Biaxial integral geogrid products are a
polymer grid or mesh material (whether or
not finished, slit, cut-to-length, attached to
woven or non-woven fabric or sheet material,
or packaged) in which four-sided openings in
the form of squares, rectangles, rhomboids,
diamonds, or other four-sided figures
predominate. The products covered have
integral strands that have been stretched to
induce molecular orientation into the
material (as evidenced by the strands being
thinner in width toward the middle between
the junctions than at the junctions
themselves) constituting the sides of the
openings and integral junctions where the
strands intersect. The scope includes
products in which four-sided figures
predominate whether or not they also contain
additional strands intersecting the four-sided
figures and whether or not the inside corners
of the four-sided figures are rounded off or
not sharp angles. As used herein, the term
‘‘integral’’ refers to strands and junctions that
are homogenous with each other. The
products covered have a tensile strength of
greater than 5 kilonewtons per meter (‘‘kN/
m’’) according to American Society for
Testing and Materials (‘‘ASTM’’) Standard
Test Method D6637/D6637M in any direction
and average overall flexural stiffness of more
than 100,000 milligram-centimeter according
to the ASTM D7748/D7748M Standard Test
Method for Flexural Rigidity of Geogrids,
Geotextiles and Related Products, or other
equivalent test method standards.
Subject merchandise includes material
matching the above description that has been
finished, packaged, or otherwise further
processed in a third country, including by
trimming, slitting, coating, cutting, punching
holes, stretching, attaching to woven or nonwoven fabric or sheet material, or any other
finishing, packaging, or other further
processing that would not otherwise remove
the merchandise from the scope of the
investigations if performed in the country of
manufacture of the biaxial integral geogrid.
The products subject to the scope are
currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’)
under the following subheading:
3926.90.9995. Subject merchandise may also
enter under subheadings 3920.20.0050 and
3925.90.0000. The HTSUS subheadings set
forth above are provided for convenience and
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written
description of the scope is dispositive.
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International Trade Administration
[A–469–805]
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 Spain. The period
of review (POR) is March 1, 2015,
through February 29, 2016. The review
covers one producer/exporter of the
subject merchandise, Gerdau Aceros
Especiales Europa, S.L. (Gerdau). The
Department preliminarily finds that
subject merchandise has been sold in
the United States at prices below normal
value (NV) during the POR.
DATES: Effective March 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ryan Mullen, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this
investigation is SSB from Spain. For a
full description of the scope of the
order, see Appendix I of this notice.
Methodology
The Department is conducting this
review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). For a full
description of the methodology
underlying our conclusions, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.1 A
list of the topics included in the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included as an appendix to this notice.
The Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is a public document and is made
available to the public via Enforcement
and Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
1 See Memorandum from James Maeder, Senior
Director, Office I, for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Ronald K.
Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, ‘‘Decision
Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review:
Stainless Steel Bar from Spain; 2015–2016’’
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum) dated
concurrently with this notice.
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Electronic Service System (ACCESS).
ACCESS is available to registered users
at https://access.trade.gov, and it is
available to all parties in the Central
Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main
Department of Commerce building. In
addition, a complete version of the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
available at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed
Preliminary Decision Memorandum and
the electronic versions of the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum are
identical in content.
Adverse Facts Available
Because mandatory respondent
Gerdau has failed to provide requested
information, we preliminarily determine
to apply adverse facts available (AFA) to
this respondent, in accordance with
sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.308. For further discussion, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Determination
We preliminary determine that, for
the period of March 1, 2015, through
February 29, 2016, the following
weighted-average dumping margin
exists:
Weightedaverage
dumping
margin
(percent)
Exporter/producer
Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa, S.L .................................
62.85
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Disclosure and Public Comment
Normally, the Department discloses to
interested parties the calculations
performed in connection with a
preliminary determination within five
days of the date of publication of the
notice of preliminary determination in
the Federal Register, in accordance with
19 CFR 351.224(b). However, because
the Department preliminarily applied a
dumping margin based on AFA, as
described in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum, there is nothing further
to disclose. This meets our regulatory
obligation. Interested parties may
submit case briefs no later than 30 days
after the date of publication of this
notice.2 Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues
raised in the case briefs, may be filed
not later than five days after the date for
filing case briefs.3 Parties who submit
case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this
proceeding are encouraged to submit
with each argument: (1) A statement of
19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
3 See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
the issue; (2) a brief summary of the
argument; and (3) a table of authorities.4
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c),
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, within 30 days after the date
of publication of this notice. Requests
should contain the party’s name,
address, and telephone number, the
number of participants, and a list of the
issues to be discussed. If a request for
a hearing is made, the Department
intends to hold the hearing at the U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230, at a time and date to be
determined.
All documents must be filed
electronically using ACCESS. An
electronically-filed request must be
received successfully in its entirety by
ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, the
Department shall determine, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this
review. If Gerdau’s weight-average
dumping margin is not zero or de
minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we
will calculate an importer-specific ad
valorem antidumping duty assessment
rate based on the ratio of the total
amount of dumping calculated for the
importer’s examined sales to the total
entered value of those same sales in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
We will instruct CBP to assess
antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries covered by this review when the
importer-specific assessment rate
calculated in the final results of this
review is not zero or de minimis. If
Gerdau’s weighted-average dumping
margin is zero or de minimis, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate
entries without regard to antidumping
duties. The final results of this review
shall be the basis for the assessment of
antidumping duties on entries of
merchandise covered by this review
where applicable.
In accordance with the Department’s
‘‘automatic assessment’’ practice, for
entries of subject merchandise during
the POR produced by Gerdau for which
it did not know that the merchandise
was destined for the United States, we
will instruct CBP to liquidate those
entries at the all-others rate if there is no
rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.
2 See
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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 upon
publication of the notice of final results
of administrative review 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 Gerdau will be
the rate established in the final results
of this administrative review; (2) for
merchandise exported by producers or
exporters not covered in this
administrative review but covered in a
prior segment of the proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the
company-specific rate published for the
most recently completed segment of this
proceeding; (3) if the exporter is not a
firm covered in this review, a prior
review, or the original investigation, but
the producer is, the cash deposit rate
will be the rate established for the most
recently completed segment of this
proceeding for the producer of the
subject merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other manufacturers
or exporters will continue to be 25.77
percent, the all-others rate established
in the investigation.5 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 POR.
Failure to comply with this requirement
could result in the Secretary’s
presumption that reimbursement of
antidumping duties occurred and
increase the subsequent assessment of
the antidumping duties by the amount
of the antidumping duties reimburses.
The preliminary results of review are
issued and published in accordance
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the
Act.
5 See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from
Spain, 59 FR 66931 (December 28, 1994).
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Dated: February 24, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Appendix I
RIN 0648–XF254
The merchandise subject to the order is
SSB. The term SSB with respect to the order
means articles of stainless steel in straight
lengths that have been either hot-rolled,
forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or
otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a
uniform solid cross section along their whole
length in the shape of circles, segments of
circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares),
triangles, hexagons, octagons or other convex
polygons. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs
that are turned or ground in straight lengths,
whether produced from hot-rolled bar or
from straightened and cut rod or wire, and
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs,
grooves, or other deformations produced
during the rolling process. Except as
specified above, the term does not include
stainless steel semi-finished products, cutlength flat-rolled products (i.e., cut-length
rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm
in thickness have a width measuring at least
10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more
in thickness having a width which exceeds
150 mm and measures at least twice the
thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in
coils, of any uniform solid cross section
along their whole length, which do not
conform to the definition of flat-rolled
products), and angles, shapes and sections.
The SSB subject to the order is currently
classifiable under subheadings 7222.10.00,
7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00,
7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
Although the HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the
scope of the order is dispositive.6
Pacific Fishery Management Council;
Public Meeting
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Appendix II—List of Topics
Discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Use of Facts Available and Adverse
Inferences
6. Conclusion
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6 The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope
changed since the publication of the order. See
Amended Final Determination and Antidumping
Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from Spain, 60 FR
11656 (March 2, 1995).
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National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
AGENCY:
The Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Pacific Council)
will convene a pre-assessment
workshop to review proposed data and
modeling approaches for groundfish
stock assessments scheduled for
assessment this year. The preassessment workshop is open to the
public. The workshop will also be
streamed online via Webinar to facilitate
remote participation.
DATES: The pre-assessment workshop
will be held on Tuesday, March 21,
2017 from 1 p.m. until 5:30 p.m., or
when business for the day has been
completed. The workshop will
reconvene on Wednesday, March 22,
2017 beginning at 8:30 a.m. and end on
Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 5:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The pre-assessment
workshop will be held in the large
conference room at the Pacific Fishery
Management Council office, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland,
OR 97220; telephone: 503–820–2280.
Public listening stations will be
available at the Pacific Council office, as
well as the following locations:
National Marine Fisheries Service,
Southwest Fisheries Science Center,
Room 188, 110 McAllister Way, Santa
Cruz, CA 95060; telephone: 831–420–
3947.
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife, Main Conference Room, 2040
SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR
97365; telephone: 541–867–4741.
To attend the Webinar, visit: https://
www.gotomeeting.com/online/Webinar/
join-Webinar. Enter the Webinar ID,
which is 848–202–715, and your name
and email address (required). After
logging into the Webinar, dial this TOLL
number 1 + (213) 929–4232 (not a tollfree number), then enter the Attendee
phone audio access code: 548–202–793,
then enter your audio phone pin (shown
after joining the Webinar). NOTE: We
have disabled Mic/Speakers on
GoToMeeting as an option and require
all participants to use a telephone or
cell phone to participate. You may send
an email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt, at
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kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov or contact
him, at 503–820–2280, extension 411 for
technical assistance.
Council address: Pacific Fishery
Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland,
Oregon 97220.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Stacey Miller, NMFS Northwest
Fisheries Science Center; telephone:
541–867–0535; or Mr. John DeVore,
Staff Officer, Pacific Council; telephone:
503–820–2280.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda
The purpose of the pre-assessment
workshop is to review proposed data
inputs, modeling approaches, and any
other pertinent information for new
benchmark stock assessments for
lingcod, yelloweye rockfish, yellowtail
rockfish, and blue/deacon rockfishes.
There may be limited discussion of
assessments for Pacific ocean perch and
California scorpionfish, which are
scheduled benchmark assessments this
year; however, these stock assessments
will not be the focus of the workshop.
The goal of the pre-assessment
workshop is to promote dialogue about
and a common understanding between
assessment teams and data providers of
the best data and analytical and
modeling approaches for use in
conducting the benchmark groundfish
assessments scheduled for 2017. No
management actions will be decided by
the workshop participants.
Although nonemergency issues not
contained in the workshop agenda may
be discussed, those issues may not be
the subject of formal action during this
workshop. Action will be restricted to
those issues specifically listed in this
notice and any issues arising after
publication of this notice that require
emergency action under section 305(c)
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act,
provided the public has been notified of
the intent of the workshop participants
to take final action to address the
emergency.
Visitors who are foreign nationals
(defined as a person who is not a citizen
or national of the United States) will
require additional security clearance to
access the NMFS Southwest Fisheries
Science center facility. Foreign national
visitors should contact Ms. Stacey
Miller, at 541–867–0535 at least two
weeks prior to the meeting date to
initiate the security clearance process.
Technical Information and System
Requirements
PC-based attendees: Windows® 7,
Vista, or XP operating system required.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-469-805]
Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: 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 Spain. The period of review (POR) is March 1, 2015,
through February 29, 2016. The review covers one producer/exporter of
the subject merchandise, Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa, S.L.
(Gerdau). The Department preliminarily finds that subject merchandise
has been sold in the United States at prices below normal value (NV)
during the POR.
DATES: Effective March 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Mullen, AD/CVD Operations, Office
V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-5260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this investigation is SSB from Spain. For a
full description of the scope of the order, see Appendix I of this
notice.
Methodology
The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). For a
full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\1\ A list of the topics included in
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as an appendix to this
notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is
made available to the public via Enforcement and Compliance's
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized
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Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered
users at https://access.trade.gov, and it is available to all parties
in the Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of
Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is available at https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the electronic versions
of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
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\1\ See Memorandum from James Maeder, Senior Director, Office I,
for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Ronald K.
Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar from
Spain; 2015-2016'' (Preliminary Decision Memorandum) dated
concurrently with this notice.
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Adverse Facts Available
Because mandatory respondent Gerdau has failed to provide requested
information, we preliminarily determine to apply adverse facts
available (AFA) to this respondent, in accordance with sections 776(a)
and (b) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.308. For further discussion, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Determination
We preliminary determine that, for the period of March 1, 2015,
through February 29, 2016, the following weighted-average dumping
margin exists:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa, S.L....................... 62.85
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Disclosure and Public Comment
Normally, the Department discloses to interested parties the
calculations performed in connection with a preliminary determination
within five days of the date of publication of the notice of
preliminary determination in the Federal Register, in accordance with
19 CFR 351.224(b). However, because the Department preliminarily
applied a dumping margin based on AFA, as described in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum, there is nothing further to disclose. This meets
our regulatory obligation. Interested parties may submit case briefs no
later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice.\2\
Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be
filed not later than five days after the date for filing case
briefs.\3\ 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.\4\
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\2\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
\3\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
\4\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 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,
within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. Requests
should contain the party's name, address, and telephone number, the
number of participants, and a list of the issues to be discussed. If a
request for a hearing is made, the Department intends to hold the
hearing at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time and date to be determined.
All documents must be filed electronically using ACCESS. An
electronically-filed request must be received successfully in its
entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, the Department shall determine,
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. If Gerdau's
weight-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less
than 0.5 percent), we will calculate an importer-specific ad valorem
antidumping duty assessment rate based on the ratio of the total amount
of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total
entered value of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1). We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this review when the importer-specific
assessment rate calculated in the final results of this review is not
zero or de minimis. If Gerdau's weighted-average dumping margin is zero
or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate
entries without regard to antidumping duties. The final results of this
review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on
entries of merchandise covered by this review where applicable.
In accordance with the Department's ``automatic assessment''
practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by
Gerdau for which it did not know that the merchandise was destined for
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those 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 upon
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review 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 Gerdau will be
the rate established in the final results of this administrative
review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers or exporters not
covered in this administrative review but covered in a prior segment of
the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this
proceeding; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a
prior review, or the original investigation, but the producer is, the
cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recently
completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the subject
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers
or exporters will continue to be 25.77 percent, the all-others rate
established in the investigation.\5\ These cash deposit requirements,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\5\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Stainless Steel Bar from Spain, 59 FR 66931 (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 POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and increase the
subsequent assessment of the antidumping duties by the amount of the
antidumping duties reimburses.
The preliminary results of review are issued and published in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.
[[Page 12443]]
Dated: February 24, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with
respect to the order means articles of stainless steel in straight
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-
drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a
uniform solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of
circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares),
triangles, hexagons, octagons or other convex polygons. SSB includes
cold-finished SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths,
whether produced from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut
rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs,
grooves, or other deformations produced during the rolling process.
Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless steel
semi-finished products, cut-length flat-rolled products (i.e., cut-
length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures
at least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in
coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length,
which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and
angles, shapes and sections.
The SSB subject to the order is currently classifiable under
subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00,
7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS).
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the order
is dispositive.\6\
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\6\ The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope changed since the
publication of the order. See Amended Final Determination and
Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from Spain, 60 FR 11656
(March 2, 1995).
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Appendix II--List of Topics
Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Use of Facts Available and Adverse Inferences
6. Conclusion
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