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Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip From
the People’s Republic of China:
Countervailing Duty Order
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final
determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the
International Trade Commission (ITC),
the Department is issuing a
countervailing duty order on stainless
steel sheet and strip from the People’s
Republic of China.
DATES: Effective April 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Spencer Toubia; AD/CVD Operations,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0123.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d)
and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
351.210(c), on February 8, 2017, the
Department published its final
determination in the countervailing
duty investigation of stainless steel
sheet and strip (stainless sheet and
strip) from the People’s Republic of
China (PRC).1 On March 24, 2017, the
ITC notified the Department of its final
determination that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by
reason of subsidized imports of subject
merchandise from the PRC within the
meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the
1 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of
Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip from the People’s
Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination,
and Final Affirmative Critical Circumstances
Determination, in Part, 82 FR 9714 (February 8,
2017).
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Act, and its determination that critical
circumstances do not exist with respect
to imports of subject merchandise from
the PRC.2
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this order is
stainless steel sheet and strip. For a
complete description of the scope of the
order, see Appendix I.
Countervailing Duty Order
In accordance with sections
705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the Act, the
ITC notified the Department of its final
determinations that the industry in the
United States producing stainless sheet
and strip is materially injured by reason
of subsidized imports of stainless sheet
and strip from the PRC and that critical
circumstances do not exist with respect
to imports of subject merchandise from
the PRC that are subject to the
Department’s affirmative critical
circumstances findings. Therefore, in
accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the
Act, we are publishing this
countervailing duty order.
As a result of the ITC’s final
determination, in accordance with
section 706(a) of the Act, the
Department will direct U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) to assess,
upon further instruction by the
Department, countervailing duties on
unliquidated entries of stainless steel
sheet and strip entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or
after July 18, 2016, the date on which
the Department published its
preliminary countervailing duty
determination in the Federal Register,3
2 See Letter to Ronald Lorentzen, Acting Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and
Compliance, from Rhonda K. Schmidtlein,
Chairman of the U.S. International Trade
Commission, regarding stainless steel sheet and
strip from the People’s Republic of China (March
24, 2017). See also Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip
from China, Investigation Nos. 701–TA–557 and
731–TA–1312 (Final), USITC Publication 4676
(March 2017).
3 See Countervailing Duty Investigation of
Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip from the People’s
Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative
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and before November 14, 2016, the date
on which the Department instructed
CBP to discontinue the suspension of
liquidation on subject merchandise from
the PRC, in accordance with section
703(d) of the Act. Section 703(d) of the
Act states that the suspension of
liquidation pursuant to a preliminary
determination may not remain in effect
for more than four months. Therefore,
entries of stainless sheet and strip from
the PRC, made on or after November 14,
2016, and prior to the date of
publication of the ITC’s final
determination in the Federal Register
are not liable for the assessment of
countervailing duties due to the
Department’s discontinuation, effective
November 14, 2016, for stainless sheet
and strip from the PRC, of the
suspension of liquidation.
Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 706 of the
Act, the Department will direct CBP to
reinstitute the suspension of liquidation
of stainless sheet and strip from the
PRC, effective the date of publication of
the ITC’s notice of final determination
in the Federal Register, and to assess,
upon further instruction by the
Department, pursuant to section
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing
duties for each entry of the subject
merchandise in an amount based on the
net countervailable subsidy rates for the
subject merchandise. On or after the
date of publication of the ITC’s final
injury determination in the Federal
Register, CBP must require, at the same
time as importers would normally
deposit estimated duties on this
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the
rates noted below:
Subsidy rate
(percent)
Company
Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co. Ltd ..............................................................................................................................................
Ningbo Baoxin Stainless Steel Co., Ltd., Baosteel Stainless Steel Co Ltd, Baoshan Iron & Steel Co, Ltd., Baosteel Desheng
Stainless Steel Co., Ltd, Baosteel Co., Ltd., Bayi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Ningbo Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Shaoguan Iron & Steel
Co., Ltd., Guangdong Shaoguan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., and Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd ......................................................
Daming International Import Export Co Ltd. and Tianjin Taigang Daming Metal Product Co., Ltd ...................................................
All-Others .............................................................................................................................................................................................
Critical Circumstances
With regard to the ITC’s negative
critical circumstances determination on
imports of stainless sheet and strip from
the PRC, we will instruct CBP to lift
suspension and to refund any cash
deposits made to secure the payment of
estimated countervailing duties with
respect to entries of the subject
merchandise entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or
after April 19, 2016 (i.e., 90 days prior
to the date of the publication of the CVD
Preliminary Determination), but before
July 18, 2016 (i.e., the date of
publication of the CVD Preliminary
Determination).
Notifications to Interested Parties
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This notice constitutes the
countervailing duty order with respect
to stainless sheet and strip from the
PRC, pursuant to section 706(a) of the
Act. Interested parties can find a list of
antidumping and countervailing duty
orders currently in effect at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/stats/
iastats1.html.
This order is issued and published in
accordance with section 706(a) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Determination and Alignment of Final
Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
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Dated: March 28, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
Attachment I
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this order is
stainless steel sheet and strip, whether in
coils or straight lengths. Stainless steel is an
alloy steel containing, by weight, 1.2 percent
or less of carbon and 10.5 percent or more
of chromium, with or without other
elements. The subject sheet and strip is a flatrolled product with a width that is greater
than 9.5 mm and with a thickness of 0.3048
mm and greater but less than 4.75 mm, and
that is annealed or otherwise heat treated,
and pickled or otherwise descaled. The
subject sheet and strip may also be further
processed (e.g., cold-rolled, annealed,
tempered, polished, aluminized, coated,
painted, varnished, trimmed, cut, punched,
or slit, etc.) provided that it maintains the
specific dimensions of sheet and strip set
forth above following such processing. The
products described include products
regardless of shape, and include products of
either rectangular or non-rectangular crosssection 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
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75.60
190.71
190.71
75.60
products with non-rectangular cross-section,
the width of certain products with nonrectangular shape, etc.), the measurement at
its greatest width or thickness applies.
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.
Subject merchandise includes stainless
steel sheet and strip that has been further
processed in a third country, including but
not limited to cold-rolling, annealing,
tempering, polishing, aluminizing, coating,
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 stainless steel sheet and strip.
Excluded from the scope of this order are
the following: (1) Sheet and strip that is not
annealed or otherwise heat treated and not
pickled or otherwise descaled; (2) plate (i.e.,
flat-rolled stainless steel products of a
thickness of 4.75 mm or more); and (3) flat
wire (i.e., cold-rolled sections, with a mill
edge, rectangular in shape, of a width of not
more than 9.5 mm).
The products under order are currently
classifiable under Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
subheadings 7219.13.0031, 7219.13.0051,
7219.13.0071, 7219.13.0081, 7219.14.0030,
7219.14.0065, 7219.14.0090, 7219.23.0030,
7219.23.0060, 7219.24.0030, 7219.24.0060,
7219.32.0005, 7219.32.0020, 7219.32.0025,
7219.32.0035, 7219.32.0036, 7219.32.0038,
7219.32.0042, 7219.32.0044, 7219.32.0045,
7219.32.0060, 7219.33.0005, 7219.33.0020,
7219.33.0025, 7219.33.0035, 7219.33.0036,
7219.33.0038, 7219.33.0042, 7219.33.0044,
7219.33.0045, 7219.33.0070, 7219.33.0080,
Determination, 81 FR 46643 (July 18, 2016)
(Preliminary Determination).
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7219.34.0005, 7219.34.0020, 7219.34.0025,
7219.34.0030, 7219.34.0035, 7219.34.0050,
7219.35.0005, 7219.35.0015, 7219.35.0030,
7219.35.0035, 7219.35.0050, 7219.90.0010,
7219.90.0020, 7219.90.0025, 7219.90.0060,
7219.90.0080, 7220.12.1000, 7220.12.5000,
7220.20.1010, 7220.20.1015, 7220.20.1060,
7220.20.1080, 7220.20.6005, 7220.20.6010,
7220.20.6015, 7220.20.6060, 7220.20.6080,
7220.20.7005, 7220.20.7010, 7220.20.7015,
7220.20.7060, 7220.20.7080, 7220.90.0010,
7220.90.0015, 7220.90.0060, and
7220.90.0080. Although the HTSUS
subheadings are provided for convenience
and customs purposes, the written
description of the scope of this order is
dispositive.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-570-043]
Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip From the People's Republic of
China: Countervailing Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (ITC),
the Department is issuing a countervailing duty order on stainless
steel sheet and strip from the People's Republic of China.
DATES: Effective April 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Spencer Toubia; AD/CVD Operations,
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0123.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on February 8, 2017,
the Department published its final determination in the countervailing
duty investigation of stainless steel sheet and strip (stainless sheet
and strip) from the People's Republic of China (PRC).\1\ On March 24,
2017, the ITC notified the Department of its final determination that
an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of
subsidized imports of subject merchandise from the PRC within the
meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, and its determination
that critical circumstances do not exist with respect to imports of
subject merchandise from the PRC.\2\
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\1\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Stainless Steel
Sheet and Strip from the People's Republic of China: Final
Affirmative Determination, and Final Affirmative Critical
Circumstances Determination, in Part, 82 FR 9714 (February 8, 2017).
\2\ See Letter to Ronald Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, from Rhonda K.
Schmidtlein, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission,
regarding stainless steel sheet and strip from the People's Republic
of China (March 24, 2017). See also Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip
from China, Investigation Nos. 701-TA-557 and 731-TA-1312 (Final),
USITC Publication 4676 (March 2017).
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Scope of the Order
The product covered by this order is stainless steel sheet and
strip. For a complete description of the scope of the order, see
Appendix I.
Countervailing Duty Order
In accordance with sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the Act,
the ITC notified the Department of its final determinations that the
industry in the United States producing stainless sheet and strip is
materially injured by reason of subsidized imports of stainless sheet
and strip from the PRC and that critical circumstances do not exist
with respect to imports of subject merchandise from the PRC that are
subject to the Department's affirmative critical circumstances
findings. Therefore, in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the Act,
we are publishing this countervailing duty order.
As a result of the ITC's final determination, in accordance with
section 706(a) of the Act, the Department will direct U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further instruction by the
Department, countervailing duties on unliquidated entries of stainless
steel sheet and strip entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after July 18, 2016, the date on which the Department
published its preliminary countervailing duty determination in the
Federal Register,\3\
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and before November 14, 2016, the date on which the Department
instructed CBP to discontinue the suspension of liquidation on subject
merchandise from the PRC, in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act.
Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to a preliminary determination may not remain in effect for
more than four months. Therefore, entries of stainless sheet and strip
from the PRC, made on or after November 14, 2016, and prior to the date
of publication of the ITC's final determination in the Federal Register
are not liable for the assessment of countervailing duties due to the
Department's discontinuation, effective November 14, 2016, for
stainless sheet and strip from the PRC, of the suspension of
liquidation.
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\3\ See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Stainless Steel
Sheet and Strip from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary
Affirmative Determination and Alignment of Final Determination with
Final Antidumping Duty Determination, 81 FR 46643 (July 18, 2016)
(Preliminary Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, the Department will
direct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of stainless
sheet and strip from the PRC, effective the date of publication of the
ITC's notice of final determination in the Federal Register, and to
assess, upon further instruction by the Department, pursuant to section
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties for each entry of the
subject merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable
subsidy rates for the subject merchandise. On or after the date of
publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal
Register, CBP must require, at the same time as importers would
normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, a cash deposit
equal to the rates noted below:
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Subsidy rate
Company (percent)
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Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co. Ltd.................. 75.60
Ningbo Baoxin Stainless Steel Co., Ltd., Baosteel 190.71
Stainless Steel Co Ltd, Baoshan Iron & Steel Co, Ltd.,
Baosteel Desheng Stainless Steel Co., Ltd, Baosteel
Co., Ltd., Bayi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Ningbo Iron &
Steel Co., Ltd., Shaoguan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.,
Guangdong Shaoguan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., and
Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd........................
Daming International Import Export Co Ltd. and Tianjin 190.71
Taigang Daming Metal Product Co., Ltd..................
All-Others.............................................. 75.60
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Critical Circumstances
With regard to the ITC's negative critical circumstances
determination on imports of stainless sheet and strip from the PRC, we
will instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits
made to secure the payment of estimated countervailing duties with
respect to entries of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after April 19, 2016 (i.e., 90
days prior to the date of the publication of the CVD Preliminary
Determination), but before July 18, 2016 (i.e., the date of publication
of the CVD Preliminary Determination).
Notifications to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the countervailing duty order with respect
to stainless sheet and strip from the PRC, pursuant to section 706(a)
of the Act. Interested parties can find a list of antidumping and
countervailing duty orders currently in effect at https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
This order is issued and published in accordance with section
706(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: March 28, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Attachment I
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this order is stainless steel sheet
and strip, whether in coils or straight lengths. Stainless steel is
an alloy steel containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon
and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with or without other
elements. The subject sheet and strip is a flat-rolled product with
a width that is greater than 9.5 mm and with a thickness of 0.3048
mm and greater but less than 4.75 mm, and that is annealed or
otherwise heat treated, and pickled or otherwise descaled. The
subject sheet and strip may also be further processed (e.g., cold-
rolled, annealed, tempered, polished, aluminized, coated, painted,
varnished, trimmed, cut, punched, or slit, etc.) provided that it
maintains the specific dimensions of sheet and strip set forth above
following such processing. The products described include products
regardless of 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.
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.
Subject merchandise includes stainless steel sheet and strip
that has been further processed in a third country, including but
not limited to cold-rolling, annealing, tempering, polishing,
aluminizing, coating, 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 stainless steel sheet
and strip.
Excluded from the scope of this order are the following: (1)
Sheet and strip that is not annealed or otherwise heat treated and
not pickled or otherwise descaled; (2) plate (i.e., flat-rolled
stainless steel products of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more); and (3)
flat wire (i.e., cold-rolled sections, with a mill edge, rectangular
in shape, of a width of not more than 9.5 mm).
The products under order are currently classifiable under
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings
7219.13.0031, 7219.13.0051, 7219.13.0071, 7219.13.0081,
7219.14.0030, 7219.14.0065, 7219.14.0090, 7219.23.0030,
7219.23.0060, 7219.24.0030, 7219.24.0060, 7219.32.0005,
7219.32.0020, 7219.32.0025, 7219.32.0035, 7219.32.0036,
7219.32.0038, 7219.32.0042, 7219.32.0044, 7219.32.0045,
7219.32.0060, 7219.33.0005, 7219.33.0020, 7219.33.0025,
7219.33.0035, 7219.33.0036, 7219.33.0038, 7219.33.0042,
7219.33.0044, 7219.33.0045, 7219.33.0070, 7219.33.0080,
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7219.34.0005, 7219.34.0020, 7219.34.0025, 7219.34.0030,
7219.34.0035, 7219.34.0050, 7219.35.0005, 7219.35.0015,
7219.35.0030, 7219.35.0035, 7219.35.0050, 7219.90.0010,
7219.90.0020, 7219.90.0025, 7219.90.0060, 7219.90.0080,
7220.12.1000, 7220.12.5000, 7220.20.1010, 7220.20.1015,
7220.20.1060, 7220.20.1080, 7220.20.6005, 7220.20.6010,
7220.20.6015, 7220.20.6060, 7220.20.6080, 7220.20.7005,
7220.20.7010, 7220.20.7015, 7220.20.7060, 7220.20.7080,
7220.90.0010, 7220.90.0015, 7220.90.0060, and 7220.90.0080. Although
the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the scope of this order is
dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2017-06489 Filed 3-31-17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
