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Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From
India and Italy: Antidumping Duty
Orders
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 (the
ITC), the Department is issuing
antidumping duty orders on finished
carbon steel flanges from India and
Italy.
AGENCY:
DATES:
Applicable August 24, 2017.
Fred
Baker at (202) 482–2924 (India), Edythe
Artman at (202) 482–3931 or Moses
Song at (202) 482–5041 (Italy), AD/CVD
Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230.
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Background
In accordance with sections 735(d)
and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
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351.210(c), on June 29, 2017, the
Department published its affirmative
final determinations in the less-thanfair-value (LTFV) investigations of
finished carbon steel flanges from India
and Italy.1 On August 14, 2017, the ITC
notified the Department of its final
affirmative determination that an
industry in the United States is
materially injured within the meaning
of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by
reason of the LTFV imports of finished
carbon steel flanges from India and
Italy.2 On August 17, 2017, the ITC
published its final determination in the
Federal Register.3
Scope of the Orders
The merchandise covered by these
orders is finished carbon steel flanges
from India and Italy. For a complete
description of the scope of these orders,
see Appendix of this notice.
Antidumping Duty Orders
As stated above, on August 14, 2017,
in accordance with section 735(d) of the
Act, the ITC notified the Department of
its final determinations that an industry
in the United States is materially
injured by reason of imports of finished
carbon steel flanges from India and
Italy.4 Therefore, in accordance with
section 735(c)(2) of the Act, we are
issuing these antidumping duty orders.
Because the ITC determined that
imports of finished carbon steel flanges
from India and Italy are materially
injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated
entries of such merchandise from India
and Italy, entered or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, are subject
to the assessment of antidumping
duties.
As a result of the ITC’s final
affirmative determination, in
accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the
Act, the Department will direct U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by the
Department, antidumping duties equal
to the amount by which the normal
value of the merchandise exceeds the
export price (or constructed export
price) of the merchandise, for all
relevant entries of finished carbon steel
flanges from India and Italy.
Antidumping duties will be assessed on
unliquidated entries of finished carbon
steel flanges from India and Italy
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after February 8,
2017, the date of publication of the
preliminary determinations,5 but will
not include entries occurring after the
expiration of the provisional measures
period and before publication in the
Federal Register of the ITC’s injury
determination, as further described
below.
Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section
735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will instruct
CBP to continue to suspend liquidation
on all relevant entries of finished carbon
steel flanges from India and Italy. These
instructions suspending liquidation will
remain in effect until further notice.
We will also instruct CBP to require
cash deposits for estimated antidumping
duties equal to the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins indicated
below. Accordingly, applicable August
17, 2017, the date of publication in the
Federal Register of the ITC’s final
affirmative injury determinations, CBP
will require, at the same time as
importers would normally deposit
estimated duties on this subject
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the
estimated weighted-average dumping
margins listed below.6 The relevant ‘‘allothers’’ rates apply to all producers or
exporters not specifically listed, as
appropriate.
Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that
the suspension of liquidation pursuant
to an affirmative preliminary
determination may not remain in effect
for more than four months, except
where exporters representing a
significant proportion of exports of the
subject merchandise request the
Department to extend that four-month
period to no more than six months. At
the request of exporters that account for
a significant proportion of finished
carbon steel flanges from India and
Italy, the Department extended the fourmonth period to six months in each
case.7 In the underlying investigations,
the Department published the
preliminary determinations on February
8, 2017. Therefore, the extended period,
beginning on the date of publication of
the preliminary determinations, ended
on August 6, 2017. Furthermore, section
737(b) of the Act states that the
collection of final cash deposits will
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 finished carbon steel flanges
from India and Italy entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption after August 6, 2017, until
and through August 16, 2017, the day
preceding the date of publication of the
ITC’s final injury determination in the
Federal Register.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping
Margins
The estimated weighted-average
dumping margins for each antidumping
order are as follows:
Estimated
weighted-average
dumping margin
(percent)
Exporter/producer
Cash deposit
rate
(adjusted
for subsidy
offsets)
(percent)
India
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Norma (India) Limited 8 ...........................................................................................................................
1 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India:
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, 82 FR 29483 (June 29, 2017) (India Final
Determination); see also Finished Carbon Steel
Flanges from Italy: Final Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value, 82 FR 29481 (June 29, 2017)
(Italy Final Determination).
2 See section 735(d) of the Act (requiring
notification); see also Letter from the ITC regarding
‘‘Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Investigations of Finished Carbon Steel Flanges
from India, and Antidumping Investigation of
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Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from Italy,’’ dated
August 14, 2017 (ITC Letter). See also Finished
Carbon Steel Flanges from India and Italy:
Investigation Nos. 701–TA–563 and 731–TA–1331–
1332 (Final), USITC Publication 4717 (August 2017)
(ITC Report).
3 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India
and Italy; Determinations, 82 FR 39133 (August 17,
2017).
4 See ITC Letter and ITC Report.
5 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India:
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than
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Fair Value and Postponement of Final
Determination, 82 FR 9719 (February 8, 2017) (Italy
Preliminary Determination); Finished Carbon Steel
Flanges from Italy: Preliminary Determination of
Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement
of Final Determination, 82 FR 9711 (February 8,
2017) (India Preliminary Determination).
6 See section 736(a)(3) of the Act.
7 See India Preliminary Determination, 82 FR at
9721 and Italy Preliminary Determination, 82 FR at
9713.
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Estimated
weighted-average
dumping margin
(percent)
Exporter/producer
R. N. Gupta & Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................
All-Others .................................................................................................................................................
12.58
11.95
Cash deposit
rate
(adjusted
for subsidy
offsets)
(percent)
9.27.10
8.91.11
Italy
Metalfar Prodotti Industriali S.p.A ...........................................................................................................
Officine Ambrogio Melesi & C. S.r.l 12 .....................................................................................................
All-Others .................................................................................................................................................
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the
antidumping duty orders with respect to
finished carbon steel flanges from India
and Italy 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.
These orders are published in
accordance with section and 736(a) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: August 21, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations
performing the non-exclusive functions and
duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
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Scope of the Orders
The scope of these orders covers finished
carbon steel flanges. Finished carbon steel
flanges differ from unfinished carbon steel
flanges (also known as carbon steel flange
forgings) in that they have undergone further
processing after forging, including, but not
limited to, beveling, bore threading, center or
step boring, face machining, taper boring,
machining ends or surfaces, drilling bolt
holes, and/or de-burring or shot blasting. Any
one of these post-forging processes suffices to
render the forging into a finished carbon steel
flange for purposes of these orders. However,
mere heat treatment of a carbon steel flange
8 The Department has determined that Norma
(India) Limited and USK Exports Private Limited
and Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co. and Bansidhar
Chiranjilal are a single entity. See Memorandum,
‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Finished
Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Preliminary
Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for Norma
(India) Limited,’’ dated January 26, 2017, at 8–9,
unchanged in India Final Determination.
9 See India Final Determination, 82 FR at 29484.
10 Id.
11 Id.
12 The Department has determined that Officine
Ambrogio Melesi & C. S.r.l and ASFO S.p.A. are a
single entity. See Memorandum, ‘‘Less-Than-FairValue Investigation of Finished Carbon Steel
Flanges from Italy: Affiliation and Collapsing
Memorandum for Officine Ambrogio Melesi & C.
S.r.l.,’’ dated January 26, 2017, at 7, unchanged in
Italy Final Determination.
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forging (without any other further processing
after forging) does not render the forging into
a finished carbon steel flange for purposes of
this order.
While these finished carbon steel flanges
are generally manufactured to specification
ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 series A or
series B, the scope is not limited to flanges
produced under those specifications. All
types of finished carbon steel flanges are
included in the scope regardless of pipe size
(which may or may not be expressed in
inches of nominal pipe size), pressure class
(usually, but not necessarily, expressed in
pounds of pressure, e.g., 150, 300, 400, 600,
900, 1,500, 2,500, etc.), type of face (e.g., flat
face, full face, raised face, etc.), configuration
(e.g., weld neck, slip on, socket weld, lap
joint, threaded, etc.), wall thickness (usually,
but not necessarily, expressed in inches),
normalization, or whether or not heat treated.
These carbon steel flanges either meet or
exceed the requirements of the ASTM A105,
ASTM A694, ASTM A181, ASTM A350 and
ASTM A707 standards (or comparable
foreign specifications). The scope includes
any flanges produced to the above-referenced
ASTM standards as currently stated or as
may be amended. The term ‘‘carbon steel’’
under this scope is steel in which:
(a) Iron predominates, by weight, over each
of the other contained elements:
(b) The carbon content is 2 percent or less,
by weight; and
(c) none of the elements listed below
exceeds the quantity, by weight, as indicated:
(i) 0.87 percent of aluminum;
(ii) 0.0105 percent of boron;
(iii) 10.10 percent of chromium;
(iv) 1.55 percent of columbium;
(v) 3.10 percent of copper;
(vi) 0.38 percent of lead;
(vii) 3.04 percent of manganese;
(viii) 2.05 percent of molybdenum;
(ix) 20.15 percent of nickel;
(x) 1.55 percent of niobium;
(xi) 0.20 percent of nitrogen;
(xii) 0.21 percent of phosphorus;
(xiii) 3.10 percent of silicon;
(xiv) 0.21 percent of sulfur;
(xv) 1.05 percent of titanium;
(xvi) 4.06 percent of tungsten;
(xvii) 0.53 percent of vanadium; or
(xviii) 0.015 percent of zirconium.
Finished carbon steel flanges are currently
classified under subheadings 7307.91.5010
and 7307.91.5050 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). They
may also be entered under HTSUS
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204.53
204.53
79.17
Not Applicable.
Not Applicable.
Not Applicable.
subheadings 7307.91.5030 and 7307.91.5070.
The HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes; the
written description of the scope is
dispositive.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–533–872]
Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From
India: 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 (the
ITC), the Department is issuing a
countervailing duty order on finished
carbon steel flanges from India.
DATES: Applicable August 24, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Davina Friedmann at (202) 482–0698 or
Erin Kearney at (202) 482–0167, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
In accordance with section 705(d) of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on June 29,
2017, the Department published its
affirmative final determination in the
countervailing duty investigation of
finished carbon steel flanges from
India.1 On August 14, 2017, the ITC
notified the Department of its final
affirmative determination, pursuant to
1 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India:
Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination, 82 FR 29479 (June 29, 2017) (Final
Determination).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-871, A-475-835]
Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India and Italy: Antidumping
Duty Orders
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 (the
ITC), the Department is issuing antidumping duty orders on finished
carbon steel flanges from India and Italy.
DATES: Applicable August 24, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Baker at (202) 482-2924 (India),
Edythe Artman at (202) 482-3931 or Moses Song at (202) 482-5041
(Italy), AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
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351.210(c), on June 29, 2017, the Department published its affirmative
final determinations in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations
of finished carbon steel flanges from India and Italy.\1\ On August 14,
2017, the ITC notified the Department of its final affirmative
determination that an industry in the United States is materially
injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by
reason of the LTFV imports of finished carbon steel flanges from India
and Italy.\2\ On August 17, 2017, the ITC published its final
determination in the Federal Register.\3\
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\1\ See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 82 FR 29483 (June
29, 2017) (India Final Determination); see also Finished Carbon
Steel Flanges from Italy: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value, 82 FR 29481 (June 29, 2017) (Italy Final Determination).
\2\ See section 735(d) of the Act (requiring notification); see
also Letter from the ITC regarding ``Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Investigations of Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India, and
Antidumping Investigation of Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from
Italy,'' dated August 14, 2017 (ITC Letter). See also Finished
Carbon Steel Flanges from India and Italy: Investigation Nos. 701-
TA-563 and 731-TA-1331-1332 (Final), USITC Publication 4717 (August
2017) (ITC Report).
\3\ See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India and Italy;
Determinations, 82 FR 39133 (August 17, 2017).
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Scope of the Orders
The merchandise covered by these orders is finished carbon steel
flanges from India and Italy. For a complete description of the scope
of these orders, see Appendix of this notice.
Antidumping Duty Orders
As stated above, on August 14, 2017, in accordance with section
735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified the Department of its final
determinations that an industry in the United States is materially
injured by reason of imports of finished carbon steel flanges from
India and Italy.\4\ Therefore, in accordance with section 735(c)(2) of
the Act, we are issuing these antidumping duty orders. Because the ITC
determined that imports of finished carbon steel flanges from India and
Italy are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of
such merchandise from India and Italy, entered or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment of antidumping
duties.
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\4\ See ITC Letter and ITC Report.
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As a result of the ITC's final affirmative determination, in
accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department will
direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further
instruction by the Department, antidumping duties equal to the amount
by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the export price
(or constructed export price) of the merchandise, for all relevant
entries of finished carbon steel flanges from India and Italy.
Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of finished
carbon steel flanges from India and Italy entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after February 8, 2017, the date of
publication of the preliminary determinations,\5\ but will not include
entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures
period and before publication in the Federal Register of the ITC's
injury determination, as further described below.
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\5\ See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India: Preliminary
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of
Final Determination, 82 FR 9719 (February 8, 2017) (Italy
Preliminary Determination); Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from
Italy: Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
and Postponement of Final Determination, 82 FR 9711 (February 8,
2017) (India Preliminary Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will
instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries
of finished carbon steel flanges from India and Italy. These
instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further
notice.
We will also instruct CBP to require cash deposits for estimated
antidumping duties equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins indicated below. Accordingly, applicable August 17, 2017, the
date of publication in the Federal Register of the ITC's final
affirmative injury determinations, CBP will require, at the same time
as importers would normally deposit estimated duties on this subject
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the estimated weighted-average
dumping margins listed below.\6\ The relevant ``all-others'' rates
apply to all producers or exporters not specifically listed, as
appropriate.
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\6\ See section 736(a)(3) of the Act.
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Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request
the Department to extend that four-month period to no more than six
months. At the request of exporters that account for a significant
proportion of finished carbon steel flanges from India and Italy, the
Department extended the four-month period to six months in each
case.\7\ In the underlying investigations, the Department published the
preliminary determinations on February 8, 2017. Therefore, the extended
period, beginning on the date of publication of the preliminary
determinations, ended on August 6, 2017. Furthermore, section 737(b) of
the Act states that the collection of final cash deposits will begin on
the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination.
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\7\ See India Preliminary Determination, 82 FR at 9721 and Italy
Preliminary Determination, 82 FR at 9713.
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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 finished carbon steel flanges from India and
Italy entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after
August 6, 2017, until and through August 16, 2017, the day preceding
the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the
Federal Register.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
The estimated weighted-average dumping margins for each antidumping
order are as follows:
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Estimated weighted-
Exporter/producer average dumping Cash deposit rate (adjusted for subsidy
margin (percent) offsets) (percent)
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India
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Norma (India) Limited \8\...................... 11.32 8.56.\9\
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R. N. Gupta & Co., Ltd......................... 12.58 9.27.\10\
All-Others..................................... 11.95 8.91.\11\
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Italy
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Metalfar Prodotti Industriali S.p.A............ 204.53 Not Applicable.
Officine Ambrogio Melesi & C. S.r.l \12\....... 204.53 Not Applicable.
All-Others..................................... 79.17 Not Applicable.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to
finished carbon steel flanges from India and Italy 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.
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\8\ The Department has determined that Norma (India) Limited and
USK Exports Private Limited and Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co. and
Bansidhar Chiranjilal are a single entity. See Memorandum, ``Less-
Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from
India: Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for Norma
(India) Limited,'' dated January 26, 2017, at 8-9, unchanged in
India Final Determination.
\9\ See India Final Determination, 82 FR at 29484.
\10\ Id.
\11\ Id.
\12\ The Department has determined that Officine Ambrogio Melesi
& C. S.r.l and ASFO S.p.A. are a single entity. See Memorandum,
``Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Finished Carbon Steel
Flanges from Italy: Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for
Officine Ambrogio Melesi & C. S.r.l.,'' dated January 26, 2017, at
7, unchanged in Italy Final Determination.
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These orders are published in accordance with section and 736(a) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: August 21, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Orders
The scope of these orders covers finished carbon steel flanges.
Finished carbon steel flanges differ from unfinished carbon steel
flanges (also known as carbon steel flange forgings) in that they
have undergone further processing after forging, including, but not
limited to, beveling, bore threading, center or step boring, face
machining, taper boring, machining ends or surfaces, drilling bolt
holes, and/or de-burring or shot blasting. Any one of these post-
forging processes suffices to render the forging into a finished
carbon steel flange for purposes of these orders. However, mere heat
treatment of a carbon steel flange forging (without any other
further processing after forging) does not render the forging into a
finished carbon steel flange for purposes of this order.
While these finished carbon steel flanges are generally
manufactured to specification ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 series A or
series B, the scope is not limited to flanges produced under those
specifications. All types of finished carbon steel flanges are
included in the scope regardless of pipe size (which may or may not
be expressed in inches of nominal pipe size), pressure class
(usually, but not necessarily, expressed in pounds of pressure,
e.g., 150, 300, 400, 600, 900, 1,500, 2,500, etc.), type of face
(e.g., flat face, full face, raised face, etc.), configuration
(e.g., weld neck, slip on, socket weld, lap joint, threaded, etc.),
wall thickness (usually, but not necessarily, expressed in inches),
normalization, or whether or not heat treated. These carbon steel
flanges either meet or exceed the requirements of the ASTM A105,
ASTM A694, ASTM A181, ASTM A350 and ASTM A707 standards (or
comparable foreign specifications). The scope includes any flanges
produced to the above-referenced ASTM standards as currently stated
or as may be amended. The term ``carbon steel'' under this scope is
steel in which:
(a) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of the other
contained elements:
(b) The carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and
(c) none of the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by
weight, as indicated:
(i) 0.87 percent of aluminum;
(ii) 0.0105 percent of boron;
(iii) 10.10 percent of chromium;
(iv) 1.55 percent of columbium;
(v) 3.10 percent of copper;
(vi) 0.38 percent of lead;
(vii) 3.04 percent of manganese;
(viii) 2.05 percent of molybdenum;
(ix) 20.15 percent of nickel;
(x) 1.55 percent of niobium;
(xi) 0.20 percent of nitrogen;
(xii) 0.21 percent of phosphorus;
(xiii) 3.10 percent of silicon;
(xiv) 0.21 percent of sulfur;
(xv) 1.05 percent of titanium;
(xvi) 4.06 percent of tungsten;
(xvii) 0.53 percent of vanadium; or
(xviii) 0.015 percent of zirconium.
Finished carbon steel flanges are currently classified under
subheadings 7307.91.5010 and 7307.91.5050 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). They may also be entered
under HTSUS subheadings 7307.91.5030 and 7307.91.5070. The HTSUS
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes; the
written description of the scope is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2017-18056 Filed 8-23-17; 8:45 am]
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