Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 48592-48594 [2018-20845]
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This determination is issued and
published in accordance with sections
735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.210(c).
Dated: September 19, 2018.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
Appendix I
Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this investigation
is polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin,
including but not limited to granular,
dispersion, or coagulated dispersion (also
known as fine powder). PTFE resin is
covered by the scope of this investigation
whether filled or unfilled, whether or not
modified, and whether or not containing copolymer additives, pigments, or other
materials. Also included is PTFE resin wet
raw polymer. The chemical formula for PTFE
resin is C2F4, and the Chemical Abstracts
Service (CAS) Registry number is 9002–84–
0.
PTFE resin further processed into
micropowder, having particle size typically
ranging from 1 to 25 microns, and a meltflow rate no less than 0.1 gram/10 minutes,
is excluded from the scope of this
investigation.
PTFE resin is classified in the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
under subheadings 3904.61.0010 and
3904.61.0090. Subject merchandise may also
be classified under HTSUS subheading
3904.69.5000. Although the HTSUS
subheadings and CAS Number are provided
for convenience and Customs purposes, the
written description of the scope is
dispositive.
Appendix II
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope Comments
IV. Surrogate Country
V. Separate Rates
VI. China-Wide Rate
VII. Changes Since the Preliminary
Determination
VIII. Discussion of the Issues
a. Daikin Fluorochemicals (China) Co., Ltd.
1. Unreported U.S. Sales
2. Ocean Freight Expenses
3. Factor of Production of a Certain Input
4. Surrogate Value for R–22
5. Surrogate Financial Ratios
b. Separate Rate Eligibility
IX. Recommendation
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–351–845]
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From Brazil: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2016–2017
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) determines that certain hotrolled carbon steel flat products from
Brazil are being, or are likely to be, sold
at less than normal value during the
period of review (POR), March 22, 2016,
through September 30, 2017.
DATES: Applicable September 26, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jessica Pomper or Peter Zukowski, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–9122 or (202) 482–0189,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
The review covers six producers and/
or exporters of the subject merchandise.
Commerce selected one mandatory
respondent, Companhia Siderurgica
Nacional (CSN), for individual
examination. The producers/exporters
that were not selected for individual
examination are listed in the ‘‘Final
Results of the Review’’ section of this
notice.
On July 13, 2018, Commerce
published the Preliminary Results.1
Although we invited parties to comment
on the preliminary results of the review,
no interested party submitted
comments. Accordingly, we are
adopting unchanged the Preliminary
Results for these final results and no
decision memorandum accompanies
this Federal Register notice. Commerce
conducted this administrative review in
1 See
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Brazil: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2016–2017, 83 FR
32632 (July 13, 2018) (Preliminary Results) and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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accordance with section 751 of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order
are certain hot-rolled steel flat products
from Brazil. For a complete description
of the scope of this order, please refer
to the Appendix to this notice.
Methodology
In the Preliminary Results, Commerce
relied upon facts otherwise available
with adverse inferences (AFA) to
determine an antidumping margin for
CSN because this mandatory respondent
did not respond to Commerce’s
antidumping duty questionnaire.
Because no parties commented on the
Preliminary Results, we are adopting in
these final results of review the
decisions outlined in the Preliminary
Results. In accordance with the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit’s decision in Albemarle Corp. v.
United States,2 we are applying to the
non-selected respondents the adjusted
dumping margin we are applying to
CSN in this administrative review.3 This
is the only margin determined in this
review for an individual respondent,
and thus, it is applicable to the nonselected respondents under section
735(c)(5)(B) of the Act.
Adverse Facts Available
Pursuant to section 776(a) and (b) of
the Act, Commerce relied upon AFA to
determine an antidumping margin for
CSN because this respondent did not
respond to Commerce’s antidumping
duty questionnaire. For a complete
explanation of the analysis underlying
the application of AFA, see Preliminary
Results.
Final Results of the Review
As a result of this review, we are
assigning a dumping margin to the
respondents for the period March 22,
2016, through September 30, 2017, as
follows:
2 See Albemarle Corp. v. United States, 821 F.3d
1345 (Fed. Cir. 2016).
3 See, e.g., Diamond Sawblades and Parts Thereof
from the People’s Republic of China: Final Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015–
2016, 83 FR 17527 (April 20, 2018).
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Dumping
margin
Exporter/producer
Aperam South America ...........................................................................................................................................
ArcelorMittal Brasil ...................................................................................................................................................
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional ............................................................................................................................
Companhia Siderurgica Suape ................................................................................................................................
Marcegaglia do Brasil ..............................................................................................................................................
Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA ...............................................................................................................
Assessment Rates
Commerce shall determine, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries. Pursuant to section
776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce has
relied upon facts otherwise available
with adverse inferences (AFA) for CSN,
and determined a rate adjusted for
export subsidies of 30.21. For the
companies that were not selected for
individual examination, we used as the
assessment rate the cash deposit rate
assigned to CSN. Commerce intends to
issue assessment instructions to CBP 15
days after the date of publication of
these final results of review.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the
publication date of the final results of
this administrative review, as provided
by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1)
The cash deposit rate for the reviewed
companies will be the rates shown
above; (2) for previously investigated
companies not listed above, 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, or in the
original less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigation, but the manufacturer is,
the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established for the most recent segment
for the manufacturer of the
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit
rate for all other manufacturers or
exporters will continue to be 29.07
percent, the all-others rate established
in the LTFV investigation.4 These
deposit requirements, when imposed,
shall remain in effect until further
notice.
4 See
Antidumping Duty Order.
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as the only
reminder to importers of their
responsibility, under 19 CFR
351.402(f)(2), to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of
antidumping and/or countervailing
duties prior to liquidation of the
relevant entries during this review
period. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in the
Secretary’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping and/or
countervailing duties occurred and the
subsequent assessment of double
antidumping duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative
Protective Order
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/
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 this
notice of final results of administrative
review in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and
sections 19 CFR 351.213(h) and
351.221(b)(5).
Dated: September 19, 2018.
James Maeder,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations, performing the duties of Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are
certain hot-rolled, flat-rolled steel products,
with or without patterns in relief, and
whether or not annealed, painted, varnished,
or coated with plastics or other non-metallic
substances. The products covered do not
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subsidies)
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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 thickness, and
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 of 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 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 unless the
resulting measurement makes the
product covered by the existing
antidumping 5 or countervailing duty 6
orders on Certain Cut-To-Length CarbonQuality Steel Plate Products from the
Republic of Korea (A–580–836; C–580–
837), 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
5 Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping
Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality
Steel Plate Products from France, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585
(February 10, 2000).
6 Notice of Amended Final Determinations:
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate
from India and the Republic of Korea; and Notice
of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-ToLength Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from France,
India, Indonesia, Italy, and the Republic of Korea,
65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000).
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(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, or
• 0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
• 0.10 percent of niobium, 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,
the substrate for 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. The substrate for motor
lamination steels contains 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 hot-rolled
steel that has been further processed in a
third country, including but not limited to
pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing,
tempering, temper rolling, skin passing,
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 hot-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:
• Universal mill plates (i.e., hot-rolled,
flat-rolled products not in coils that have
been rolled on four faces or in a closed box
pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not
exceeding 1250 mm, of a thickness not less
than 4.0 mm, and without patterns in relief);
• Products that have been cold-rolled
(cold-reduced) after hot-rolling; 7
7 For purposes of this scope exclusion, rolling
operations such as a skin pass, levelling, temper
rolling or other minor rolling operations after the
hot-rolling process for purposes of surface finish,
flatness, shape control, or gauge control do not
constitute cold-rolling sufficient to meet this
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• Ball bearing steels; 8
• Tool steels; 9 and
• Silico-manganese steels.10
The products subject to this order are
currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under
item numbers: 7208.10.1500, 7208.10.3000,
7208.10.6000, 7208.25.3000, 7208.25.6000,
7208.26.0030, 7208.26.0060, 7208.27.0030,
7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030, 7208.36.0060,
7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060, 7208.38.0015,
7208.38.0030, 7208.38.0090, 7208.39.0015,
7208.39.0030, 7208.39.0090, 7208.40.6030,
7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000, 7208.54.0000,
7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7211.14.0030,
7211.14.0090, 7211.19.1500, 7211.19.2000,
7211.19.3000, 7211.19.4500, 7211.19.6000,
7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560, 7211.19.7590,
7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000, 7225.30.3050,
7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000, 7225.99.0090,
7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9030, 7226.11.9060,
7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000, 7226.91.5000,
7226.91.7000, and 7226.91.8000. The
products subject to the order may also enter
under the following HTSUS numbers:
7210.90.9000, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000,
7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 7214.91.0015,
7214.91.0060, 7214.91.0090, 7214.99.0060,
7214.99.0075, 7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000,
7226.99.0180, and 7228.60.6000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are
provided for convenience and U.S. Customs
purposes only. The written description of the
scope of the order is dispositive.
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8 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.
9 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.
10 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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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–533–879]
Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin From
India: Final Affirmative Determination
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) determines that imports of
polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin
from India is being, or is likely to be,
sold in the United States at less than fair
value (LTFV). The final dumping
margins of sales at LTFV are listed in
the ‘‘Final Determination’’ section of
this notice.
DATES: Applicable September 26, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nicholas Czajkowski, AD/CVD
Operations, Office I, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–1395.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
Commerce published the Preliminary
Determination in the LTFV investigation
of PTFE resin from India on May 7,
2018.1 For a complete description of the
events that followed the Preliminary
Determination, see the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.2
Period of Investigation
The period of investigation is July 1,
2016, through June 30, 2017.
Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this
investigation is PTFE resin from India.
For a full description of the scope of this
investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of the
Investigation’’ in Appendix I of this
notice.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and
rebuttal briefs that were submitted by
1 See Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from India:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final
Determination, and Extension of Provisional
Measures, 83 FR 20035 (May 7, 2018) and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum) (collectively,
Preliminary Determination).
2 See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision
Memorandum for the Final Affirmative
Determination in the Less than Fair Value
Investigation of Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from
India,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby
adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision
Memorandum).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-845]
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Brazil: Final Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain
hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Brazil are being, or are
likely to be, sold at less than normal value during the period of
review (POR), March 22, 2016, through September 30, 2017.
DATES: Applicable September 26, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jessica Pomper or Peter Zukowski, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-9122 or (202)
482-0189, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The review covers six producers and/or exporters of the subject
merchandise. Commerce selected one mandatory respondent, Companhia
Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), for individual examination. The producers/
exporters that were not selected for individual examination are listed
in the ``Final Results of the Review'' section of this notice.
On July 13, 2018, Commerce published the Preliminary Results.\1\
Although we invited parties to comment on the preliminary results of
the review, no interested party submitted comments. Accordingly, we are
adopting unchanged the Preliminary Results for these final results and
no decision memorandum accompanies this Federal Register notice.
Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with
section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil:
Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;
2016-2017, 83 FR 32632 (July 13, 2018) (Preliminary Results) and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are certain hot-rolled steel
flat products from Brazil. For a complete description of the scope of
this order, please refer to the Appendix to this notice.
Methodology
In the Preliminary Results, Commerce relied upon facts otherwise
available with adverse inferences (AFA) to determine an antidumping
margin for CSN because this mandatory respondent did not respond to
Commerce's antidumping duty questionnaire. Because no parties commented
on the Preliminary Results, we are adopting in these final results of
review the decisions outlined in the Preliminary Results. In accordance
with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in
Albemarle Corp. v. United States,\2\ we are applying to the non-
selected respondents the adjusted dumping margin we are applying to CSN
in this administrative review.\3\ This is the only margin determined in
this review for an individual respondent, and thus, it is applicable to
the non-selected respondents under section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act.
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\2\ See Albemarle Corp. v. United States, 821 F.3d 1345 (Fed.
Cir. 2016).
\3\ See, e.g., Diamond Sawblades and Parts Thereof from the
People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2015-2016, 83 FR 17527 (April 20, 2018).
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Adverse Facts Available
Pursuant to section 776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce relied upon
AFA to determine an antidumping margin for CSN because this respondent
did not respond to Commerce's antidumping duty questionnaire. For a
complete explanation of the analysis underlying the application of AFA,
see Preliminary Results.
Final Results of the Review
As a result of this review, we are assigning a dumping margin to
the respondents for the period March 22, 2016, through September 30,
2017, as follows:
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Cash deposit
rate (adjusted
Exporter/producer Dumping margin for export
subsidies)
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Aperam South America.................... 34.28 30.21
ArcelorMittal Brasil.................... 34.28 30.21
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional.......... 34.28 30.21
Companhia Siderurgica Suape............. 34.28 30.21
Marcegaglia do Brasil................... 34.28 30.21
Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA.. 34.28 30.21
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Assessment Rates
Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries.
Pursuant to section 776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce has relied upon
facts otherwise available with adverse inferences (AFA) for CSN, and
determined a rate adjusted for export subsidies of 30.21. For the
companies that were not selected for individual examination, we used as
the assessment rate the cash deposit rate assigned to CSN. Commerce
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date
of publication of these final results of review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for the reviewed
companies will be the rates shown above; (2) for previously
investigated companies not listed above, 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, or in the original less-than-fair-
value (LTFV) investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit
rate will be the rate established for the most recent segment for the
manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all
other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 29.07 percent, the
all-others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\4\ These deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as the only reminder to importers of their
responsibility, under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2), to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period.
Failure to comply with this requirement could result in the Secretary's
presumption that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing
duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping
duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order
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/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 this notice of final results of
administrative review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)
of the Act and sections 19 CFR 351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: September 19, 2018.
James Maeder,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Operations, performing the duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are certain hot-rolled, flat-
rolled steel products, with or without patterns in relief, and
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
thickness, and 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 of 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 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 unless the resulting measurement makes the product
covered by the existing antidumping \5\ or countervailing duty \6\
orders on Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products
from the Republic of Korea (A-580-836; C-580-837), and
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\5\ Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-Length
Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from France, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585 (February 10,
2000).
\6\ Notice of Amended Final Determinations: Certain Cut-to-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from India and the Republic of
Korea; and Notice of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from France, India, Indonesia,
Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000).
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(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
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(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, or
0.80 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium, 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, the
substrate for 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. The substrate for motor
lamination steels contains 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 hot-rolled steel that has been
further processed in a third country, including but not limited to
pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing, tempering, temper rolling,
skin passing, 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 hot-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:
Universal mill plates (i.e., hot-rolled, flat-rolled
products not in coils that have been rolled on four faces or in a
closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not exceeding 1250
mm, of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm, and without patterns in
relief);
Products that have been cold-rolled (cold-reduced)
after hot-rolling; \7\
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\7\ For purposes of this scope exclusion, rolling operations
such as a skin pass, levelling, temper rolling or other minor
rolling operations after the hot-rolling process for purposes of
surface finish, flatness, shape control, or gauge control do not
constitute cold-rolling sufficient to meet this exclusion.
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Ball bearing steels; \8\
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\8\ 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; \9\ and
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\9\ 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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\10\ 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.
The products subject to this order are currently classified in
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under
item numbers: 7208.10.1500, 7208.10.3000, 7208.10.6000,
7208.25.3000, 7208.25.6000, 7208.26.0030, 7208.26.0060,
7208.27.0030, 7208.27.0060, 7208.36.0030, 7208.36.0060,
7208.37.0030, 7208.37.0060, 7208.38.0015, 7208.38.0030,
7208.38.0090, 7208.39.0015, 7208.39.0030, 7208.39.0090,
7208.40.6030, 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000, 7208.54.0000,
7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0090,
7211.19.1500, 7211.19.2000, 7211.19.3000, 7211.19.4500,
7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7530, 7211.19.7560, 7211.19.7590,
7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000, 7225.30.3050, 7225.30.7000,
7225.40.7000, 7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9030,
7226.11.9060, 7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000, 7226.91.5000,
7226.91.7000, and 7226.91.8000. The products subject to the order
may also enter under the following HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000,
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000,
7214.91.0015, 7214.91.0060, 7214.91.0090, 7214.99.0060,
7214.99.0075, 7214.99.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7226.99.0180, and
7228.60.6000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of
the order is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2018-20845 Filed 9-25-18; 8:45 am]
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