Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti Under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), as Amended by the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership Encouragement Act (HOPE), 65349-65350 [2018-27494]
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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, filed
electronically via ACCESS. An
electronically filed document must be
received successfully in its entirety by
Commerce’s electronic records system,
ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice.5 Requests
should contain: (1) The party’s name,
address and telephone number; (2) the
number of participants; and (3) a list of
issues to be discussed. Issues raised in
the hearing will be limited to those
raised in the respective case briefs.
Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review,
including the results of its analysis of
the issues raised in any written briefs,
not later than 120 days after the date of
publication of this notice, pursuant to
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Assessment Rates
If a respondent’s weighted-average
dumping margin is above de minimis in
the final results of this review, we will
calculate an importer-specific
assessment rate based on the ratio of the
total amount of dumping calculated for
each importer’s examined sales and the
total entered value of the sales in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).6
If a respondent’s weighted-average
dumping margin or an importer-specific
assessment rate is zero or de minimis in
the final results of review, we will
instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to liquidate the
appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties in accordance with
the Final Modification for Reviews.7 The
final results of this administrative
review shall be the basis for the
assessment of antidumping duties on
entries of merchandise under review
and for future deposits of estimated
duties, where applicable.
For entries of subject merchandise
during the period of review produced by
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. or Hyundai
Steel Company for which they did not
know their merchandise was destined
4 See
19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
19 CFR 351.310(c).
6 In these preliminary results, Commerce applied
the assessment rate calculation method adopted in
Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the
Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Duty
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101
(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification for
Reviews).
7 See Final Modification for Reviews, 77 FR at
8103. See also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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for the United States, we will instruct
CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at
the all-others rate if there is no rate for
the intermediate company(ies) involved
in the transaction.
We intend to issue liquidation
instructions to CBP 15 days after
publication of the final results of this
review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements for estimated antidumping
duties will be effective upon publication
of the notice of final results of this
review for all shipments of CTL plate
from Korea entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after
the date of publication as provided by
section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash
deposit rate for companies subject to
this review will be equal to the
weighted-average dumping margins
established in the final results of the
review; (2) for merchandise exported by
companies not covered in this review
but covered in a prior segment of this
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will
continue to be the company-specific rate
published for the most recent period; (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 for the producer of
the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit
rate for all other producers or exporters
will continue to be 0.98 percent,8 the
all-others rate established in the lessthan-fair-value investigation, adjusted
for the export-subsidy rate in the
companion countervailing duty
investigation.
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 period
of review. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in Commerce’s
presumption that reimbursement of
antidumping duties occurred and the
subsequent assessment of double
antidumping duties.
8 See, e.g., Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality
Steel Plate Products From the Republic of Korea:
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2016–2017, 83 FR 32629, 32630 (July 13,
2018).
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Notification to Interested Parties
Commerce is issuing and publishing
these results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act
and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: December 14, 2018.
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
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
A. Comparisons to Normal Value
1. Determination of Comparison Method
2. Results of the Differential Pricing
Analysis
B. Product Comparisons
C. Date of Sale
D. Level of Trade/CEP Offset
E. Affiliated Service Providers
F. Export Price and Constructed Export
Price
1. Dongkuk
2. Hyundai Steel
G. Normal Value
1. Overrun Sales
2. Selection of Comparison Market
3. Affiliated Parties
4. Affiliated Party Transactions and Arm’sLength Test
5. Cost of Production
6. Calculation of Normal Value Based on
Comparison Market Prices
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of
Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti
Under the Caribbean Basin Economic
Recovery Act (CBERA), as Amended
by the Haitian Hemispheric
Opportunity Through Partnership
Encouragement Act (HOPE)
International Trade
Administration, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of Annual
Quantitative Limit on Imports of Certain
Apparel from Haiti.
AGENCY:
CBERA, as amended,
provides duty-free treatment for certain
apparel articles imported directly from
Haiti. One of the preferences is known
as the ‘‘value-added’’ provision, which
requires that apparel meet a minimum
SUMMARY:
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threshold percentage of value added in
Haiti, the United States, and/or certain
beneficiary countries. The provision is
subject to a quantitative limitation,
which is calculated as a percentage of
total apparel imports into the United
States for each 12-month annual period.
For the annual period from December
20, 2018 through December 19, 2019,
the quantity of imports eligible for
preferential treatment under the valueadded provision is 372,889,066 square
meters equivalent.
DATES: Applicable Date: December 20,
2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laurie Mease, International Trade
Specialist, Office of Textiles and
Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,
(202) 482–2043.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Section 213A of the
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act
(19 U.S.C. 2703a) (‘‘CBERA’’), as
amended; and as implemented by
Presidential Proc. No. 8114, 72 FR
13655 (March 22, 2007), and No. 8596,
75 FR 68153 (November 4, 2010).
Background: Section 213A(b)(1)(B) of
CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C.
2703a(b)(1)(B)), outlines the
requirements for certain apparel articles
imported directly from Haiti to qualify
for duty-free treatment under a ‘‘valueadded’’ provision. In order to qualify for
duty-free treatment, apparel articles
must be wholly assembled, or knit-toshape, in Haiti from any combination of
fabrics, fabric components, components
knit-to-shape, and yarns, as long as the
sum of the cost or value of materials
produced in Haiti or one or more
beneficiary countries, as described in
CBERA, as amended, or any
combination thereof, plus the direct
costs of processing operations
performed in Haiti or one or more
beneficiary countries, as described in
CBERA, as amended, or any
combination thereof, is not less than an
applicable percentage of the declared
customs value of such apparel articles.
Pursuant to CBERA, as amended, the
applicable percentage for the period
December 20, 2018 through December
19, 2019, is 60 percent.
For every twelve-month period
following the effective date of CBERA,
as amended, duty-free treatment under
the value-added provision is subject to
a quantitative limitation. CBERA, as
amended, provides that the quantitative
limitation will be recalculated for each
subsequent 12-month period. Section
213A (b)(1)(C) of CBERA, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2703a(b)(1)(C)), requires that,
for the twelve-month period beginning
on December 20, 2018, the quantitative
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limitation for qualifying apparel
imported from Haiti under the valueadded provision will be an amount
equivalent to 1.25 percent of the
aggregate square meter equivalent of all
apparel articles imported into the
United States in the most recent 12month period for which data are
available. The aggregate square meters
equivalent of all apparel articles
imported into the United States is
derived from the set of Harmonized
System lines listed in the Annex to the
World Trade Organization Agreement
on Textiles and Clothing (‘‘ATC’’), and
the conversion factors for units of
measure into square meter equivalents
used by the United States in
implementing the ATC. For purposes of
this notice, the most recent 12-month
period for which data are available as of
December 20, 2018 is the 12-month
period ending on October 31, 2018.
Therefore, for the one-year period
beginning on December 20, 2018 and
extending through December 19, 2019,
the quantity of imports eligible for
preferential treatment under the valueadded provision is 372,889,066 square
meters equivalent. Apparel articles
entered in excess of these quantities will
be subject to otherwise applicable
tariffs.
Terry K. Labat,
Senior Advisor, performing the Non-Exclusive
Duties of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Textiles, Consumer Goods and Materials.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled in
Haiti Under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), as
Amended by the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership
Encouragement Act (HOPE)
AGENCY: International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of Annual Quantitative Limit on Imports of Certain
Apparel from Haiti.
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SUMMARY: CBERA, as amended, provides duty-free treatment for certain
apparel articles imported directly from Haiti. One of the preferences
is known as the ``value-added'' provision, which requires that apparel
meet a minimum
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threshold percentage of value added in Haiti, the United States, and/or
certain beneficiary countries. The provision is subject to a
quantitative limitation, which is calculated as a percentage of total
apparel imports into the United States for each 12-month annual period.
For the annual period from December 20, 2018 through December 19, 2019,
the quantity of imports eligible for preferential treatment under the
value-added provision is 372,889,066 square meters equivalent.
DATES: Applicable Date: December 20, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurie Mease, International Trade
Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of
Commerce, (202) 482-2043.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Section 213A of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery
Act (19 U.S.C. 2703a) (``CBERA''), as amended; and as implemented by
Presidential Proc. No. 8114, 72 FR 13655 (March 22, 2007), and No.
8596, 75 FR 68153 (November 4, 2010).
Background: Section 213A(b)(1)(B) of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C.
2703a(b)(1)(B)), outlines the requirements for certain apparel articles
imported directly from Haiti to qualify for duty-free treatment under a
``value-added'' provision. In order to qualify for duty-free treatment,
apparel articles must be wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape, in Haiti
from any combination of fabrics, fabric components, components knit-to-
shape, and yarns, as long as the sum of the cost or value of materials
produced in Haiti or one or more beneficiary countries, as described in
CBERA, as amended, or any combination thereof, plus the direct costs of
processing operations performed in Haiti or one or more beneficiary
countries, as described in CBERA, as amended, or any combination
thereof, is not less than an applicable percentage of the declared
customs value of such apparel articles. Pursuant to CBERA, as amended,
the applicable percentage for the period December 20, 2018 through
December 19, 2019, is 60 percent.
For every twelve-month period following the effective date of
CBERA, as amended, duty-free treatment under the value-added provision
is subject to a quantitative limitation. CBERA, as amended, provides
that the quantitative limitation will be recalculated for each
subsequent 12-month period. Section 213A (b)(1)(C) of CBERA, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2703a(b)(1)(C)), requires that, for the twelve-month period
beginning on December 20, 2018, the quantitative limitation for
qualifying apparel imported from Haiti under the value-added provision
will be an amount equivalent to 1.25 percent of the aggregate square
meter equivalent of all apparel articles imported into the United
States in the most recent 12-month period for which data are available.
The aggregate square meters equivalent of all apparel articles imported
into the United States is derived from the set of Harmonized System
lines listed in the Annex to the World Trade Organization Agreement on
Textiles and Clothing (``ATC''), and the conversion factors for units
of measure into square meter equivalents used by the United States in
implementing the ATC. For purposes of this notice, the most recent 12-
month period for which data are available as of December 20, 2018 is
the 12-month period ending on October 31, 2018.
Therefore, for the one-year period beginning on December 20, 2018
and extending through December 19, 2019, the quantity of imports
eligible for preferential treatment under the value-added provision is
372,889,066 square meters equivalent. Apparel articles entered in
excess of these quantities will be subject to otherwise applicable
tariffs.
Terry K. Labat,
Senior Advisor, performing the Non-Exclusive Duties of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Textiles, Consumer Goods and Materials.
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