Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 46713-46715 [2019-19195]
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administrative review covering Flex.3
On May 3, 2019, the petitioners timely
withdrew their request for an
administrative review of Flex.4
[A–520–803]
Rescission of Review
Polyethylene Terephthalate Film,
Sheet, and Strip From the United Arab
Emirates: Rescission of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2017–
2018
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1),
Commerce will rescind an
administrative review, in whole or in
part, if the party, or parties, that
requested a review withdraw the
request/s within 90 days of the
publication of the notice of initiation of
the requested review. As noted above,
the petitioners withdrew their request
for review by the 90-day deadline, and
no other party requested an
administrative review of this order.
Therefore, in response to the timely
withdrawal of the request for review,
and, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding
this administrative review in its
entirety.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) is rescinding its
administrative review of the
antidumping duty (AD) order on
polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet,
and strip (PET film) from the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) for the period of
review (POR), November 1, 2017,
through October 31, 2018.
DATES: Applicable September 5, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew Huston, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VII, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–4261.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
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On November 1, 2018, Commerce
published in the Federal Register a
notice of opportunity to request an
administrative review of the AD order
on PET film from the UAE.1 Commerce
received a timely request from DuPont
Teijin Film, Mitsubishi Polyester Film,
Inc., and SKC Inc. (collectively, the
petitioners), in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
351.213(b), to conduct an administrative
review of this AD order for Flex Middle
East FZE (Flex).2 No other party
requested an administrative review of
this order. Pursuant to the review
request filed by the petitioners, and in
accordance with 19 CFR
351.221(c)(1)(i), on February 6, 2019,
Commerce published in the Federal
Register a notice of initiation of an
1 See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order,
Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity
to Request Administrative Review, 83 FR 54912
(November 1, 2018); see also Correction to Notice
of Opportunity to Request Administrative Review,
83 FR 56819 (November 14, 2018).
2 See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Polyethylene
Terephthalate Film, Sheet and Strip from the
United Arab Emirates: Request for Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated November 30,
2018.
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Assessment
Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) to assess
antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries. Antidumping duties shall be
assessed at rates equal to the cash
deposit of estimated antidumping duties
required at the time of entry, or
withdrawal from warehouse, for
consumption, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends
to issue assessment instructions to CBP
15 days after the publication of this
notice in the Federal Register.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final reminder
to importers of their responsibility
under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a
certificate regarding the reimbursement
of ADs prior to liquidation of the
relevant entries during this POR. Failure
to comply with this requirement could
result in Commerce’s presumption that
reimbursement of ADs occurred and the
subsequent assessment of double ADs.
Notification Regarding Administrative
Protective Order
This notice also serves as the only
reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of
their responsibility concerning the
return or destruction of proprietary
information disclosed under APO in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3).
3 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 84 FR
2159 (February 6, 2019).
4 See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Polyethylene
Terephthalate Film, Sheet and Strip from the
United Arab Emirates: Withdrawal of Request for
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated
May 3, 2019.
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Timely written notification of the return
or destruction of APO materials, or
conversion to judicial protective order,
is hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and terms of an
APO is a sanctionable violation.
This notice is published in
accordance with section 771(i)(1) of the
Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).
Dated: August 29, 2019.
James Maeder,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–588–874]
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
From Japan: Notice of Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Changed
Circumstances Review
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On July 19, 2019, the
Department of Commerce (Commerce)
published its notice of initiation and
preliminary results of a changedcircumstances review (CCR) of the
antidumping duty (AD) order on certain
hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled
steel) from Japan. In that notice,
Commerce preliminarily determined
that (1) Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC)
is the successor-in-interest to Nippon
Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
(NSSMC); (2) Nippon Steel Nisshin Co.,
Ltd. (Nippon Nisshin) is the successor
in interest to Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
(Nisshin Steel); and (3) Nippon Steel
Trading Corporation (NSTC) is the
successor in interest to Nippon Steel &
Sumikin Bussan Corporation (NSSBC).
Additionally, Commerce preliminarily
determined that NSC, Nippon Nisshin,
and NSTC should be treated as a single
entity, and should receive the same AD
cash deposit rate with respect to the
subject merchandise as NSSMC, the
predecessor company. No interested
party submitted comments regarding the
initiation and preliminary results. For
these final results, Commerce continues
to find that NSC is the successor-ininterest to NSSMC.
DATES: Applicable September 5, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo
Ayala or Jun Jack Zhao, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
AGENCY:
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NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–3945 or (202) 482–1396,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 19, 2019, Commerce
published its notice of initiation and
preliminary results of this CCR of the
AD order on hot-rolled steel from
Japan,1 preliminarily determining that
(1) NSC is the successor-in-interest to
NSSMC; (2) Nippon Nisshin is the
successor in interest to Nisshin Steel;
and (3) NSTC is the successor in interest
to NSSBC.2 Additionally, because
Commerce had previously determined
that NSSMC, Nisshin Steel, and NSSBC
are affiliated companies and should be
treated as a single entity, Commerce
preliminarily determined that NSC,
including Nippon Nisshin and NSTC,
should receive the same AD cash
deposit rate (i.e., 4.99 percent) with
respect to the subject merchandise as
NSSMC, its predecessor company.3 In
the Initiation and Preliminary Results,
Commerce provided all interested
parties with an opportunity to comment
and to request a public hearing
regarding the preliminary findings.
Commerce received no comments
regarding the preliminary findings and
no requests for a public hearing from
interested parties within the time period
set forth in the Initiation and
Preliminary Results.
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order
are hot-rolled steel flat products from
Japan. For a full description of the scope
of the order, see the ‘‘Scope of the
Order’’ at the Appendix to this notice.
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Final Results of CCR
For the reasons stated in the Initiation
and Preliminary Results, and because
we received no comments from
interested parties to the contrary,
Commerce continues to find that NSC,
Nippon Nisshin, and NSTC are affiliated
companies that should be treated as a
single entity that is the successor-ininterest to NSSMC. As a result of this
determination, we find that NSC,
1 See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the
Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the
United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative
Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the
Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey and
Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 67962 (October 3,
2016) (Order).
2 See Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results
of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances
Review: Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Japan, 84 FR 34865 (July 19, 2019) (Initiation and
Preliminary Results).
3 Id.
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Nippon Nisshin, and NSTC should
receive the AD cash deposit rate
previously assigned to NSSMC under
the Order.4 Consequently, Commerce
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to suspend liquidation of all
shipments of subject merchandise
produced or exported by NSC, Nippon
Nisshin, and NSTC and entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the publication
date of this notice in the Federal
Register at a cash deposit rate of 4.99
percent, which is the current AD cash
deposit rate for NSSMC.5 This cash
deposit requirement shall remain in
effect until further notice.
Notification to Interested Parties
Commerce is issuing and publishing
these final results and notice in
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and
(4) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended, and sections 19 CFR
351.216 and 351.221(c)(3)(i).
Dated: August 28, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The products covered by the scope 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
4 See
Order.
received a cash deposit rate of 4.99
percent in the amended final determination of the
investigation of hot-rolled steel products from
Japan. See Order, 81 FR at 67965.
5 NSSMC
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makes the product covered by the existing
antidumping 1 or countervailing duty 2 orders
on Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality
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 crosssection, 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 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 (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,
1 See Notice of Amendment of Final
Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
and Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Cut-ToLength Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from
France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the
Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585 (February 10, 2000).
2 See 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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punching, and/or slitting, or any other
processing that would not otherwise remove
the merchandise from the scope if performed
in the country of manufacture of the hotrolled 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 unless specifically excluded. The
following products are outside of and/or
specifically excluded from the scope:
• 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; 3
• Ball bearing steels; 4
• Tool steels; 5 and
• Silico-manganese steels; 6
The products subject to the scope 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 scope 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,
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ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
NMFS and the Operational
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purpose of reviewing stock assessments
of haddock, cod, yellowtail flounder,
windowpane flounder, American plaice,
pollock, and white hake. The
Operational Assessment Peer Review is
a formal scientific peer-review process
for evaluating and presenting stock
assessment results to managers for fish
stocks in the offshore U.S. waters of the
northwest Atlantic. Assessments are
prepared by Stock Assessment
Workshop (SAW) working groups and
reviewed by an independent panel of
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SUMMARY:
Operational Assessment Oversight Panel
(AOP). The public is invited to attend
the presentations and discussions
between the review panel and the
scientists who have participated in the
stock assessment process.
DATES: The public portion of the
Groundfish Operational Assessment
Peer Review Meeting will be held from
September 9, 2019–September 13, 2019.
The meeting will commence on
September 13, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time. Please see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for the
daily meeting agenda.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
Stephen H. Clark Conference Room in
the Aquarium Building of the National
Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast
Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), 166
Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim
Weinberg, 508–495–2352; email:
james.weinberg@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For
further information, please visit the
NEFSC website at https://
www.nefsc.noaa.gov. For additional
information about the AOP meeting and
the stock assessment peer review, please
visit the NMFS/NEFSC SAW web page
at https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/
assessments/2019-assessments/.
Daily Meeting Agenda—Groundfish
Operational Assessment Peer Review
Meeting
(Subject to Change; All times are
approximate and may be changed at the
discretion of the Peer Review Chair).
Monday, September 9, 2019
Time
Activity
1:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m. ................................
1:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m. ................................
1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. ................................
Welcome and Introductions ...................................................
Common Topics .....................................................................
Georges Bank Haddock ........................................................
Gulf of Maine Haddock ..........................................................
Discussion/Review/Summary ................................................
Public Comment ....................................................................
Adjourn.
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. ................................
5:00 p.m. .................................................
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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
and Border Protection (CBP) purposes only.
The written description of the scope is
dispositive.
3 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.
4 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
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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.
5 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
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Russ Brown.
Liz Brooks.
Charles Perretti.
Review Panel.
Public.
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.
6 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-588-874]
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Notice of
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On July 19, 2019, the Department of Commerce (Commerce)
published its notice of initiation and preliminary results of a
changed-circumstances review (CCR) of the antidumping duty (AD) order
on certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from
Japan. In that notice, Commerce preliminarily determined that (1)
Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC) is the successor-in-interest to Nippon
Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC); (2) Nippon Steel Nisshin
Co., Ltd. (Nippon Nisshin) is the successor in interest to Nisshin
Steel Co., Ltd. (Nisshin Steel); and (3) Nippon Steel Trading
Corporation (NSTC) is the successor in interest to Nippon Steel &
Sumikin Bussan Corporation (NSSBC). Additionally, Commerce
preliminarily determined that NSC, Nippon Nisshin, and NSTC should be
treated as a single entity, and should receive the same AD cash deposit
rate with respect to the subject merchandise as NSSMC, the predecessor
company. No interested party submitted comments regarding the
initiation and preliminary results. For these final results, Commerce
continues to find that NSC is the successor-in-interest to NSSMC.
DATES: Applicable September 5, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo Ayala or Jun Jack Zhao, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
[[Page 46714]]
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3945 or (202) 482-1396,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 19, 2019, Commerce published its notice of initiation and
preliminary results of this CCR of the AD order on hot-rolled steel
from Japan,\1\ preliminarily determining that (1) NSC is the successor-
in-interest to NSSMC; (2) Nippon Nisshin is the successor in interest
to Nisshin Steel; and (3) NSTC is the successor in interest to
NSSBC.\2\ Additionally, because Commerce had previously determined that
NSSMC, Nisshin Steel, and NSSBC are affiliated companies and should be
treated as a single entity, Commerce preliminarily determined that NSC,
including Nippon Nisshin and NSTC, should receive the same AD cash
deposit rate (i.e., 4.99 percent) with respect to the subject
merchandise as NSSMC, its predecessor company.\3\ In the Initiation and
Preliminary Results, Commerce provided all interested parties with an
opportunity to comment and to request a public hearing regarding the
preliminary findings. Commerce received no comments regarding the
preliminary findings and no requests for a public hearing from
interested parties within the time period set forth in the Initiation
and Preliminary Results.
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\1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia,
Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic
of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative
Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the Republic of Korea, and
the Republic of Turkey and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 67962
(October 3, 2016) (Order).
\2\ See Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review: Certain Hot-Rolled
Steel Flat Products from Japan, 84 FR 34865 (July 19, 2019)
(Initiation and Preliminary Results).
\3\ Id.
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are hot-rolled steel flat
products from Japan. For a full description of the scope of the order,
see the ``Scope of the Order'' at the Appendix to this notice.
Final Results of CCR
For the reasons stated in the Initiation and Preliminary Results,
and because we received no comments from interested parties to the
contrary, Commerce continues to find that NSC, Nippon Nisshin, and NSTC
are affiliated companies that should be treated as a single entity that
is the successor-in-interest to NSSMC. As a result of this
determination, we find that NSC, Nippon Nisshin, and NSTC should
receive the AD cash deposit rate previously assigned to NSSMC under the
Order.\4\ Consequently, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to suspend liquidation of all shipments of subject
merchandise produced or exported by NSC, Nippon Nisshin, and NSTC and
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
publication date of this notice in the Federal Register at a cash
deposit rate of 4.99 percent, which is the current AD cash deposit rate
for NSSMC.\5\ This cash deposit requirement shall remain in effect
until further notice.
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\4\ See Order.
\5\ NSSMC received a cash deposit rate of 4.99 percent in the
amended final determination of the investigation of hot-rolled steel
products from Japan. See Order, 81 FR at 67965.
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Notification to Interested Parties
Commerce is issuing and publishing these final results and notice
in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and (4) and 777(i) of the Tariff
Act of 1930, as amended, and sections 19 CFR 351.216 and
351.221(c)(3)(i).
Dated: August 28, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The products covered by the scope 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 \1\ or countervailing duty \2\
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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\1\ See 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).
\2\ See 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 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 (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,
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punching, and/or slitting, or any other processing that would not
otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope 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 unless
specifically excluded. The following products are outside of and/or
specifically excluded from the scope:
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; \3\
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\3\ 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; \4\
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\4\ 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; \5\ and
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\5\ 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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Silico-manganese steels; \6\
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\6\ 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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The products subject to the scope 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 scope
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 and Border Protection (CBP) purposes only. The written
description of the scope is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2019-19195 Filed 9-4-19; 8:45 am]
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