Reporting for Calendar Year 2023 on Offsets Agreements Related to Sales of Defense Articles or Defense Services to Foreign Countries or Foreign Firms, 15811-15812 [2024-04565]
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Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 240222–0055]
0694–XC104
Reporting for Calendar Year 2023 on
Offsets Agreements Related to Sales
of Defense Articles or Defense
Services to Foreign Countries or
Foreign Firms
Bureau of Industry and
Security, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; annual reporting
requirements.
AGENCY:
This notice is to remind the
public that U.S. firms are required to
report annually to the Department of
Commerce (Commerce) information on
contracts for the sale of defense articles
or defense services to foreign countries
or foreign firms that are subject to
offsets agreements exceeding $5,000,000
in value. U.S. firms are also required to
report annually to Commerce
information on offsets transactions
completed in performance of existing
offsets commitments for which offsets
credit of $250,000 or more has been
claimed from the foreign representative.
This year, such reports must include
relevant information from calendar year
2023 and must be submitted to
Commerce no later than June 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit reports in both hard
copy and electronically. Address the
hard copy to ‘‘Offsets Program Manager,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of
Strategic Industries and Economic
Security, Bureau of Industry and
Security (BIS), Room 3876, Washington,
DC 20230’’. Submit electronic copies to
OffsetReport@bis.doc.gov.
DATES: Reports must include relevant
information from calendar year 2023
and must be submitted to Commerce no
later than June 15, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katie Reid, Office of Strategic Industries
and Economic Security, Bureau of
Industry and Security, U.S. Department
of Commerce, telephone: 202–482–4506;
email: OffsetReport@bis.doc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
Section 723(a)(1) of the Defense
Production Act of 1950, as amended
(DPA) (50 U.S.C. 4568 (2023)) requires
the President to submit an annual report
to Congress on the impact of offsets on
the U.S. defense industrial base. Section
723(a)(2) directs the Secretary of
Commerce (Secretary) to prepare the
President’s report and to develop and
administer the regulations necessary to
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collect offsets data from U.S. defense
exporters.
The authorities of the Secretary
regarding offsets have been delegated to
the Under Secretary of Commerce for
Industry and Security. The regulations
associated with offsets reporting are set
forth in part 701 of title 15 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (Offsets
Regulations). Offsets are compensation
practices required as a condition of
purchase in either government-togovernment or commercial sales of
defense articles and/or defense services,
as defined by the Arms Export Control
Act (22 U.S.C. 2778) and the
International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (22 CFR 120–130). Offsets
are also applicable to certain items
controlled on the Commerce Control list
(CCL) and with an Export Control
Classification Number (ECCN) including
the numeral ‘‘6’’ as its third character.
The CCL is found in supplement no. 1
to part 774 of the Export Administration
Regulations.
An example of an offset is as follows:
a company that is selling a fleet of
military aircraft to a foreign government
may agree to offset the cost of the
aircraft by providing training assistance
to plant managers in the purchasing
country. Although this distorts the true
price of the aircraft, the foreign
government may require this sort of
extra compensation as a condition of
awarding the contract to purchase the
aircraft. As described in the Offsets
Regulations, U.S. firms are required to
report information on contracts for the
sale of defense articles or defense
services to foreign countries or foreign
firms that are subject to offsets
agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in
value. U.S. firms are also required to
report annually information on offsets
transactions completed in performance
of existing offsets commitments for
which offsets credit of $250,000 or more
has been claimed from the foreign
representative.
Commerce’s annual report to Congress
includes an aggregated summary of the
data reported by industry in accordance
with the offsets regulation and the DPA
(50 U.S.C. 4568 (2023)). As provided by
section 723(c) of the DPA, BIS will not
publicly disclose individual firm
information it receives through offsets
reporting unless the firm furnishing the
information specifically authorizes
public disclosure. The information
collected is sorted and organized into an
aggregate report of national offsets data,
and therefore does not identify
company-specific information.
To enable BIS to prepare the next
annual offset report reflecting calendar
year 2023 data, affected U.S. firms must
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submit required information on offsets
agreements and offsets transactions from
calendar year 2023 to BIS no later than
June 15, 2024.
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
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Stainless Steel Bar From India:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2022–
2023
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from India. The period of
review (POR) is February 1, 2022,
through January 31, 2023. This review
covers four producers/exporters of the
subject merchandise. We preliminarily
determine that subject merchandise has
been sold at below normal value (NV)
during this POR. We invite interested
parties to comment on these preliminary
results.
DATES: Applicable March 5, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Hermes Pinilla or Jacob Keller, 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) 482–3477 or (202) 482–4849,
respectively.
AGENCY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
On February 21, 1995, Commerce
published the antidumping duty order
on stainless steel bar from India.1 On
April 11, 2023, based on timely requests
for administrative reviews, Commerce
initiated an administrative review of the
Order,2 and subsequently selected
Aamor Inox Limited (Aamor) and
Laxcon Steels Limited (Laxcon), as the
mandatory respondents. On October 17,
1 See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel
Bar from Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661
(February 21, 1995) (Order).
2 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR
21609 (April 11, 2023).
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2023, we extended the preliminary
results until February 28, 2024.3
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this Order is
stainless steel bar from India. For a full
description of the scope, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.4
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review
in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B)
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act). Export price and constructed
export price are calculated in
accordance with section 772 of the Act.
NV is calculated in accordance with
section 773 of the Act.
For a full description of the
methodology underlying our
conclusions, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum. A list of the
topics discussed in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is included as
the appendix to this notice. The
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a
public document and is made available
to the public via Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (ACCESS).
ACCESS is available to registered users
at https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a
complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum can be accessed
directly at https://access.trade.gov/
public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
Rate for Non-Examined Companies
The statute and Commerce’s
regulations do not address the
establishment of a rate to be applied to
companies not selected for examination
when Commerce limits its examination
in an administrative review pursuant to
section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally,
Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of
the Act, which provides instructions for
calculating the all-others rate in a
market economy investigation, for
guidance when calculating the rate for
companies which were not selected for
individual examination in an
administrative review. Under section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others
rate is normally an amount equal to the
weighted average of the estimated
weighted-average dumping margins
established for exporters and producers
individually investigated, excluding any
3 See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2022–2023,’’ dated October
10, 2023.
4 See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2022–2023: Stainless Steel
Bar from India,’’ dated concurrently with, and
hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum), at 2–3.
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zero or de minimis margins, and any
margins determined entirely on the
basis of facts available. In this review,
we preliminarily calculated dumping
margins for the two mandatory
respondents, Aamor and Laxcon, of 0.55
and 0.61 percent, respectively, and we
have assigned to the non-selected
companies a rate of 0.57 percent, which
is the weighted-average dumping
margins of Aamor and Laxcon weighted
by their publicly ranged U.S. sales
values.5
Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the
following estimated weighted-average
dumping margins exist for the period
February 1, 2022, through January 31,
2023:
Producer/exporter
Weightedaverage
dumping
margin
(percent)
Laxcon Steels Limited, and
its affiliates, Ocean Steels
Private Limited, Metlax
International Private Limited, Parvati Private Limited, and Mega Steels Private Limited 6 ....................
Aamor Inox Limited ..............
0.61
0.55
Non-Selected Companies
Astrabite LLP ........................
Venus Wire Industries Pvt.
Ltd., and its affiliates, Precision Metals, Hindustan
Inox Ltd., and Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd.7
0.57
0.57
Disclosure and Public Comment
We intend to disclose the calculations
performed to parties within five days
after publication of this notice.8
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c),
interested parties may submit case briefs
5 With two respondents under examination,
Commerce normally calculates: (A) a weightedaverage of the dumping margins calculated for the
examined respondents; (B) a simple average of the
dumping margins calculated for the examined
respondents; and (C) a weighted-average of the
dumping margins calculated for the examined
respondents using each company’s publicly ranged
U.S. sale quantities for the merchandise under
consideration. Commerce then compares (B) and (C)
to (A) and selects the rate closest to (A) as the most
appropriate rate for all other producers and
exporters. See, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof
from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United
Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Reviews, Final Results of ChangedCircumstances Review, and Revocation of an Order
in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 (September 1, 2010).
6 Collectively, these companies are known as
Laxcon.
7 Collectively, these companies are known as
Venus Group.
8 See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 240222-0055]
0694-XC104
Reporting for Calendar Year 2023 on Offsets Agreements Related to
Sales of Defense Articles or Defense Services to Foreign Countries or
Foreign Firms
AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; annual reporting requirements.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to remind the public that U.S. firms are
required to report annually to the Department of Commerce (Commerce)
information on contracts for the sale of defense articles or defense
services to foreign countries or foreign firms that are subject to
offsets agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in value. U.S. firms are also
required to report annually to Commerce information on offsets
transactions completed in performance of existing offsets commitments
for which offsets credit of $250,000 or more has been claimed from the
foreign representative. This year, such reports must include relevant
information from calendar year 2023 and must be submitted to Commerce
no later than June 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit reports in both hard copy and electronically. Address
the hard copy to ``Offsets Program Manager, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security, Bureau
of Industry and Security (BIS), Room 3876, Washington, DC 20230''.
Submit electronic copies to [email protected].
DATES: Reports must include relevant information from calendar year
2023 and must be submitted to Commerce no later than June 15, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katie Reid, Office of Strategic
Industries and Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.
Department of Commerce, telephone: 202-482-4506; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 723(a)(1) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended
(DPA) (50 U.S.C. 4568 (2023)) requires the President to submit an
annual report to Congress on the impact of offsets on the U.S. defense
industrial base. Section 723(a)(2) directs the Secretary of Commerce
(Secretary) to prepare the President's report and to develop and
administer the regulations necessary to collect offsets data from U.S.
defense exporters.
The authorities of the Secretary regarding offsets have been
delegated to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security.
The regulations associated with offsets reporting are set forth in part
701 of title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations (Offsets
Regulations). Offsets are compensation practices required as a
condition of purchase in either government-to-government or commercial
sales of defense articles and/or defense services, as defined by the
Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778) and the International Traffic
in Arms Regulations (22 CFR 120-130). Offsets are also applicable to
certain items controlled on the Commerce Control list (CCL) and with an
Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) including the numeral ``6''
as its third character. The CCL is found in supplement no. 1 to part
774 of the Export Administration Regulations.
An example of an offset is as follows: a company that is selling a
fleet of military aircraft to a foreign government may agree to offset
the cost of the aircraft by providing training assistance to plant
managers in the purchasing country. Although this distorts the true
price of the aircraft, the foreign government may require this sort of
extra compensation as a condition of awarding the contract to purchase
the aircraft. As described in the Offsets Regulations, U.S. firms are
required to report information on contracts for the sale of defense
articles or defense services to foreign countries or foreign firms that
are subject to offsets agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in value. U.S.
firms are also required to report annually information on offsets
transactions completed in performance of existing offsets commitments
for which offsets credit of $250,000 or more has been claimed from the
foreign representative.
Commerce's annual report to Congress includes an aggregated summary
of the data reported by industry in accordance with the offsets
regulation and the DPA (50 U.S.C. 4568 (2023)). As provided by section
723(c) of the DPA, BIS will not publicly disclose individual firm
information it receives through offsets reporting unless the firm
furnishing the information specifically authorizes public disclosure.
The information collected is sorted and organized into an aggregate
report of national offsets data, and therefore does not identify
company-specific information.
To enable BIS to prepare the next annual offset report reflecting
calendar year 2023 data, affected U.S. firms must
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submit required information on offsets agreements and offsets
transactions from calendar year 2023 to BIS no later than June 15,
2024.
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
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