Certain Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Line Pipe From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Third Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 304-305 [2024-31592]

Download as PDF 304 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 2 / Friday, January 3, 2025 / Notices Analysis of Comments Received A complete discussion of all issues raised in this sunset review, including the likelihood of continuation or recurrence of dumping and the magnitude of the margin of dumping likely to prevail if the Order were to be revoked, is provided in the accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum.9 A list of topics discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is included as the appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/ FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. Final Results of Sunset Review Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 752(c)(1) and (3) of the Act, Commerce determines that revocation of the Order would likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping, and that the magnitude of the margin of dumping likely to prevail would be up to 30.80 percent. Administrative Protective Order (APO) This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a), which continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. 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 the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation. lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Notification to Interested Parties Commerce is issuing and publishing these results and notice in accordance with sections 751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2) and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(5)(ii). Appendix List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum I. Summary II. Background III. Scope of the Order IV. History of the Order V. Legal Framework VI. Discussion of the Issues 1. Likelihood of Continuation or Recurrence of Dumping 2. Magnitude of the Margin of Dumping Likely to Prevail VII. Final Results of Sunset Review VIII. Recommendation [FR Doc. 2024–31593 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A–570–935] Certain Circular Welded CarbonQuality Steel Line Pipe From the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Third Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: As a result of this expedited third sunset review, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain circular welded carbon-quality steel line pipe (line pipe) from the People’s Republic of China (China) would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping at the level indicated in the ‘‘Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review’’ section of this notice. DATES: Applicable January 3, 2025. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Howard Smith, AD/CVD Operations, Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5193. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AGENCY: Background On May 13, 2009, Commerce published in the Federal Register the AD order on line pipe from China.1 On September 1, 2024, Commerce 1 See Certain Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Line Pipe from the People’s Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order, 74 FR 22515 (May 13, 2009) (Order). 9 Id. VerDate Sep<11>2014 Dated: December 27, 2024. Abdelali Elouaradia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 18:01 Jan 02, 2025 Jkt 265001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 published the notice of initiation of the third sunset review of the Order, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).2 After Commerce initiated this sunset review of the Order, the American Line Pipe Producers Association Welded Line Pipe Committee 3 (ALPPA), a domestic interested party, timely submitted a complete notice of intent to participate in,4 and an adequate substantive response regarding, the sunset review.5 ALPPA claimed interested party status under section 771(9)(F) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.102(b)(29)(viii) because its members are producers of the domestic like product and claimed that its members are domestic interested parties under section 771(9)(C) of the Act (a manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler in the United States of a domestic like product) and 19 CFR 351.102(b)(29)(v).6 Commerce did not receive a substantive response from any respondent interested party, nor was a hearing requested. Consequently, on October 31, 2024, Commerce notified the U.S. International Trade Commission that it did not receive an adequate substantive response from any respondent interested parties.7 As a result, pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2), Commerce conducted an expedited (120-day) sunset review of the Order. Scope of the Order The merchandise covered by the Order is line pipe from China. For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.8 Analysis of Comments Received All issues raised in this sunset review are addressed in the accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of topics discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is included as 2 See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 89 FR 71252 (September 3, 2024). 3 The members of ALPPA are the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Axis Pipe & Tube, Dura-Bond Industries, and Welspun Tubular LLC. 4 See ALPPA’s Letter, ‘‘Notice of Intent to Participate in Sunset Review,’’ dated September 17, 2024 (Intent to Participate). 5 See ALPPA’s Letter, ‘‘Substantive Response to Notice of Initiation,’’ dated October 3, 2024. 6 See Intent to Participate at 2. 7 See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Sunset Reviews Initiated on September 3, 2024,’’ dated October 31, 2024; see also 19 CFR 351.218(3)(1)(ii)(C)(1). 8 See Memorandum, ‘‘Issue and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Expedited Third Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Line Pipe from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM 03JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 2 / Friday, January 3, 2025 / Notices the appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/ FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 752(c)(1) and (3) of the Act, Commerce determines that revocation of the Order would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping and that the magnitude of the margins likely to prevail if the Order was revoked is up to 101.10 percent. Administrative Protective Order (APO) This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information disclosed under an APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a). Timely 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 violation which is subject to sanction. Notification to Interested Parties We are issuing, and publishing notice of, the results of this sunset review in accordance with sections 751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2) and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(5)(ii). Dated: December 27, 2024. Abdelali Elouaradia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Appendix List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum I. Summary II. Background III. Scope of the Order IV. History of the Order V. Legal Framework VI. Discussion of the Issues 1. Likelihood of Continuation or Recurrence of Dumping 2. Magnitude of the Margin of Dumping Likely to Prevail VII. Final Results of Sunset Review VIII. Recommendation [FR Doc. 2024–31592 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:01 Jan 02, 2025 Jkt 265001 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [C–428–848] Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks From Germany: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Final Determination of Countervailing Duty Investigation; Notice of Amended Final Determination and Amended Countervailing Duty Order Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: On December 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH v. United States, Court No. 21–00080, Slip Op. 24–148 (CIT December 26, 2024), sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (Commerce) fourth remand redetermination pertaining to the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks (FEBs) from the Germany covering the period of investigation, January 1, 2018, through December 31, 2018. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT’s final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce’s final determination in that investigation, and that Commerce is amending the final determination and resulting CVD order with respect to the countervailable subsidy rates assigned to BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH (BGH Siegen), Schmiedewerke Gröditz GmbH (SWG), voestalpine Bohler Group (voestalpine Bohler), and all others. DATES: Applicable January 3, 2025. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Palmer or Shane Subler, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–9068 or (202) 482–6241, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AGENCY: Background On December 11, 2020, Commerce published its final determination in the CVD investigation of FEBs from Germany.1 Commerce calculated countervailable subsidy rates of 5.86 percent for BGH Siegen, 6.71 percent for SWG, 14.81 percent for voestalpine Bohler, and 6.29 percent for all other 1 See Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks from the Federal Republic of Germany: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 85 FR 80011 (December 11, 2020) (Final Determination), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM). PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 305 producers/exporters of FEBs in Germany.2 Commerce subsequently published the CVD order on FEBs from Germany.3 BGH Siegen appealed Commerce’s Final Determination. On October 12, 2022, the CIT remanded the Final Determination to Commerce, directing Commerce to: (1) consider in the first instance whether to account for the compliance costs in its calculation of the CVD rates for subsidy programs under the Electricity Tax Act and Energy Tax Act; and (2) explain or reconsider its determination that the Konzessionsabgabenverordnung (KAV) Program is a specific subsidy.4 In the First Remand Results, issued in January 2023, Commerce explained its determination not to account for compliance costs in its calculation of the CVD rates for programs under the Electricity Tax Act and Energy Tax Act.5 Commerce also further explained its determination that the KAV Program is specific.6 However, Commerce made no changes to the final subsidy rates calculated during the investigation.7 In its Second Remand Order, the CIT sustained Commerce’s First Remand Results with respect to the Electricity Tax Act and Energy Tax Act.8 However, with respect to the KAV Program, the CIT held that Commerce’s First Remand Results failed to explain: (1) how the amount of electricity consumed or the electricity prices paid by companies are not economic in nature; and (2) how criteria based solely on electricity consumption and pricing are not horizontal in application.9 Regarding the latter, the CIT explained that for the KAV Program’s criteria to be vertical in application, the criteria would need to expressly limit the program’s application to specifically named enterprises or industries or a group of 2 Id., 85 FR at 80012. Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks from the People’s Republic of China, the Federal Republic of Germany, India, and Italy: Countervailing Duty Orders, and Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination for the People’s Republic of China, 86 FR 7535 (January 29, 2021) (Order). 4 See BGH Edelstahl Siegen GMBH v. United States, 600 F.Supp.3d 1241 (CIT 2022) (First Remand Order). 5 See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to the First Remand Order, BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH v. United States, Consol. Court No. 21– 00080; Slip. Op. 22–117 (CIT October 12, 2022), dated January 9, 2023 (First Remand Results) at 18, available at https://access.trade.gov/public/ FinalRemandRedetermination.aspx. 6 Id. 7 Id. 8 See BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH v. United States, 639 F.Supp.3d 1237, 1242 (CIT 2023) (Second Remand Order). 9 Id., 639 F.Supp.3d at 1243–44. 3 See E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM 03JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 304-305]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31592]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-935]


Certain Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Line Pipe From the 
People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Third Sunset 
Review of the Antidumping Duty Order

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: As a result of this expedited third sunset review, the U.S. 
Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the 
antidumping duty (AD) order on certain circular welded carbon-quality 
steel line pipe (line pipe) from the People's Republic of China (China) 
would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping at the level 
indicated in the ``Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review'' section 
of this notice.

DATES: Applicable January 3, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Howard Smith, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5193.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 13, 2009, Commerce published in the Federal Register the AD 
order on line pipe from China.\1\ On September 1, 2024, Commerce 
published the notice of initiation of the third sunset review of the 
Order, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act).\2\ After Commerce initiated this sunset review of the Order, 
the American Line Pipe Producers Association Welded Line Pipe Committee 
\3\ (ALPPA), a domestic interested party, timely submitted a complete 
notice of intent to participate in,\4\ and an adequate substantive 
response regarding, the sunset review.\5\ ALPPA claimed interested 
party status under section 771(9)(F) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.102(b)(29)(viii) because its members are producers of the domestic 
like product and claimed that its members are domestic interested 
parties under section 771(9)(C) of the Act (a manufacturer, producer, 
or wholesaler in the United States of a domestic like product) and 19 
CFR 351.102(b)(29)(v).\6\ Commerce did not receive a substantive 
response from any respondent interested party, nor was a hearing 
requested. Consequently, on October 31, 2024, Commerce notified the 
U.S. International Trade Commission that it did not receive an adequate 
substantive response from any respondent interested parties.\7\ As a 
result, pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2), Commerce conducted an expedited (120-day) 
sunset review of the Order.
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    \1\ See Certain Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Line Pipe 
from the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order, 74 FR 
22515 (May 13, 2009) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 89 FR 71252 
(September 3, 2024).
    \3\ The members of ALPPA are the American Cast Iron Pipe 
Company, Axis Pipe & Tube, Dura-Bond Industries, and Welspun Tubular 
LLC.
    \4\ See ALPPA's Letter, ``Notice of Intent to Participate in 
Sunset Review,'' dated September 17, 2024 (Intent to Participate).
    \5\ See ALPPA's Letter, ``Substantive Response to Notice of 
Initiation,'' dated October 3, 2024.
    \6\ See Intent to Participate at 2.
    \7\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Sunset Reviews Initiated on 
September 3, 2024,'' dated October 31, 2024; see also 19 CFR 
351.218(3)(1)(ii)(C)(1).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the Order is line pipe from China. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.\8\
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    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Issue and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Expedited Third Sunset Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Circular Welded Carbon-Quality 
Steel Line Pipe from the People's Republic of China,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 
Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in this sunset review are addressed in the 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of topics discussed 
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is included as

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the appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a 
public document and is on file electronically 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 Issues 
and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review

    Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 752(c)(1) and (3) of the Act, 
Commerce determines that revocation of the Order would likely lead to 
the continuation or recurrence of dumping and that the magnitude of the 
margins likely to prevail if the Order was revoked is up to 101.10 
percent.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an 
APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of 
proprietary information disclosed under an APO in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.305(a). Timely 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 violation which is subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing, and publishing notice of, the results of this 
sunset review in accordance with sections 751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2) and 19 CFR 
351.221(c)(5)(ii).

    Dated: December 27, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. History of the Order
V. Legal Framework
VI. Discussion of the Issues
    1. Likelihood of Continuation or Recurrence of Dumping
    2. Magnitude of the Margin of Dumping Likely to Prevail
VII. Final Results of Sunset Review
VIII. Recommendation

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