International Trade Administration September 12, 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On August 25, 2022, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Saha Steel Pipe Public Company, Ltd v. United States, Court No. 20-00133, Slip Op. 22-99 (Saha Steel), sustaining the Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s final results of redetermination pertaining to the scope ruling for the antidumping duty (AD) order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes (CWP) from Thailand. In the redetermination, Commerce found that dual-stenciled standard pipe and line pipe are outside the scope of the order, pursuant to the CIT's remand order in Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company Ltd v. United States, 547 F. Supp. 3d 1278 (CIT Oct. 6, 2021) (Remand Order). Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final scope ruling, and that Commerce is amending the scope ruling to find that dual-stenciled standard pipe and line pipe are outside the scope of the order.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published a notice in the Federal Register on July 7, 2022, in which Commerce announced the final results, and partial rescission, of the 2019 administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, (solar cells) from the People's Republic of China (China). This notice inadvertently included two companies in Appendix III, which is a list of companies for which Commerce rescinded the review, instead of listing them in Appendix II, which is a list of ``Non-Selected Companies Under Review.'' We also incorrectly titled Appendix III ``Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,'' instead of ``Rescission of Review, In Part.'' Further, Commerce also published a notice in the Federal Register of August 15, 2022, in which Commerce amended the final results of the administrative review. In this notice, Commerce also inadvertently did not list the same two companies as ``Non- Selected Companies Under Review'' in the appendix. We are correcting these inadvertent errors with this notice, as described below.