[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43712-43713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-17721]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-810]
Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2012-2013
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 25, 2014, the Department of Commerce (Department)
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from India.\1\ The
period of review (POR) is February 1, 2012, through January 31, 2013.
We have not made changes to our margin calculations for the final
results of this review. The final dumping margins for this review are
listed in the ``Final Results of the Review'' section below.
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\1\ See Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results and
Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2012-
2013, 79 FR 16282 (March 25, 2014) (Preliminary Results).
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DATES: Effective July 28, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sergio Balbontin, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-6478.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Following the Preliminary Results, on March 26, 2014, the
Department issued an additional supplemental questionnaire to Ambica
Steels Limited (Ambica), the only respondent in this administrative
review. Ambica responded on April 2, 2014. We received a case brief
from Ambica.
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The SSB subject to the
order is currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.10.00,
7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00, 7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). The HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs purposes. The written description
is dispositive.
A full description of the scope of the order is contained in the
memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, ``Issues and
Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Bar from India'' dated
concurrently with this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum), which
is hereby adopted by 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 (IA ACCESS). Access to IA ACCESS is available to
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registered users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov and is available to all
parties in the Central Records Unit, room 7046 of the main Department
of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly on the Internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed Issues and Decision
Memorandum and the electronic versions of the Issues and Decision
Memorandum are identical in content.
Analysis of Comments Received
A list of the issues raised and to which we have responded in the
Issues and Decision Memorandum, is attached to this notice as an
Appendix.
Final Results of the Review
As a result of this review, we determine the following weighted-
average dumping margin exists for the respondent for the period
February 1, 2012, through January 31, 2013.
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Weighted-
Average
Producer/exporter Dumping
Margin
(Percent)
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Ambica Steels Limited..................................... 0.00
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.212(b), the Department determines,
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance
with the final results of this review. The Department intends to issue
assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of
these final results of review.
For assessment purposes, because Ambica's weighted-average dumping
margin remains zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent) in
these final results, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate
entries without regard to antidumping duties in accordance with 19 CFR
351.106(c)(2). Our instructions will be on an importer-specific basis,
where the importer is known, or on a customer-specific basis, where the
importer is not known.
The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject
merchandise during the POR produced by Ambica for which it did not know
its merchandise was destined for the United States. In such instances,
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. For a full discussion of this clarification, see
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for
all shipments of subject merchandise 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
Ambica will be the rate established in the final results of this
administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by manufacturers or
exporters not covered in this review but covered in a prior segment of
the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this
proceeding in which that manufacturer or exporter participated; (3) if
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or
the original investigation but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit
rate will be the rate established for the most recently completed
segment of this proceeding for the manufacturer of subject merchandise;
and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters
will continue to be 12.45 percent, the ``all others'' rate established
in the order.\2\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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\2\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Stainless Steel Bar From India, 59 FR 66915, 66921 (December
28, 1994).
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Notifications
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 antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply
with this requirement could result in the Department's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). 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.
These final results of administrative review are issued and
published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the
Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: July 22, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary
for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix--Issues in Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of Issues
1. Whether To Correct the Name of a U.S. Customer in the Final
Liquidation Instructions
2. Whether To Name All of Ambica's U.S. Customers in the Final
Liquidation Instructions
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