[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 184 (Thursday, September 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65337-65341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22885]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-847, A-791-822, A-489-828]
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Brazil,
South Africa, and the Republic of Turkey: Affirmative Preliminary
Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) preliminarily
determines that imports of Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length
Plate (CTL plate) from Brazil, South Africa, and the Republic of Turkey
(Turkey) are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at
less than fair value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) for
these investigations is April 1, 2015, through March 31, 2016. The
estimated margins of sales at LTFV are shown in the ``Preliminary
Determinations'' section of this notice. Interested parties are invited
to comment on these preliminary determinations.
DATES: Effective September 22, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Kennedy at (202) 482-7883
(Brazil); Julia Hancock or Susan Pulongbarit at (202) 482-1394 or (202)
482-4031, respectively (South Africa); or Dmitry Vladimirov at (202)
482-0665 (Turkey), AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department published the notice of initiation of these
investigations on May 5, 2016.\1\ Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN)
and Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA (Usiminas) are the mandatory
respondents in the investigation covering CTL plate from Brazil; Evraz
Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corp. (Evraz Highveld) is the mandatory
respondent in the investigation covering CTL plate from South Africa;
and Ere[gbreve]li Demir ve [Ccedil]elik Fabrikalari T.A.[Scedil].
(Erdemir) is the mandatory respondent in the investigation covering CTL
plate from Turkey. For a complete description of the events that
followed the initiation of these investigations, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum dated concurrently with these determinations and
hereby adopted by this notice.\2\ A list of topics included in the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as Appendix II 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, and to all parties in the Department's Central
Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building.
In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
can be found at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed and the
electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are
identical.
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\1\ See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate From
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, the Federal Republic of Germany,
Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China,
South Africa, Taiwan, and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of
Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 81 FR 27089 (May 5, 2016)
(Initiation Notice).
\2\ See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to
Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance
``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Determinations in the
Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations of Certain Carbon and Alloy
Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from Brazil, South Africa, and the
Republic of Turkey,'' dated concurrently with this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Investigations
The products covered by these investigations are CTL plate. For a
full description of the scope of these investigations, see the ``Scope
of the Investigations,'' in Appendix I of this notice.
Scope Comments
In accordance with the Preamble to the Department's regulations,\3\
the Initiation Notice set aside a period of time for parties to raise
issues regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).\4\ Certain interested
parties commented on the scope of these investigations as it appeared
in the Initiation Notice, as well as additional language proposed by
the Department. For a summary of the product coverage comments and
rebuttal responses submitted to the records of these investigations,
and a discussion and analysis of all comments timely received, see the
Department's Preliminary Scope Decision
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Memorandum.\5\ The Department is preliminarily modifying the scope
language as it appeared in the Initiation Notice to clarify the
exclusion for stainless steel plate. The Department is also correcting
two tariff numbers that were misidentified in the Petitions and in the
Initiation Notice.\6\
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\3\ See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 62 FR 27296,
27323 (May 19, 1997) (Preamble).
\4\ See Initiation Notice, 81 FR at 27089.
\5\ See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
``Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Austria,
Belgium, Brazil, the People's Republic of China, France, the Federal
Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the
Republic of South Africa, Taiwan, and Turkey: Scope Comments
Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Determinations,'' dated
September 6, 2016 (Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum).
\6\ Id.
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Methodology
The Department is conducting these investigations in accordance
with section 731 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
Pursuant to section 776(a) of the Act, the Department preliminarily
relied upon facts otherwise available to assign an estimated weighted-
average dumping margin to the mandatory respondents in these three
investigations, because none of the respondents submitted a response to
the Department's questionnaire.\7\ Further, the Department is
preliminarily determining that these mandatory respondents failed to
cooperate by not acting to the best of their ability to comply with a
request for information and applying adverse facts available (AFA) to
these respondents, in accordance with section 776(b) of Act. For a full
description of the methodology underlying our preliminary
determinations, see Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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\7\ See Letter from CSN, ``Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length
Plate from Brazil,'' dated July 14, 2016; See Letter from Usiminas,
``Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from Brazil;
Questionnaire Response,'' dated July 14, 2016; see also Letter from
Erdemir, ``Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from
Turkey: Erdemir notification of intent not to participate,'' dated
June 24, 2016; see also Memorandum to File regarding, ``Placing
Federal Express Documents on the Record,'' dated concurrently with
this notice.
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Critical Circumstances
On July 26, 2016, the petitioners \8\ filed timely critical
circumstances allegations, pursuant to section 733(e)(1) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.206(c)(1), alleging that critical circumstances exist with
respect to imports of the subject merchandise from, among other
countries, Brazil and Turkey.\9\ The petitioners did not file a
critical circumstances allegation with respect to South Africa.
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\8\ ArcelorMittal USA LLC, Nucor Corporation, and SSAB
Enterprises, LLC (collectively, the petitioners).
\9\ See Letter from the petitioners, ``Certain Carbon and Alloy
Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the
Republic of Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey: Critical Circumstances
Allegations,'' dated July 26, 2016.
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Section 733(e)(1) of the Act provides that the Department will
preliminarily determine that critical circumstances exist in a LTFV
investigation if there is a reasonable basis to believe or suspect
that: (A) There is a history of dumping and material injury by reason
of dumped imports in the United States or elsewhere of the subject
merchandise, or the person by whom, or for whose account, the
merchandise was imported knew or should have known that the exporter
was selling the subject merchandise at less than its fair value and
that there was likely to be material injury by reason of such sales;
and (B) there have been massive imports of the subject merchandise over
a relatively short period. On September 7, 2016, we published our
preliminarily determination that critical circumstances exist with
respect to imports of CTL plate exported from Brazil and Turkey.\10\
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\10\ See Antidumping Duty Investigations of Certain Carbon and
Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the
Republic of Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey: Preliminary Determinations of
Critical Circumstances, 81 FR 61666 (September 7, 2016).
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All-Others Rate
Section 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act provides that in the
preliminary determination the Department shall determine an estimated
``all-others'' rate for all exporters and producers not individually
investigated, in accordance with section 735(c)(5) of the Act. Section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states that generally the estimated rate for
all-others shall be an amount equal to the weighted average of the
estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters
and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero and de
minimis margins, and any margins determined entirely under section 776
of the Act. The estimated weighted-average dumping margins in these
preliminary determinations were calculated entirely under section 776
of the Act. In cases where no weighted-average dumping margins other
than zero, de minimis, or those determined entirely under section 776
of the Act have been established for individually examined entities, in
accordance with section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act, the Department
averages the margins calculated in the petition and applies the result
to ``all-other'' entities not individually examined.
With respect to Brazil, in the Petitions,\11\ the petitioners
calculated only one margin. Therefore, for the all-others rate in the
investigation covering CTL plate from Brazil, we preliminarily assigned
the only margin calculated for subject merchandise from Brazil in the
Petitions, as recalculated for the purposes of initiation, which is
74.52 percent.\12\
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\11\ See Letter to the Secretary of Commerce from the
petitioners, ``Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate
from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the People's Republic of China,
France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic
of Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, and Turkey--Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties'' (April 8,
2016) (the Petitions) at Volume III. See also, AD Investigation
Initiation Checklist: Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length
Plate from Brazil (April 28, 2016) (in which the petition margin was
recalculated for purposes of initiation).
\12\ See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From Thailand:
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and
Postponement of Final Determination, 79 FR 10487 (February 25,
2014), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum, unchanged
in Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From India, the Republic of
Korea, Taiwan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders; and Certain Oil Country Tubular
Goods From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Amended Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 79 FR 53691
(September 10, 2014).
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With respect to South Africa, in the Petitions,\13\ the petitioners
calculated two margins.\14\ Consistent with our practice, we
preliminarily assigned as the ``all-others'' rate in the investigation
covering CTL plate from South Africa the simple average of the two
dumping margins calculated for subject merchandise from South Africa
provided in the Petitions, which is 87.72 percent.\15\
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\13\ See the Petitions at Volume X.
\14\ Id.
\15\ Id.; see also Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
Resin from India: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances,
81 FR 13327 (March 14, 2016) (PET Resin from India Final
Determination) and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at
Comment 14.
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With respect to Turkey, in the Petitions,\16\ the petitioners
calculated two margins. Consistent with our practice, we preliminarily
assigned as the ``all-others'' rate in the investigation covering CTL
plate from Turkey the simple average of the two dumping margins
calculated for subject merchandise from Turkey provided in the
Petitions, which is 42.02 percent.\17\
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\16\ See the Petitions at Volume XII.
\17\ Id.; PET Resin from India Final Determination at Comment
14.
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Preliminary Determinations
The Department preliminarily determines that the following
weighted-average dumping margins exist:
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Weighted
Exporter/producer average margin
(percent)
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Brazil
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Companhia Siderurgica Nacional.......................... 74.52
Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA.................. 74.52
All Others.............................................. 74.52
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South Africa
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Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corp.................. 94.14
All Others.............................................. 87.72
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Turkey
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Ere[gbreve]li Demir ve [Ccedil]elik Fabrikalari 50.00
T.A.[Scedil]...........................................
All Others.............................................. 42.02
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 733(d)(2) of the Act, we will direct
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation of all
entries of CTL plate from Brazil, South Africa and Turkey, as described
in the ``Scope of the Investigations'' in Appendix I, entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Further, section
733(e)(2) of the Act provides that, given an affirmative determination
of critical circumstances, any suspension of liquidation shall apply to
unliquidated entries of merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the later of: (a) The date which
is 90 days before the date on which the suspension of liquidation was
first ordered; or (b) the date on which notice of initiation of the
investigation was published. On September 7, 2016, we published our
preliminarily determination that critical circumstances exist for
imports from all producers and exporters of CTL plate from Brazil and
Turkey. In accordance with 733(e)(2)(A), suspension of liquidation of
CTL plate from Brazil and Turkey as described in the ``Scope of the
investigations'' in Appendix I, shall apply to unliquidated entries of
merchandise from all producers in Brazil and Turkey, that are entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date which
is 90 days before the publication of this notice, the date suspension
of liquidation is first ordered. At such time, we will also instruct
CBP, pursuant to section 733 (d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.205(d), to require a cash deposit equal to the margins indicated in
the charts above.\18\ These suspension of liquidation instructions will
remain in effect until further notice.
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\18\ See Modification of Regulations Regarding the Practice of
Accepting Bonds During the Provisional Measures Period in
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations, 76 FR 61042
(October 3, 2011).
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Verification
Because the mandatory respondents in these investigations did not
provide the information requested, the Department will not conduct
verifications.
Disclosure
Normally, the Department discloses to interested parties the
calculations performed in connection with a preliminary determination
within five days after public announcement of the preliminary
determination in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Because the
Department preliminarily applied AFA to each of the mandatory
respondents in these investigations, in accordance with section 776 of
the Act, there are no calculations to disclose.
Public Comment
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary
determinations no later than 30 days after the date of publication of
these preliminary determinations.\19\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in case briefs, may be submitted no later than five days
after the deadline date for case briefs.\20\ Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal
briefs in these proceedings are encouraged to submit with each
argument: (1) A statement of the issue; (2) a brief summary of the
argument; and (3) a table of authorities.
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\19\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for
general filing requirements).
\20\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for general
filing requirements).
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In its Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum, the Department
established separate deadlines for interested parties to provide
comments on scope issues.\21\ Specifically, case briefs on scope issues
may be submitted no later than 30 days after the publication of the
preliminary countervailing duty determinations for CTL plate from China
and Korea in the Federal Register. Rebuttal scope briefs, limited to
issues raised in the scope case briefs, may be submitted no later than
five days after the deadline for the scope case briefs. Parties should
limit any comments on scope issues to their scope case brief and
rebuttal scope brief.
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\21\ See Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum at page 15.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce. All documents
must be filed electronically using ACCESS. An electronically-filed
request must be received successfully in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00
p.m. Eastern Time, within 30 days after the date of publication of this
notice.\22\ Requests should contain the party's name, address, and
telephone number, the number of participants, and a list of the issues
to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is made, the Department
intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time and date to be
determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and
location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
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\22\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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U.S. International Trade Commission Notification
In accordance with section 733(f) of the Act, we are notifying the
U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) of our affirmative
preliminary determinations of sales at LTFV. If our final
determinations are affirmative, the ITC will determine before the later
of 120 days after the date of these preliminary determinations or 45
days after our final determinations whether these imports are
materially injuring, or threaten material injury to, the U.S. industry.
These determinations are issued and published in accordance with
sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(c).
Dated: September 15, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
Scope of the Investigations
The products covered by these investigations are certain carbon
and alloy steel hot-rolled or forged flat plate products not in
coils, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or
other non-metallic substances (cut-to-length plate). Subject
merchandise includes plate that is produced by being cut-to-length
from coils or from other discrete length plate and plate that is
rolled or forged into a discrete length. The products covered
include (1) Universal
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mill plates (i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a
closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not exceeding 1250
mm, and of a thickness of not less than 4 mm, which are not in coils
and without patterns in relief), and (2) hot-rolled or forged flat
steel products of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more and of a width
which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness, and
which are not in coils, whether or not with patterns in relief. The
covered products described above may be rectangular, square,
circular or other shapes and include products of either rectangular
or non-rectangular cross-section where such non-rectangular 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, the following rules apply:
(1) Except where otherwise stated where the nominal and actual
thickness or width measurements vary, a product from a given subject
country 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 product is already covered by
an order existing on that specific country (e.g., orders on hot-
rolled flat-rolled steel); and
(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 of these investigations are
products in which: (1) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of
the other contained elements; and (2) the carbon content is 2
percent or less by weight.
Subject merchandise includes cut-to-length plate that has been
further processed in the subject country or a third country,
including but not limited to pickling, oiling, levelling, annealing,
tempering, temper rolling, skin passing, painting, varnishing,
trimming, cutting, punching, beveling, and/or slitting, or any other
processing that would not otherwise remove the merchandise from the
scope of these investigations if performed in the country of
manufacture of the cut-to-length plate.
All products that meet the written physical description, are
within the scope of these investigations unless specifically
excluded or covered by the scope of an existing order. The following
products are outside of, and/or specifically excluded from, the
scope of these investigations:
(1) Products clad, plated, or coated with metal, whether or not
painted, varnished or coated with plastic or other non-metallic
substances;
(2) military grade armor plate certified to one of the following
specifications or to a specification that references and
incorporates one of the following specifications:
MIL-A-12560,
MIL-DTL-12560H,
MIL-DTL-12560J,
MIL-DTL-12560K,
MIL-DTL-32332,
MIL-A-46100D,
MIL-DTL-46100-E,
MIL-46177C,
MIL-S-16216K Grade HY80,
MIL-S-16216K Grade HY100,
MIL-S-24645A HSLA-80;
MIL-S-24645A HSLA-100,
T9074-BD-GIB-010/0300 Grade HY80,
T9074-BD-GIB-010/0300 Grade HY100,
T9074-BD-GIB-010/0300 Grade HSLA80,
T9074-BD-GIB-010/0300 Grade HSLA100, and
T9074-BD-GIB-010/0300 Mod. Grade HSLA115, except that
any cut-to-length plate certified to one of the above
specifications, or to a military grade armor specification that
references and incorporates one of the above specifications, will
not be excluded from the scope if it is also dual- or multiple-
certified to any other non-armor specification that otherwise would
fall within the scope of this order;
(3) stainless steel plate, containing 10.5 percent or more of
chromium by weight and not more than 1.2 percent of carbon by
weight;
(4) CTL plate meeting the requirements of ASTM A-829, Grade E
4340 that are over 305 mm in actual thickness;
(5) Alloy forged and rolled CTL plate greater than or equal to
152.4 mm in actual thickness meeting each of the following
requirements:
(a) Electric furnace melted, ladle refined & vacuum degassed and
having a chemical composition (expressed in weight percentages):
Carbon 0.23-0.28,
Silicon 0.05-0.20,
Manganese 1.20-1.60,
Nickel not greater than 1.0,
Sulfur not greater than 0.007,
Phosphorus not greater than 0.020,
Chromium 1.0-2.5,
Molybdenum 0.35-0.80,
Boron 0.002-0.004,
Oxygen not greater than 20 ppm,
Hydrogen not greater than 2 ppm, and
Nitrogen not greater than 60 ppm;
(b) With a Brinell hardness measured in all parts of the product
including mid thickness falling within one of the following ranges:
(i) 270-300 HBW,
(ii) 290-320 HBW, or
(iii) 320-350HBW;
(c) Having cleanliness in accordance with ASTM E45 method A
(Thin and Heavy): A not exceeding 1.5, B not exceeding 1.0, C not
exceeding 0.5, D not exceeding 1.5; and
(d) Conforming to ASTM A578-S9 ultrasonic testing requirements
with acceptance criteria 2 mm flat bottom hole;
(6) Alloy forged and rolled steel CTL plate over 407 mm in
actual thickness and meeting the following requirements:
(a) Made from Electric Arc Furnace melted, Ladle refined &
vacuum degassed, alloy steel with the following chemical composition
(expressed in weight percentages):
Carbon 0.23-0.28,
Silicon 0.05-0.15,
Manganese 1.20-1.50,
Nickel not greater than 0.4,
Sulfur not greater than 0.010,
Phosphorus not greater than 0.020,
Chromium 1.20-1.50,
Molybdenum 0.35-0.55,
Boron 0.002-0.004,
Oxygen not greater than 20 ppm,
Hydrogen not greater than 2 ppm, and
Nitrogen not greater than 60 ppm;
(b) Having cleanliness in accordance with ASTM E45 method A
(Thin and Heavy): A not exceeding 1.5, B not exceeding 1.5, C not
exceeding 1.0, D not exceeding 1.5;
(c) Having the following mechanical properties:
(i) With a Brinell hardness not more than 237 HBW measured in
all parts of the product including mid thickness; and having a Yield
Strength of 75ksi min and UTS 95ksi or more, Elongation of 18% or
more and Reduction of area 35% or more; having charpy V at -75
degrees F in the longitudinal direction equal or greater than 15 ft.
lbs (single value) and equal or greater than 20 ft. lbs (average of
3 specimens) and conforming to the requirements of NACE MR01-75; or
(ii) With a Brinell hardness not less than 240 HBW measured in
all parts of the product including mid thickness; and having a Yield
Strength of 90 ksi min and UTS 110 ksi or more, Elongation of 15% or
more and Reduction of area 30% or more; having charpy V at -40
degrees F in the longitudinal direction equal or greater than 21 ft.
lbs (single value) and equal or greater than 31 ft. lbs (average of
3 specimens);
(d) Conforming to ASTM A578-S9 ultrasonic testing requirements
with acceptance criteria 3.2 mm flat bottom hole; and
(e) Conforming to magnetic particle inspection in accordance
with AMS 2301;
(7) Alloy forged and rolled steel CTL plate over 407 mm in
actual thickness and meeting the following requirements:
(a) Made from Electric Arc Furnace melted, ladle refined &
vacuum degassed, alloy steel with the following chemical composition
(expressed in weight percentages):
Carbon 0.25-0.30,
Silicon not greater than 0.25,
Manganese not greater than 0.50,
Nickel 3.0-3.5,
Sulfur not greater than 0.010,
Phosphorus not greater than 0.020,
Chromium 1.0-1.5,
Molybdenum 0.6-0.9,
Vanadium 0.08 to 0.12
Boron 0.002-0.004,
Oxygen not greater than 20 ppm,
Hydrogen not greater than 2 ppm, and
Nitrogen not greater than 60 ppm.
(b) Having cleanliness in accordance with ASTM E45 method A
(Thin and Heavy): A not exceeding 1.0(t) and 0.5(h), B not exceeding
1.5(t) and 1.0(h), C not exceeding 1.0(t) and 0.5(h), and D not
exceeding 1.5(t) and 1.0(h);
(c) Having the following mechanical properties: A Brinell
hardness not less than 350 HBW measured in all parts of the product
including mid thickness; and having a Yield Strength of 145ksi or
more and UTS 160ksi or more, Elongation of 15% or more and Reduction
of area 35% or more; having charpy V at -40 degrees F in the
transverse direction equal or greater than 20 ft. lbs
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(single value) and equal or greater than 25 ft. lbs (average of 3
specimens);
(d) Conforming to ASTM A578-S9 ultrasonic testing requirements
with acceptance criteria 3.2 mm flat bottom hole; and
(e) Conforming to magnetic particle inspection in accordance
with AMS 2301.
The products subject to these investigations are currently
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) under item numbers: 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060,
7208.51.0030, 7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000,
7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 7225.40.1110,
7225.40.1180, 7225.40.3005, 7225.40.3050, 7226.20.0000, and
7226.91.5000.
The products subject to these investigations may also enter
under the following HTSUS item numbers: 7208.40.6060, 7208.53.0000,
7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 7211.19.1500,
7211.19.2000, 7211.19.4500, 7211.19.6000, 7211.19.7590,
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000,
7214.10.0000, 7214.30.0010, 7214.30.0080, 7214.91.0015,
7214.91.0060, 7214.91.0090, 7225.11.0000, 7225.19.0000,
7225.40.5110, 7225.40.5130, 7225.40.5160, 7225.40.7000,
7225.99.0010, 7225.99.0090, 7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9060,
7226.19.1000, 7226.19.9000, 7226.91.0500, 7226.91.1530,
7226.91.1560, 7226.91.2530, 7226.91.2560, 7226.91.7000,
7226.91.8000, and 7226.99.0180.
The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and
customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of these
investigations is dispositive.
Appendix II
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Period of Investigations
IV. Scope of the Investigations
V. Scope Comments
VI. Application of Facts Available and Use of Adverse Inference, and
Calculation of All-Others Rate
VII. Critical Circumstances
VIII. Verification
IX. Conclusion
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