[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 232 (Friday, December 2, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87021-87022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28982]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-469-805]
Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances
Review: Stainless Steel Bar From Spain
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On October 26, 2016, the Department of Commerce (the
``Department'') published the notice of initiation and preliminary
results of the changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty
(``AD'') order on stainless steel bar (``SSB'') from Spain. The
Department preliminarily determined that Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L.
(``Sidenor'') is the successor-in-interest to Gerdau Aceros Especiales
Europa S.L. (``Gerdau'') for purposes of the AD order and, as such, is
entitled to Gerdau's cash deposit rate with respect to entries of
subject merchandise. We invited interested parties to comment on the
Preliminary Results. As no parties submitted comments, and there is no
additional information or evidence on the record, the Department is
making no changes to the Preliminary Results.
DATES: Effective December 2, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Mullen, AD/CVD Operations, Office
V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-5260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 6, 2016, Sidenor informed the Department that,
effective May 20, 2016, the following occurred: (1) Gerdau S.A., the
Brazilian owner of Gerdau Holdings Europa S.A.U., including its Spanish
subsidiary company Gerdau, sold its European holdings to Clerbil S.L.;
and (2) Clerbil S.L. renamed Gerdau Holdings Europa S.A.U. to be
Sidenor Holdings Europa S.A.U.; and Gerdau, to be Sidenor, while
leaving its operations mostly unchanged.\1\ Citing section 751(b) of
the of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act'') and 19 CFR
351.216, Sidenor requested that the Department initiate a changed
circumstances review and determine that Sidenor is the successor-in-
interest to Gerdau. On October 26, 2016, the Department initiated this
changed circumstances review and published the notice of preliminary
results, determining that Sidenor is the successor-in-interest to
Gerdau.\2\
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\1\ See Letter to the Secretary of Commerce from Sidenor,
``Stainless Steel Bar from Spain: Sidenor request for changed-
circumstances review'' (September 22, 2016) at 3-6.
\2\ See Stainless Steel Bar From Spain: Initiation and
Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, 81 FR 74401
(October 26, 2016) (Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is SSB. The term SSB with
respect to the order means articles of stainless steel in straight
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn,
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles,
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles,
hexagons, octagons or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished
SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the rolling process. Except as specified
above, the term does not include stainless steel semi-finished
products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., cut length rolled
products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have a width measuring
at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in thickness
having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the
thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform
solid cross section along their whole length, which do not conform to
the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, shapes and
sections. 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'').
Although the HTSUS subheading is provided for convenience and customs
purposes, our written description of the scope of this investigation is
dispositive.\3\
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\3\ The HTSUS numbers provided in the scope have changed since
the publication of the order. See Amended Final Determination and
Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From Spain, 60 FR 11656
(March 2, 1995).
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review
Because no party submitted a case brief in response to the
Department's Preliminary Results, and because the record contains no
other information or evidence that calls into question the Preliminary
Results, the Department
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continues to find that Sidenor is the successor-in-interest to Gerdau,
and is entitled to Gerdau's cash deposit rate with respect to entries
of merchandise subject to the AD order on SSB from Spain.\4\
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\4\ For a complete discussion of the Department's findings,
which remain unchanged in these final results and which are herein
incorporated by reference and adopted by this notice, see generally
Preliminary Results.
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Instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Based on these final results, we will instruct U.S. Customs and
Border Protection to collect estimated antidumping duties for all
shipments of subject merchandise exported by Sidenor and entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication
of this notice in the Federal Register at the current AD cash deposit
rate for Gerdau (i.e., 0 percent). This case deposit requirement shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice serves as a final 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/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 sanctionable violation.
We are issuing and publishing this final results notice in
accordance with sections 751(b) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.216.
Dated: November 29, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2016-28982 Filed 12-1-16; 8:45 am]
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