[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 22, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23633-23634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10878]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-825]
Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 1, 2018, the Department of Commerce (Commerce)
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. The
period of review (POR) is February 1, 2016, through January 31, 2017.
For the final results of this review, we continue to find that Villares
Metals S.A. (Villares) has not made sales of subject merchandise at
less than normal value during the POR.
DATES: Applicable May 22, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dmitry Vladimirov, Office I,
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0665.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 1, 2018, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of the
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from
Brazil.\1\ The administrative review covers one producer/exporter of
the subject merchandise, Villares. We gave interested parties an
opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results. We received no
comments. Hence, these final results are unchanged from the Preliminary
Results. Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 8839 (March
1, 2018) (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 subheadings are provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is
dispositive.
Final Results of the Administrative Review
We determine that a weighted-average dumping margin of 0.00 percent
exists for Villares for the period of February 1, 2016, through January
31, 2017.
Assessment
In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1) and the Final Modification,\2\ Commerce will instruct
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate all appropriate
entries for Villares without regard to antidumping duties.
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\2\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14,
2012) (Final Modification).
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For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by
Villares for
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which it did not know its merchandise was destined for the United
States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company
involved in the transaction. We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15
days after publication of the final results of this review.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for
all shipments of SSB from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the date of publication as provided by
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Villares
will be 0.00 percent, the weighted-average dumping margin established
in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise
exported by producers or exporters not covered in this administrative
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; (3) if the
exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the
original investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will
be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of this
proceeding for the producer of the subject merchandise; and (4) the
cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to
be 19.43 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV
Determination of Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil.\3\
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\3\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28,
1994) (LTFV Determination of Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil).
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These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in
effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
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 Secretary's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the destruction 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 terms of an APO is a violation subject
to sanction.
We are issuing and publishing these results of an administrative
review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: May 16, 2018.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2018-10878 Filed 5-21-18; 8:45 am]
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