[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1599-1600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-395]


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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

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On November 3, 2010, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from 
Brazil. The review covers one producer/exporter of the subject 
merchandise, Villares Metals S.A. (VMSA). The period of review is 
February 1, 2009, through January 31, 2010. We gave interested parties 
an opportunity to comment on our preliminary results. We received no 
comments on our preliminary results. The final weighted-average dumping 
margin for VMSA is listed below in the ``Final Results of Review'' 
section of this notice.

DATES: Effective Date: January 11, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Stewart or Minoo Hatten, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 5, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
0768 or (202) 482-1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 3, 2010, the Department published the preliminary 
results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
stainless steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. See Stainless Steel Bar From 
Brazil: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
75 FR 67689 (November 3, 2010) (Preliminary Results). We invited 
interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results. We did not 
receive comments from any interested parties.
    The Department has conducted this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).

Scope of the Order

    The scope of the order covers 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,

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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 7222.10.0005, 
7222.10.0050, 7222.20.0005, 7222.20.0045, 7222.20.0075, and 
7222.30.0000 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.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    We identified a slight programming syntax error in our calculations 
after publication of the Preliminary Results. We have corrected the 
syntax error for the final results. Despite this correction, the 
dumping margin for VMSA remains unchanged. For a more detailed 
description of this change please see the final analysis memorandum for 
VMSA, dated concurrently with this notice, which is on file in the 
Department's Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the main Commerce 
building.

Final Results of Review

    As announced in the Preliminary Results, we disregarded sales at 
prices below cost in the home market when determining normal value in 
the course of this administrative review. As a result of our review, we 
determine that the weighted-average dumping margin of 4.07 percent 
exists for VMSA for the period February 1, 2009, through January 31, 
2010.

Assessment Rates

    The Department shall determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries. In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), we have calculated importer/customer-specific assessment 
rates for these final results of review. For sales where VMSA reported 
entered value, we divided the total dumping margins (calculated as the 
difference between normal value and EP) for the reviewed sales by the 
total entered value of those reviewed sales for each reported importer 
or customer. For sales where entered value was not reported, we divided 
the total dumping margins for each exporter's importer or customer by 
the total number of units the exporter sold to that importer or 
customer. We will instruct CBP to assess the resulting importer/
customer-specific ad-valorem rate or per-unit dollar amount, as 
appropriate, on all entries of subject merchandise made by the relevant 
importer or customer during the period of review. See 19 CFR 
351.212(b).
    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the period of review produced by VMSA for which VMSA 
did not know its merchandise was destined for the United States. In 
such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries of 
VMSA-produced merchandise 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).
    The Department intends to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after 
the publication of these final results of review.

Cash-Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of this 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 VMSA will be 4.07 percent; (2) for previously reviewed or 
investigated companies not listed above, the cash-deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent 
period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the less-than-fair-value investigation but the 
manufacturer is, the cash-deposit rate will be the rate established for 
the most recent period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; (4) if 
neither the exporter nor the manufacturer has its own rate, the cash-
deposit rate will be the all-others rate for this proceeding, 19.43 
percent. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28, 
1994). These deposit requirements shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

Notification to Parties

    This notice serves as a reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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 notification of the 
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.

    Dated: January 4, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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