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of the ITC’s final determination and 

release any bond or other security 

posted and refund any cash deposit of 

estimated antidumping duties made 

between the publication of the 

Department’s preliminary determination 

on August 18, 2010, and the publication 

of the ITC’s final determination. 

Suspension of liquidation will continue 

starting on or after the date of 

publication of the ITC’s notice of final 

determination of threat of material 

injury in the Federal Register, except 

for the imports of subject merchandise 

from those combinations of producers 

and exporters identified below: 

Exporter Producer 

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd ................................................................. Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. 

Shanxi Yida Special Steel Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd ...................................... Shanxi Yida Special Steel Group Co., Ltd. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, for all other 

manufacturers/exporters we will 

instruct CBP to suspend liquidation on 

all entries of subject merchandise from 

the PRC effective on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s notice of final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

We will also instruct CBP to require, at 

the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated customs 

duties on this merchandise, cash 

deposits for the subject merchandise 

equal to the estimated weighted-average 

antidumping margins listed below. See 

section 736(a)(3) of the Act. The 

estimated dumping margins for imports 

of subject merchandise from the PRC 

will be adjusted for export subsidies 

found in the final determination of the 

companion countervailing duty 

investigation of this merchandise 

imported from the PRC. See Drill Pipe 

From the People’s Republic of China: 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, Final Affirmative 

Critical Circumstances Determination, 

76 FR 1971 (January 11, 2011). 

Specifically, for cash deposit purposes, 

we are subtracting from the 

antidumping cash deposit rate 

applicable to DP–Master Manufacturing 

Co., Ltd. and Jiangyin Liangda Drill Pipe 

Co., Ltd. (‘‘collectively ‘‘the DP–Master 

Group’’) and for the separate-rate 

companies, the rate attributable to the 

export subsidies calculated in the 

affirmative countervailing duty 

determination on drill pipe from the 

PRC for the DP–Master Group, the sole 

respondent in that investigation. See 

Final Determination. The all others rate 

or PRC-wide rate, as applicable, apply to 

all producers or exporters not 

specifically listed. 

In accordance with section 736 of the 

Act, the Department will also direct CBP 

to assess antidumping duties on all 

unliquidated entries of subject 

merchandise from the PRC entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date on 

which the ITC publishes its notice of 

final determination of threat of material 

injury in the Federal Register. 

Exporter Producer Weighted-average margin 

The DP–Master Group ................................................................ The DP–Master Group ............................................................... 69.32 

Shanxi Fenglei Drilling Tools Co., Ltd ........................................ Shanxi Fenglei Drilling Tools Co., Ltd ....................................... 69.32 

Jiangsu Shuguang Huayang Drilling Tool, Co. Ltd Jiangsu Shuguang Huayang Drilling Tool, Co. Ltd 69.32 

Jiangyin Long-Bright Drill Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd Jiangyin Long-Bright Drill Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd 69.32 

PRC-wide Entity .......................................................................... .................................................................................................... 429.95 

With regard to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

imports of the subject merchandise from 

the PRC, we will instruct CBP to lift 

suspension and to release any bond or 

other security, and refund any cash 

deposit made, to secure the payment of 

estimated antidumping duties with 

respect to entries of the merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after May 20, 

2010 (i.e., 90 days prior to the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determination), but before August 18, 

2010. 

This notice constitutes the 

antidumping duty order with respect to 

drill pipe from the PRC, pursuant to 

section 736(a) of the Act. Interested 

parties may contact the Department’s 

Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the 

Main Commerce Building, for copies of 

an updated list of antidumping duty 

orders currently in effect. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 736(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: February 25, 2011. 

Paul Piquado, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4792 Filed 3–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–966] 

Drill Pipe From the People’s Republic 

of China: Countervailing Duty Order 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (the Department) and the 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

the Department is issuing a 

countervailing duty order on drill pipe 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(PRC). 

DATES: Effective Date: March 3, 2011. 

Contact Information: Kristen Johnson, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office 3, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–4793. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 11, 2011, the Department 

published its final determination that 

countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

drill pipe from the PRC. See Drill Pipe 

from the People’s Republic of China: 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, Final Affirmative 

Critical Circumstances Determination, 

76 FR 1971 (January 11, 2011). 


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1See Drill Pipe From the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, 75 FR 33245 (June 11, 2010) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

2The Department instructed CBP to discontinue 

the suspension of liquidation on October 9, 2010, 

in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act. 

Section 703(d) states that the suspension of 

liquidation pursuant to a preliminary determination 

may not remain in effect for more than four months. 

Entries of drill pipe from the PRC made on or after 

October 9, 2010, and prior to the date of publication 

of the ITC’s final determination in the Federal 

Register are not liable for the assessment of 

countervailing duties because of the Department’s 

discontinuation, effective October 9, 2010, of the 

suspension of liquidation. 

On February 24, 2011, the ITC 

notified the Department of its final 

determination pursuant to sections 

705(b)(1)(A)(ii) and 705(d) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), that 

an industry in the United States is 

threatened with material injury by 

reason of subsidized imports of subject 

merchandise from the PRC. The ITC also 

determined that critical circumstances 

do not exist. See Drill Pipe and Drill 

Collars from China, Investigation Nos. 

701–TA–474 and 731–TA–1176 (Final), 

USITC Publication 4213 (February 

2011). Pursuant to section 706(a) of the 

Act, the Department is publishing a 

countervailing duty order on the subject 

merchandise. 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by this order 

are steel drill pipe and steel drill collars, 

whether or not conforming to American 

Petroleum Institute (API) or non-API 

specifications. Included are finished 

drill pipe and drill collars without 

regard to the specific chemistry of the 

steel (i.e., carbon, stainless steel, or 

other alloy steel), and without regard to 

length or outer diameter. Also included 

are unfinished drill collars (including 

all drill collar green tubes) and 

unfinished drill pipe (including drill 

pipe green tubes, which are tubes 

meeting the following description: 

seamless tubes with an outer diameter 

of less than or equal to 6 5/8 inches 

(168.28 millimeters), containing 

between 0.16 and 0.75 percent 

molybdenum, and containing between 

0.75 and 1.45 percent chromium). The 

scope does not include tool joints not 

attached to the drill pipe, nor does it 

include unfinished tubes for casing or 

tubing covered by any other 

antidumping or countervailing duty 

order. 

The subject products are currently 

classified in the following Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS) categories: 7304.22.0030, 

7304.22.0045, 7304.22.0060, 

7304.23.3000, 7304.23.6030, 

7304.23.6045, 7304.23.6060, 

8431.43.8040 and may also enter under 

8431.43.8060, 8431.43.4000, 

7304.39.0028, 7304.39.0032, 

7304.39.0036, 7304.39.0040, 

7304.39.0044, 7304.39.0048, 

7304.39.0052, 7304.39.0056, 

7304.49.0015, 7304.49.0060, 

7304.59.8020, 7304.59.8025, 

7304.59.8030, 7304.59.8035, 

7304.59.8040, 7304.59.8045, 

7304.59.8050, and 7304.59.8055. 

The HTSUS subheadings are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes 

only. The written description of the 

scope of this order is dispositive. 

Countervailing Duty Order 

According to section 706(b)(2) of the 

Act, duties shall be assessed on subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of the ITC’s 

notice of final determination if that 

determination is based upon the threat 

of material injury. Section 706(b)(1) of 

the Act states, ‘‘{i}f the Commission, in 

its final determination under section 

705(b), finds material injury or threat of 

material injury which, but for the 

suspension of liquidation under section 

703(d)(2), would have led to a finding 

of material injury, then entries of the 

merchandise subject to the 

countervailing duty order, the 

liquidation of which has been 

suspended under section 703(d)(2), 

shall be subject to the imposition of 

countervailing duties under section 

701(a).’’ In addition, section 706(b)(2) of 

the Act requires U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) to refund any 

cash deposits or bonds of estimated 

countervailing duties posted before the 

date of publication of the ITC’s final 

affirmative determination, if the ITC’s 

final determination is based on threat 

other than the threat described in 

section 706(b)(1) of the Act. Because the 

ITC’s final determination in this case is 

based on the threat of material injury 

and is not accompanied by a finding 

that injury would have resulted but for 

the imposition of suspension of 

liquidation of entries since the 

Department’s Preliminary 

Determination 1 was published in the 

Federal Register, section 706(b)(2) of 

the Act is applicable. 

As a result of the ITC’s determination 

and in accordance with section 706(a)(1) 

of the Act, the Department will direct 

CBP to assess, upon further instruction 

by the Department, countervailing 

duties equal to the amount of the net 

countervailable subsidy for all relevant 

entries of drill pipe from the PRC. In 

accordance with section 706 of the Act, 

the Department will direct CBP to 

reinstitute suspension of liquidation,2

effective on the date of publication of 

the ITC’s notice of final determination 

in the Federal Register, and to require 

a cash deposit for each entry of subject 

merchandise in an amount equal to the 

net countervailable subsidy rates listed 

below. See section 706(a)(3) of the Act. 

The all others rate applies to all 

producers and exporters of subject 

merchandise not specifically listed. 

Producer/Exporter 

Net subsidy ad 

valorem rate 

(percent) 

DP Master Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (DP Master), Jiangyin Sanliang Petroleum Machinery Co., Ltd. (SPM); Jiangyin Liangda Drill 

Pipe Co., Ltd. (Liangda); Jiangyin Sanliang Steel Pipe Trading Co., Ltd. (SSP), and Jiangyin Chuangxin Oil Pipe Fittings Co., 

Ltd. (Chuangxin) (collectively, DP Master Group) ........................................................................................................................... 18.18 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 18.18 

Termination of the Suspension of 

Liquidation 

As a result of our affirmative critical 

circumstances finding on the DP Master 

Group and all other companies, CBP 

suspended liquidation and collected 

cash deposits or bonds on all entries by 

these companies made 90 days prior to 

our affirmative Preliminary 

Determination. 

The Department will instruct CBP to 

terminate the suspension of liquidation 

for entries of drill pipe from the PRC, 

entered or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption prior to the publication 

of the ITC’s notice of final 

determination. The Department will 

also instruct CBP to refund any cash 

deposits made and release any bonds 

with respect to entries of drill pipe 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 


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for consumption on or after March 13, 

2010 (i.e., 90 days prior to the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determination), but before the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

This notice constitutes the 

countervailing duty order with respect 

to drill pipe from the PRC, pursuant to 

section 706(a) of the Act. Interested 

parties may contact the Department’s 

Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the 

main Commerce Building, for copies of 

an updated list of countervailing duty 

orders currently in effect. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 706(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: February 25, 2011. 

Paul Piquado, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4796 Filed 3–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Request for Public Comments 

Concerning Regulatory Cooperation 

Activities That Would Help Eliminate or 

Reduce Unnecessary Regulatory 

Divergences in North America That 

Disrupt U.S. Exports 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Government 

recognizes that economic recovery and 

job creation will depend significantly on 

its ability to work collaboratively with 

key trading partners to promote free and 

open trade and investment. In our trade 

and investment relationships with 

Mexico and Canada, and within North 

America as a whole, the main 

impediments to greater trade and 

investment—and more open foreign 

markets for U.S. exporters and 

investors—are not tariffs or quotas, but 

rather unnecessary differences in 

product regulations that increase costs 

for producers and consumers in the 

United States, Canada, and Mexico. 

With this Notice, the Commerce 

Department, on behalf of the 

Administration, is seeking public input 

to help identify such divergences in 

North America, so that the U.S. 

Government can work cooperatively 

with Mexico and Canada to address 

them. 

President Obama explicitly linked 

trade to job creation when he 

announced the National Export 

Initiative in his 2010 State of the Union 

address, and set the ambitious goal of 

doubling U.S. exports in the next five 

years to support millions of jobs here at 

home. The President has focused 

particularly on efforts to remove 

unnecessary divergences in regulations 

with Canada and Mexico, our first and 

second largest export markets, 

respectively, and officials from the three 

countries have discussed strengthening 

regulatory cooperation to promote better 

regulation and facilitate trade, both 

bilaterally and trilaterally. President 

Obama met with President Felipe 

Caldero ́n of Mexico and Prime Minister 

Stephen Harper of Canada at the the 

North American Leaders’ Summit on 

August 10, 2009, in Guadalajara, 

Mexico. In the joint statement they 

issued at the end of that meeting they 

noted the progress that each of their 

governments had made in reducing 

unnecessary regulatory differences and 

they instructed their respective 

governments, ‘‘* * * to continue this 

work by building on the previous 

efforts, developing focused priorities 

and a specific timeline.’’ The United 

States Government is working with both 

Mexico and Canada to reduce 

unnecessary regulatory differences and 

to explore further regulatory 

cooperation activities aimed at reducing 

or eliminating such differences where 

they hinder trade and reduce 

competitiveness. In order to do so, the 

United States has established a HighLevel Regulatory Cooperation Council 

with Mexico and a Regulatory 

Cooperation Council with Canada. 

While these councils are bilateral, 

regulatory divergences exist that have 

consequences for firms in all three 

countries. Therefore, with this Notice, 

the Department of Commerce’s 

International Trade Administration 

(ITA), in support of the National Export 

Initiative (NEI) and pursuant to the 

Secretary of Commerce’s role as the 

chair of Trade Promotion Coordinating 

Committee, is requesting stakeholders to 

assist the Administration to identify 

opportunities for cooperation between 

or among the United States, Canada, and 

Mexico to reduce or eliminate 

regulatory divergences that disrupt trade 

in goods in the region, as well as any 

existing or emerging sectors that may 

benefit from regulatory coordination 

between these countries. Canada has 

already solicited similar input from its 

stakeholders, and Mexico has 

committed to do the same. 

DATES: The agency must receive 

comments on or before April 4, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submissions should be 

made via the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov under docket ITA– 

2011–0003–0001. Please direct written 

submissions to Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 

6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. The public 

is strongly encouraged to file 

submissions electronically rather than 

by mail. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding this notice should 

be directed to regcoop@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In his 

January 2010 State of the Union address, 

President Obama announced the NEI to 

double U.S. exports over five years and 

support the creation of new jobs. As the 

President’s Export Promotion Cabinet 

has undertaken to implement the NEI, 

regional and sectoral plans are being 

developed to tailor the U.S. 

Government’s NEI efforts based on the 

realities of trade in certain regions. For 

example, the North American Free 

Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created the 

world’s largest free trade area, linking 

444 million people and producing $17 

trillion in goods and services. Trilateral 

trade among Canada, Mexico, and the 

United States was $944.6 billion in 

2010. Despite this extensive trade 

among NAFTA partners, U.S. exporters 

indicate that they continue to encounter 

unnecessary divergences in regulatory 

measures in North America that disrupt 

trade. 

ITA has developed a Mature Markets 

Initiative (MMI) to evaluate how best to 

grow exports, create jobs, and support 

U.S. business growth in areas where 

trade is robust. Regulatory cooperation 

is a key component of the MMI. 

Accordingly, ITA has identified Canada 

and Mexico as mature markets and will 

seek ways to ease or eliminate 

regulatory differences that hinder 

competitiveness and negatively impact 

trade for U.S. firms, including new-tomarket and new-to-export businesses, 

particularly small- and medium-sized 

enterprises (SMEs). 

Trade may be impeded, for example, 

because countries apply different 

standards or technical requirements to 

address common environmental, health, 

safety, or other concerns with respect to 

certain products or product categories. 

In some instances, such divergences 

may be arbitrary and can lead to delays, 

additional costs, and burdens on U.S. 

suppliers, particularly SMEs, and, in 

some cases, can make it difficult or 

impossible for U.S. suppliers to 

penetrate foreign markets. These 

divergences can also increase regulatory 

burdens for governments and costs for 

consumers. In other cases, regulatory 


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