[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 42 (Thursday, March 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11757-11758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4792]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-965]


Drill Pipe From the People's Republic of China: Antidumping 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 
(the ``ITC''), the Department is issuing an antidumping duty order on 
drill pipe from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). On February 
24, 2011, the ITC notified the Department of its affirmative 
determination of threat of material injury to a U.S. industry, and its 
negative determination of critical circumstances. See Drill Pipe and 
Drill Collars from China (Investigation Nos. 701-TA-474 and 731-TA-1176 
(Final), USITC Publication 4213, February 2011).

DATES: Effective Date: March 3, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Toni Dach or Susan Pulongbarit, Office 
9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1655 or (202) 482-4031, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 11, 2011, the Department published its affirmative final 
determination of sales at less than fair value in the antidumping duty 
investigation of drill pipe from the PRC. See Drill Pipe From the 
People's Republic of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value and Critical Circumstances, 76 FR 1966 (January 11, 2011) 
(``Final Determination''). On February 8, 2011, the Department 
published its amended final determination of sales at less than fair 
value in antidumping duty investigation of drill pipe from the PRC. See 
Drill Pipe From the People's Republic of China: Amended Final 
Determination of Critical Circumstances, 76 FR 6762 (February 8, 2011).
    On February 24, 2011, the ITC notified the Department of its final 
determination pursuant to section 735(b)(1)(A)(ii) 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 less than fair value 
imports of subject merchandise from the PRC. See letter from the ITC to 
the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Operations, dated February 24, 2011. In addition, 
the ITC notified the Department of its final determination that 
critical circumstances do not exist with respect to imports of subject 
merchandise from the PRC that are subject to the Department's 
affirmative critical circumstances finding. Pursuant to section 736(a) 
of the Act, the Department is publishing an antidumping duty order on 
drill pipe from the PRC.

Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the 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.
    While HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    On February 24, 2011, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, 
the ITC notified the Department of its final determination that an 
industry in the United States is threatened with material injury within 
the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act by reason of less-
than-fair-value imports of drill pipe from the PRC.
    Because the ITC's final determination 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, section 
736(b)(2) of the Act is applicable. Therefore, the Department will 
instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to terminate the 
suspension of liquidation, and to liquidate without regard to 
antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of drill pipe from the PRC 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption prior to the 
publication

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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:

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                Exporter                             Producer
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Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd..........  Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
Shanxi Yida Special Steel Imp. & Exp.    Shanxi Yida Special Steel Group
 Co., Ltd.                                Co., Ltd.
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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.

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                                                             Weighted-
            Exporter                     Producer         average margin
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The DP-Master Group............  The DP-Master Group....           69.32
Shanxi Fenglei Drilling Tools    Shanxi Fenglei Drilling           69.32
 Co., Ltd.                        Tools Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Shuguang Huayang         Jiangsu Shuguang                  69.32
 Drilling Tool, Co. Ltd           Huayang Drilling Tool,
                                  Co. Ltd
Jiangyin Long-Bright Drill Pipe  Jiangyin Long-Bright              69.32
 Manufacturing Co., Ltd           Drill Pipe
                                  Manufacturing Co., Ltd
PRC-wide Entity................  .......................          429.95
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    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]
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