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1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 83 FR 

16298, 16304 (April 16, 2018). 

2See the Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Cut-to-Length 

Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from the 

Republic of Korea: Decision Memorandum for 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2017–2018,’’ dated 

concurrently with and hereby adopted by this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 3See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

electronically filed document must be 

received successfully in its entirety by 

Commerce’s electronic records system, 

ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain: (1) The party’s name, 

address and telephone number; (2) the 

number of participants; and (3) a list of 

issues to be discussed. Issues raised in 

the hearing will be limited to those 

raised in the respective case briefs. 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

the issues raised in any written briefs, 

not later than 120 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: December 14, 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. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–580–836] 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate Products From the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2017–2018 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that producers and/or exporters subject 

to this administrative review made sales 

of subject merchandise at less than 

normal value. Interested parties are 

invited to comment on these 

preliminary results of review. 

DATES: Applicable December 20, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yang Jin Chun or Thomas Schauer, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 

(202) 482–5760 or (202) 482–0410, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 16, 2018, Commerce 

initiated the administrative review of 

the antidumping duty order on certain 

cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate 

products (CTL plate) from the Republic 

of Korea (Korea).1 The period of review 

is February 1, 2017, through January 31, 

2018. 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the 

antidumping duty order are certain CTL 

plate. Imports of CTL plate are currently 

classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

under subheadings 7208.40.3030, 

7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 

7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 

7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 

7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 

7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 

7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 

7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 

7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 

7225.40.3050, 7225.40.7000, 

7225.50.6000, 7225.99.0090, 

7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, 

7226.91.8000, and 7226.99.0000. While 

the HTSUS subheadings are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes, 

the written description is dispositive. A 

full description of the scope of the order 

is contained in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.2

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751 of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 

Export price and constructed export 

price are calculated in accordance with 

section 772 of the Act. Normal value is 

calculated in accordance with section 

773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

topics included in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is included in 

the Appendix to this notice. The 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is made available 

to the public via Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at http://access.trade.gov and to all 

parties in Commerce’s Central Records 

Unit, located at room B8024 of the main 

Commerce building. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be found at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/ 

index.html. 

Adverse Facts Available 

Pursuant to section 776(a) of the Act, 

Commerce is preliminarily relying upon 

facts otherwise available to calculate 

certain expenses with respect to 

Hyundai Steel in this review because 

Hyundai Steel withheld necessary 

information that was requested by 

Commerce and failed to provide 

verifiable information. Further, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that Hyundai Steel failed to cooperate 

by not acting to the best of its ability to 

comply with requests for information 

and, thus, Commerce is applying 

adverse facts available (AFA) to 

Hyundai Steel, in accordance with 

section 776(b) of the Act. For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions regarding 

the application of AFA, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of the 

Administrative Review 

We preliminarily determine that the 

following weighted-average dumping 

margins exist for the respondents for the 

period February 1, 2017, through 

January 31, 2018. 

Producer/exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd .. 1.43 

Hyundai Steel Company ....... 4.19 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed for these preliminary results 

to the parties within five days after 

public announcement of the preliminary 

results in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.309(c), interested parties may 

submit case briefs not later than 30 days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 

raised in the case briefs, may be filed 

not later than five days after the date for 

filing case briefs.3 Parties who submit 

case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding are encouraged to submit 

with each argument: (1) A statement of 


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4See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

5See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

6 In these preliminary results, Commerce applied 

the assessment rate calculation method adopted in 

Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the 

Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Duty 

Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 

(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification for 

Reviews). 

7See Final Modification for Reviews, 77 FR at 

8103. See also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

8See, e.g., Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate Products From the Republic of Korea: 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2016–2017, 83 FR 32629, 32630 (July 13, 

2018). 

the issue, (2) a brief summary of the 

argument, and (3) a table of authorities.4

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, must submit a written request 

to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, filed 

electronically via ACCESS. An 

electronically filed document must be 

received successfully in its entirety by 

Commerce’s electronic records system, 

ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time 

within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.5 Requests 

should contain: (1) The party’s name, 

address and telephone number; (2) the 

number of participants; and (3) a list of 

issues to be discussed. Issues raised in 

the hearing will be limited to those 

raised in the respective case briefs. 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

the issues raised in any written briefs, 

not later than 120 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

Assessment Rates 

If a respondent’s weighted-average 

dumping margin is above de minimis in 

the final results of this review, we will 

calculate an importer-specific 

assessment rate based on the ratio of the 

total amount of dumping calculated for 

each importer’s examined sales and the 

total entered value of the sales in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).6

If a respondent’s weighted-average 

dumping margin or an importer-specific 

assessment rate is zero or de minimis in 

the final results of review, we will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to liquidate the 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties in accordance with 

the Final Modification for Reviews.7 The 

final results of this administrative 

review shall be the basis for the 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise under review 

and for future deposits of estimated 

duties, where applicable. 

For entries of subject merchandise 

during the period of review produced by 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. or Hyundai 

Steel Company for which they did not 

know their 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(ies) involved 

in the transaction. 

We intend to issue liquidation 

instructions to CBP 15 days after 

publication of the final results of this 

review. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements for estimated antidumping 

duties will be effective upon publication 

of the notice of final results of this 

review for all shipments of CTL plate 

from Korea entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication as provided by 

section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for companies subject to 

this review will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established in the final results of the 

review; (2) for merchandise exported by 

companies not covered in this review 

but covered in a prior segment of this 

proceeding, 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 

original investigation but the producer 

is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recently 

completed segment for the producer of 

the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers or exporters 

will continue to be 0.98 percent,8 the 

all-others rate established in the lessthan-fair-value investigation, adjusted 

for the export-subsidy rate in the 

companion countervailing duty 

investigation. 

These cash deposit requirements, 

when imposed, shall remain in effect 

until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a preliminary 

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 period 

of review. Failure to comply with this 

requirement could result in Commerce’s 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

these results in accordance with 

sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: December 14, 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. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Discussion of the Methodology 

A. Comparisons to Normal Value 

1. Determination of Comparison Method 

2. Results of the Differential Pricing 

Analysis 

B. Product Comparisons 

C. Date of Sale 

D. Level of Trade/CEP Offset 

E. Affiliated Service Providers 

F. Export Price and Constructed Export 

Price 

1. Dongkuk 

2. Hyundai Steel 

G. Normal Value 

1. Overrun Sales 

2. Selection of Comparison Market 

3. Affiliated Parties 

4. Affiliated Party Transactions and Arm’sLength Test 

5. Cost of Production 

6. Calculation of Normal Value Based on 

Comparison Market Prices 

V. Currency Conversion 

VI. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of 

Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti 

Under the Caribbean Basin Economic 

Recovery Act (CBERA), as Amended 

by the Haitian Hemispheric 

Opportunity Through Partnership 

Encouragement Act (HOPE) 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification of Annual 

Quantitative Limit on Imports of Certain 

Apparel from Haiti. 

SUMMARY: CBERA, as amended, 

provides duty-free treatment for certain 

apparel articles imported directly from 

Haiti. One of the preferences is known 

as the ‘‘value-added’’ provision, which 

requires that apparel meet a minimum 


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