Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 245 / Monday, December 21, 2020 / Notices 83059 

1See Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, 

Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic, 

the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and 

Ukraine: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 85 FR 47176 (August 4, 2020) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination in the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Seamless 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and 

Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The United States Travel and 

Tourism Advisory Board (Board or 

TTAB) will hold a meeting on 

Wednesday, January 13, 2021. The 

Board advises the Secretary of 

Commerce on matters relating to the 

U.S. travel and tourism industry. This 

will be the first meeting of the newly 

appointed 2020–2022 Board. The 

purpose of the meeting is for Board 

members to discuss key issues related to 

travel and tourism in the United States 

and for the Secretary of Commerce to 

charge the Board with recommending 

priorities in travel and tourism that 

should be addressed to support the 

recovery and growth of the sector and 

restore foreign travel to the United 

States. The final agenda will be posted 

on the Department of Commerce website 

for the Board at https://www.trade.gov/ 

us-travel-and-tourism-advisory-board at 

least one week in advance of the 

meeting. 

DATES: Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 

1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. EST. The deadline 

for members of the public to register, 

including requests to make comments 

during the meeting and for auxiliary 

aids, or to submit written comments for 

dissemination prior to the meeting, is 

5:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, January 6, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually. The access information will be 

provided by email to registrants. 

Requests to register (including to 

speak or for auxiliary aids) and any 

written comments should be submitted 

by email to TTAB@trade.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Aguinaga, the United States 

Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, 

National Travel and Tourism Office, 

U.S. Department of Commerce; 

telephone: 202–482–2404; email: 

TTAB@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Board advises the 

Secretary of Commerce on matters 

relating to the U.S. travel and tourism 

industry. 

Public Participation: The meeting will 

be open to the public and will be 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Any member of the public requesting to 

join the meeting is asked to register in 

advance by the deadline identified 

under the DATES caption. Requests for 

auxiliary aids must be submitted by the 

registration deadline. Last minute 

requests will be accepted, but may not 

be possible to fill. There will be fifteen 

(15) minutes allotted for oral comments 

from members of the public joining the 

meeting. To accommodate as many 

speakers as possible, the time for public 

comments may be limited to three (3) 

minutes per person. Members of the 

public wishing to reserve speaking time 

during the meeting must submit a 

request at the time of registration, as 

well as the name and address of the 

proposed speaker. If the number of 

registrants requesting to make 

statements is greater than can be 

reasonably accommodated during the 

meeting, the International Trade 

Administration may conduct a lottery to 

determine the speakers. Speakers are 

requested to submit a written copy of 

their prepared remarks by 5:00 p.m. EST 

on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, for 

inclusion in the meeting records and for 

circulation to the members of the Board. 

In addition, any member of the public 

may submit pertinent written comments 

concerning the Board’s affairs at any 

time before or after the meeting. 

Comments may be submitted to Jennifer 

Aguinaga at the contact information 

indicated above. To be considered 

during the meeting, comments must be 

received no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on 

Wednesday, January 6, 2021, to ensure 

transmission to the Board prior to the 

meeting. Comments received after that 

date and time will be distributed to the 

members but may not be considered 

during the meeting. Copies of Board 

meeting minutes will be available 

within 90 days of the meeting. 

Jennifer Aguinaga, 

Designated Federal Officer, United States 

Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28037 Filed 12–18–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–851–804] 

Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel 

Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe 

From the Czech Republic: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that seamless carbon and alloy steel 

standard, line, and pressure pipe 

(seamless pipe) from the Czech Republic 

is being, or is likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). The period of investigation is 

July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable December 21, 2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dmitry Vladimirov at (202) 482–0665, 

AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce published the notice of 

initiation of this investigation on August 

4, 2020.1 Liberty Ostrava A.S. (Liberty 

Ostrava) and Moravia Steel A.S. 

(Moravia Steel) are the mandatory 

respondents in this investigation. For a 

complete description of the events that 

followed the initiation of this 

investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.2 A list of topics 

included in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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 https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

frn/. The signed and the electronic 

versions of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are seamless pipe and 

redraw hollows from the Czech 

Republic, less than or equal to 16 inches 

in nominal outside diameter, regardless 

of wall-thickness, manufacturing 

process, end finish, or surface finish. 

For a full description of the scope of this 

investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of the 

Investigation,’’ in Appendix I of this 

notice. 

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3See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997) 

(Preamble). 

4See Initiation Notice, 85 FR at 47176. 

5See Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, 

Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Republic of Korea, 

the Russian Federation, and Ukraine: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 85 FR 73687 

(November 19, 2020). 

6The deadline for interested parties to submit 

scope case and rebuttal briefs will be established in 

the preliminary scope decision memorandum. 

7See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Petitions for the 

Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duties: Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, 

Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic, 

the Republic of Korea, Russia, and Ukraine,’’ dated 

July 8, 2020 (Petitions) at Volume IV; see also AD 

Investigation Initiation Checklist: Seamless Carbon 

and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe 

from the Czech Republic (July 28, 2020) (Initiation 

Checklist). 

8See, e.g., Notice of Final Determination of Sales 

at Less Than Fair Value: Sodium Nitrite from the 

Federal Republic of Germany, 73 FR 38986, 38987 

(July 8, 2008), and accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum at Comment 2. 

9See Petitions at Volume IV and Initiation 

Checklist. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the Preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,3 we set aside a 

period of time, as stated in the Initiation 

Notice, for parties to raise issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).4

We received several comments 

concerning scope of the antidumping 

duty (AD) and countervailing duty 

(CVD) investigations of seamless pipe as 

it appeared in the Initiation Notice. We 

are currently evaluating the scope 

comments filed by the interested 

parties. We intend to issue our 

preliminary decision regarding the 

scope of this and the companion AD 

and CVD investigations no later than 

February 3, 2021, the deadline for the 

preliminary determinations in the 

companion AD investigations.5 We will 

issue a final scope decision after 

considering any relevant comments 

submitted in scope case and rebuttal 

briefs.6

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act). Pursuant to sections 

776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce has 

preliminarily relied upon facts 

otherwise available to assign estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins to 

the mandatory respondents in this 

investigation because neither of the 

respondents submitted a response to 

Commerce’s antidumping duty 

questionnaire. Further, Commerce 

preliminarily determines that these 

mandatory respondents failed to 

cooperate by not acting to the best of 

their ability to comply with a request for 

information and is using an adverse 

inference in selecting from among the 

facts otherwise available (i.e., applying 

adverse facts available (AFA)) to these 

respondents, in accordance with section 

776(b) of Act. For a full description of 

the methodology underlying our 

preliminary determination, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Section 733(d)(1)(ii) of the Act 

provides that, in the preliminary 

determination, Commerce shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for all exporters and producers not 

individually investigated in accordance 

with section 735(c)(5) of the Act. 

Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states 

that generally the estimated rate for all 

others shall be an amount equal to the 

weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero and de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. The estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins in 

this preliminary determination were 

calculated entirely under section 776 of 

the Act. In cases where no weightedaverage dumping margins other than 

zero, de minimis, or those determined 

entirely under section 776 of the Act 

have been established for individually 

examined entities, in accordance with 

section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act, 

Commerce typically averages the 

margins alleged in the petition and 

applies the results to all other entities 

not individually examined. 

In the Petitions,7 the petitioner 

calculated two estimated dumping 

margins, 50.45 percent and 51.70 

percent. Therefore, consistent with our 

practice,8 for the all-others rate in this 

investigation, we preliminarily assigned 

a simple average of the dumping 

margins alleged in the Petitions, which 

is 51.07 percent.9

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist during 

the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 

2020: 

Exporter/producer 

Dumping margin 

(percent) 

Liberty Ostrava A.S .............. 51.70 

Moravia Steel A.S ................. 51.70 

All Others .............................. 51.07 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

suspend liquidation of all entries of 

seamless pipe from the Czech Republic, 

as described in the ‘‘Scope of the 

Investigation’’ in Appendix I, entered, 

or withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

We will also instruct CBP, pursuant to 

section 733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(d), to require a cash 

deposit equal to the margins indicated 

in the chart above. These suspension of 

liquidation instructions will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Verification 

Because the mandatory respondents 

in this investigation did not act to the 

best of their ability to provide 

information requested by Commerce, 

and Commerce preliminarily determines 

each of the mandatory respondents to be 

uncooperative, we will not conduct 

verifications. 

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce discloses to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with a 

preliminary determination within five 

days of any public announcement or, if 

there is no public announcement, 

within five days of the date of 

publication of the notice of preliminary 

determination in the Federal Register, 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

However, because Commerce 

preliminarily applied AFA to each of 

the mandatory respondents in this 

investigation, in accordance with 

section 776 of the Act, there are no 

calculations to disclose. 

Public Comment 

As noted above, Commerce will issue 

a preliminary scope decision no later 

than February 3, 2021. All interested 

parties will have the opportunity to 

submit case and rebuttal briefs on the 

preliminary scope determination by the 

deadline established in the 

memorandum. All parties filing scope 

briefs or rebuttals thereto, must file 

identical documents simultaneously on 

the records of all the ongoing AD and 

CVD seamless pipe investigations. No 

new factual information or business 

proprietary information may be 

included in either scope briefs or 

rebuttal scope briefs. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination no later than 30 days 

after the date of publication of this 

Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 245 / Monday, December 21, 2020 / Notices 83061 

10See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 

351.303 (for general filing requirements). 

11See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also 19 CFR 

351.303 (for general filing requirements). 

12See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD 

Service Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension 

of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020). 

preliminary determination.10 Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in case 

briefs, may be submitted no later than 

seven days after the deadline date for 

case briefs.11 Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties who 

submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in 

this proceeding are encouraged to 

submit with each argument: (1) A 

statement of the issue; (2) a brief 

summary of the argument; and (3) a 

table of authorities. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

request to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 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 whether any participant is a foreign 

national; and (3) a list of the issues to 

be discussed. If a request for a hearing 

is made, Commerce intends to hold the 

hearing at a time and date to be 

determined. Parties should confirm by 

telephone the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

An electronically filed document 

must be received successfully in its 

entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on the established 

deadline. Commerce has modified 

certain of its requirements for serving 

documents containing business 

proprietary information, until further 

notice.12

Final Determination 

Section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(1) provide that 

Commerce will issue the final 

determination within 75 days after the 

date of its preliminary determination. 

Accordingly, Commerce will make its 

final determination no later than 75 

days after the signature date of this 

preliminary determination. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

our affirmative preliminary 

determination. If our final 

determination is affirmative, the ITC 

will determine before the later of 120 

days after the date of this preliminary 

determination or 45 days after our final 

determination whether these imports 

are materially injuring, or threaten 

material injury to, the U.S. industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: December 15, 2020. 

Jeffrey I. Kessler, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by the scope of 

this investigation is seamless carbon and 

alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipes 

and redraw hollows, less than or equal to 16 

inches (406.4 mm) in nominal outside 

diameter, regardless of wall-thickness, 

manufacturing process (e.g., hot-finished or 

cold-drawn), end finish (e.g., plain end, 

beveled end, upset end, threaded, or 

threaded and coupled), or surface finish (e.g., 

bare, lacquered or coated). Redraw hollows 

are any unfinished carbon or alloy steel 

(other than stainless steel) pipe or ‘‘hollow 

profiles’’ suitable for cold finishing 

operations, such as cold drawing, to meet the 

American Society for Testing and Materials 

(ASTM) or American Petroleum Institute 

(API) specifications referenced below, or 

comparable specifications. Specifically 

included within the scope are seamless 

carbon and alloy steel (other than stainless 

steel) standard, line, and pressure pipes 

produced to the ASTM A–53, ASTM A–106, 

ASTM A–333, ASTM A–334, ASTM A–589, 

ASTM A–795, ASTM A–1024, and the API 

5L specifications, or comparable 

specifications, and meeting the physical 

parameters described above, regardless of 

application, with the exception of the 

exclusions discussed below. 

Specifically excluded from the scope of the 

investigation are: (1) All pipes meeting 

aerospace, hydraulic, and bearing tubing 

specifications, including pipe produced to 

the ASTM A–822 standard; (2) all pipes 

meeting the chemical requirements of ASTM 

A–335, whether finished or unfinished; and 

(3) unattached couplings. Also excluded from 

the scope of the investigation are all 

mechanical, boiler, condenser and heat 

exchange tubing, except when such products 

conform to the dimensional requirements, 

i.e., outside diameter and wall thickness, of 

ASTM A–53, ASTM A–106 or API 5L 

specifications. 

Subject seamless standard, line, and 

pressure pipe are normally entered under 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS) subheadings 7304.19.1020, 

7304.19.1030, 7304.19.1045, 7304.19.1060, 

7304.19.5020, 7304.19.5050, 7304.31.6050, 

7304.39.0016, 7304.39.0020, 7304.39.0024, 

7304.39.0028, 7304.39.0032, 7304.39.0036, 

7304.39.0040, 7304.39.0044, 7304.39.0048, 

7304.39.0052, 7304.39.0056, 7304.39.0062, 

7304.39.0068, 7304.39.0072, 7304.51.5005, 

7304.51.5060, 7304.59.6000, 7304.59.8010, 

7304.59.8015, 7304.59.8020, 7304.59.8025, 

7304.59.8030, 7304.59.8035, 7304.59.8040, 

7304.59.8045, 7304.59.8050, 7304.59.8055, 

7304.59.8060, 7304.59.8065, and 

7304.59.8070. The HTSUS subheadings and 

specifications are provided for convenience 

and customs purposes; the written 

description of the scope is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum: 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope of Investigation 

V. Application of Facts Available, Use of 

Adverse Inference, and Calculation of 

All-Others Rate 

VI. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2020–28094 Filed 12–18–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XA692] 

Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

Management Council’s (Pacific Council) 

Groundfish Management Team (GMT) 

will hold a week-long work session that 

is open to the public. 

DATES: The GMT meeting will be held 

Monday, January 11 through Friday, 

January 15, 2021, from 9 a.m., Pacific 

Standard Time, until business for each 

day has been completed. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

online. Specific meeting information, 

including directions on how to join the 

meeting and system requirements will 

be provided in the meeting 

announcement on the Pacific Council’s 

website (see www.pcouncil.org). You 

may send an email to Mr. Kris 

Kleinschmidt (kris.kleinschmidt@

noaa.gov) or contact him at (503) 820– 

2412 for technical assistance. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Todd Phillips, Pacific Council, (503) 

820–2426. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

primary purpose of this week-long work