Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 42 / Friday, March 5, 2021 / Notices 12909 

1See Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, 

Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, 85 FR 83059 (December 21, 

2020) (Preliminary Determination). 

2See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Seamless Carbon and 

Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe 

(‘‘SSLPP’’) from Czechia: Case Brief,’’ dated January 

20, 2021. 

3 Id. 

4See 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). 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Investigations of Seamless 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and 

Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic, the 

Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and 

Ukraine: Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum,’’ dated January 13, 2021 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum). 

6See Preliminary Determination, 85 FR at 83060. 

paper products that have a basis weight 

not exceeding 29 grams per square 

meter prior to being creped and, if 

appropriate, flame-proofed. Crepe paper 

has a finely wrinkled surface texture 

and typically but not exclusively is 

treated to be flame-retardant. Crepe 

paper is typically but not exclusively 

produced as streamers in roll form and 

packaged in plastic bags. Crepe paper 

may or may not be bleached, dye 

colored, surface-colored, surface 

decorated or printed, glazed, sequined, 

embossed, die-cut, and/or flame 

retardant. Subject crepe paper may be 

rolled, flat or folded, and may be 

packaged by banding or wrapping with 

paper, by placing in plastic bags, and/ 

or by placing in boxes for distribution 

and use by the ultimate consumer. 

Packages of crepe paper subject to this 

order may consist solely of crepe paper 

of one color and/or style, or may contain 

multiple colors and/or styles. 

The merchandise subject to this order 

does not have specific classification 

numbers assigned to them under the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS). Subject 

merchandise may be entered under one 

or more of several different HTSUS 

subheadings, including: 4802.30; 

4802.54; 4802.61; 4802.62; 4802.69; 

4804.39; 4806.40; 4808.30; 4808.90; 

4811.90; 4818.90; 4823.90; 9505.90.40. 

The tariff classifications are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes; 

however, the written description of the 

scope of this order is dispositive. 

Continuation of the Order 

As a result of the determinations by 

Commerce and the ITC that revocation 

of the Order would likely lead to a 

continuation or recurrence of dumping 

and material injury to an industry in the 

United States, pursuant to section 

751(d)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.218(a), Commerce hereby orders the 

continuation of the Order. U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection will continue to 

collect AD cash deposits at the rates in 

effect at the time of entry for all imports 

of subject merchandise. 

The effective date of the continuation 

of the Order will be the date of 

publication in the Federal Register of 

this notice of continuation. Pursuant to 

section 751(c)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.218(c)(2), Commerce intends to 

initiate the next sunset review of the 

Order not later than 30 days prior to the 

fifth anniversary of the effective date of 

continuation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This five-year sunset review and this 

notice are in accordance with section 

751(c) of the Act and published 

pursuant to section 777(i)(1) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.218(f)(4). 

Dated: March 1, 2021. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–851–804] 

Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel 

Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe 

From the Czech Republic: Final 

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) 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). 

DATES: Applicable March 5, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dmitry Vladimirov, 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) 482–0665. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 21, 2020, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

Preliminary Determination.1 We invited 

interested parties to comment on the 

Preliminary Determination. We received 

comments on the Preliminary 

Determination from Vallourec Star, LP 

(the petitioner), a domestic producer of 

seamless pipe.2 In its case brief, the 

petitioner urges Commerce to adopt the 

findings and results of the Preliminary 

Determination in this final 

determination.3

Period of Investigation 

The period of investigation is July 1, 

2019, through June 30, 2020. 

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 the Appendix to this 

notice. 

Scope Comments 

During the course of this 

investigation, Commerce received 

comments from interested parties on the 

scope of the investigation as it appeared 

in the Initiation Notice.4 Commerce 

issued a Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum to address these 

comments.5 We did not receive 

comments from interested parties on the 

Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum. As discussed in 

Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce is modifying 

the scope language as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice to clarify certain 

exclusions. See the revised scope in the 

Appendix to this notice. 

Use of Adverse Facts Available 

As discussed in the Preliminary 

Determination, Commerce assigned to 

the mandatory respondents in this 

investigation, Liberty Ostrava A.S. and 

Moravia Steel A.S., estimated weightedaverage dumping margins on the basis 

of adverse facts available (AFA), 

pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act).6 There is no new information on 

the record that would cause us to revisit 

our decision in the Preliminary 

Determination. Accordingly, for this 

final determination, we continue to find 

that the application of AFA pursuant to 

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warranted with respect to Liberty 

Ostrava A.S. and Moravia Steel A.S. 

All-Others Rates 

As discussed in the Preliminary 

Determination, Commerce based the allothers rate on the simple average of the 

dumping margins alleged in the 

petition, in accordance with section 

735(c)(5)(B) of the Act.7 We made no 

changes to the selection of the all-others 

rate for this final determination. 

Final Determination 

The final estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

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

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

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

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce discloses to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with a final 

determination, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.224(b). However, because 

Commerce applied AFA to both 

mandatory respondents in this 

investigation, there are no calculations 

to disclose. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, Commerce will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend 

liquidation of all appropriate entries of 

seamless pipe from the Czech Republic, 

as described in the Appendix to this 

notice, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

December 21, 2021, the date of 

publication of Preliminary 

Determination in the Federal Register. 

Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(d), where 

appropriate, Commerce will instruct 

CBP to require a cash deposit equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin or the estimated allothers rate, as follows: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for the respondents listed 

above will be equal to the companyspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin determined in this 

final determination; (2) if the exporter is 

not a respondent identified above but 

the producer is, then the cash deposit 

rate will be equal to the companyspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin established for that 

producer of the subject merchandise; 

and (3) the cash deposit rate for all other 

producers and exporters will be equal to 

the all-others estimated weightedaverage dumping margin. These 

suspension-of-liquidation instructions 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, we will notify the International 

Trade Commission (ITC) of the final 

affirmative determination of sales at 

LTFV. Because Commerce’s final 

determination is affirmative, in 

accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the 

Act, the ITC will make its final 

determination as to whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured, or threatened with 

material injury, by reason of imports or 

sales (or the likelihood of sales) for 

importation of seamless pipe from the 

Czech Republic no later than 45 days 

after this final determination. If the ITC 

determines that such injury does not 

exist, this proceeding will be 

terminated, and all cash deposits posted 

will be refunded and suspension of 

liquidation will be lifted. If the ITC 

determines that such injury does exist, 

Commerce will issue an AD order 

directing CBP to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, antidumping 

duties on all imports of the subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the effective date of the suspension 

of liquidation, as discussed above in the 

‘‘Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation’’ section. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Orders 

This notice will serve as a final 

reminder to the 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 

written notification of return or 

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. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination and notice is 

issued and published pursuant to 

sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 

and 19 CFR 351.210(c). 

Dated: March 1, 2021. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix—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 

51 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 (1) 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 51 

specifications. Also excluded from the scope 

of the investigation are: (1) Oil country 

tubular goods consisting of drill pipe, casing, 

tubing and coupling stock; (2) all pipes 

meeting the chemical requirements of ASTM 

A–335 regardless of their conformity to the 

dimensional requirements of ASTM A–53, 

ASTM A–106 or API 5L; and (3) the 

exclusion for ASTM A335 applies to pipes 

meeting the comparable specifications GOST 

550–75. 

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, 


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1See Certain Aluminum Foil from the Sultanate 

of Oman and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 85 FR 68287 

(October 28, 2020) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Certain Aluminum Foil from the Sultanate 

of Oman and the Republic of Turkey: Postponement 

of Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigations, 85 FR 78121 (December 3, 

2020). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination in the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain 

Aluminum Foil from the Republic of Turkey,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

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

(Preamble). 

5See Initiation Notice, 85 FR at 68288. 

6See Certain Aluminum Foil from the Republic 

of Armenia, Brazil, the Sultanate of Oman, the 

Russian Federation, and the Republic of Turkey: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 86 FR 9909 

(February 17, 2021). 

7The deadline for interested parties to submit 

scope case and rebuttal briefs will be established in 

the preliminary scope decision memorandum. 

8See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

9See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act. 

10See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Investigations of Certain Aluminum Foil from the 

Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Turkey— 

Petitioners’ Request to Align Final Countervailing 

Duty Determinations With The Companion 

Antidumping Duty Final Determinations,’’ dated 

February 11, 2021. The petitioners are Aluminum 

Association Trade Enforcement Working Group and 

its individual members, Granges Americas Inc., JW 

Aluminum Company, and Novelis Corporation. 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04567 Filed 3–4–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–489–845] 

Certain Aluminum Foil From the 

Republic of Turkey: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

certain aluminum foil (aluminum foil) 

from the Republic of Turkey (Turkey) 

during the period of investigation 

January 1, 2019, through December 31, 

2019. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable March 5, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Whitley Herndon or Eliza Siordia, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–6274, or (202) 482–3878, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on October 28, 2020.1 On December 3, 

2020, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination to February 

26, 2021.2 For a complete description of 

the events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II to this notice. The Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

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. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

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

The signed and electronic versions of 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is aluminum foil from 

Turkey. For a complete description of 

the scope of this investigation, see 

Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the Preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage (i.e., scope).5 We received 

several comments concerning the scope 

of the antidumping duty (AD) and 

countervailing duty (CVD) 

investigations of aluminum foil 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 the AD and CVD investigations 

in the preliminary determinations of the 

companion AD investigations, the 

deadline for which is April 27, 2021.6

We will incorporate the scope decisions 

from the AD investigations into the 

scope of the final CVD determination for 

this investigation after considering any 

relevant comments submitted in scope 

case and rebuttal briefs.7

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.8

Commerce notes that, in making these 

findings, it relied, in part, on facts 

available and, because Commerce finds 

that the Government of Turkey did not 

act to the best of its ability to respond 

to Commerce’s requests for information, 

Commerce drew an adverse inference 

where appropriate in selecting from 

among the facts otherwise available.9

For further information, see ‘‘Use of 

Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences’’ in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Alignment 

As noted in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, in accordance with 

section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(4), Commerce is aligning the 

final CVD determination in this 

investigation with the final 

determination in the companion AD 

investigation of aluminum foil from 

Turkey based on a request made by the 

petitioners.10 Consequently, the final 

CVD determination will be issued on 

the same date as the final AD 

determination, which is currently 

scheduled to be issued no later than July 

12, 2021, unless postponed. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 703(d) and 705(c)(5)(A) of 

the Act provide that in the preliminary 

determination, Commerce shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for companies not individually 

examined. This rate shall be an amount 

equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated subsidy rates established for 

those companies individually 

examined, excluding any rates that are 

zero, de minimis, or based entirely 

under section 776 of the Act. 


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