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15See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

16See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

17See 19 CFR 351.310. 

18See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

19Commerce has previously found BFN Forgings 

Private Limited to be part of a collapsed entity. See, 

e.g., Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Final 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Affirmative Critical 

Circumstance Determination, 83 FR 40745 (August 

16, 2018). The companies which are part of this 

collapsed entity are listed above. 

20We incorrectly listed this company as 

‘‘Fivebros Pvt Ltd.’’ in the Initiation Notice. See 

Initiation Notice, 87 FR at 74406. 

1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 

74404 (December 5, 2022); see also Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil and the 

Republic of Korea: Amended Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determinations and 

Countervailing Duty Orders, 81 FR 67960 (October 

3, 2016) (Order). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection,’’ 

dated January 4, 2023. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated June 15, 2023. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel 

Flat Products from the Republic of Korea; 2021,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

certain of its requirements pertaining to 

the service of documents in 19 CFR 

351.303(f).15

Interested parties who wish to request 

a hearing must do so within 30 days of 

publication of these preliminary results 

by submitting a written request to the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance using Enforcement and 

Compliance’s ACCESS system.16

Hearing requests should contain: (1) the 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number; (2) the number of participants: 

and (3) a list of the issues to be 

discussed. Oral presentations at the 

hearing will be limited to issues raised 

in the case and rebuttal briefs.17 Parties 

are reminded that all briefs and hearing 

requests must be filed electronically 

using ACCESS and received 

successfully in their entirety by 5:00 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. If a 

request for a hearing is made, parties 

will be notified of the time and date for 

the hearing.18

Unless otherwise extended, 

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 and 19 

CFR 351.213(h)(1). 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during this POR. Failure 

to comply with this requirement could 

result in Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping and/or 

countervailing duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of doubled 

antidumping duties, and/or an increase 

in the amount of antidumping duties by 

the amount of countervailing duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.213 and 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: October 31, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Discussion of the Methodology 

V. Recommendation 

Appendix II 

List of Companies Not Selected for 

Individual Examination 

1. Balkrishna Steel Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

2. BFN Forgings Private Limited; Bebitz 

Flanges Works Private Limited; 

Fanschen werk Bebitz GmbH; Viraj 

Alloys, Ltd.; Viraj Forgings, Ltd.; Viraj 

Impoexpo, Ltd.; and Viraj Profiles 

Limited 19

3. Echjay Forgings Private Limited 

4. Fivebros Forging Pvt Ltd.20

5. Goodluck India Limited 

6. Hilton Metal Forging Limited 

7. Jai Auto Pvt. Ltd. 

8. Jay Jagdamba Forgings Pvt Ltd 

9. Jay Jagdamba Ltd 

10. Jay Jagdamba Profile Pvt Ltd 

11. Pradeep Metals Limited 

12. Shree Jay Jagdamba Flanges Pvt. Ltd. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–580–884] 

Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 

From the Republic of Korea: 

Preliminary Results and Partial 

Rescission of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review, 2021 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that certain producers/ 

exporters of certain hot-rolled steel flat 

products (hot-rolled steel) from the 

Republic of Korea (Korea) received 

countervailable subsidies during the 

period of review (POR) January 1, 2021, 

through December 31, 2021. 

Additionally, Commerce is rescinding 

this review with respect to 13 

companies. We invite interested parties 

to comment on these preliminary 

results. 

DATES: Applicable November 6, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nathan James or Kelsie Hohenberger, 

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) 482–5305 or 

(202) 482–2517, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 5, 2022, Commerce 

published a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on hot-rolled 

steel from Korea.1 On January 4, 2023, 

Commerce selected Hyundai Steel 

Company (Hyundai Steel) and POSCO 

as mandatory respondents in this 

administrative review.2 On June 15, 

2023, Commerce extended the deadline 

for the preliminary results of this review 

to no later than October 31, 2023.3

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as an 

appendix 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 https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/

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5The petitioners are: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.; Nucor 

Corporation; SSAB Enterprises, LLC; Steel 

Dynamics; Inc.; and United States Steel 

Corporation. 6See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Partial Withdrawal of 

Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated March 

6, 2023. 7See 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. 

8Hyundai Steel Company is also known as 

‘‘Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd.’’ As discussed in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum, Commerce has 

found the following companies to be cross-owned 

with Hyundai Steel: Hyundai Green Power Co. Ltd.; 

and Hyundai ITC. 

9As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce has found the following 

companies to be cross-owned with POSCO: Pohang 

Scrap Recycling Distribution Center Co. Ltd.; 

POSCO Chemical; POSCO M-Tech; POSCO Nippon 

Steel RHF Joint Venture Co., Ltd.; POSCO Steel 

Processing and Service; and POSCO Terminal. The 

POSCO subsidy rate applies to all cross-owned 

companies. We note that POSCO has an affiliated 

trading company through which it exported certain 

subject merchandise, i.e., POSCO International 

Corporation (POSCO International). POSCO 

International was not selected as a mandatory 

respondent, but was examined in the context of 

POSCO. Therefore, there is not an individuallyestablished rate for POSCO International; POSCO 

International’s subsidies are accounted for in terms 

of POSCO’s total subsidy rate. Entries of subject 

merchandise exported by POSCO International will 

receive the rate of the producer listed on the entry 

form with U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP). Thus, the subsidy rate applied to POSCO 

(and POSCO’s cross-owned affiliates) is also 

applied to POSCO International for entries of 

subject merchandise produced by POSCO. 

10See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

11See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is hot-rolled steel from Korea. For 

a complete description of the scope of 

the Order, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Rescission of Administrative Review, In 

Part 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), 

Commerce will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if the parties that requested a 

review withdraw the request within 90 

days of the date of publication of the 

notice of initiation. Commerce received 

a timely-filed withdrawal request from 

the petitioners with respect to 13 

companies.5 Because the withdrawal 

request was timely filed, and no other 

party requested a review of these 

companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding 

this review with respect to the following 

companies: (1) DCE Inc; (2) Dong Chuel 

America Inc.; (3) Dong Chuel Industrial 

Co., Ltd.; (4) Dongbu Incheon Steel Co., 

Ltd.; (5) Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd.; (6) 

Dongkuk Industries Co., Ltd.; (7) 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.; (8) 

Hyewon Sni Corporation (H.S.I.); (9) JFE 

Shoji Trade Korea Ltd.; (10) POSCO 

Coated & Color Steel Co., Ltd.; (11) 

POSCO Daewoo Corporation; (12) Soon 

Hong Trading Co., Ltd.; and (13) SungA Steel Co., Ltd.6

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(l)(A) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, we 

preliminarily determine that there is a 

subsidy, i.e., a financial contribution 

from an authority that gives rise to a 

benefit to the recipient, and that the 

subsidy is specific.7 For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions, see the 

accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine the net 

countervailable subsidy rates exist for 

the period, January 1, 2021, through 

December 31, 2021: 

Producer/exporter 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Hyundai Steel Company 8 .... 0.78 

POSCO 9 ............................... 0.88 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose to interested 

parties the calculations performed for 

these preliminary results within five 

days of the date of publication of this 

notice in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than 30 days after 

the date of publication of the 

preliminary results in the Federal 

Register. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the date for case briefs.10 Pursuant to 19 

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

who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs 

in this review 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. 

All briefs must be filed electronically 

using Enforcement and Compliance’s 

ACCESS system. Note that Commerce 

has amended certain of its requirements 

pertaining to the service of documents 

in 19 CFR 351.303(f).11

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 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance using ACCESS 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 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 the 

date and time of the hearing two days 

before the scheduled date. 

Final Results of Review 

Unless the deadline is extended, we 

intend to issue the final results of this 

administrative review, which will 

include the results of our analysis of the 

issues raised in the case briefs, within 

120 days of publication of these 

preliminary results in the Federal 

Register, pursuant to section 

751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.213(h)(1). 

Assessment Rates 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2), upon 

issuance of the final results, Commerce 

shall determine, and CBP shall assess, 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries of subject merchandise in 

accordance with the final results of this 

review. Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review in the Federal Register. If a 

timely summons is filed at the U.S. 

Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

For the companies for which we are 

rescinding this administrative review, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to assess 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit 

of estimated countervailing duties 

required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, during the period January 

1, 2021, through December 31, 2021, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(l)(i). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

In accordance with section 751(a)(1) 

of the Act, Commerce intends, upon 

publication of the final results, to 

instruct CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties in the 

amounts shown for each of the 

companies listed above on shipments of 


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1See Certain Paper Shopping Bags from India 

and the People’s Republic of China: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 88 FR 41380 

(June 26, 2023) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Certain Paper Shopping Bags from the 

People’s Republic of China and India: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 88 FR 52122 

(August 7, 2023). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Paper 

Shopping Bags from the People’s Republic of 

China,’’ 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). 

5See Initiation Notice, 88 FR at 41380. 6See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 2–3. 7The deadline for interested parties to submit 

scope case and rebuttal briefs will be established in 

the preliminary scope decision memorandum. 8The non-responsive companies are: (1) Bagitan 

Packaging; (2) Changzhou Anjucheng; (3) Courage 

Packaging; (4) Evertrust Packaging; (5) Geotegrity 

EcoPack; (6) GrandIntelligent; (7) Li & Fung; (8) 

Qindao Chenyu Packaging Co., Ltd.; (9) Shanghai 

Macolink Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.; (10) 

Shanghai Sanxi Paper Co., Ltd.; (11) Xiamen C&D 

Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.; (12) Xiamen Champion 

FMCG; (13) Xiamen New Idea Packaging Co., Ltd.; 

and (14) Xiamen Wonderful Bag Import and Export 

Co., Ltd. 

9See 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. 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review, except, where 

the rate calculated in the final results is 

zero or de minimis, no cash deposit will 

be required. For all non-reviewed firms, 

we will instruct CBP to continue to 

collect cash deposits at the most recent 

company-specific or all-others rate 

applicable to the company. These cash 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

These preliminary results are issued 

and published pursuant to sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.213(d)(4) and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: October 31, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Review 

IV. Partial Rescission of Administrative 

Review 

V. Scope of the Order 

VI. Diversification of Korea’s Economy 

VII. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VIII. Analysis of Programs 

IX. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–153] 

Certain Paper Shopping Bags From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Countervailable Subsidies, 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances, and 

Alignment of Final Determination With 

Final Antidumping Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of certain paper 

shopping bags (paper bags) from the 

People’s Republic of China (China). The 

period of investigation (POI) is January 

1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable November 6, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth 

Brown, AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0029. 

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 countervailing 

duty (CVD) investigation on June 26, 

2023.1 On August 7, 2023, Commerce 

postponed the preliminary 

determination until October 30, 2023.2

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 https://access.

trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are paper bags from China. 

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 (scope).5 We received 

comments from interested parties 

commented on the scope of the 

concurrent antidumping duty (AD) and 

CVD investigations as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice, which are listed in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.6

We are currently evaluating the scope 

comments filed by interested parties 

and intend to issue our preliminary 

decision regarding the scope of the AD 

and CVD investigations prior to or 

concurrently with the AD preliminary 

determinations. 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

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances 

In accordance with section 703(e)(1) 

of the Act, we preliminarily find that 

critical circumstances exist with respect 

to imports of subject merchandise for 

Dongzheng Paper Bag (Dalian) Factory 

(Dongzheng), Fujian Nanwang 

Environment Protection Scien-tech Co., 

Ltd. (Fujian Nanwan) the nonresponsive companies,8 and all other 

producers and/or exporters. For a full 

discussion of our preliminary critical 

circumstances determination, see the 

‘‘Critical Circumstances’’ section of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

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.9

Commerce notes that, in making these 

findings, it relied, in part, on facts 


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