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1See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: 

Antidumping Duty Order, 83 FR 50639 (October 9, 

2018) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 

74404 (December 5, 2022); and Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 7060 (February 2, 

2023) (collectively, Initiation Notice). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of 2021–2022 Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated June 6, 2023. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Flanges 

from India; 2021–2022,’’ dated concurrently with, 

and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

5See R.N. Gupta’s Letter, ‘‘Withdrawal of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated 

March 2, 2023. 

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 review 

period. 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 double antidumping 

duties, and/or an increase in the amount 

of antidumping duties by the amount of 

the countervailing duties. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Order 

This notice also serves as the final 

reminder to 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/ 

destruction of APO materials or 

conversion to judicial protective order is 

hereby requested. Failure to comply 

with the regulations and terms of an 

APO is a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results of administrative review 

and notice in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: October 31, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Margin Calculations 

IV. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should 

Select Romania as the Primary Surrogate 

Country 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Value Stainless Steel Using Romanian 

Surrogate Value Data 

Comment 3: Surrogate Value Source to 

Value Clips 

Comment 4: Whether Commerce Should 

Exclude Taiwan Import Data from its 

Calculation of the Surrogate Value for 

Stainless Steel 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Will 

Consider Supplemental Surrogate Value 

Data for Labor 

Comment 6: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply Adverse Facts Available to Yingao 

Comment 7: Whether Commerce Should 

Grant Dongyuan a Double Remedies 

Offset in its Margin Calculation 

Comment 8: Verification Issues Related to 

Dongyuan’s Reported Product Codes 

Comment 9: Whether to Include 

Dongyuan’s Bank Charges Noted at 

Verification 

Comment 10: Whether Commerce Should 

Grant a Scrap Offset to Dongyuan 

V. Recommendation 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–533–877] 

Stainless Steel Flanges From India: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review and Partial 

Rescission; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

finds that producers/exporters of 

stainless steel flanges (flanges) from 

India did not make sales of subject 

merchandise in the United States at 

prices below normal value (NV) during 

the period of review (POR) October 1, 

2021, through September 30, 2022. In 

addition, we are rescinding this review 

for one company. We invite interested 

parties to comment on these preliminary 

results. 

DATES: Applicable November 6, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Benito Ballesteros or Seth Brown, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–4725 or (202) 482–0029, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 9, 2018, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register an 

antidumping duty order on flanges from 

India.1 On December 5, 2022, based on 

timely requests for review, Commerce 

initiated an administrative review of the 

Order covering 15 companies, in 

accordance with section 751(a) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act).2 On June 6, 2023, we extended the 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this administrative review until October 

31, 2023.3 For a complete description of 

the events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is stainless steel flanges from 

India. For a full description of the scope 

of the Order, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Partial Rescission of Administrative 

Review 

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

Commerce will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if a party who requested the review 

withdraws the request within 90 days of 

the date of publication of the notice of 

initiation. On March 2, 2023, we 

received a timely withdrawal request 

from R.N. Gupta & Company Limited.5

Because no other party requested a 

review of this company, Commerce is 

rescinding this review with respect to 

R.N. Gupta & Company Limited, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1). 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with sections 751(a) of 

the Act. We calculated export price and 

constructed export price in accordance 

with section 772 of the Act. We 

calculated NV in accordance with 

section 773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying these 

preliminary results, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of topics 

included in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

I 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 https://access.trade.gov/ 

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6See Appendix II for the list of exporters and/or 

producers not selected for individual review. 

7See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Notice of 

Court Decision Not in Harmony with the Final 

Determination of Antidumping Investigation; Notice 

of Amended Final Determination, 86 FR 50325 

(September 8, 2021) (Amended Final 

Determination). 

8For a full discussion of this practice, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

9See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act. 

10See Amended Final Determination, 86 FR at 

50326. 

11See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

12Commerce is exercising its discretion, under 19 

CFR 351.309(d), to alter the time limit for the filing 

of rebuttal briefs. 

13See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

14See generally 19 CFR 351.303. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

We preliminarily determine the 

following weighted-average dumping 

margins exist for the period October 1, 

2021, through September 30, 2022: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Chandan Steel Limited ......... 0.00 

Kisaan Die Tech Private Limited .................................... 0.00 

Companies Not Selected for 

Individual Review 6 ............ 0.00 

Review-Specific Rate for Companies 

Not Selected for Individual Review 

The Act and Commerce’s regulations 

do not address the rate to be applied to 

companies not selected for individual 

examination when Commerce limits its 

examination in an administrative review 

pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the 

Act. Generally, Commerce looks to 

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

provides instructions for calculating the 

all-others rate in a less-than-fair value 

(LTFV) investigation, for guidance when 

calculating the rate for companies 

which were not selected for individual 

examination in an administrative 

review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of 

the Act, the all-others rate is normally 

an amount equal to the weighted 

average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero or de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely on the 

basis of facts available. 

Where the dumping margins for 

individually examined respondents are 

zero, de minimis, or determined based 

entirely on facts available, section 

735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that 

Commerce may use ‘‘any reasonable 

method to establish the estimated allothers rate for exporters and producers 

not individually investigated . . . .’’ In 

this review, Commerce preliminarily 

calculated weighted-average dumping 

margins for Chandan Steel Limited 

(Chandan) and Kisaan Die Tech Private 

Limited (KDT) of zero percent. 

Therefore, we are preliminarily 

assigning a rate of zero percent to the 

companies not selected for individual 

examination, in accordance with section 

735(c)(5)(B) of the Act. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon completion of this 

administrative review, Commerce shall 

determine, and U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.212(b)(1), because the individuallyexamined respondents reported the 

entered value for their U.S. sales, we 

will calculate importer-specific ad 

valorem antidumping duty assessment 

rates based on the ratio of the total 

amount of antidumping duties 

calculated for the examined sales to the 

total entered value of those same sales. 

If either respondent’s weighted-average 

dumping margin is zero or de minimis 

within the meaning of 19 CFR 

351.106(c), or an importer-specific rate 

is zero or de minimis, we will instruct 

CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 

without regard to antidumping duties. 

Commerce’s ‘‘automatic assessment’’ 

practice will apply to entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR produced 

by Chandan and KDT for which these 

companies did not know that the 

merchandise they sold to an 

intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading 

company, or exporter) was destined for 

the United States. We will instruct CBP 

to liquidate those entries at the allothers rate (i.e., 7.00 percent) 7 if there 

is no rate for the intermediate 

company(ies) involved in the 

transaction.8

For the companies which were not 

selected for individual review, we 

intend to assign an assessment rate 

based on the review-specific average 

rate, calculated as noted in the 

‘‘Preliminary Results of Review’’ 

section, above. The final results of this 

review shall be the basis for the 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise covered by this 

review and for future deposits of 

estimated duties, where applicable.9

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). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of the subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date of the final results of 

this administrative review, as provided 

by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 

cash deposit rate for the companies 

listed above will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin 

established in the final results of this 

review, except if the rate is de minimis 

(i.e., less than 0.50 percent), in which 

case the cash deposit rate will be zero; 

(2) for previously reviewed or 

investigated companies not covered by 

this review, the cash deposit rate will 

continue to be the company-specific rate 

published for the most recentlycompleted segment of this proceeding in 

which they were examined; (3) if the 

exporter is not a firm covered in this 

review, a prior review, or the LTFV 

investigation, but the producer is, the 

cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recentlycompleted segment of this proceeding 

for the producer of the merchandise; 

and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 

producers or exporters will continue to 

be 7.00 percent, the all-others rate 

established in the Amended Final 

Determination.10 These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed in connection with these 

preliminary results to interested parties 

within five days after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register.11 Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.309(c), interested parties may 

submit case briefs no 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 seven days after the date 

for filing case briefs.12 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.13 Case and rebuttal 

briefs should be filed using ACCESS.14

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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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