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1See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review, 82 FR 20315 

(May 1, 2017). 

2See Letter from Toyo Kohan to Commerce 

regarding ‘‘Toyo Kohan’s Request for Antidumping 

Administrative Review, Diffusion-Annealed NickelPlated Flat-Rolled Steel Products from Japan,’’ 

dated May 22, 2017. 

3See Letter from Thomas Steel to Commerce 

regarding ‘‘Diffusion-Annealed Nickel-Plated FlatRolled Steel from Japan: Request for Third 

Administrative Review of Antidumping Order,’’ 

dated May 30, 2017. 

4See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

31292, 31294 (July 6, 2017) (Initiation Notice). 

5See Memorandum for The Record from 

Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, performing the nonexclusive functions and duties of the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, 

‘‘Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the 

Federal Government’’ (Tolling Memorandum), 

dated January 23, 2018. All deadlines in this 

segment of the proceeding have been extended by 

3 days. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 15 

days after the date of publication of 

these final results of review, to liquidate 

shipments of subject merchandise 

produced and/or exported by the 

companies listed above, entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after January 1, 

2015, through December 31, 2015, at the 

ad valorem rates listed above. 

Cash Deposit Instructions 

In accordance with section 751(a)(1) 

of the Act, Commerce intends to instruct 

CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties in the 

amounts shown for each of the 

respective companies listed above. 

These cash deposit requirements, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Administrative Protective Orders 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 

written notification of the return or 

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. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results in accordance with sections 

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

Dated: June 5, 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 Final 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. List of Interested Party Comments 

IV. Scope of the Order 

V. Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

VI. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VII. Benchmarks 

VIII. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

IX. Programs Determined to Be 

Countervailable 

X. Programs Determined Not to Confer 

Measurable Benefits 

XI. Programs Determined Not to Be Used 

During the POR 

XII. Analysis of Comments 

XIII. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–588–869] 

Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated FlatRolled Steel Products From Japan: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review; 2016– 

2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that sales of subject merchandise by 

Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. (Toyo Kohan) and 

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metals 

Corporation (NSSMC) were made at less 

than normal value during the period of 

review (POR) May 1, 2016, through 

April 30, 2017. Interested parties are 

invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable June 11, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Moses Song, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

VI, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5041. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On May 1, 2017, Commerce published 

a notice of opportunity to request an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain 

nickel-plated, flat-rolled steel from 

Japan.1 On May 22, 2017, Toyo Kohan 

requested that Commerce conduct an 

administrative review of its sales to the 

United States during the POR.2 On May 

30, 2017, the petitioner, Thomas Steel 

Strip Corporation (Thomas Steel or the 

petitioner), requested that Commerce 

conduct administrative reviews of Toyo 

Kohan and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo 

Metal Corporation (NSSMC).3 On July 6, 

2017, in response to these timely 

requests, and in accordance with section 

751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce published a 

notice of initiation of an administrative 

review of the antidumping duty order 

on certain nickel-plated, flat-rolled steel 

from Japan with respect to both Toyo 

Kohan and NSSMC.4

Commerce exercised its discretion to 

toll all deadlines affected by the closure 

of the Federal Government from January 

20 through 22, 2018. The revised 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this review is June 4, 2018.5

Scope of the Order 

The diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated 

flat-rolled steel products included in 

this order are flat-rolled, cold-reduced 

steel products, regardless of chemistry; 

whether or not in coils; either plated or 

coated with nickel or nickel-based 

alloys and subsequently annealed (i.e., 

‘‘diffusion-annealed’’); whether or not 

painted, varnished or coated with 

plastics or other metallic or nonmetallic 

substances; and less than or equal to 2.0 

mm in nominal thickness. For purposes 

of this order, ‘‘nickel-based alloys’’ 

include all nickel alloys with other 

metals in which nickel accounts for at 

least 80 percent of the alloy by volume. 

Imports of merchandise included in 

the scope of this order are classified 

primarily under Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheadings 7212.50.0000 and 

7210.90.6000, but may also be classified 

under HTSUS subheadings 

7210.70.6090, 7212.40.1000, 

7212.40.5000, 7219.90.0020, 

7219.90.0025, 7219.90.0060, 

7219.90.0080, 7220.90.0010, 

7220.90.0015, 7225.99.0090, or 

7226.99.0180. The foregoing HTSUS 

subheadings are provided only for 

convenience and customs purposes. The 

written description of the scope of this 

order is dispositive. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(2) of 

the Act. For Toyo Kohan, export price 

is 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 memorandum from 


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6See Letter from Commerce to NSSMC, regarding 

the antidumping duty questionnaire, dated July 18, 

2017 (AD Questionnaire). 

7See 19 CFR 351.224(b) 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1) and (2). 

10See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

11See generally 19 CFR 351.303. 

12See 19 CFR 351.303(f). 

13See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

14See 19 CFR 351.310(d)(1). 

15See generally, 19 CFR 351.303. 

16See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

17See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act; 19 CFR 

351.213(h). 

18See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

James Maeder, Associate Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 

Operations, performing the duties of 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 

Operations, to Gary Taverman, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 

Operations, performing the nonexclusive functions and duties of the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, titled ‘‘Decision 

Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review: Diffusion-Annealed, NickelPlated Flat-Rolled Steel Products from 

Japan; 2016–2017’’ (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum), which is 

issued concurrent with and hereby 

adopted by 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 to ACCESS is available to 

registered users at http://

access.trade.gov and is available to all 

parties in the Central Records Unit, 

Room B8024 of the main Department of 

Commerce building. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly on the internet at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. 

A list of topics discussed in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 

attached as an Appendix to this notice. 

The signed Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum and the electronic 

versions of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Application of Adverse Facts Available 

Pursuant to section 776(a) of the Act, 

we are preliminarily relying upon facts 

otherwise available to assign a 

weighted-average dumping margin to 

NSSMC in this review because NSSMC 

did not respond to our AD 

Questionnaire.6 Therefore, we 

preliminarily find that necessary 

information is not on the record of this 

review, and that NSSMC withheld 

information requested by Commerce, 

failed to provide information by the 

specified deadlines, and significantly 

impeded the conduct of the review. 

Further, we preliminarily determine 

that NSSMC failed to cooperate by not 

acting to the best of its ability to comply 

with requests for information and, thus, 

we are preliminarily applying total AFA 

to NSSMC, in accordance with section 

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

of the methodology underlying our 

conclusion regarding the application of 

AFA, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

We preliminarily determine that, for 

the period May 1, 2016, through April 

30, 2017, the following weightedaverage dumping margins exist for the 

respondents: 

Producer or exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4.53 

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation ..................................................................................................................................... 77.70 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce will disclose to parties to 

the proceeding the calculations 

performed in connection with these 

preliminary results of review within five 

days after the date of publication of this 

notice.7 Interested parties may submit 

case briefs to Commerce in response to 

these preliminary results no later than 

30 days after the publication of these 

preliminary results.8 Rebuttal briefs, the 

content of which is limited to the issues 

raised in the case briefs, must be filed 

within five days from the deadline date 

for the submission of case briefs.9

Parties who submit arguments in this 

proceeding are requested to submit with 

each argument: (1) A statement of the 

issue; (2) a brief summary of the 

argument; and (3) a table of 

authorities.10 Executive summaries 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. Case and rebuttal 

briefs should be filed using ACCESS.11

In order to be properly filed, ACCESS 

must successfully receive an 

electronically-filed document in its 

entirety by 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Case 

and rebuttal briefs must be served 

individually on all interested parties.12

Within 30 days of the date of 

publication of this notice, interested 

parties may request a public hearing on 

arguments raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs.13 Unless Commerce 

specifies otherwise, the hearing, if 

requested, will be held two days after 

the date for submission of rebuttal 

briefs.14 Hearing requests should be 

electronically submitted to Commerce 

via ACCESS.15 Commerce’s electronic 

records system, ACCESS, must 

successfully receive an electronicallyfiled document in its entirety by 5:00 

p.m. Eastern 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 and 

rebuttal briefs.16 Parties will be notified 

of the time and location of the hearing. 

Commerce intends to publish the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

issues addressed in any case or rebuttal 

brief, no later than 120 days after 

publication of the preliminary results, 

unless extended.17

Assessment Rates 

Upon completion of this 

administrative review, Commerce shall 

determine, and Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries.18 If a respondent’s weightedaverage dumping margin is not zero or 

de minimis in the final results of this 

review, we will calculate importerspecific assessment rates on the basis of 

the ratio of the total amount of dumping 

calculated for an importer’s examined 

sales and the total entered value of such 

sales in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(b)(1). If a respondent’s 

weighted-average dumping margin is 

zero or de minimis in the final results 

of review, then we will instruct CBP to 


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19See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of 

the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 

(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification for 

Reviews). 

20See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

21See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 

FR 23954 (May 6, 2003). 

22See Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated FlatRolled Steel Products from Japan: Antidumping 

Duty Order, 79 FR 30816, 30817 (May 29, 2014) 

(Order). 23See Order, 79 FR at 30817. 

1We previously determined these companies to 

constitute a single entity. See Certain Oil Country 

Tubular Goods from the Republic of Turkey: Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Affirmative Final Determination of Critical 

Circumstances in Part, 79 FR 41971, 41973 (July 18, 

2014). 

liquidate that respondent’s entries 

without regards to antidumping duties 

in accordance with the Final 

Modification for Reviews, i.e., ‘‘{w}here 

the weighted-average margin of 

dumping for the exporter is determined 

to be zero or de minimis, no 

antidumping duties will be assessed.’’ 19

Further, if an importer-specific 

assessment rate is zero or de minimis, 

then we will instruct CBP to liquidate 

that importer’s entries without regards 

to antidumping duties.20 The final 

results of this review shall be the basis 

for the assessment of antidumping 

duties on entries of merchandise 

covered by the final results of this 

review and for future deposits of 

estimated duties, where applicable. 

For entries of subject merchandise 

during the POR produced by Toyo 

Kohan for which it did not know its 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate unreviewed entries at the allothers rate if there is no rate for 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction.21 The all-others rate is 

45.42 percent.22

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 will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review 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 companies subject 

to this review will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin 

established in the final results of this 

administrative review (except, if the rate 

is zero or de minimis, no cash deposit 

will be required); (2) for merchandise 

exported by a producer or exporter not 

covered in this review but covered in a 

prior, completed 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 lessthan-fair value investigation but the 

producer is, the cash deposit rate will be 

the rate established a prior, completed 

segment of this proceeding for the most 

recent period for the producer of the 

subject merchandise; or (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other producers or 

exporters will be the all-others rate of 

45.42 percent established in the 

investigation.23 These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

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 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 duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing this 

notice in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.213(h)(1). 

Dated: June 4, 2018. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

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. Application of Facts Available and Use of 

Adverse Inference 

A. Application of Facts Available 

B. Use of Adverse Inference 

C. Selection and Corroboration of the 

Adverse Facts Available Rate 

V. Comparisons to Normal Value 

VI. Product Comparisons 

VII. Discussion of Methodology 

A. Determination of Comparison Method 

B. Results of the Differential Pricing 

Analysis 

C. Date of Sale 

D. Export Price 

E. Normal Value 

1. Home Market Viability 

2. Level of Trade 

3. Sales to Affiliated Customers 

4. Cost of Production Analysis 

5. Cost of Production Test 

6. Calculation of Normal Value Based on 

Comparison Market Prices 

7. Price-to-Constructed Value Comparisons 

8. Constructed Value 

F. Currency Conversion 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–489–816] 

Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods 

From Turkey: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2016–2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that producers/exporters subject to this 

review made sales of the subject 

merchandise at less than normal value. 

We invite interested parties to comment 

on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Effective June 11, 2018. 

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 

Commerce is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain oil 

country tubular goods (OCTG) from 

Turkey. The period of review (POR) is 

September 1, 2016, through August 31, 

2017. The review covers six producers/ 

exporters of the subject merchandise. 

We selected C ̧ayirova Boru Sanayi ve 

Ticaret A.S ̧. and Yu ̈ cel Boru I ̇thalatI

 ̇hracat ve Pazarlama A.S ̧ (collectively, 

Yu ̈ cel) 1 for individual examination. 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the order 

is certain OCTG. The merchandise 

subject to the order is currently 

classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

under item numbers: 7304.29.10.10, 


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