Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 126 / Friday, June 29, 2018 / Notices 30693 

1See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from India, the 

People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, 

and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 83 FR 7148 

(February 20, 2018) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from India, the 

People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, 

and the Republic of Turkey: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigations, 83 FR 13946 (April 2, 2018). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Affirmative Preliminary Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Large Diameter 

Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea,’’ 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. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Large Diameter Welded 

Pipe from Canada, Greece, India, the People’s 

Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and the 

Republic of Turkey: Scope Comments Decision 

Memorandum for the Preliminary Determinations,’’ 

dated concurrently with this notice (Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum). 

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. 

8See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act. 

9See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Large Diameter Welded 

Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Request to Align 

Countervailing Duty Investigation Final 

Determination with Antidumping Duty 

Investigation Final Determination,’’ dated June 5, 

2018. 

II. Background 

III. Injury Test 

IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

V. Analysis of Programs 

VI. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–580–898] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the 

Republic of Korea: 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 

large diameter welded pipe (welded 

pipe) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) 

for the period of investigation of January 

1, 2017, through December 31, 2017. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable June 29, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Ayache, Irene Gorelik, or Robert 

Palmer, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2623, 

(202) 482–6905, or (202) 482–9068, 

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 February 20, 2018.1 On April 2, 

2018, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation and the revised deadline is 

now June 19, 2018.2 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, 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 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 welded pipe from Korea. 

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 Certain interested 

parties commented on the scope of the 

investigation as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice. 

For a summary of the product 

coverage comments and rebuttal 

responses submitted to the record for 

this preliminary determination, and 

accompanying discussion and analysis 

of all comments timely received, see the 

Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum.6 Commerce is 

preliminarily modifying the scope 

language as it appeared in the Initiation 

Notice. See revised scope in Appendix 

I. Interested parties will have the 

opportunity to submit case and rebuttal 

briefs on the preliminary scope 

determinations. We will notify parties of 

the due dates for these briefs at a later 

time. 

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.7

Commerce notes that, in making these 

findings, it relied, in part, on facts 

available and, because it finds that one 

or more respondents did not act to the 

best of their ability to respond to 

Commerce’s requests for information, it 

drew an adverse inference where 

appropriate in selecting from among the 

facts otherwise available.8 For further 

information, see ‘‘Use of Facts 

Otherwise Available and Adverse 

Inferences’’ in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Alignment 

In accordance with section 705(a)(1) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(4), 

Commerce is aligning the final 

countervailing duty (CVD) 

determination in this investigation with 

the final determination in the 

companion antidumping duty (AD) 

investigation of welded pipe from Korea 

based on a request made by American 

Cast Iron Pipe Company, Berg Steel Pipe 

Corp./Berg Spiral Pipe Corp, Dura-Bond 

Industries, Skyline Steel, Stupp 

Corporation, Greens Bayou Pipe Mill, 

LP, JSW Steel (USA) Inc., and Trinity 

Products LLC (collectively, the 

petitioners).9 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 

November 5, 2018, 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 

investigated. This rate shall be an 


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10As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce has found the following 

companies to be cross-owned with Hyundai Steel 

Company: Hyundai Corporation. 

11As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce has found the following 

companies to be cross-owned with SeAH Steel 

Corporation: ESAB SeAH Corporation. 

12See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

amount equal to the weighted average of 

the estimated subsidy rates established 

for those companies individually 

investigated, excluding any zero and de 

minimis rates and any rates based 

entirely under section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

preliminarily found de minimis rates for 

Husteel Co., Ltd. and Hyundai Steel 

Company. Therefore, the only rate that 

is not zero, de minimis or based entirely 

on facts otherwise available is the rate 

calculated for SeAH Steel Corporation. 

Consequently, the rate calculated for 

SeAH Steel Corporation is also assigned 

as the rate for all-other producers and 

exporters. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates exist: 

Company 

Subsidy 

rate 

(percent) 

Husteel Co., Ltd .......................... 0.01 

Hyundai Steel Company 10 ......... 0.44 

SeAH Steel Corporation 11 ......... 3.31 

All-Others Rate ........................... 3.31 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act, 

Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise as described in the scope 

of the investigation section entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP 

to require a cash deposit equal to the 

rates indicated above, as appropriate. 

Because the subsidy rates for the 

Husteel Co., Ltd. and Hyundai Steel 

Company are zero or de minimis, 

Commerce will direct CBP not to 

suspend liquidation of entries of the 

merchandise from these companies. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis performed to 

interested parties in this preliminary 

determination within five days of its 

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). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the last 

verification report is issued in this 

investigation. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the deadline date for case briefs.12

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 

(d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this investigation 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 

written 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 the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230, 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. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. Pursuant 

to section 705(b)(2) of the Act, if the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will make its final injury 

determination before the later of 120 

days after the date of this preliminary 

determination or 45 days after the final 

determination. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(c). 

Dated: June 19, 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 I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is welded carbon and alloy steel 

pipe (including stainless steel pipe), more 

than 406.4 mm (16 inches) in nominal 

outside diameter (large diameter welded 

pipe), regardless of wall thickness, length, 

surface finish, grade, end finish, or 

stenciling. Large diameter welded pipe may 

be used to transport oil, gas, slurry, steam, or 

other fluids, liquids, or gases. It may also be 

used for structural purposes, including, but 

not limited to, piling. Specifically, not 

included is large diameter welded pipe 

produced only to specifications of the 

American Water Works Association (AWWA) 

for water and sewage pipe. 

Large diameter welded pipe used to 

transport oil, gas, or natural gas liquids is 

normally produced to the American 

Petroleum Institute (API) specification 5L. 

Large diameter welded pipe may also be 

produced to American Society for Testing 

and Materials (ASTM) standards A500, A252, 

or A53, or other relevant domestic 

specifications, grades and/or standards. Large 

diameter welded pipe can be produced to 

comparable foreign specifications, grades 

and/or standards or to proprietary 

specifications, grades and/or standards, or 

can be non-graded material. All pipe meeting 

the physical description set forth above is 

covered by the scope of this investigation, 

whether or not produced according to a 

particular standard. 

Subject merchandise also includes large 

diameter welded pipe that has been further 

processed in a third country, including but 

not limited to coating, painting, notching, 

beveling, cutting, punching, welding, or any 

other processing that would not otherwise 

remove the merchandise from the scope of 

the investigation if performed in the country 

of manufacture of the in-scope large diameter 

welded pipe. 

The large diameter welded pipe that is 

subject to this investigation is currently 

classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under 

subheadings 7305.11.1030, 7305.11.1060, 

7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 7305.12.1060, 

7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.1060, 

7305.19.5000, 7305.31.4000, 7305.31.6010, 

7305.31.6090, 7305.39.1000 and 

7305.39.5000. While the HTSUS subheadings 

are provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 


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1See Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Utility Scale 

Wind Towers from the People’s Republic of China: 

Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated 

February 28, 2018. 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 83 FR 

16,298 (April 16, 2018). 

3See Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Utility Scale 

Wind Towers from the People’s Republic of China: 

Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review,’’ 

dated May 21, 2018. 

1See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from India, the 

People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, 

and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 83 FR 7148 

(February 20, 2018) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from India, the 

People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, 

and the Republic of Turkey: Postponement of 

Continued 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Injury Test 

IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

V. Subsidies Valuation 

VI. Analysis of Programs 

VII. Conclusion 

[FR Doc. 2018–13566 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–982] 

Utility Scale Wind Towers From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Rescission of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is rescinding the 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on utility 

scale wind towers from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) for the period 

January 1, 2017, through December 31, 

2017. 

DATES: Applicable June 29, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Conniff, AD/CVD Operations, Office III, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 16, 2018, based on a timely 

request for review by the Wind Tower 

Trade Coalition (the petitioner),1

Commerce published in the Federal 

Register a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on utility 

scale wind towers from China with 

respect to 56 companies for the period 

January 1, 2017, through December 31, 

2017.2 On May 21, 2018, the petitioner 

withdrew its request for an 

administrative review of all 56 

companies.3 No other party requested a 

review of the countervailing duty order. 

Rescission of Review 

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

Commerce will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if the party that requested the 

review withdraws its request within 90 

days of the date of publication of the 

notice of initiation of the requested 

review. In this case, the petitioner 

timely withdrew its request for review 

within the 90-day deadline, and no 

other party requested an administrative 

review of the countervailing duty order. 

As a result, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(1), we are rescinding the 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on utility 

scale wind towers from China for the 

period January 1, 2017, through 

December 31, 2017, in its entirety. 

Assessment 

Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to assess 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries. Because Commerce is 

rescinding this administrative review in 

its entirety, entries of utility scale wind 

towers from China during the period 

January 1, 2017, through December 31, 

2017, shall be assessed countervailing 

duties at rates equal to the cash deposit 

of estimated countervailing duties 

required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends 

to issue appropriate assessment 

instructions to CBP 15 days after the 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Orders 

This notice also serves as a final 

reminder to parties subject to 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

return or 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 violation which is subject to 

sanction. 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: June 21, 2018. 

James Maeder, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations performing the duties of Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–078] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing 

Duty Determination and Alignment of 

Final Determination With Final 

Antidumping 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/exporters of large 

diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China) for the period of investigation of 

January 1, 2017, through December 31, 

2017. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable June 29, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Justin Neuman or Benito Ballesteros, 

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) 482–0486 or 

(202) 482–7425, 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 February 20, 2018.1 On April 2, 

2018, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation and the revised deadline is 

now June 19, 2018.2 For a complete 


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