30912 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 127 / Monday, July 2, 2018 / Notices 

1See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain 

Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from the 

People’s Republic of China, 66 FR 59561 (November 

29, 2001). 

2Because no party is challenging the prior 

collapsing determination, we continue to collapse 

Baosteel Group Corporation, Shanghai Baosteel 

International Economic & Trading Co., Ltd., and 

Baoshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (collectively, 

Baosteel). See Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 

Products from the People’s Republic of China: Final 

No Shipments Determination of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2012–2013; 79 FR 67415 

(November 13, 2014). 

3See Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 

Products from the People’s Republic of China: 

Request for Administrative Review, dated 

November 30, 2017. 

4See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 83 FR 

1329 (January 11, 2018) (Initiation Notice). 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, technological, or 

other forms of information technology 

collection methods. 

All responses to this notice will 

become a matter of public record and be 

summarized in the request for OMB 

approval. 

Signed at Washington, DC, June 20, 2018. 

Kevin L. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–20–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–15–2018] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 38— 

Charleston, South Carolina; 

Authorization of Production Activity; 

BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC (Hybrid 

Passenger Vehicles); Spartanburg, 

South Carolina 

On February 27, 2018, BMW 

Manufacturing Co., LLC (BMW) 

submitted a notification of proposed 

production activity to the FTZ Board for 

its facility within FTZ 38A, in 

Spartanburg, South Carolina. 

The notification was processed in 

accordance with the regulations of the 

FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including 

notice in the Federal Register inviting 

public comment (83 FR 9828, March 8, 

2018). On June 27, 2018, the applicant 

was notified of the FTZ Board’s decision 

that no further review of the activity is 

warranted at this time. The production 

activity described in the notification 

was authorized, subject to the FTZ Act 

and the FTZ Board’s regulations, 

including Section 400.14, and further 

subject to a restriction requiring that 

polyester band, acrylic coated cloth 

tape, warp knit fabric, and seat 

protectors be admitted in privileged 

foreign status (19 CFR 146.41). 

Dated: June 27, 2018. 

Elizabeth Whiteman, 

Acting Executive Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–16–2018] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 61—San 

Juan, Puerto Rico; Authorization of 

Production Activity; Janssen Ortho 

LLC; (Pharmaceuticals); Gurabo, 

Puerto Rico 

On February 27, 2018, Janssen Ortho 

LLC submitted a notification of 

proposed production activity to the FTZ 

Board for its facility within Subzone 

61N, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. 

The notification was processed in 

accordance with the regulations of the 

FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including 

notice in the Federal Register inviting 

public comment (83 FR 10838–10839, 

March 13, 2018). On June 27, 2018, the 

applicant was notified of the FTZ 

Board’s decision that no further review 

of the activity is warranted at this time. 

The production activity described in the 

notification was authorized, subject to 

the FTZ Act and the FTZ Board’s 

regulations, including Section 400.14. 

Dated: June 27, 2018. 

Elizabeth Whiteman, 

Acting Executive Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–865] 

Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 

Products From the People’s Republic 

of China: 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) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain hotrolled carbon steel flat products (hotrolled steel) from the People’s Republic 

of China (China), covering the period of 

review (POR) November 1, 2016, 

through October 31, 2017, and finds 

preliminarily that Baosteel Group 

Corporation, Shanghai Baosteel 

International Economic & Trading Co., 

Ltd., Baoshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., 

Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel, and 

Union Steel China have not 

demonstrated that they are separate 

from the China-wide entity. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable July 2, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Benito Ballesteros, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington DC 20230; telephone (202) 

482–7425. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on hot-rolled 

steel from China pursuant to section 

751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (Act). On November 29, 2001, 

the Department published in the 

Federal Register an antidumping duty 

order on hot-rolled steel from China.1

On November 30, 2017, Nucor 

Corporation (Nucor) submitted a request 

for an administrative review of 

Baosteel,2 Shanghai Meishan Iron & 

Steel, and Union Steel China.3 On 

January 11, 2018, pursuant to the 

request from Nucor, Commerce 

published a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on hot-rolled 

steel from China covering the period 

November 1, 2016, to October 31, 2017, 

for Baosteel, Shanghai Meishan Iron & 

Steel, and Union Steel China.4

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the order are 

certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat 

products of a rectangular shape, of a 

width of 0.5 inch or greater, neither 

clad, plated, nor coated with metal and 

whether or not painted, varnished, or 

coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances, in coils (whether or 

not in successively superimposed 

layers), regardless of thickness, and in 

straight lengths of a thickness of less 

than 4.75 mm and of a width measuring 

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5See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

6See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

7See 19 CFR 351.303. 

8See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

Universal mill plate (i.e., flat-rolled 

products rolled on four faces or in a 

closed box pass, of a width exceeding 

150 mm, but not exceeding 1,250 mm, 

and of a thickness of not less than 4.0 

mm, not in coils and without patterns 

in relief) of a thickness not less than 4.0 

mm is not included within the scope of 

the order. 

Specifically included within the 

scope of the order are vacuum degassed, 

fully stabilized (commonly referred to as 

interstitial-free (IF)) steels, high strength 

low alloy (HSLA) steels, and the 

substrate for motor lamination steels. IF 

steels are recognized as low carbon 

steels with micro-alloying levels of 

elements such as titanium or niobium 

(also commonly referred to as 

columbium), or both, added to stabilize 

carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA 

steels are recognized as steels with 

micro-alloying levels of elements such 

as chromium, copper, niobium, 

vanadium, and molybdenum. The 

substrate for motor lamination steels 

contains micro-alloying levels of 

elements such as silicon and aluminum. 

Steel products included in the scope 

of the order, regardless of definitions in 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS), are products in 

which: (i) Iron predominates, by weight, 

over each of the other contained 

elements; (ii) the carbon content is two 

percent or less, by weight; and, (iii) 

none of the elements listed below 

exceeds the quantity, by weight, 

respectively indicated: 

1.80 percent of manganese, or 

2.25 percent of silicon, or 

1.00 percent of copper, or 

0.50 percent of aluminum, or 

1.25 percent of chromium, or 

0.30 percent of cobalt, or 

0.40 percent of lead, or 

1.25 percent of nickel, or 

0.30 percent of tungsten, or 

0.10 percent of molybdenum, or 

0.10 percent of niobium, or 

0.15 percent of vanadium, or 

0.15 percent of zirconium. 

All products that meet the physical 

and chemical description provided 

above are within the scope of the order 

unless otherwise excluded. The 

following products, for example, are 

outside or specifically excluded from 

the scope of the order: 

• Alloy hot-rolled steel products in 

which at least one of the chemical 

elements exceeds those listed above 

(including, e.g., American Society for 

Testing and Materials (ASTM) 

specifications A543, A387, A514, A517, 

A506). 

• Society of Automotive Engineers 

(SAE)/American Iron & Steel Institute 

(AISI) grades of series 2300 and higher. 

• Ball bearing steels, as defined in the 

HTSUS. 

• Tool steels, as defined in the 

HTSUS. 

• Silico-manganese (as defined in the 

HTSUS) or silicon electrical steel with 

a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent. 

• ASTM specifications A710 and 

A736. 

• USS abrasion-resistant steels (USS 

AR 400, USS AR 500). 

• All products (proprietary or 

otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM 

specification (sample specifications: 

ASTM A506, A507). 

• Non-rectangular shapes, not in 

coils, which are the result of having 

been processed by cutting or stamping 

and which have assumed the character 

of articles or products classified outside 

chapter 72 of the HTSUS. 

The merchandise subject to the order 

is classified in the HTSUS at 

subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 

7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00, 

7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 

7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60, 

7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 

7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60, 

7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 

7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30, 

7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 

7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90, 

7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 

7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00, 

7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 

7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00, 

7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 

7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30, 

7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90. 

Certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat 

products covered by the order, 

including: Vacuum degassed fully 

stabilized; high strength low alloy; and 

the substrate for motor lamination steel 

may also enter under the following tariff 

numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00, 

7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00, 

7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90, 

7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30, 

7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00, 

7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00, 

7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and 

7226.99.00.00. Subject merchandise 

may also enter under 7210.70.30.00, 

7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30, 

7212.40.10.00, 7212.40.50.00, and 

7212.50.00.00. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the merchandise 

subject to the order is dispositive. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

In the Initiation Notice, Commerce 

granted Baosteel, Shanghai Meishan 

Iron & Steel, and Union Steel China 30 

days to submit a separate rate 

application or certification. Neither 

Baosteel, Shanghai Meishan Iron & 

Steel, nor Union Steel China submitted 

a separate rate application or 

certification, or a no shipments 

certification; therefore, we consider 

these companies to be part of the Chinawide entity. Because no review was 

requested of the China-wide entity, the 

pre-existing China-wide rate of 90.83 

percent will apply to entries of their 

subject merchandise into the United 

States during the POR. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Normally, Commerce discloses to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with the 

preliminary results of review within five 

days of any public announcement or, if 

there is no public announcement, 

within five days of the date of 

publication of the notice of the 

preliminary results of review in the 

Federal Register, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.224(b). However, because 

Commerce preliminarily determined 

these companies to be part of the Chinawide entity, in this administrative 

review, there are no calculations to 

disclose. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), 

interested parties may submit cases 

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 five days after the date for filing 

case briefs.5 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.6

Case and rebuttal briefs must be filed 

electronically via Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS).7

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, or to participate if one is 

requested, must submit a written 

request to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, filed 

electronically via ACCESS. An 

electronically filed document must be 

received successfully in its entirety in 

ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.8 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 


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9See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

10See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

1See Cast Iron Soil Pipe from the People’s 

Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 

Investigation, 83 FR 8047 (February 23, 2018) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Countervailing Duty Investigation of Cast 

Iron Soil Pipe from the People’s Republic of China: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determination, 83 FR 

15129 (April 9, 2018). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination: 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Cast Iron Soil 

Pipe 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. 

the hearing will be limited to those 

raised in the respective case and 

rebuttal briefs. 

Commerce will 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. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results, 

Commerce will determine, and CBP 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries. Commerce intends 

to issue assessment instructions to CBP 

15 days after the date of publication of 

the final results of review. 

For any individually examined 

respondent whose weighted average 

dumping margin is above de minimis 

(i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of 

this review, Commerce will calculate 

importer-specific assessment rates on 

the basis of the ratio of the total amount 

of dumping calculated for the importer’s 

examined sales to the total entered 

value of sales, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an importer- 

(or customer-) specific ad valorem rate 

is greater than de minimis, Commerce 

will instruct CBP to collect the 

appropriate duties at the time of 

liquidation.9 Where either a 

respondent’s weighted average dumping 

margin is zero or de minimis, or an 

importer- (or customer-) specific ad 

valorem is zero or de minimis, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties.10

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 from China 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date, as provided by section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For Baosteel, 

Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel, and 

Union Steel China, which did not 

qualify for separate rate, the cash 

deposit rate will be China-wide rate of 

90.83 percent; (2) for previously 

investigated or reviewed China and nonChina exporters not listed above that 

have separate rates, the cash deposit rate 

will continue to be the exporter-specific 

rate published for the most recent 

period; (3) for all China exporters of 

subject merchandise which have not 

been found to be entitled to a separate 

rate, the cash deposit rate will be Chinawide rate of 90.83 percent; and (4) for 

all non-China exporters of subject 

merchandise which have not received 

their own rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate applicable to China 

exporter(s) that supplied that non-China 

exporter. These deposit requirements, 

when imposed, shall remain in effect 

until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary 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. 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

these results in accordance with 

sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 

Act. 

Dated: June 25, 2018. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–080] 

Cast Iron Soil Pipe From the People’s 

Republic of China: 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 

cast iron soil pipe (soil pipe) from the 

People’s Republic of China (China). The 

period of investigation is January 1, 

2017, through December 31, 2017. 

DATES: Applicable July 2, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Omar Qureshi or Annathea Cook, 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) 482–5307 or (202) 482–0250, 

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 23, 2018.1 On April 9, 

2018, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation and the revised deadline is 

now June 25, 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 soil pipe 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, (i.e., scope).5 No interested 

party commented on the scope of the 


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