30690 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 126 / Friday, June 29, 2018 / Notices 

Dated: June 25, 2018. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13961 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Michigan Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act that 

the Michigan Advisory Committee 

(Committee) will hold a meeting on 

Wednesday July 18, 2018, at 3 p.m. EDT 

for the purpose discussing civil rights 

concerns in the state. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday July 18, 2018, at 3 p.m. 

EDT. 

Public Call Information: Dial: 877– 

741–4240, Conference ID: 7669620. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Wojnaroski, DFO, at 

mwojnaroski@usccr.gov or 312–353– 

8311. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members 

of the public can listen to the 

discussion. This meeting is available to 

the public through the above toll-free 

call-in number. Any interested member 

of the public may call this number and 

listen to the meeting. An open comment 

period will be provided to allow 

members of the public to make a 

statement as time allows. The 

conference call operator will ask callers 

to identify themselves, the organization 

they are affiliated with (if any), and an 

email address prior to placing callers 

into the conference room. Callers can 

expect to incur regular charges for calls 

they initiate over wireless lines, 

according to their wireless plan. The 

Commission will not refund any 

incurred charges. Callers will incur no 

charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free 

telephone number. Persons with hearing 

impairments may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 and 

providing the Service with the 

conference call number and conference 

ID number. 

Members of the public are also 

entitled to submit written comments; 

the comments must be received in the 

regional office within 30 days following 

the meeting. Written comments may be 

mailed to the Midwestern Regional 

Office, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 

230 S Dearborn St., Suite 2120, Chicago, 

IL 60604. They may also be faxed to the 

Commission at (312) 353–8324, or 

emailed to Carolyn Allen at callen@

usccr.gov. Persons who desire 

additional information may contact the 

Midwestern Regional Office at (312) 

353–8311. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Midwestern Regional Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Records of the meeting will 

be available via www.facadatabase.gov 

under the Commission on Civil Rights, 

Michigan Advisory Committee link 

(http://www.facadatabase.gov/ 

committee/meetings.aspx?cid=255). 

Persons interested in the work of this 

Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s website, http://

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Midwestern Regional Office at the above 

email or street address. 

Agenda 

Welcome and Introductions 

Discussion: Civil Rights in Michigan 

Public Comment 

Future Plans and Actions 

Adjournment 

Dated: June 25, 2018. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13970 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[S–66–2018] 

Approval of Subzone Status; Amcor 

Flexibles LLC; Shelbyville, Kentucky 

On May 1, 2018 the Executive 

Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones 

(FTZ) Board docketed an application 

submitted by the Louisville & Jefferson 

County Riverport Authority, grantee of 

FTZ 29, requesting subzone status 

subject to the existing activation limit of 

FTZ 29, on behalf of Amcor Flexibles 

LLC, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. 

The application was processed in 

accordance with the FTZ Act and 

Regulations, including notice in the 

Federal Register inviting public 

comment (83 FR 20034, May 7, 2018). 

The FTZ staff examiner reviewed the 

application and determined that it 

meets the criteria for approval. Pursuant 

to the authority delegated to the FTZ 

Board Executive Secretary (15 CFR 

400.36(f)), the application to establish 

Subzone 29N was approved on June 26, 

2018, subject to the FTZ Act and the 

Board’s regulations, including Section 

400.13, and further subject to FTZ 29’s 

2,000-acre activation limit. 

Dated: June 26, 2018. 

Elizabeth Whiteman, 

Acting Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14027 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[S–64–2018] 

Approval of Subzone Expansion; 

Brake Parts Inc.; Hazleton, 

Pennsylvania 

On April 30, 2018, the Executive 

Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones 

(FTZ) Board docketed an application 

submitted by the Eastern Distribution 

Center, Inc., grantee of FTZ 24, 

requesting an expansion of Subzone 24E 

on behalf of Brake Parts Inc in Hazleton, 

Pennsylvania. 

The application was processed in 

accordance with the FTZ Act and 

Regulations, including notice in the 

Federal Register inviting public 

comment (83 FR 19524, May 3, 2018). 

The FTZ staff examiner reviewed the 

application and determined that it 

meets the criteria for approval. Pursuant 

to the authority delegated to the FTZ 

Board Executive Secretary (15 CFR 

400.36(f)), the application to expand 

Subzone 24E was approved on June 26, 

2018, subject to the FTZ Act and the 

Board’s regulations, including Section 

400.13, and further subject to FTZ 24’s 

2,000-acre activation limit. 

Dated: June 26, 2018. 

Elizabeth Whiteman, 

Acting Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14026 Filed 6–28–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–882] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From 

India: 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. 


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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 Preliminary Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Large Diameter 

Welded Pipe from India,’’ 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 India: Request to Align Countervailing 

Duty Investigation Final Determination with 

Antidumping Duty Investigation Final 

Determination,’’ dated June 5, 2018. 

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 India 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: 

Suzanne Lam 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) 482–0783 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 India. 

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 India, 

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 

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. 

Pursuant to section 705(c)(5)(A)(ii) of 

the Act, if the individual estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates 

established for all exporters and 

producers individually investigated are 

zero, de minimis or determined based 

entirely on facts otherwise available, 

Commerce may use any reasonable 

method to establish the estimated 

subsidy rate for all-other producers or 

exporters. In this case, the 

countervailable subsidy rate calculated 

for the investigated companies is based 

entirely on facts available under section 

776 of the Act. However, there is no 

other information on the record upon 

which to determine an all-others rate. 

As a result, we have used the rate 

assigned to Bhushan Steel and Welspun 

Trading Limited as the all-others rate. 


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10See, e.g., Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel 

Pipe from India: Final Affirmative Countervailing 

Duty Determination, 77 FR 64468 (October 22, 

2012). 

11See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

This method is consistent with 

Commerce’s past practice.10

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates exist: 

Company Subsidy rate 

(percent) 

Bhushan Steel ...................... 541.15 

Welspun Trading Limited ...... 541.15 

All-Others .............................. 541.15 

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. 

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce discloses to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with a 

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). 

However, because Commerce 

preliminarily applied AFA to the 

individually examined companies 

(Bhushan Steel and Welspun Trading 

Limited) in this investigation, in 

accordance with section 776 of the Act, 

and because our calculation of the AFA 

subsidy rate is outlined in Appendix I 

of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, there are no further 

calculations to disclose. 

Verification 

Because the examined respondents in 

this investigation did not provide 

information requested by Commerce, 

and Commerce preliminarily determines 

each of the examined respondents to 

have been uncooperative, it will not 

conduct verification of the mandatory 

respondents. The Government of India 

(GOI) did provide some information 

requested by Commerce; Commerce 

intends to seek additional information 

after the preliminary determination 

concerning certain programs the GOI 

claimed the mandatory respondents did 

not use, and may verify any information 

received, if appropriate. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance at a date to be determined. 

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in case briefs, may be submitted no later 

than five days after the deadline date for 

case briefs.11 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 Commerce’s 

affirmative preliminary determination 

or 45 days after the date of Commerce’s 

affirmative 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. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 


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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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