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9See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

from India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2015–2016, 82 FR 43517 

(September 18, 2017) and Certain Frozen 

Warmwater Shrimp from India: Notice of Correction 

to the Final Results of the 2015–2016 Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review, 82 FR 43740 

(September 19, 2017). 

10For a full discussion of this practice, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

11See Notice of Amended Final Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping 

Duty Order: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

from India, 70 FR 5147, 5148 (February 1, 2005). 

1See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel 

Plate from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary 

Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; and Rescission of Review, in Part; Calendar 

Year 2016; 83 FR 10661 (March 12, 2018) 

(Preliminary Results), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2See Preliminary Results, 83 FR at 10662. 

For the companies which were not 

selected for individual examination, we 

used as the assessment rate the cash 

deposit rate assigned to these exporters, 

in accordance with our practice.9

Commerce’s ‘‘automatic assessment’’ 

practice will apply to entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR produced 

by Devi or the Liberty Group for which 

these companies did not know that the 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States. In such instances, we will 

instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed 

entries at the all-others rate if there is no 

rate for the intermediate company(ies) 

involved in the transaction.10

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP 15 days 

after the date of publication of these 

final results of review. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of 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entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 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 rates for the reviewed 

companies will be the rates shown 

above, except if the rate is less than 0.50 

percent (de minimis within the meaning 

of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1)), the cash 

deposit will be zero; (2) for previously 

reviewed or investigated companies not 

listed above, 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 previous review, or the 

original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 

investigation, but the manufacturer is, 

the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recent period 

for the manufacturer of the 

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all-other manufacturers or 

exporters will continue to be 10.17 

percent, the all-others rate established 

in the LTFV investigation.11 These 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as the only 

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 the 

Secretary’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.305(a)(3), this notice also serves as 

a reminder to parties subject to 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

return or destruction of proprietary 

information disclosed under the APO, 

which continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. 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 subject to sanction. 

We are issuing and publishing this 

notice in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.213(h). 

Dated: July 10, 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 IDM 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Margin Calculations 

V. Discussion of the Issues 

1. Ministerial Errors for Devi 

VI. Recommendation 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–580–837] 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate From the Republic of 

Korea: Final Results of Countervailing 

Duty Administrative Review and 

Rescission of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review, in Part 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) determines that Hyundai 

Steel Co. (Hyundai Steel), a producer/ 

exporter of certain cut-to-length carbonquality steel plate (CTL plate) from the 

Republic of Korea (Korea), received 

countervailable subsidies during the 

period of review (POR), January 1, 2016, 

through December 31, 2016, and that 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (DSM), a 

producer/exporter of CTL plate did not. 

We are also rescinding the review for 12 

companies. 

DATES: Applicable July 16, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Conniff at 202–482–1009 (for Hyundai 

Steel), or Jolanta Lawska at 202–482– 

8362 (for DSM), AD/CVD Operations, 

Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce published the preliminary 

results of this administrative review of 

CTL plate from Korea on March 12, 

2018.1 We invited interested parties to 

comment on the Preliminary Results. On 

April 11, 2018, we received a timely 

filed case brief from Nucor Corporation 

(the petitioner), and on April 16, 2018, 

Hyundai Steel submitted a timely filed 

rebuttal brief. Based on an analysis of 

the comments received, we made no 

changes to the subsidy rates determined 

for the respondents in the Preliminary 

Results.2 The final subsidy rates are 

listed in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Administrative Review’’ section, below. 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the order are 

certain hot-rolled carbon-quality steel: 


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3See Memorandum for the Record from James 

Maeder, Senior Director performing the duties of 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations to 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: ‘‘Issues 

and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review and 

Partial Rescission: Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate from the Republic of Korea,’’ dated 

concurrently with this determination and hereby 

adopted by this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See 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. 

5See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

17188, April 10, 2017. 

6See Letter from Petitioner, Certain Cut-ToLength Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from South 

Korea: Withdrawal of Request for Administrative 

Review in Part,’’ dated July 10, 2017. 

(1) Universal mill plates (i.e., flat-rolled 

products rolled on four faces or in a 

closed box pass, of a width exceeding 

150 mm but not exceeding 1250 mm, 

and of a nominal or actual thickness of 

not less than 4 mm, which are cut-tolength (not in coils) and without 

patterns in relief), of iron or non-alloyquality steel; and (2) flat-rolled 

products, hot-rolled, of a nominal or 

actual thickness of 4.75 mm or more and 

of a width which exceeds 150 mm and 

measures at least twice the thickness, 

and which are cut-to-length (not in 

coils). 

The merchandise subject to the order 

is currently classifiable in the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) under 

subheadings: 7208.40.3030, 

7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 

7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 

7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 

7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 

7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 

7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 

7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 

7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 

7225.40.3050, 7225.40.7000, 

7225.50.6000, 7225.99.0090, 

7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000, 

7226.91.8000, 7226.99.0000. 

Although the HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

merchandise covered by the order is 

dispositive. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in interested parties’ 

case briefs are addressed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum.3 The issues 

are identified in the Appendix to this 

notice. The Issues and Decision 

Memorandum is a public document and 

is on file electronically via Enforcement 

and Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at https://access.trade.gov and is 

available to all parties in the Central 

Records Unit, room B8024 of the main 

Commerce building. In addition, a 

complete version of the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly on the internet at http://

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

The signed and electronic versions of 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum 

are identical in content. 

Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

Based on the comments received from 

the petitioner and Hyundai Steel, we 

made no changes to the net subsidy 

rates calculated for the mandatory 

respondents. For a discussion of these 

issues, see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce conducted this review in 

accordance with section 751(a)(1)(A) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act). For each of the subsidy programs 

found countervailable, we find that 

there is a subsidy, i.e., a governmentprovided financial contribution that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.4 For a 

description of the methodology 

underlying all of Commerce’s 

conclusions, see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Rescission of the 2016 Administrative 

Review, in Part 

Commerce initiated a review of 14 

companies in this administrative 

review.5 The petitioner timely withdrew 

its request for an administrative review 

of Bookuk Steel, Daewoo International 

Corp., Hyundai Glovis Co., Ltd., 

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Ltd., 

Hyuosung Corporation, Samsung C&T 

Corporation, Samsung C&T Engineering 

& Construction Group, Samsung C&T 

Trading Investment Group, Samsung 

Heavy Industries, SK Networks, Steel N 

People Co Ltd., and Sung Jin Steel Co., 

Ltd.6 Therefore, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.213(d)(l), we are rescinding 

this administrative review with respect 

to these companies. 

Final Results of Administrative Review 

In accordance with section 777A(e)(1) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5), we 

determine the total estimated net 

countervailable subsidy rates for the 

period January 1, 2016, through 

December 31, 2016 to be: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

ad valorem 

(percent) 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd .. * 0.21 

Hyundai Steel Co ................. 0.54 

* De minimis. 

Assessment and Cash Deposit 

Requirements 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(b)(2), Commerce intends to 

issue appropriate instructions to U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 15 

days after publication of the final results 

of this review. For Hyundai Steel, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate 

shipments of subject merchandise 

produced and/or exported by the 

company, entered or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption from 

January 1, 2016, through December 31, 

2016, at the percent rate of the entered 

value. Because we have calculated a de 

minimis countervailable subsidy rate for 

DSM in the final results of this review, 

we will instruct CBP to liquidate the 

appropriate entries without regard to 

countervailing duties in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.212. 

Commerce intends also to instruct 

CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties, in the 

amounts shown above, with the 

exception of DSM, on shipments of 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review. For all non-reviewed firms, we 

will instruct CBP to continue to collect 

cash deposits at the most-recent 

company-specific or all-others rate 

applicable to the company, as 

appropriate. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a final 

reminder to parties subject to an 

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), 

which continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of proceeding. Timely written 

notification of the return/destruction of 

APO materials or conversion to judicial 

protective order is hereby requested. 

Failure to comply with the regulations 

and terms of an APO is a violation 

which is subject to sanction. 

These final results are issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

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


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1https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/ 

uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905-2.pdf. 

Dated: July 10, 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Scope of the Order 

III. Period of Review 

IV. Subsidies Valuation Information 

V. Analysis of Programs 

VI. Analysis of Comments 

Comment 1: Whether Hyundai Steel and 

Hyundai Green Power Are Cross-Owned 

Affiliates 

Comment 2: Whether the Government of 

Korea Purchased Electricity From 

Hyundai Green Power for More Than 

Adequate Remuneration During the POR 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

[Docket Number: 180404350–8350–01] 

Current and Future Workforce Needs 

to Support a Strong Domestic 

Semiconductor Industry 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; Request for Information 

(RFI). 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) on 

behalf of the Department of Commerce 

and the National Security Council is 

seeking information on the scope and 

sufficiency of efforts to educate, train, 

and attract the workforce necessary to 

meet the demands of the current and 

future semiconductor industry, in 

support of the President’s National 

Security Strategy. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

5:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 15, 

2018. Written comments in response to 

this RFI should be submitted in 

accordance with the instructions in the 

ADDRESSES and SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION sections below. 

Submissions received after that date 

may not be considered. 

ADDRESSES: To respond to this RFI, 

please submit written comments by 

email to semiwkfc@nist.gov in any of the 

following formats: ASCII; Word; RTF; or 

PDF. Please include your name, 

organization’s name (if any), and cite 

‘‘Semiconductor Workforce RFI’’ in the 

subject line of all correspondence. 

Comments sent by any other method, to 

any other address or individual, or 

received after the end of the comment 

period, may not be considered. All 

personal identifying information (e.g., 

name, address) submitted voluntarily by 

the sender will be publicly accessible. 

Do not submit confidential business 

information, or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. Attachments to 

electronic comments will be accepted in 

Microsoft Word or Excel, or Adobe PDF 

formats only. 

Comments containing references, 

studies, research, and other empirical 

data that are not widely published 

should include electronic copies of the 

referenced materials. Please do not 

submit additional materials. 

All submissions, including 

attachments and other supporting 

materials, will become part of the public 

record and subject to public disclosure. 

Sensitive personal information, such as 

account numbers or Social Security 

numbers, or names of other individuals, 

should not be included. Submissions 

will not be edited to remove any 

identifying or contact information. Do 

not submit confidential business 

information, or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. Comments that 

contain profanity, vulgarity, threats, or 

other inappropriate language or content 

will not be considered. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about this FRN contact: Jason 

Boehm or David Seiler, U.S. Department 

of Commerce, National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, at 301–975– 

8678 or 301–975–2074. 

Please direct media inquiries to 

Jennifer Huergo in the NIST Public 

Affairs Office at jennifer.huergo@

nist.gov, (301) 975–6343. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: President 

Trump’s National Security Strategy,1

released in December of 2017, 

specifically highlights the importance of 

emerging technologies to economic 

growth and security, including advances 

in data science, encryption, autonomous 

technologies, new materials, advanced 

computing technologies, and artificial 

intelligence—all of which are powered 

by and dependent upon continued 

advances in semiconductor technology. 

Maintaining the technological edge of 

the United States in this critical 

industry area requires a robust domestic 

workforce. As part of the National 

Security Strategy, the United States will 

seek to maintain and develop the 

necessary workforce through a 

multifaceted approach including 

enhanced support for K–12, 

undergraduate, and graduate STEM 

education (with a particular focus on 

semiconductor technology), targeted 

technical training, internship and 

apprenticeship programs, and 

cooperative education programs. 

Responses to this RFI will inform 

recommendations to the National 

Security Council on steps the 

Administration can take to strengthen 

the technical workforce that supports 

the semiconductor and related 

industries. The report will assess the 

scope and sufficiency of efforts to 

educate and train the future American 

semiconductor workforce from primary 

through higher education, and provide 

recommendations and a plan on how 

the government will continue to support 

the growth and sustainment of this 

workforce to meet the needs of both the 

private and public sectors. 

In this RFI, NIST seeks specific 

information from stakeholders of the 

semiconductor industry such as 

materials providers, equipment 

suppliers, manufacturers, designers, 

trade associations, educational 

institutions, government entities, and 

other interested parties about the 

workforce needs of the semiconductor 

industry, and potential efforts to 

strengthen the current and future 

workforce. In this request, the term 

‘‘semiconductor’’ broadly refers to 

semiconductor materials, devices, 

sensors, integrated circuits, computing 

architectures, software tools, design, 

lithography, fabrication, testing, 

packaging, embedded software and 

firmware developers, and related 

technologies that, through a 

combination of materials processing, 

manufacturing, and application, form 

the foundation and basis for the 

semiconductor, memory, technology 

manufacturing, computing, and 

information technology industry sectors. 

NIST seeks information that will 

assist U.S. Government efforts in 

developing recommendations for 

supporting the growth and sustainment 

of the Nation’s semiconductor 

workforce to meet the current and future 

needs of the public and private sectors. 

Our goal is to gather input that will be 

utilized to refine and target relevant 

federal resources and programs to 

attract, educate, and train the necessary 

advanced technical workforce necessary 

to ensure that the U.S. maintains a 

robust semiconductor industrial base, 

including the fundamental research 

needed to continue to innovate in 

semiconductor technologies, that is 

necessary to drive future advances in 

transformational technologies including 


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