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16See Antidumping Duty Order. 

1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

57705 (December 7, 2017). 

2See Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the 

People’s Republic of China; 2016–2017; Partial 

Rescission of the Ninth Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, 83 FR 18276 (April 26, 

2018). 

3See Memorandum for The Record from 

Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

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

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, 

‘‘Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the Federal 

Government,’’ dated January 23, 2018. All deadlines 

in this segment of the proceeding have been 

extended by three days. 

4See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Steel 

Wire Garment Hangers from the People’s Republic 

of China, 73 FR 58111 (October 6, 2008) (Order). 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Steel Wire Garment 

Hangers from the People’s Republic of China; 2016– 

2017,’’ dated concurrently with and hereby adopted 

by this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

6See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement 

of Change in Department Practice for Respondent 

Selection in Antidumping Duty Proceedings and 

Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy 

Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 

FR 65963 (November 4, 2013). 

7See Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013– 

2014, 80 FR 41480 (July 15, 2015), and 

accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum, 

unchanged in Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the 

People’s Republic of China: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2013– 

2014, 80 FR 69942 (November 12, 2015). 

8See Shanghai Wells’ January 18, 2018 Section A 

Questionnaire Response at 1–8. 

investigation, but the manufacturer is, 

the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recent segment 

for the manufacturer of the 

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all other manufacturers or 

exporters will continue to be 29.07 

percent, the all-others rate established 

in the LTFV investigation.16 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) 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. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: July 6, 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 Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Application of Facts Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

A. Use of Facts Available 

B. Application of Facts Available With an 

Adverse Inference 

C. Selection and Corroboration of Adverse 

Facts Available Rate 

D. Rate for Non-Selected Companies 

V. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–918] 

Steel Wire Garment Hangers 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) preliminarily determines 

that Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., Ltd., 

Hong Kong Wells Ltd., and Hong Kong 

Wells Ltd. (USA) (collectively, Shanghai 

Wells) sold subject merchandise in the 

United States at prices below normal 

value (NV) during the period of review 

(POR), October 1, 2016, through 

September 30, 2017. Interested parties 

are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable July 13, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Trenton Duncan or Ian Hamilton, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3539, or (202) 482–4798, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This administrative review is being 

conducted in accordance with section 

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

amended (the Act). Commerce 

published the notice of initiation of this 

administrative review on steel wire 

garment hangers from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) on December 

7, 2017.1 On April 26, 2018,2 Commerce 

partially rescinded the review on 17 

companies. Commerce exercised its 

discretion to toll all deadlines affected 

by the closure of the Federal 

Government from January 20 through 

22, 2018. As a result, the revised 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this administrative review is now July 6, 

2018.3

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to the Order 

is steel wire garment hangers.4 The 

products are currently classifiable under 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 

7326.20.0020, 7323.99.9060, and 

7323.99.9080. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written product description of the scope 

of the order remains dispositive.5

China-Wide Entity 

Commerce’s policy regarding 

conditional review of the China-wide 

entity applies to this administrative 

review.6 Under this policy, the Chinawide entity will not be under review 

unless a party specifically requests, or 

Commerce self-initiates, a review of the 

entity. Because no party requested a 

review of the China-wide entity in this 

review, the entity is not under review 

and the entity’s rate is not subject to 

change, (i.e., 187.25 percent).7

Separate Rates 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that information placed on the record by 

Shanghai Wells demonstrates that this 

entity is entitled to separate rate status.8

For additional information, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) 

of the Act. We calculated constructed 

export prices and export prices in 

accordance with section 772 of the Act. 

Because China is a non-market economy 


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9 In the first administrative review of the Order, 

Commerce found that Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., 

Ltd. and Hong Kong Wells Ltd. (collectively 

Shanghai Wells) are a single entity and, because 

there were no changes to the facts that supported 

that decision since that determination was made, 

we continue to find that these companies are part 

of a single entity for this administrative review. See 

Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results and 

Preliminary Rescission, in Part, of the First 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR 

68758, 68761 (November 9, 2010), unchanged in 

First Administrative Review of Steel Wire Garment 

Hangers from the People’s Republic of China: Final 

Results and Final Partial Rescission of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 

27994, 27996 (May 13, 2011); see also Steel Wire 

Garment Hangers from the People’s Republic of 

China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, 2015–2016, 82 FR 54324 

(November 17, 2017). 

10See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

11See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

12See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

13See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

14 In these preliminary results, Commerce applied 

the assessment rate calculation method adopted in 

Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the 

Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 

(February 14, 2012). 

15See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

16 Id. 

17 Id. 

(NME) within the meaning of section 

771(18) of the Act, NV has been 

calculated in accordance with section 

773(c) of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

topics included in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is included as 

an appendix to this notice. The 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is made available 

to the public 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 it 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 is 

available at http:// 

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

and electronic versions of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 

identical in content. 

Preliminary Results of the Review 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following weighted-average 

dumping margin exists for the POR: 

Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., 

Ltd./Hong Kong Wells Ltd 9 3.25 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed for these 

preliminary results to the parties no 

later than ten days after the date of the 

public announcement of this notice in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), 

interested parties may submit case briefs 

no later than 30 days after the date of 

publication of these preliminary results 

of review. 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. 

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in the case briefs, may be filed no later 

than five days after the case briefs are 

filed.10

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance within 30 days of the 

date of publication of this notice. 

Requests should contain: (1) The party’s 

name, address and telephone number; 

(2) the number of participants; and (3) 

a list of issues parties intend to discuss. 

Issues raised in the hearing will be 

limited to those raised in the respective 

case and rebuttal briefs.11 If a request for 

a hearing is made, Commerce intends to 

hold the hearing at the U.S. Department 

of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave. 

NW, Washington, DC 20230, at a date 

and time to be determined.12 Parties 

should confirm by telephone the date, 

time, and location of the hearing two 

days before the scheduled date. 

All submissions, with limited 

exceptions, must be filed electronically 

using ACCESS. An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

(ET) on the due date. Documents 

excepted from the electronic submission 

requirements must be filed manually 

(e.g., in paper form) with the APO/ 

Dockets Unit in Room 18022 and 

stamped with the date and time of 

receipt by 5 p.m. ET on the due date. 

Unless otherwise extended, 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

which will include the results of its 

analysis of issues raised in any briefs, 

within 120 days of publication of these 

preliminary results, pursuant to section 

751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results, 

Commerce will determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.13 Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP 15 days 

after the publication date of the final 

results of this review. For any 

individually examined respondent 

whose (estimated) ad valorem weightedaverage dumping margin is not zero or 

de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) 

in the final results of this review, 

Commerce will calculate importerspecific ad valorem assessment rates on 

the basis of the ratio of the total amount 

of dumping calculated for the importer’s 

examined sales and the total entered 

value of those sales, in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).14 We will instruct 

CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review when the importer-specific ad 

valorem assessment rate calculated in 

the final results of this review is not 

zero or de minimis. Where either the 

respondent’s ad valorem weightedaverage dumping margin is zero or de 

minimis,15 or an importer-specific ad 

valorem assessment rate is zero or de 

minimis, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate the appropriate entries 

without regard to antidumping duties. 

For entries that were not reported in 

the U.S. sales data submitted by 

companies individually examined 

during this review, Commerce will 

instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at 

the rate for the China-wide entity.16

Additionally, if Commerce determines 

that an exporter under review had no 

shipments of the subject merchandise, 

any suspended entries that entered 

under that exporter’s case number (i.e., 

at that exporter’s cash deposit rate) will 

be liquidated at the rate for the Chinawide entity.17

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final results 

of this review shall be the basis for the 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise covered by the 

final results of this review and for future 

deposits of estimated antidumping 

duties, where applicable. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review for shipments of 

the subject merchandise from China 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date, as provided by section 


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1See Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings from 

Italy: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2016–2017, 83 FR 10839 

(March 13, 2018), and the accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel 

Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings from Italy, Malaysia, and 

the Philippines, 66 FR 11257 (February 23, 2001). 

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

specific company listed in the final 

results of this review, the cash deposit 

rate will be equal to the weightedaverage dumping margin established in 

the final results of this review (except, 

if the ad valorem rate is de minimis, 

then the cash deposit rate will be zero); 

(2) for previously investigated or 

reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese 

exporters not listed above that have 

received a separate rate in a prior 

segment of this proceeding, the cash 

deposit rate will continue to be the 

existing exporter-specific cash deposit 

rate published for the most recently 

completed period; (3) for all Chinese 

exporters of subject merchandise that 

have not been found to be entitled to a 

separate rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate for the China-wide entity; 

and (4) for all non-Chinese exporters of 

subject merchandise which have not 

received their own separate rate, the 

cash deposit rate will be the rate 

applicable to the Chinese exporter that 

supplied that non-Chinese exporter. 

These cash 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 POR. 

Failure to comply with this requirement 

could result in Commerce’s 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This administrative review and notice 

are issued and published in accordance 

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

the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: July 6, 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 Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

1. Summary 

2. Background 

3. Scope of the Order 

4. Discussion of the Methodology 

a. NME Country Status 

b. Separate Rates 

c. Separate Rates Recipients—Wholly 

Foreign-Owned 

d. Surrogate Country and Surrogate Value 

Data 

e. Surrogate Country 

f. Date of Sale 

g. Comparisons to Normal Value 

h. Results of Differential Pricing Analysis 

i. U.S. Price 

j. Value-Added Tax 

k. Normal Value 

l. Factor Valuation Methodology 

m. Currency Conversion 

5. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–475–828] 

Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings 

From Italy: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2016–2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) finds that Filmag Italia Spa 

(Filmag) did not sell stainless steel buttweld pipe fittings at prices below 

normal value during the period of 

review (POR) February 1, 2016, through 

January 31, 2017. 

DATES: Applicable July 13, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Drury or Kent Boydston, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0195 or (202) 482–5649, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 13, 2018, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

Preliminary Results and gave parties an 

opportunity to comment.1 No comments 

were received. 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the order 

is certain stainless steel butt-weld pipe 

fittings from Italy.2 Stainless steel buttweld pipe fittings are under 14 inches 

in outside diameter (based on nominal 

pipe size), whether finished or 

unfinished. The product encompasses 

all grades of stainless steel and 

‘‘commodity’’ and ‘‘specialty’’ fittings. 

Specifically excluded from the 

definition are threaded, grooved, and 

bolted fittings, and fittings made from 

any material other than stainless steel. 

The butt-weld fittings subject to the 

order is currently classifiable under 

subheading 7307.23.0000 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS). Although the 

HTSUS subheading is provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope of the 

order is dispositive. A full description 

of the scope of the order is contained in 

the memorandum from Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, to Gary 

Taverman, Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Operations, performing the nonexclusive functions and duties of the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, titled ‘‘Decision 

Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review: Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe 

Fittings from Italy; 2016–2017’’ 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum), 

which is issued concurrent with these 

results and hereby adopted by this 

notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce conducted this review in 

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

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act). Export price was calculated in 

accordance with section 772(a) of the 

Act. Normal value was calculated in 

accordance with section 773(a)(1)(B) of 

the Act. For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our analysis, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, available at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. 

Final Results of Review 

In the Preliminary Results, Commerce 

determined that Filmag did not make 

sales at below normal value for the 

period February 1, 2016, through 

January 31, 2017. We have not received 

information contradicting our 

preliminary finding. Thus, there is no 

reason to modify our preliminary 

analysis, and no decision memorandum 

accompanies this Federal Register 

notice. 

Final Results of Review 

Commerce determines that the 

following weighted-average dumping 

margin exists for the period of review 


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