37468 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 148 / Wednesday, August 1, 2018 / Notices 

1See Stainless Steel Flanges from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 83 FR 26959 (June 

11, 2018) (Final Determination). 

2See ITC Letter regarding stainless steel flanges 

from China, dated July 25, 2018 (ITC Notification); 

see also Stainless Steel Flanges from China, Inv. No. 

731–TA–1383 (Final), USITC Pub. 4807, (July 

2018). 

3See ITC Notification. 

4See Stainless Steel Flanges from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 83 

FR 13244 (March 28, 2018) (Preliminary 

Determination). 5See section 736(a)(3) of the Act. 

proceedings. To facilitate the timely 

preparation of the service list(s), it is 

requested that those seeking recognition 

as interested parties to a proceeding 

contact Commerce in writing within 10 

days of the publication of the Notice of 

Initiation. 

Please note that if Commerce receives 

a Notice of Intent to Participate from a 

member of the domestic industry within 

15 days of the date of initiation, the 

review will continue. 

Thereafter, any interested party 

wishing to participate in the Sunset 

Review must provide substantive 

comments in response to the notice of 

initiation no later than 30 days after the 

date of initiation. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: July 26, 2018. 

James Maeder, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations performing the duties of Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–064] 

Stainless Steel Flanges From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) and the 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing an antidumping 

duty order on stainless steel flanges 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China). 

DATES: Applicable August 1, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian 

Hamilton, 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) 482–4798. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with section 735(d) and 

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

amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.210(c), on June 11, 2018, Commerce 

published its affirmative Final 

Determination in the less than fair value 

(LTFV) investigation of stainless steel 

flanges from China.1 On July 25, 2018, 

the ITC notified Commerce of its final 

determination pursuant to section 

735(d) of the Act, that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured by 

reason of LTFV imports of stainless steel 

flanges from China, within the meaning 

of section 735(b)(1)(A) of the Act.2

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by this order 

are stainless steel flanges from China. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of the order, see the Appendix to this 

notice. 

Antidumping Duty Order 

In accordance with sections 

735(b)(1)(A) and 735(d) of the Act, the 

ITC has notified Commerce of its final 

determination in this investigation, in 

which it found that imports of stainless 

steel flanges from China are materially 

injuring a U.S. industry.3 Therefore, in 

accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 

736(a) of the Act, we are publishing this 

antidumping duty order. 

As a result of the ITC’s final 

determination, in accordance with 

section 736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce 

will direct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, antidumping 

duties equal to the amount by which the 

normal value of the merchandise 

exceeds the export price (or constructed 

export price) of the merchandise, for all 

relevant entries of stainless steel flanges 

from China. These antidumping duties 

will be assessed on unliquidated entries 

of stainless steel flanges from China 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after March 28, 

2018, the date on which Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determination,4 but will not include 

entries occurring after the expiration of 

the provisional measures period and 

before publication of the ITC’s final 

injury determination, as further 

described below. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will instruct 

CBP to continue to suspend liquidation 

on entries of subject merchandise from 

China. We will also instruct CBP to 

require cash deposits equal to the 

estimated amount by which the normal 

value exceeds the U.S. price as 

indicated in the chart below. These 

instructions suspending liquidation will 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Accordingly, effective on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination, CBP will require, 

at the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated duties on 

this subject merchandise, a cash deposit 

equal to the estimated antidumping 

duty margin.5 The ‘‘China-wide’’ rate 

applies to all exporters of subject 

merchandise not specifically listed in 

the table below. 

Provisional Measures 

Section 733(d) of the Act states that 

instructions to suspend liquidation 

issued pursuant to an affirmative 

preliminary determination may not 

remain in effect for more than four 

months, except where exporters 

representing a significant proportion of 

exports of subject merchandise request 

to extend the four-month period to six 

months. Therefore, the four-month 

period beginning on March 28, 2018, the 

date of publication of the Preliminary 

Determination, ended on July 25, 2018. 

Furthermore, section 737(b) of the Act 

states that definitive duties are to begin 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final injury determination. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

733(d) of the Act and our practice, we 

will instruct CBP to terminate the 

suspension of liquidation and to 

liquidate, without regard to 

antidumping duties, unliquidated 

entries of stainless steel flanges from 

China entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

July 26, 2018, the day after which the 

provisional measures expired, until and 

through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of liquidation will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final determination in the Federal 

Register. 

Estimated Dumping Margins 

Commerce determines that the 

estimated final weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 


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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 148 / Wednesday, August 1, 2018 / Notices 37469 

1See Ripe Olives from Spain: Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination, 83 FR 28186 

(June 18, 2018) (Final Determination) and 

accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

2See Letter from the ITC to Commerce, dated July 

25, 2018; see also Ripe Olives from Spain 

(Investigation Nos. 701–TA–582 and 731–TA–1377 

(Final), USITC Publication 4805, July 2018). 

3The petitioner to this investigation is the 

Coalition for Fair Trade in Ripe Olives, whose 

individual member are BellCarter Foods, Inc. and 

Musco Family Olive Co. 

Exporter/producer 

Weighted-average 

dumping margins 

(percent) 

Shanxi Guanjiaying 

Flange Forging Group 

Co., Ltd ..................... 257.11 

China-wide Entity .......... 257.11 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

antidumping duty order with respect to 

stainless steel flanges from China, 

pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. 

Interested parties can find a list of 

antidumping duty orders currently in 

effect at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

stats/iastats1.html. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 736(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: July 25, 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 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by this order are 

certain forged stainless steel flanges, whether 

unfinished, semi-finished, or finished 

(certain forged stainless steel flanges). Certain 

forged stainless steel flanges are generally 

manufactured to, but not limited to, the 

material specification of ASTM/ASME A/ 

SA182 or comparable domestic or foreign 

specifications. Certain forged stainless steel 

flanges are made in various grades such as, 

but not limited to, 304, 304L, 316, and 316L 

(or combinations thereof). The term 

‘‘stainless steel’’ used in this scope refers to 

an alloy steel containing, by actual weight, 

1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5 percent 

or more of chromium, with or without other 

elements. 

Unfinished stainless steel flanges possess 

the approximate shape of finished stainless 

steel flanges and have not yet been machined 

to final specification after the initial forging 

or like operations. These machining 

processes may include, but are not limited to, 

boring, facing, spot facing, drilling, tapering, 

threading, beveling, heating, or compressing. 

Semi-finished stainless steel flanges are 

unfinished stainless steel flanges that have 

undergone some machining processes. 

The scope includes six general types of 

flanges. They are: (1) Weld neck, generally 

used in butt-weld line connection; (2) 

threaded, generally used for threaded line 

connections; (3) slip-on, generally used to 

slide over pipe; (4) lap joint, generally used 

with stub-ends/butt-weld line connections; 

(5) socket weld, generally used to fit pipe 

into a machine recession; and (6) blind, 

generally used to seal off a line. The sizes 

and descriptions of the flanges within the 

scope include all pressure classes of ASME 

B16.5 and range from one-half inch to 

twenty-four inches nominal pipe size. 

Specifically excluded from the scope of this 

order are cast stainless steel flanges. Cast 

stainless steel flanges generally are 

manufactured to specification ASTM A351. 

The country of origin for certain forged 

stainless steel flanges, whether unfinished, 

semi-finished, or finished is the country 

where the flange was forged. Subject 

merchandise includes stainless steel flanges 

as defined above that have been further 

processed in a third country. The processing 

includes, but is not limited to, boring, facing, 

spot facing, drilling, tapering, threading, 

beveling, heating, or compressing, and/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 stainless steel flanges. 

Merchandise subject to the order is 

typically imported under headings 

7307.21.1000 and 7307.21.5000 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS). While HTSUS subheadings 

and ASTM specifications are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–469–818] 

Ripe Olives From Spain: Amended 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Countervailing Duty 

Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) and the 

International Trade Commission (the 

ITC), Commerce is issuing a 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on ripe 

olives from Spain. In addition, 

Commerce is amending its final CVD 

determination with respect to ripe 

olives from Spain to correct ministerial 

errors. 

DATES: Applicable August 1, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Kolberg or Lana Nigro, AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1785 or (202) 482–1779, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 705(a), 

705(d), and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.210(c), on June 18, 2018, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register an 

affirmative final determination in the 

CVD investigation of ripe olives from 

Spain.1 Interested parties submitted 

timely filed allegations that Commerce 

made certain ministerial errors in the 

final CVD determination of ripe olives 

from Spain. Section 705(e) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.224(f) define ministerial 

errors as errors in addition, subtraction, 

or other arithmetic function, clerical 

errors resulting from inaccurate 

copying, duplication, or the like, and 

any other type of unintentional error 

which the Commerce considers 

ministerial. We reviewed the allegations 

and determined that we made certain 

ministerial errors. See ‘‘Amendment to 

the Final Determination’’ section below 

for further discussion. 

On July 25, 2018, the ITC notified 

Commerce of its affirmative 

determination pursuant to sections 

705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the Act, 

that an industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of 

subsidized imports of ripe olives from 

Spain.2

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this 

order is ripe olives from Spain. For a 

complete description of the scope of this 

order, see the Appendix to this notice. 

Amendment to the Final Determination 

On June 19, 2018, the petitioner,3

Aceitunas Guadalquivir S.L.U. 

(Aceitunas Guadalquivir), and Angel 

Camacho Alimentacio ́n, S.L. (Angel 

Camacho) timely alleged that the Final 

Determination contained certain 

ministerial errors and requested that 

Commerce correct such errors. On June 

25, 2018, the petitioner filed rebuttal 

comments. 

Commerce reviewed the record and, 

on July 12, 2018, agreed that certain 

errors referenced in the petitioner’s and 

Angel Camacho’s allegations constitute 

ministerial errors within the meaning of 

section 705(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 


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