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1See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada, 

Greece, India, the People’s Republic of China, the 

Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey: 

Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 83 

FR 7154 (February 20, 2018) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada, 

Greece, India, the People’s Republic of China, the 

Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 83 FR 27953 

(June 15, 2018). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Large Diameter Welded 

Pipe from Greece,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

contact submits 2020 BAS boundary 

updates, effective as of January 1, 2020, 

or before, by the deadline of March 1, 

2020, the entity will be included in the 

final phase of the BVP. The government 

will have the option to submit the 

corrections on either paper or digital 

maps. 

In the final BVP phase, once the 

Census Bureau applies the participant’s 

2020 BAS boundary updates to the 

MAF/TIGER database, the Census 

Bureau will provide each highest 

elected official a complete set of 

updated 2020 BAS maps or shapefiles. 

The governments may request CD/DVD, 

download or plotted paper maps. This 

is their final opportunity to review the 

boundary and verify that the Census 

Bureau clearly reflects the correct 

boundary in the MAF/TIGER database, 

effective January 1, 2020, for the 2020 

Census. In the final BVP phase, each 

highest elected official submits any 

remaining corrections within five days 

directly to the Census Bureau using the 

instructions provided in the BAS 

respondent guide. 

The final stage of BAS is the annual 

State Certification Program. This 

program allows state level agencies to 

verify that the status and boundary 

updates received through the previous 

years’ BAS updates were accomplished 

according to state law. The State 

Certification Program will be held in 

2018 and 2019. The BVP replaces the 

State Certification in 2020. During each 

cycle of this program, Governordesignated state certifying officials 

review listings of incorporated place 

legal boundary and functional status 

changes reported to the BAS during the 

previous year. The extent of the State 

Certification program varies depending 

on the laws governing annexations, 

deannexations, incorporations, and 

disincorporations in the given state. 

Some states have strong laws that 

require local governments to report legal 

boundary changes to the state 

government. In these states, the state 

certifying official is able to certify, edit, 

add, or reverse reported annexations, 

and may mark a legal boundary change 

as a duplicate of a previously reported 

change. In these states, the state 

certifying official also has the authority 

to request that the Census Bureau edit 

or delete information received from the 

local government. In states that do not 

require local governments to report legal 

boundary changes to the state, the 

Census Bureau will not edit or delete 

information without confirmation from 

the local government. If the state 

certifying official adds legal boundary 

changes missing from the Census 

Bureau’s annexation list, the Census 

Bureau will contact the local 

government to request information. The 

State Certification program helps to 

ensure that all levels of government 

represent boundaries consistently and 

accurately. 

The data and information collected 

from the BAS and BVP serve tribal, 

federal, state and local governments, 

and the private sector. The BVP 

provides validation for the information 

collected through the BAS. The BAS is 

the primary provider for the following 

services and products: 

(1) Classify data collected in the 

periodic decennial and economic 

censuses and annual surveys. 

(2) Serve as the primary source of 

information regarding new 

incorporations, disincorporations, and 

other changes in the local and tribal 

government inventory for the Federal 

Information Processing Series and 

Geographic Names Information Systems 

programs, tribal, state and local officials, 

and private data users. 

(3) Update its estimates of the 

population as a result of the creation of 

new governments, the dissolution of 

governments, or changes in boundaries 

for existing local or tribal governments. 

(4) Serve as the source for 

governmental unit boundary 

information as a framework layer of the 

National Spatial Data Infrastructure for 

The National Map and the data.gov 

website. 

Information quality is an integral part 

of the pre-dissemination review of the 

information disseminated by the Census 

Bureau. Information quality is also 

integral to the information collections 

conducted by the Census Bureau, and 

we incorporate it into the clearance 

process as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

Affected Public: Tribal, state and local 

governments. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C., 

Section 6. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the 

Chief Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–484–803] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From 

Greece: Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Postponement of Final Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that large diameter welded pipe (welded 

pipe) from Greece is being, or is likely 

to be, sold in the United States at less 

than fair value (LTFV). The period of 

investigation (POI) is January 1, 2017, 

through December 31, 2017. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on this 

preliminary determination. 

DATES: Applicable August 27, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brittany Bauer, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3860. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(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 June 8, 2018, 

Commerce postponed the preliminary 

determination of this investigation; the 

revised deadline is now August 20, 

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 

included 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 


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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 June 19, 2018 (Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum). 

7 In the Initiation Notice, this company appears 

under the name Corinth Pipeworks S.A. However, 

the company’s correct name is Corinth Pipeworks 

Pipe Industry S.A. 

8See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://

access.trade.gov, and 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 

Greece. 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 investigation, 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 to this notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Constructed export price 

is calculated in accordance with section 

772(b) of the Act. Normal value (NV) is 

calculated in accordance with section 

773 of the Act. For a full description of 

the methodology underlying the 

preliminary determination, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(ii) and 735(c)(5)(A) 

of the Act provide that in the 

preliminary determination Commerce 

shall determine an estimated all-others 

rate for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be an amount equal to the weighted 

average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero and de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

Commerce calculated an estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry S.A. 

(Corinth),7 the only individuallyexamined exporter/producer in this 

investigation. Because the only 

individually-calculated dumping 

margin is not zero, de minimis, or based 

entirely on facts otherwise available, the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin calculated for Corinth is the 

margin assigned to all other producers 

and exporters, pursuant to section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry S.A ......................... 22.51 

All-Others .............................. 22.51 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(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 Appendix 

I, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. 

Further, pursuant to section 

733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP 

to require a cash deposit equal to the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin or the estimated all-others rate, 

as follows: (1) The cash deposit rate for 

Corinth will be equal to the companyspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin as determined in this 

preliminary determination; (2) if the 

exporter is not a respondent identified 

above, but the producer is Corinth, then 

the cash deposit rate will be equal to the 

company-specific estimated weightedaverage dumping margin as established 

for Corinth; and (3) the cash deposit rate 

for all other producers and exporters 

will be 22.51 percent, as discussed in 

the ‘‘All-Others Rate’’ section, above. 

These suspension of liquidation 

instructions will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis to interested 

parties in this 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 this notice 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

regarding non-scope issues may be 

submitted to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance no later 

than seven days after the date on which 

the last verification report is issued in 

this investigation, unless the Secretary 

alters the time limit. Rebuttal briefs, 

limited to issues raised in case briefs, 

may be submitted no later than five days 

after the deadline date for case briefs.8

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. 

Additionally, case briefs regarding 

scope issues may be submitted within 

10 days after the date of this notice in 

the Federal Register. Rebuttal briefs 

regarding scope issues, limited to those 

issues in the scope case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the deadline date for scope case briefs. 

All scope case and rebuttal briefs must 

be filed identically on the records of this 

investigation and the concurrent LTFV 

and countervailing duty investigations 

of welded pipe. 

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 


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9See Corinth Pipeworks S.A.’s Letter re: 

Antidumping Investigation of Large Diameter 

Welded Pipe from Greece—Request for 

Postponement of Final Determination and 

Provisional Measures Period, dated July 19, 2018. 

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 the 

date, time, and location of the hearing 

two days before the scheduled date. 

Postponement of Final Determination 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides 

that a final determination may be 

postponed until not later than 135 days 

after the date of the publication of the 

preliminary determination if, in the 

event of an affirmative preliminary 

determination, a request for such 

postponement is made by exporters who 

account for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise, or in 

the event of a negative preliminary 

determination, a request for such 

postponement is made by the petitioner. 

Section 351.210(e)(2) of Commerce’s 

regulations requires that a request by 

exporters for postponement of the final 

determination be accompanied by a 

request for extension of provisional 

measures from a four-month period to a 

period not more than six months in 

duration. 

On July 19, 2018, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.210(e), Corinth requested that 

Commerce postpone the final 

determination and that provisional 

measures be extended to a period not to 

exceed six months.9 In accordance with 

section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii), because: (1) The 

preliminary determination is 

affirmative; (2) the requesting exporter 

accounts for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise; and 

(3) no compelling reasons for denial 

exist, Commerce is postponing the final 

determination and extending the 

provisional measures from a four-month 

period to a period not greater than six 

months. Accordingly, Commerce will 

make its final determination no later 

than 135 days after the date of 

publication of this preliminary 

determination. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will determine before the later of 

120 days after the date of this 

preliminary determination or 45 days 

after the final determination whether 

these imports are materially injuring, or 

threaten material injury to, the U.S. 

industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: August 20, 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 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope Comments 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

A. Determination of the Comparison 

Method 

B. Results of the Differential Pricing 

Analysis 

VI. Date of Sale 

VII. Product Comparisons 

VIII. Constructed Export Price 

IX. Normal Value 

A. Home Market Viability 

B. Level of Trade 

C. Cost of Production Analysis 

1. Calculation of Cost of Production (COP) 

2. Test of Comparison Market Sales Prices 

3. Results of the COP Test 

D. Calculation of NV Based on Comparison 

Market Prices 

X. Currency Conversion 

XI. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–201–820] 

Fresh Tomatoes From Mexico: 

Preliminary Results of the Five-Year 

Sunset Review of the 2013 Suspension 

Agreement on Fresh Tomatoes From 

Mexico 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On February 1, 2018, the 

Department of Commerce (Commerce) 

initiated the fourth sunset review of the 

suspended antidumping duty 

investigation on fresh tomatoes from 

Mexico. Commerce preliminarily finds 

that termination of the suspended 

antidumping duty investigation on fresh 

tomatoes from Mexico would be likely 

to lead to continuation or recurrence of 

dumping at the levels indicated in the 

‘‘Preliminary Results of Review’’ section 

of this notice. 

DATES: Applicable August 27, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cordell or Sally C. Gannon, 

Bilateral Agreements Unit, Office of 


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