43644 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 166 / Monday, August 27, 2018 / Notices 

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 

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 People’s Republic of China,’’ 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’’ 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum), dated 

June 19, 2018. 

7See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Response to the 

Department’s January 23, 2018 Supplemental 

Questions Regarding Volume VIII of the Petition for 

the Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duties,’’ dated January 25, 2018,’’ at Exhibit AD– 

CN–Supp–3. 

8See Initiation Notice at 7160. 

9See Enforcement and Compliance’s Policy 

Bulletin No. 05.1, regarding, ‘‘Separate-Rates 

Practice and Application of Combination Rates in 

Antidumping Investigations involving Non-Market 

Economy Countries,’’ (April 5, 2005) (Policy 

Bulletin 05.1), available on Commerce’s website at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/policy/bull05-1.pdf. 

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 date 

and time to be determined. Commerce 

will issue a notice of final results of this 

full sunset review, which will include 

the results of its analysis of issues raised 

in any such comments, no later than 

October 1, 2018. 

This five-year (sunset) review and 

notice are in accordance with sections 

751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.218(f)(1). 

Dated: August 21, 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. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–077] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value 

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 the People’s Republic of 

China (China) is being, or is likely to be, 

sold in the United States at less than fair 

value (LTFV). The period of 

investigation (POI) is July 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: 

Trenton Duncan or Ryan Mullen, 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) 482–3539 or (202) 482–5260, 

respectively. 

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 

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 

China. 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 the revised scope in 

Appendix I to this notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Pursuant to section 

776(a) and (b) of the Act, we have 

preliminarily relied upon facts 

otherwise available, with adverse 

inferences (AFA), for the China-wide 

entity. As AFA, we have assigned the 

highest margin alleged in the Petition of 

132.63 percent.7 For a full description of 

the methodology underlying 

Commerce’s preliminary determination, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Combination Rates 

In the Initiation Notice,8 Commerce 

stated that it would calculate producer/ 

exporter combination rates for the 

respondents that are eligible for a 

separate rate in this investigation. Policy 

Bulletin 05.1 describes this practice.9 In 

this case, because no respondent 

qualified for a separate rate, producer/ 

exporter combination rates were not 

calculated. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margin exists: 

Exporter 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

China-wide Entity .................. 132.63 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, Commerce will direct CBP to 

suspend liquidation of subject 


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10See Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

11 Id. 

12See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

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, as discussed below. 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 weighted average 

amount by which normal value exceeds 

U.S. price, as indicated in the chart 

above as follows: (1) For the producer/ 

exporter combinations listed in the table 

above, the cash deposit rate is equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin listed for that 

combination in the table; (2) for all 

combinations of Chinese producers/ 

exporters of merchandise under 

consideration that have not established 

eligibility for their own separate rates, 

the cash deposit rate will be equal to the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin established for the China-wide 

entity; and (3) for all third-country 

exporters of merchandise under 

consideration not listed in the table 

above, the cash deposit rate is the cash 

deposit rate applicable to the China 

producer/exporter combination (or the 

China-wide entity) that supplied that 

third-country exporter. 

To determine the cash deposit rate, 

Commerce normally adjusts the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin by the amount of domestic 

subsidy pass-through and export 

subsidies determined in a companion 

countervailing duty (CVD) proceeding 

when CVD provisional measures are in 

effect. However, in this investigation, 

we made no adjustments to the Chinawide entity’s antidumping cash deposit 

rate of 132.63 percent because 

Commerce made no findings in the 

companion CVD investigation that any 

of the subsidies in question are export 

subsidies.10 Further, pursuant to section 

777A(f) of the Act, we normally adjust 

cash deposit rates for estimated 

domestic subsidy pass-through, where 

appropriate. However, in this case there 

is no basis to grant a domestic subsidy 

pass-through adjustment.11 Thus, 

Commerce has not made an adjustment 

to the antidumping duty cash deposit 

rates under section 777A(f) of the Act. 

These suspension of liquidation 

instructions will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

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 this notice in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However, 

because Commerce preliminarily 

applied AFA to the China-wide entity in 

this investigation, in accordance with 

section 776 of the Act, and the applied 

AFA rate is based solely on the petition, 

there are no calculations to disclose. 

Verification 

Because none of the mandatory 

respondents in this investigation 

responded to our requests for 

information, verification will not be 

conducted. 

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 30 days after the date of 

publication of the preliminary 

determination, 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.12

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 AD 

and CVD 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 

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. 

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. 

Final Determination 

Section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(1) provide that 

Commerce will issue the final 

determination within 75 days after the 

date of its preliminary determination. 

Accordingly, Commerce will make its 

final determination no later than 75 

days after the signature date of this 

preliminary determination. 

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 


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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 the Republic of Turkey,’’ 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 June 19, 2018 (Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum). 

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. Non-Market Economy Country 

B. China-Wide Entity 

C. Application of Facts Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

1. Application of Facts Available 

2. Application of Facts Available With an 

Adverse Inference 

3. Selection and Corroboration of the AFA 

Rate 

VI. Adjustment Under Section 777A(f) of the 

Act 

VII. Adjustments to Cash Deposit Rates for 

Export Subsidies 

VIII. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–489–833] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the 

Republic of Turkey: 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 the Republic of Turkey 

(Turkey) 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: 

Rebecca Janz or William Miller, 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) 482–2972 or (202) 482–3906, 

respectively. 

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 and 

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 

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 

Turkey. 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. Commerce has 

calculated export prices in accordance 

with section 772(a) 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. 


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