[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16207-16208]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6739]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-825, A-533-810, A-588-833, A-469-805]


Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain: Final 
Results of the Expedited Third Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty 
Orders

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On December 1, 2011, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) initiated the third sunset reviews of the antidumping duty 
orders on stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain 
pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act), as 
amended. The Department has conducted expedited (120-day) sunset 
reviews of these orders. As a result of these sunset reviews, the 
Department finds that revocation of the antidumping duty orders would 
be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping as indicated 
in the ``Final Results of Reviews'' section of this notice.

DATES: Effective Date: March 20, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Hansen or Minoo Hatten, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3683 or (202) 482-1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On December 1, 2011, the Department published the notice of 
initiation of the sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on 
stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain\1\ pursuant to 
section 751(c) of the Act. See Initiation of Five-Year (``Sunset'') 
Review, 76 FR 74775 (December 1, 2011) (Notice of Initiation).
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    \1\ Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, 
India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995) and Amended Final 
Determination and Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From 
Spain, 60 FR 11656 (March 2, 1995).
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    The Department received a notice of intent to participate in these 
sunset reviews from the domestic interested parties, Carpenter 
Technology Corporation, Crucible Industries LLC, Electralloy a G.O. 
Carlson Inc. Co., Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., and 
Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. (collectively, the domestic interested 
parties), within the 15-day period specified in 19 CFR 
351.218(d)(1)(i).

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The domestic interested parties claimed interested-party status under 
section 771(9)(C) of the Act as manufacturers and/or producers of a 
domestic like product in the United States.
    The Department received a complete substantive response to the 
Notice of Initiation from the domestic interested parties within the 
30-day period specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i). The Department 
received no substantive response from any respondent interested 
parties. In accordance with section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2), the Department is conducting expedited (120-
day) sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel 
bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain.

Scope of the Orders

    Imports covered by the orders are shipments of stainless steel bar. 
Stainless steel bar means articles of stainless steel in straight 
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, 
cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform 
solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles, 
segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles, 
hexagons, octagons, or other convex polygons. Stainless steel bar 
includes cold-finished stainless steel bars that are turned or ground 
in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or from 
straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have 
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the 
rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have 
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or 
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at 
least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do 
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, 
shapes and sections.
    The stainless steel bars subject to the orders is currently 
classifiable under subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.11.00, 7222.19.00, 
7222.20.00, and 7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope 
of the orders is dispositive.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in these reviews are addressed in the ``Issues 
and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Expedited Sunset 
Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Orders on Stainless Steel Bar from 
Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain'' from Christian Marsh, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, 
to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, dated 
concurrently with this notice (Issues and Decision Memo), which is 
hereby adopted by this notice. The Issues and Decision Memo addresses 
the likelihood of continuation or recurrence of dumping and the 
magnitude of the margins of dumping likely to prevail if the orders 
were revoked. Parties can find a complete discussion of all issues 
raised in these reviews and the corresponding recommendations in this 
public memorandum, which is on file in the Import Administration's 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service 
System and is accessible on the Import Administration Web site at 
http://ia.ita.doc.gov/frn/index.html.

Final Results of Reviews

    The Department determines that revocation of the antidumping duty 
orders on stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan and Spain would 
be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping at the 
following weighted-average percentage margins:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
            Manufacturers/producers/exporters                 margin
                                                             (percent)
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Brazil:
    Acos Villares, S.A..................................           19.43
    All others..........................................           19.43
India:
    Grand Foundry, Ltd..................................            3.87
    Mukand, Ltd.........................................           21.02
    All others..........................................           12.45
Japan:
    Aichi Steel Works, Ltd..............................           61.47
    Daido Steel Co., Ltd................................           61.47
    Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd........................           61.47
    All others..........................................           61.47
Spain:
    Acenor, S.A. (and all successor companies, including           62.85
     Digeco, S.A. and Clorimax, SRL)....................
    Roldan, S.A.........................................            7.72
    All others..........................................           25.77
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Notification Regarding APO

    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a). Timely written notification 
of the 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.
    The Department is issuing and publishing the final results and 
notice in accordance with sections 751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 13, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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