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1See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the 

Republic of Turkey: Countervailing Duty Order, 79 

FR 65926 (November 6, 2014) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 87 FR 65750 (November 1, 

2022). 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

50, (January 3, 2023); see also Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 15642, (March 14, 

2023). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection 

Memorandum,’’ dated March 28, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated July 17, 2023. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination of the 2021 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review and 

Rescission of Review in Part: Steel Concrete 

Reinforcing Bar from the Republic of Turkey,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

7See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

8See Petitioner’s, ‘‘Partial Withdrawal of Request 

for Administrative Review,’’ dated April 1, 2023 

Administrative Protective Order (APO) 

This notice also serves as a final 

reminder to parties subject to an APO of 

their responsibility concerning the 

return or destruction of proprietary 

information disclosed under APO in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), 

which continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceedings. Timely written 

notification of the return or 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. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

These five-year (sunset) reviews and 

this notice are in accordance with 

sections 751(c) and 751(d)(2) of the Act 

and published in accordance with 

section 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.218(f)(4). 

Dated: December 1, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–489–819] 

Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From 

the Republic of Turkey: Preliminary 

Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review and Rescission 

of Administrative Review, in Part; 2021 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of steel 

concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from the 

Republic of Turkey (Turkey) during the 

period of review (POR) January 1, 2021, 

through December 31, 2021. In addition, 

we are rescinding the review with 

respect to 15 companies and 

announcing our preliminary intent to 

rescind this review with respect to four 

companies. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on these preliminary 

results. 

DATES: Applicable December 7, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicholas Czajkowski or Stefan Smith, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office I, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1395 or 

(202) 482–3464, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 6, 2014, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

countervailing duty order on rebar from 

Turkey.1 On November 1, 2022, 

Commerce published the notice of 

opportunity to request an administrative 

review of the Order.2 On January 3, 

2023, based on timely requests for an 

administrative review, Commerce 

published the notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the Order.3 On 

March 28, 2023, Commerce selected 

Colakoglu Metalurji A.S. (Colakoglu) 

and Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve 

Ticaret A.S. (Kaptan) as the mandatory 

respondents in this review.4 On July 17, 

2023, Commerce extended the deadline 

for the preliminary results of this 

administrative review until November 

30, 2023.5

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.6 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included in the 

appendix 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. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by the Order is 

rebar from Turkey. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

countervailing duty administrative 

review in accordance with section 

751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act). For each subsidy 

program found countervailable, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.7 For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions, including 

our reliance, in part, on facts otherwise 

available pursuant to sections 776(a) 

and (b) of the Act, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Rescission of Administrative Review, In 

Part 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), 

Commerce will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if the parties that requested a 

review withdraw the request within 90 

days of the date of publication of the 

notice of initiation. On April 3, 2022, 

the Rebar Trade Coalition (the 

petitioner) timely withdrew its requests 

for an administrative review of Icdas 

and its cross-owned affiliates (i.e., 

Mardas Marmara Deniz Isletmeciligi 

A.S.; Artmak Denizcilik Ticaret ve 

Sanayi A.S.; Oraysan Insaat Sanayi ve 

Ticaret A.S.; Artim Demir Insaat Turizm 

Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. Sti.; Anka Entansif 

Hayvancilik Gida Tarim Sanayi ve 

Ticaret A.S.; Eras Tasimacilik Taahhut 

Insaat ve Ticaret A.S.; and Karsan Gemi 

Insaa Sanayi Ticaret A.S.).8 Because the 

withdrawal request from the petitioner 

was timely filed, and no other party 

requested a review of these companies, 

in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding 

this review of the Order with respect to 

the Icdas and its cross-owned affiliates 

Based on our analysis of U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) data, we 

determine that the following companies 

had no entries of subject merchandise 

during the POR: Ans Kargo Lojistik Tas 


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9See Memorandum, ‘‘Notice of Intent to Rescind 

Review, in Part,’’ dated April 17, 2023. 10Commerce preliminarily finds the following 

companies to be cross-owned with Kaptan: Martas 

Marmara Ereglisi Liman Tesisleri A.S.; Aset 

Madencilik A.S.; Kaptan Is Makinalari Hurda Alim 

Satim Ltd. Sti.; Efesan Demir San. Ve Tic. A.S.; and 

Nur Gemicilik ve Tic. A.S. 

11See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

12See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative 

Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 

88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) (APO and 

Final Service Rule). 

13See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2) 

14We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

15See APO and Final Service Rule. 

ve Tic; Baykan Dis Ticaret; Kibar dis 

Ticaret A.S.; Meral Makina Iml Ith Ihr 

Gida; Sami Soybas Demir Sanayi ve 

Ticaret; and Yucel Boru Ihracat Ithalat 

ve Pazarlama. On April 17, 2023, we 

notified parties of our intent to rescind 

the administrative review with respect 

to the four companies because there are 

no reviewable suspended entries.9 No 

parties commented on the notification 

of intent to rescind the review, in part. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), we 

are rescinding the administrative review 

of these companies. For additional 

information regarding this 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

We preliminary find that the net 

countervailable subsidy rates exist for 

the period January 1, 2021, through 

December 31, 2021: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S., Kaptan Metal Dis Ticaret ve Nakliyat A.S., and their cross-owned affiliates 10 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 5.54 

Colakoglu Metalurji A.S ............................................................................................................................................................... 0.03 (de minimis) 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, Commerce also 

intends upon publication of the final 

results, to instruct CBP to collect cash 

deposits of the estimated countervailing 

duties in the amounts calculated in the 

final results of this review for the 

respective companies listed above with 

regard to shipments of subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of the final 

results of this review. If the rate 

calculated in the final results is zero or 

de minimis, no cash deposit will be 

required on shipments of the subject 

merchandise entered or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of the final 

results of this review. 

For all non-reviewed firms, CBP will 

continue to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties at the 

all-others rate or the most recent 

company-specific rate applicable to the 

company, as appropriate. These cash 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Assessment Rates 

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4)(i), we preliminarily 

determined subsidy rates in the 

amounts shown above for the producer/ 

exporters shown above. Upon issuance 

of the final results of the administrative 

review, consistent with section 751(a)(1) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2), 

Commerce shall determine, and CBP 

shall assess, countervailing duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review. 

For the companies for which this 

review is rescinded with these 

preliminary results, we will instruct 

CBP to assess countervailing duties on 

all appropriate entries at a rate equal to 

the cash deposit of estimated 

countervailing duties required at the 

time of entry, or withdrawal from 

warehouse, for consumption, during the 

period January 1, 2021, through 

December 31, 2021, in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.212(c)(l)(i). For the 

companies remaining in the review, we 

intend to issue assessment instructions 

to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the 

date of publication of the final results of 

this review in the Federal Register. 

If a timely summons is filed at the 

U.S. Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed for these preliminary results 

to interested parties within five days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice.11 Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), 

interested parties may submit case briefs 

to Commerce no later than 30 days after 

the date of publication of these 

preliminary results of review. Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in the 

case briefs, may be filed not later than 

five days after the date for filing case 

briefs.12 Interested parties who submit 

case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding must submit: (1) a table of 

contents listing each issue; and (2) a 

table of authorities.13

As provided under 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 

proceedings we have encouraged 

interested parties to provide an 

executive summary of their brief that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In this review, we 

instead request that interested parties 

provide at the beginning of their briefs 

a public, executive summary for each 

issue raised in their briefs.14 Further, we 

request that interested parties limit their 

executive summary of each issue to no 

more than 450 words, not including 

citations. We intend to use the executive 

summaries as the basis of the comment 

summaries included in the issues and 

decision memorandum that will 

accompany the final results in this 

administrative review. We request that 

interested parties include footnotes for 

relevant citations in the executive 

summary of each issue. Note that 

Commerce has amended certain of its 

requirements pertaining to the service of 

documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).15

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, filed electronically via 

ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) 

the party’s name, address, and 

telephone number; (2) the number of 

participants; and (3) a list of issues to be 

discussed. Issues raised in the hearing 

will be limited to those raised in the 

respective case briefs. An electronically 

filed hearing request must be received 

successfully in its entirety by 

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1See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results and Partial 

Rescission of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2021, 88 FR 37200 (June 7, 

2023) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review of 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of 

Korea; 2021,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

3See Memoranda, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021,’’ dated September 27, 2023; and 

‘‘Second Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2021,’’ 

dated November 8, 2023. 

4See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the 

Republic of Korea: Countervailing Duty Order, 84 

FR 18773 (May 2, 2019) (Order). 

5See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern Time within 

30 days after the date of publication of 

this notice. 

Unless extended, we intend to issue 

the final results of this administrative 

review, which will include the results of 

our analysis of the issues raised in the 

case briefs, within 120 days of 

publication of these preliminary results 

in the Federal Register, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213(h)(1). 

Notification to Interested Parties 

These preliminary results of review 

are issued and published in accordance 

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

the Act and 19 CFR 351.213 and 

351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: November 30, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy 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. Rescission of Administrative Review, in 

Part 

V. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences 

VI. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2023–26881 Filed 12–6–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–580–898] 

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the 

Republic of Korea: Final Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

producers and/or exporters of large 

diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) 

from the Republic of Korea (Korea) 

received countervailable subsidies 

during the period of review (POR), 

January 1, 2021, through December 31, 

2021. 

DATES: Applicable December 7, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan Schueler or Faris Montgomery, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–9175 or 

(202) 482–1537, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 7, 2023, Commerce published 

the Preliminary Results of this 

administrative review in the Federal 

Register,1 and invited interested parties 

to comment. For a complete description 

of the events that followed the 

Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum.2 Commerce 

postponed these final results until 

December 1, 2023.3

Scope of the Order 4

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is welded pipe. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in interested parties’ 

briefs are addressed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

issues addressed is attached to this 

notice as an appendix. The Issues and 

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. In addition, a complete 

version of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

Based on our analysis of the case and 

rebuttal briefs and the evidence on the 

record, we made certain changes from 

the Preliminary Results related to the 

benefit calculations of certain programs 

due to data corrections based on 

verification findings. These changes are 

explained in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce conducted this review in 

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

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act). For each of the subsidy programs 

found countervailable, we find that 

there is a subsidy, i.e., a governmentprovided financial contribution that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.5 For a 

description of the methodology 

underlying Commerce’s conclusions, 

see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i) of the 

Act, in August and September 2023, 

Commerce conducted on-site 

verification of the subsidy information 

reported by Hyundai RB Co., Ltd 

(Hyundai RB), SeAH Steel Corporation 

(SeAH Steel), and the Government of 

Korea. We used standard on-site 

verification procedures, including an 

examination of relevant accounting 

records and original source documents 

provided by the respondents. 

Rate for Non-Selected Companies 

Generally, Commerce looks to section 

705(c)(5) of the Act for guidance for 

calculating the rate for companies that 

were not selected for individual 

examination in an administrative 

review. Section 705(c)(5)(A) of the Act 

states that for companies not 

investigated, in general, we will 

determine an all-others rate by weight 

averaging the countervailable subsidy 

rates established for each of the 

companies individually investigated, 

excluding zero and de minimis rates or 

any rates based solely on facts otherwise 

available. Here, the only rate that is not 

zero, de minimis, or based entirely on 

facts otherwise available is the rate 

calculated for Hyundai RB. 

Consequently, we are assigning this rate 

to HiSteel Co., Ltd., the only company 

not selected for individual examination. 

Final Results of Review 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(5), we determine the 

following net countervailable subsidy 

rates exist for the POR January 1, 2021, 

through December 31, 2021: 


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