Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 188 / Friday, September 27, 2024 / Notices 79243 

1See Brass Rod from Israel: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 89 

FR 63402 (August 5, 2024); and Brass Rod from 

Israel: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 63410 (August 5, 2024). 

2See ITC Letter, ‘‘Notification of ITC Final 

Determinations,’’ dated September 19, 2024 (ITC 

Notification Letter). 

3See Brass Rod from Israel: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, 

and Extension of Provisional Measures, 88 FR 

86632 (December 14, 2023) (AD Preliminary 

Determination). 4See AD Preliminary Determination. 

1. Likelihood of Continuation or 

Recurrence of Dumping 

2. Magnitude of the Margins of Dumping 

Likely To Prevail 

VII. Final Results of Expedited Sunset 

Reviews 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–508–814, C–508–815] 

Brass Rod From Israel: Antidumping 

Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the U.S. Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing antidumping duty 

(AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) 

orders on brass rod from Israel. 

DATES: Applicable September 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Hart (AD) at (202) 482–1058 or 

Zachary Shaykin (CVD) at (202) 482– 

2638, AD/CVD Operations, Offices II 

and IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 705(d) 

and 735(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), on August 5, 2024, 

Commerce published its affirmative 

final determination of sales at less than 

fair value (LTFV) and its affirmative 

final determination that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of brass rod 

from Israel.1 On September 19, 2024, 

pursuant to sections 705(d) and 735(d) 

of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce 

of its final affirmative determinations 

that an industry in the United States 

(U.S.) is materially injured by reason of 

dumped imports and subsidized 

imports of brass rod from Israel, within 

the meaning of sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) 

and 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.2

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise covered by these 

orders is brass rod from Israel. For a 

complete description of the scope of 

these orders, see the appendix to this 

notice. 

Antidumping Duty Order 

On September 19, 2024, in accordance 

with section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

determination that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured 

within the meaning of section 

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of 

imports of brass rod that are sold in the 

United States at LTFV. Therefore, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(2) and 

736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing this 

AD order. Because the ITC determined 

that imports of brass rod from Israel are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from Israel, entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of antidumping duties. 

Therefore, 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 brass rod from Israel. 

Antidumping duties will be assessed on 

unliquidated entries of brass rod from 

Israel entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

December 14, 2023, the date of 

publication of the AD Preliminary 

Determination 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.3

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash 

Deposits—AD 

Commerce intends to instruct CBP to 

reinstitute the suspension of liquidation 

of brass rod from Israel, effective on the 

date of publication of the ITC’s final 

affirmative injury determination in the 

Federal Register, and to assess, upon 

further instruction by Commerce, 

antidumping duties on each entry of 

subject merchandise based on the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins indicated in the table below. 

On or after the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination in the 

Federal Register, Commerce also 

intends to instruct CBP to require cash 

deposits equal to the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

indicated in the tables below. 

Accordingly, effective on the date of 

publication in the Federal Register of 

the notice of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination, CBP will require, 

at the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated customs 

duties on this subject merchandise, a 

cash deposit equal to the rates listed in 

the table below. 

Estimated Weighted-Average 

Antidumping Duty Margins 

The estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

Exporter or producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Finkelstein Metals Ltd ........... 19.48 

All Others .............................. 19.48 

Provisional Measures—AD 

Section 733(d) of the Act states that 

suspension of liquidation 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 the subject merchandise 

request that Commerce extend the fourmonth period to no more than six 

months. At the request of exporters that 

accounted for a significant proportion of 

exports of brass rod from Israel, 

Commerce extended the four-month 

period to no more than six-months.4 In 

the underlying investigation, Commerce 

published the AD Preliminary 

Determination on December 14, 2023. 

Therefore, the six-month period 

beginning on the date of the publication 

of the AD Preliminary Determination 

ended on June 10, 2024. 

For all companies, in accordance with 

section 733(d) of the Act, we instructed 

CBP to terminate the suspension of 

liquidation and to liquidate, without 

regard to antidumping duties, 

unliquidated entries of brass rod from 

Israel entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption, on or after 

June 11, 2024, the first day provisional 

measures were no longer in effect, until 

and through the day preceding the date 

of publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 


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5See ITC Notification Letter. 

6 Id. 

7See Brass Rod from Israel: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and 

Alignment of Final Determination With Final 

Antidumping Duty Determination, 88 FR 67236 

(September 29, 2023) (CVD Preliminary 

Determination). 

8 Id. 

9See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) 

(Final Rule). 

10See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance). 

11This segment will be combined with the 

ACCESS Segment Specific Information (SSI) field 

which will display the month in which the notice 

of the order or suspended investigation was 

published in the Federal Register, also known as 

the anniversary month. For example, for an order 

under case number A–000–000 that was published 

in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 

segment and SSI combination will appear in 

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL-January Anniversary.’’ Note that 

there will be only one annual inquiry service list 

segment per case number, and the anniversary 

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS. 

12See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206. 

Suspension of liquidation and the 

collection of cash deposits will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final determination in the Federal 

Register. 

CVD Order 

As stated above, based on the abovereferenced affirmative final 

determination by the ITC that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured within the meaning 

of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by 

reason of subsidized imports of brass 

rod from Israel,5 in accordance with 

section 705(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce 

is issuing this CVD order. Moreover, 

because the ITC determined that 

imports of brass rod from Israel are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry,6

unliquidated entries of subject 

merchandise from Israel entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of countervailing duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

706(a) of the Act, Commerce intends to 

direct CBP to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, 

countervailing duties on all relevant 

entries of brass rod from Israel, which 

are entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

September 29, 2023, the date of 

publication of the CVD Preliminary 

Determination, but will not include 

entries occurring after the expiration of 

the provisional measures period and 

before the publication of the ITC’s final 

injury determination under section 

705(b) of the Act, as further described in 

the ‘‘Provisional Measures—CVD’’ 

section of this notice.7

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash 

Deposits—CVD 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP 

to reinstitute the suspension of 

liquidation of brass rod from Israel, 

effective on the date of publication of 

the ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determination in the Federal Register, 

and to assess, upon further instruction 

by Commerce, pursuant to section 

706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing 

duties on each entry of subject 

merchandise in an amount based on the 

net countervailable subsidy rates below. 

On or after the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination in the 

Federal Register, CBP must require, at 

the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated customs 

duties on this merchandise, a cash 

deposit equal to the rates listed in the 

table below. These instructions 

suspending liquidation will remain in 

effect until further notice. The all-others 

rate applies to all producers or exporters 

not specifically listed below, as 

appropriate. 

Estimated Countervailing Duty Subsidy 

Rates 

The estimated countervailing duty 

subsidy rates are as follows: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Finkelstein Metals Ltd ........... 1.89 

All Others .............................. 1.89 

Provisional Measures—CVD 

Section 703(d) of the Act states that 

the suspension of liquidation pursuant 

to an affirmative preliminary 

determination may not remain in effect 

for more than four months. Commerce 

published the CVD Preliminary 

Determination on September 29, 2023.8

As such, the four-month period 

beginning on the date of the publication 

of the CVD Preliminary Determination 

ended on January 26, 2024. 

For all companies, in accordance with 

section 703(d) of the Act, we instructed 

CBP to terminate the suspension of 

liquidation and to liquidate, without 

regard to countervailing duties, 

unliquidated entries of brass rod from 

Israel entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption, on or after 

January 27, 2024, the first day 

provisional measures were no longer in 

effect, until and through the day 

preceding the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination in the 

Federal Register. Suspension of 

liquidation and the collection of cash 

deposits will resume on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry 

Service Lists 

On September 20, 2021, Commerce 

published the Final Rule in the Federal 

Register.9 On September 27, 2021, 

Commerce also published the 

Procedural Guidance in the Federal 

Register.10 The Final Rule and 

Procedural Guidance provide that 

Commerce will maintain an annual 

inquiry service list for each order or 

suspended investigation, and any 

interested party submitting a scope 

ruling application or request for 

circumvention inquiry shall serve a 

copy of the application or request on the 

persons on the annual inquiry service 

list for that order, as well as any 

companion order covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin. 

In accordance with the Procedural 

Guidance, for orders published in the 

Federal Register after November 4, 

2021, Commerce will create an annual 

inquiry service list segment in 

Commerce’s online e-filing and 

document management system, 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS), 

available at https://access.trade.gov, 

within five business days of publication 

of the notice of the order. Each annual 

inquiry service list will be saved in 

ACCESS, under each case number, and 

under a specific segment type called 

‘‘AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.’’ 11

Interested parties who wish to be 

added to the annual inquiry service list 

for an order must submit an entry of 

appearance to the annual inquiry 

service list segment for the order in 

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 

publication of the order. For ease of 

administration, Commerce requests that 

law firms with more than one attorney 

representing interested parties in an 

order designate a lead attorney to be 

included on the annual inquiry service 

list. Commerce will finalize the annual 

inquiry service list within five business 

days thereafter. As mentioned in the 

Procedural Guidance,12 the new annual 

inquiry service list will be in place until 

the following year, when the 

Opportunity Notice for the anniversary 

month of the order is published. 

Commerce may update an annual 

inquiry service list at any time as 

needed based on interested parties’ 

amendments to their entries of 


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13See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

1See Ceramic Tile from India: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigation, 89 FR 42841 

(May 16, 2024) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Ceramic Tile from India: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigation, 89 FR 53958 (June 28, 2024). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination in the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Ceramic Tile 

from India,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Any changes or 

announcements pertaining to these 

procedures will be posted to the 

ACCESS website. 

Special Instructions for Petitioners and 

Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 13

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioner and the Government of Israel 

should submit their initial entries of 

appearance after publication of this 

notice in order to appear in the first 

annual inquiry service lists for these 

orders. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the 

Government of Israel will not need to 

resubmit their entries of appearance 

each year to continue to be included on 

the annual inquiry service list. 

However, the petitioner and the 

Government of Israel are responsible for 

making amendments to their entries of 

appearance during the annual update to 

the annual inquiry service list in 

accordance with the procedures 

described above. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the AD order 

with respect to brass rod from Israel and 

the CVD order with respect to brass rod 

from Israel, pursuant to sections 706(a) 

and 736(a) of the Act. Interested parties 

can find a list of AD and CVD orders 

currently in effect at https://

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/ 

iastats1.html. 

These orders are issued and published 

in accordance with sections 706(a) and 

736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: September 23, 2024. 

Ryan Majerus, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations, performing the non-exclusive 

functions and duties of the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Orders 

The products within the scope of these 

orders are brass rod and bar (brass rod), 

which is defined as leaded, low-lead, and nolead solid brass made from alloys such as, 

but not limited to the following alloys 

classified under the Unified Numbering 

System (UNS) as C27450, C27451, C27460, 

C34500, C35000, C35300, C35330, C36000, 

C36300, C37000, C37700, C48500, C67300, 

C67600, and C69300, and their international 

equivalents. 

The brass rod subject to these orders has 

an actual cross-section or outside diameter 

greater than 0.25 inches but less than or 

equal to 12 inches. Brass rod cross-sections 

may be round, hexagonal, square, or 

octagonal shapes as well as special profiles 

(e.g., angles, shapes), including hollow 

profiles. 

Standard leaded brass rod covered by the 

scope contains, by weight, 57.0–65.0 percent 

copper; 0.5–3.0 percent lead; no more than 

1.3 percent iron; and at least 15 percent zinc. 

No-lead or low-lead brass rod covered by the 

scope contains by weight 59.0–76.0 percent 

copper; 0–1.5 percent lead; no more than 

0.35 percent iron; and at least 15 percent 

zinc. Brass rod may also include other 

chemical elements (e.g., nickel, phosphorous, 

silicon, tin, etc.). 

Brass rod may be in straight lengths or 

coils. Brass rod covered by these orders may 

be finished or unfinished, and may or may 

not be heated, extruded, pickled, or colddrawn. Brass rod may be produced in 

accordance with ASTM B16, ASTM B124, 

ASTM B981, ASTM B371, ASTM B453, 

ASTM B21, ASTM B138, and ASTM B927, 

but such conformity to an ASTM standard is 

not required for the merchandise to be 

included within the scope. 

Excluded from the scope of these orders is 

brass ingot, which is a casting of unwrought 

metal unsuitable for conversion into brass 

rod without remelting, that contains, by 

weight, at least 57.0 percent copper and 15.0 

percent zinc. 

The merchandise covered by these orders 

is currently classifiable under subheadings 

7407.21.9000, 7407.21.7000, and 

7407.21.1500 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Products subject to the scope may also enter 

under HTSUS subheadings 7403.21.0000, 

7407.21.3000, and 7407.21.5000. The HTSUS 

subheadings and UNS alloy designations are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. The written description of the 

scope of these orders is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–929] 

Ceramic Tile From India: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, Preliminary Affirmative 

Critical Circumstances Determination, 

in Part, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With the Final 

Antidumping Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable (CVD) 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of ceramic tile 

from India. The period of investigation 

(POI) is April 1, 2023, through March 

31, 2024. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable September 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jinny Ahn or Natasia Harrison, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0339 or (202) 482–1240, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on May 16, 2024.1 On June 24, 2024, 

Commerce postponed the preliminary 

determination in this investigation until 

September 16, 2024.2 On July 22, 2024, 

Commerce tolled certain deadlines in 

this administrative proceeding by seven 

days.3 The deadline for this preliminary 

determination is now September 23, 

2024. 

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics 

discussed 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. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

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

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