[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82216-82218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23500]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-870]


Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the Republic of Korea: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-
2023

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds 
that certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from the Republic of 
Korea (Korea) were sold in the United States at prices below normal 
value. The period of review (POR) is September 1, 2022, through August 
31, 2023. Interested parties are invited to comment on these 
preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable October 10, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael J. Heaney or Mark Flessner, 
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) 482-4475 or (202) 
482-6312, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    These preliminary results are made in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce 
published the notice of initiation of this administrative review on 
November 15, 2023.\1\ On May 2,

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2024, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, Commerce 
extended the preliminary results of review until September 27, 2024.\2\ 
On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this 
administrative proceeding by seven days.\3\ The deadline for the 
preliminary results of review is now October 4, 2024. For a complete 
description of the events that followed the initiation of this 
administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\4\ A 
list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
included as Appendix I 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.
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 78298 (November 15, 2023).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated May 2, 
2024.
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Preliminary Results of the 2022-2023 Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the 
Republic of Korea'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 
this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>5</SUP>
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    \5\ See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from India, the 
Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist 
Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders; and Certain Oil 
Country Tubular Goods from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: 
Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 79 FR 
53691 (September 10, 2014) (Order).
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    The product covered by the Order is OCTG from Korea. For a complete 
description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance 
with section 751(a)(2) of the Act. Commerce has calculated export 
prices in accordance with section 772(a) of the Act. Constructed export 
prices have been calculated in accordance with section 772(b) of the 
Act. Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the 
Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Rates for Non-Examined Companies

    The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the rate to 
be applied to companies not selected for examination when Commerce 
limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 
777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) 
of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others 
rate in a market economy investigation, for guidance when calculating 
the rate for companies which were not selected for individual 
examination in an administrative review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of 
the Act, the all-others rate is normally ``an amount equal to the 
weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins 
established for exporters and producers individually investigated, 
excluding any zero or de minimis margins, and any margins determined 
entirely under section 776 of the Act.
    In this administrative review, Commerce preliminarily found a zero 
percent margin for NEXTEEL Co., Ltd. Therefore, the only rate that is 
not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise available is 
the rate calculated for SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH). Consequently, 
the rate calculated for SeAH is also assigned as the rate for the non-
individually examined companies.

Preliminary Results of Review

    Commerce preliminarily finds that the following estimated weighted-
average dumping margins exist:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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NEXTEEL Co., Ltd............................................        0.00
SeAH Steel Corporation......................................        0.53
Review-Specific Rate for Non-Examined Companies:
  AJU Besteel Co., Ltd......................................        0.53
  Hyundai Steel Company.....................................        0.53
  Husteel Co., Ltd..........................................        0.53
  ILJIN Steel Corporation...................................        0.53
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations and analysis 
performed for these preliminary results to interested parties within 
five days of public announcement of the preliminary results 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).

Public Comment

    Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than 30 
days after the date of publication of these preliminary results of 
review.\6\ 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.\7\ 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.\8\
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    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
    \7\ See 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 Service Final Rule).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    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 administrative 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.\9\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their 
public executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not 
including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as 
the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision 
memorandum that will accompany the final results of this review. We 
request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant 
citations in the public 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).\10\
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    \9\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \10\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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    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 a time and date to be 
determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and

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location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.

Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, which will include the results 
of its analysis of issues raised in any briefs, within 120 days of 
publication of these preliminary results of review, pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Assessment Rate

    Upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall determine, and 
CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered 
by this review.\11\
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    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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    For any individually examined respondents whose weighted-average 
dumping margin is above de minimis (i.e., greater than or equal to 0.5 
percent) in the final results of this review, we will calculate 
importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio 
of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for the examined 
sales to the total entered value of the examined sales to that 
importer, and we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries covered by this review. For entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by each respondent for which it did 
not know its merchandise was destined for the United States, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the all-others rate if there 
is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the 
transaction.\12\ Where the individually-selected respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific 
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \12\ For a full discussion of this clarification, see 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of 
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    For the companies which were not selected for individual review, we 
intend to assign an assessment rate based on the methodology described 
in the ``Rates for Non-Examined Companies'' section. The final results 
of this review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping 
duties on entries of merchandise covered by this review where 
applicable.
    Commerce intends 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.\13\ 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).
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    \13\ See Notice of Discontinuation of Policy to Issue 
Liquidation Instructions After 15 Days in Applicable Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Proceedings, 86 FR 884 (January 
15, 2021).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of this administrative 
review for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of 
publication, as provided by section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) the cash 
deposit rate for the companies listed in the final results of review 
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the 
final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise 
exported by producers or exporters not covered in this review but 
covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate 
will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most 
recently completed segment of this proceeding in which they were 
reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the original investigation but the producer is, then 
the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most 
recently completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the 
merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or 
exporters will continue to be 5.24 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the less-than-fair-value investigation.\14\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \14\ See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of 
Korea: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony with Final 
Determination, 81 FR 59603 (August 30, 2016).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double 
antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    These preliminary results are issued and published in accordance 
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: October 4, 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 I

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Rates for Non-Examined Companies
V. Affiliation
VI. Discussion of the Methodology
VII. Currency Conversion
VIII. Recommendation

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