[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82225-82226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23487]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-533-858]


Oil Country Tubular Goods From India: Preliminary Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2022

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 a 
producer and exporter of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India. 
The period of review (POR) is January 1, 2022, through December 31, 
2022. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results.

DATES: Applicable October 10, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Cloyd, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1246.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On September 10, 2024, Commerce published the countervailing duty 
(CVD) order on OCTG from India.\1\ On November 15, 2023, Commerce 
published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of an 
administrative review of the Order.\2\ On May 31, 2024, Commerce 
extended the deadline for the preliminary results until September 27, 
2024.\3\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this 
administrative proceeding by seven days.\4\ The deadline for these 
preliminary results is now October 4, 2024.
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    \1\ See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from India and the 
Republic of Turkey: Countervailing Duty Orders and Amended 
Affirmative Final Countervailing Duty Determination for India, 79 FR 
53688 (September 10, 2014) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 78298 (November 15, 2023).
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated May 
31, 2024.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this investigation, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.\5\ A list of topics included 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.
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    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Countervailing Duty 
Order on Oil Country Tubular Goods from India; 2022,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Investigation

    The merchandise covered by this Order is OCTG from India. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this CVD administrative 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, 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.\6\ For a full description 
of the methodology underlying our preliminary conclusions, see the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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    \6\ See 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.
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Preliminary Results of Review

    As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the 
following net countervailable subsidy rate for the period January 1, 
2022, through December 31, 2022:

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                                                                Subsidy
                                                               rate 2022
                           Company                             (percent
                                                                  ad
                                                               valorem)
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Surya Roshni Limited........................................        2.31
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis 
performed in connection with this preliminary determination to 
interested parties within five days of any public announcement or, if 
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.224(b).
    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 this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case 
briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date of filing 
case briefs.\7\ Interested parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs 
in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each 
issue; and (2) a table of authorities.\8\ All briefs must be filed 
electronically using ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be

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received successfully in its entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern 
Time on the established deadline.
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    \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 review, we instead request that 
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 determination in this investigation. 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, filed electronically via ACCESS within 30 
days after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should 
contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the 
number of participants and whether any participant is a foreign 
national; and (3) a list of 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 location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date of 
the hearing.

Assessment Rates

    Consistent with section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(2), upon issuance of the final results, Commerce will 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
countervailing duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review. We intend to issue 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 injection has expired (i.e., within 90 days of 
publication).

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 estimated countervailing duties in the amount 
shown for the company 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. 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.

Final Results

    Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, including the results of its 
analysis of the issues raised by parties in their comments, within 120 
days after the date of publication of these preliminary results.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) 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

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Period of Review
IV. Scope of the Order
V. Subsidies Valuation
VI. Benchmarks and Discount Rates
VII. Analysis of Programs
VIII. Recommendation

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