[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82972-82975]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23697]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-104, C-570-105]


Antidumping Duty Order on Alloy and Certain Carbon Steel Threaded 
Rod and Countervailing Duty Order on Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded 
Rod From the People's Republic of China: Initiation and Preliminary 
Results of Changed Circumstances Reviews and Intent To Revoke the 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, in Part, and Preliminary 
Intent To Rescind Scope Inquiry

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

SUMMARY: Based on a request from Logistical Resource Development Inc. 
(LRD), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating and 
issuing preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews (CCRs) of 
the antidumping duty (AD) order on alloy and certain carbon steel 
threaded rod and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on carbon and 
alloy steel threaded rod from the People's Republic of China (China) to 
revoke the orders, in part, with respect to certain products. We also 
preliminarily intend to rescind the scope inquiry with respect to the 
same products. Interested parties are invited to comment on these 
preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable October 15, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allison Hollander, 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) 482-3004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
published the Orders.\1\ On August 23, 2024, LRD, an importer of 
subject merchandise, requested, through CCRs, that Commerce 
retroactively revoke the Orders, in part, pursuant to section 
751(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 
CFR 351.216(b) with respect to certain wheels studs.\2\ LRD stated that 
it qualifies as an importer of wheel studs currently subject to duties 
and, as such, is an interested party pursuant to section 771(9)(A) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.102(b)(29)(ii).\3\ On August 30, 2024, Vulcan 
Threaded Rod Products Inc. (the petitioner) submitted comments 
indicating that it does not oppose the partial scope revocation 
requested in LRD's CCR request.\4\
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    \1\ See Alloy and Certain Carbon Steel Threaded Rod from the 
People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order, 85 FR 19929 
(April 9, 2020) (AD Order), and Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod 
from India and the People's Republic of China: Countervailing Duty 
Orders, 85 FR 19927 (April 9, 2020) (CVD Order) (collectively 
Orders).
    \2\ See LRD's Letter, ``Request for an Expedited Changed 
Circumstances Review to Amend the Scope of the Order,'' dated August 
23, 2024 (CCR Request).
    \3\ Id. at 1.
    \4\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Petitioner's Comments on CCR 
Request,'' dated August 30, 2024 (Petitioner's Comments).
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    On September 3, 2024, Commerce requested that LRD provide 
additional information related to its CCR Request.\5\ LRD timely 
responded to the questionnaire on September 17, 2024.\6\ In its CCR 
Supplement, LRD provided statements from three domestic producers, All 
Ohio Threaded Rod (All Ohio); Highland Thread, Inc. (Highland Thread); 
and Bay Standard Manufacturing Inc. (Bay Standard), indicating that 
they either were not interested in participating in the CCRs or were 
not contesting LRD's proposal.\7\ The petitioner timely responded to 
the supplemental questionnaire on September 17, 2024, and provided 
information on the production of domestic like product.\8\ On September 
24, 2024, Commerce requested that LRD and the petitioner provide 
further supplemental information relating to production values of 
domestic producers.\9\ On September 24, 2024, the petitioner timely 
responded and demonstrated that it and All Ohio, Highland Thread, and 
Bay Standard collectively represent ``substantially all'' of the 
production of the domestic like product.\10\ No interested parties 
filed comments opposing the CCR Request. Further, LRD requested that 
Commerce conduct expedited CCRs.\11\
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    \5\ Commerce requested LRD to provide a signed attestation from 
the petitioner and additional domestic producers, as necessary, 
indicating that these entities account for 85 percent of the 
industry by production volume. See Commerce's Letter, ``Supplemental 
Questionnaire,'' dated September 3, 2024.
    \6\ See LRD's Letter, ``Reply to Supplemental Questionnaire,'' 
dated September 17, 2024 (LRD CCR Supplement).
    \7\ Id. at Exhibits 1-3.
    \8\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Vulcan's Attestation on Domestic 
Production,'' dated September 17, 2024 (Vulcan CCR Supplemental). 
Given that the petitioner's production data is business proprietary 
information, the petitioner responded directly to Commerce.
    \9\ See Commerce's Letters, ``Second Supplemental 
Questionnaire,'' dated September 24, 2024; and ``Supplemental 
Questionnaire,'' dated September 24, 2024.
    \10\ See 19 CFR 222(g)(1)(i); see also Petitioner's Letter, 
``Vulcan's Supplemental Questionnaire Response,'' dated September 
27, 2024, at 2.
    \11\ See CCR Request at 1.
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Scope of the Orders

    Appendices I and II contain the scope of the AD Order and the scope 
of the CVD Order, respectively.

Proposed Partial Revocation of the Orders <SUP>12</SUP>
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    \12\ See Petitioner's Comments at 2-3; CCR Request at 4-5.
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    The products subject to the proposed partial revocation are certain 
wheel studs with the following characteristics:
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 49mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is 
also M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 49mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is 
also M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 80mm, 
part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded band 
which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is also M12 
diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 95mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion

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that is also M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M14 diameter and 1.25RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 75mm, 
part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded band 
which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is also M14 
diameter and 1.25RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M14 diameter and 1.25RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 92mm, 
part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded band 
which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is also M14 
diameter and 1.25RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 49mm, 
part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded band 
which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is M14 
diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 49mm, 
part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded band 
which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is 
M14x1.25.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 44mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is M14 
diameter and 1.5 thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M14 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 49mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates a 12.5mm threaded section for insertion that is also 
M14 diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M14 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 64mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates and 21.5mm threaded section for insertion that is 
also M14 diameter and 1.5RH thread spacing.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 61mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion.
    <bullet> a wheel stud that has an M12 diameter and 1.5RH thread 
spacing threaded stud with a 6mm-wide inset hex head measuring 49mm 
long, part of the threaded length being divided by a 5mm unthreaded 
band which creates an 11.5mm threaded section for insertion that is M14 
diameter and 1.5 thread spacing.

Initiation of CCRs

    Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Act, Commerce will conduct a 
CCR upon receipt of a request from an interested party that shows 
changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review of the order. 
Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) provide that 
Commerce may revoke an order (in whole or in part) if it determines 
that producers accounting for substantially all of the production of 
the domestic like product have expressed a lack of interest in the 
order, in whole or in part. In its administrative practice, Commerce 
has interpreted ``substantially all'' to mean producers accounting for 
at least 85 percent of the total U.S. production of the domestic like 
product covered by the order.\13\ Further, 19 CFR 351.222(g)(2) 
provides that Commerce will conduct a CCR under 19 CFR 351.216, and may 
revoke an order, in whole or in part, if it determines that revocation 
is warranted.
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    \13\ See, e.g., Certain Cased Pencils from the People's Republic 
of China: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent to Revoke Order in Part, 77 
FR 42276 (July 18, 2012), unchanged in Certain Cased Pencils from 
the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Changed Circumstances Review, and Determination to Revoke Order, in 
Part, 77 FR 53176 (August 31, 2012).
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    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.216(d), Commerce determines that the 
information submitted by LRD, the petitioner, and other domestic 
producers, indicates that substantially all the domestic industry no 
longer has a continued interest in having the scope of the Orders cover 
certain wheel studs described above. Thus, there are changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant a review of the Orders. Therefore, 
in accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.216(d), 19 
CFR 351.221(c)(3), and 19 CFR 351.222(g), we are initiating these CCRs.

Preliminary Results of the CCRs and Intent To Revoke the Orders, in 
Part

    Section 351.221(c)(3)(ii) of Commerce's regulations permits 
Commerce to combine the notice of initiation of a CCR and the notice of 
preliminary results if Commerce concludes that expedited action is 
warranted.\14\ In this instance, because the record contains 
information necessary to make a preliminary finding, we find that 
expedited action is warranted and have combined the notice of 
initiation and the notice of preliminary results.\15\
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    \14\ See 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii); see also Certain Pasta from 
Italy: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Changed Circumstances Review, 80 FR 33480, 33480-41 (June 12, 2015) 
(Pasta from Italy Preliminary Results), unchanged in Certain Pasta 
from Italy: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review, 80 FR 
48807 (August 14, 2015) (Pasta from Italy Final Results).
    \15\ See, e.g., Pasta from Italy Preliminary Results, 80 FR at 
33480-41, unchanged in Pasta from Italy Final Results, 80 FR at 
48807.
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    Pursuant to section 751(d)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g), 
Commerce preliminarily determines that there is a reasonable basis to 
believe that changed circumstances exist sufficient to warrant partial 
revocation of the Orders. As explained above, domestic threaded rod 
producers accounting for greater than 85 percent of the domestic 
industry, including the original petitioner and other domestic threaded 
rod producers, have expressed no interest in opposing LRD's CCR 
Request.\16\ Substantially all of the domestic industry appears to have 
no interest in maintaining the Orders with respect to the specific 
products which are the subject of LRD's request.\17\ The domestic 
industry has not commented on whether the proposed partial scope 
revocation should be retroactive.
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    \16\ See LRD CCR Supplement at Exhibits 1-3; and Vulcan 
Supplemental Response at 2.
    \17\ See LRD CCR Supplement at Exhibits 1-3; and Petitioner's 
Letter, ``Comments on CCR Request,'' dated August 30, 2024, at 2.
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    In light of the domestic producers' statements of no interest in 
opposing the revocation of the Orders, in part, with respect to the 
wheel studs as described by LRD, and in the absence of any other 
interested party comments addressing the issue of domestic industry 
support, we preliminarily conclude that producers accounting for 
substantially all of the production of the domestic like product to 
which the Orders pertain lack interest in the relief provided by the 
Orders with respect to wheel studs that are the subject of LRD's 
revocation request. Thus, we preliminarily determine that changed 
circumstances warrant revocation of the Orders, in part, with respect 
to such wheel studs as described above by LRD. Accordingly, we are 
notifying the public of our intent to revoke the Orders, in part, with 
respect to wheel studs described in the ``Proposed Partial Revocation 
of the Orders'' section above.

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    Additionally, LRD requested that Commerce find this scope exclusion 
applies retroactively to January 1, 2022. If we make a final 
determination to revoke the Orders in part, we intend to apply the 
partial revocation to unliquidated entries of merchandise subject to 
the CCRs that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption, as of January 1, 2022.

Intent To Rescind Scope Inquiry

    On December 22, 2024, Commerce received a request for a scope 
ruling from LRD on whether the same thirteen wheel studs described 
above are subject to the Orders.\18\ Commerce initiated this scope 
inquiry on January 22, 2024.\19\ Because these 13 wheel studs are the 
subject of this CCR, and we preliminarily intend to revoke the Orders, 
in part, with respect to these 13 wheels studs, we also preliminarily 
intend to rescind the scope inquiry, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.225(f)(6).
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    \18\ See LRD's Letters, ``Application for a Scope Ruling for 
Wheel Studs on Alloy and Certain Threaded Rod from the People's 
Republic of China,'' dated December 22, 2023.
    \19\ See Memorandum, ``Initiation of Scope Inquiries on Wheel 
Studs,'' dated January 22, 2024.
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Public Comment

    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties may 
submit case briefs not later than 14 days after the date of publication 
of this notice.\20\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the 
case briefs, may be filed no later than five days after the due date 
for case briefs.\21\
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    \20\ Commerce is exercising its discretion under 19 CFR 
351.309(c)(1)(ii) to alter the time limit for the filing of case 
briefs.
    \21\ 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).
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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 these CCRs, we instead request that 
interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, 
executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\22\ 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 in these CCRs. 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).\23\ An electronically filed document must be 
received successfully in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern 
Time on the day on which it is due.
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    \22\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \23\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), any interested party may request a 
hearing within 14 days of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register.\24\ Hearing requests should contain the following 
information: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) 
the number of participants; and (3) a list of the issues to be 
discussed. Oral presentations at the hearing will be limited to issues 
raised in the briefs.\25\ 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 the date and the time of the hearing two days 
before the scheduled date.
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    \24\ Commerce is exercising its discretion under 19 CFR 
351.310(c) to alter the time limit for requesting a hearing.
    \25\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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Final Results of CCRs

    Unless extended, consistent with 19 CFR 351.216(e), Commerce 
intends to issue the final results of these CCRs no later than 270 days 
after the date on which these reviews were initiated or 45 days if all 
parties agree to the preliminary results. If, in the final results of 
these reviews, we continue to determine that changed circumstances 
warrant the revocation of the Orders, in part, we will instruct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate without regard to 
antidumping or countervailing duties, and to refund any estimated 
antidumping and countervailing duties deposited on all unliquidated 
entries of the merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after January 1, 2022, that are covered by the 
revocation in part. The current requirement for cash deposits of 
estimated antidumping or countervailing duties on all entries of 
subject merchandise will continue unless they are modified pursuant to 
the final results of these changed CCRs.

Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice of initiation and preliminary results is published in 
accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.216(b)), and 
19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii).

    Dated: October 7, 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

    The scope of the antidumping duty order covers alloy and certain 
carbon steel threaded rod. Alloy and certain carbon steel threaded 
rod are certain threaded rod, bar, or studs, of carbon or alloy 
steel, having a solid, circular cross section of any diameter, in 
any straight length. Alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod are 
normally drawn, cold-rolled, threaded, and straightened, or it may 
be hot-rolled. In addition, the alloy and certain carbon steel 
threaded rod, bar, or studs subject to this order are non-headed and 
threaded along greater than 25 percent of their total actual length. 
A variety of finishes or coatings, such as plain oil finish as a 
temporary rust protectant, zinc coating (i.e., galvanized, whether 
by electroplating or hot-dipping), paint, and other similar finishes 
and coatings, may be applied to the merchandise.
    Alloy steel threaded rod is normally produced to American 
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) specifications A193 B7/B7m, 
A193 B16, A320 L7/L7m, A320 L43, A354 BC and BD, and F1554 Grade 
105. Other specifications are Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 
specification 1429 grades 5 and 8, International Organization for 
Standardization (ISO) specification 898 class 8.8 and 10.9, and 
American Petroleum Institute (API) specification 20E. Certain carbon 
steel threaded rod is normally produced to ASTM specification A449. 
All steel threaded rod meeting the physical description set forth 
above is covered by the scope of this order, whether or not produced 
according to a particular standard.
    Subject merchandise includes material matching the above 
description that has been finished, assembled, or packaged in a 
third country, including by cutting, chamfering, coating, or 
painting the threaded rod, by attaching the threaded rod to, or 
packaging it with, another product, or any other finishing, 
assembly, or packaging operation that would not otherwise remove the 
merchandise from the scope of the order if performed in the country 
of manufacture of the threaded rod.
    Alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod are also included in 
the scope of this order whether or not imported attached to, or in 
conjunction with, other parts and accessories such as nuts and 
washers. If carbon and alloy steel threaded rod are imported 
attached to, or in conjunction with, such non-subject merchandise, 
only the threaded rod is included in the scope.
    Excluded from the scope of this order are: (1) Threaded rod, 
bar, or studs which are threaded only on one or both ends and the 
threading covers 25 percent or less of the total actual length; and 
(2) stainless steel threaded rod, defined as steel threaded rod 
containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of

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carbon and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with or without other 
elements.
    Excluded from the scope of the antidumping order on steel 
threaded rod from the People's Republic of China is any merchandise 
covered by the existing antidumping order on certain steel threaded 
rod from the People's Republic of China. See Certain Steel Threaded 
Rod from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Antidumping Duty 
Order, 74 FR 17154 (April 14, 2009).
    Specifically excluded from the scope of this order is threaded 
rod that is imported as part of a package of hardware in conjunction 
with a ready-to-assemble piece of furniture.
    Alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod are currently 
classifiable under subheadings 7318.15.5051, 7318.15.5056, and 
7318.15.5090 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS). Subject merchandise may also enter under subheading 
7318.15.2095 and 7318.19.0000 of the HTSUS. The HTSUS subheadings 
are provided for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes only. The 
written description of the scope is dispositive.

Appendix II

    The scope of the countervailing duty order covers carbon and 
alloy steel threaded rod. Steel threaded rod is certain threaded 
rod, bar, or studs, of carbon or alloy steel, having a solid, 
circular cross section of any diameter, in any straight length. 
Steel threaded rod is normally drawn, cold-rolled, threaded, and 
straightened, or it may be hot-rolled. In addition, the steel 
threaded rod, bar, or studs subject to this order are non-headed and 
threaded along greater than 25 percent of their total actual length. 
A variety of finishes or coatings, such as plain oil finish as a 
temporary rust protectant, zinc coating (i.e., galvanized, whether 
by electroplating or hot-dipping), paint, and other similar finishes 
and coatings, may be applied to the merchandise.
    Steel threaded rod is normally produced to American Society for 
Testing and Materials (ASTM) specifications ASTM A36, ASTM A193 B7/
B7m, ASTM A193 B16, ASTM A307, ASTM A320 L7/L7M, ASTM A320 L43, ASTM 
A354 BC and BD, ASTM A449, ASTM F1554-36, ASTM F1554-55, ASTM F1554 
Grade 105, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 
specification ASME B18.31.3, and American Petroleum Institute (API) 
specification API 20E. All steel threaded rod meeting the physical 
description set forth above is covered by the scope of this order, 
whether or not produced according to a particular standard.
    Subject merchandise includes material matching the above 
description that has been finished, assembled, or packaged in a 
third country, including by cutting, chamfering, coating, or 
painting the threaded rod, by attaching the threaded rod to, or 
packaging it with, another product, or any other finishing, 
assembly, or packaging operation that would not otherwise remove the 
merchandise from the scope of this order if performed in the country 
of manufacture of the threaded rod.
    Carbon and alloy steel threaded rod are also included in the 
scope of this order whether or not imported attached to, or in 
conjunction with, other parts and accessories such as nuts and 
washers. If carbon and alloy steel threaded rod are imported 
attached to, or in conjunction with, such non-subject merchandise, 
only the threaded rod is included in the scope.
    Excluded from the scope of this order are: (1) Threaded rod, 
bar, or studs which are threaded only on one or both ends and the 
threading covers 25 percent or less of the total actual length; and 
(2) stainless steel threaded rod, defined as steel threaded rod 
containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5 
percent or more of chromium, with or without other elements.
    Excluded from the scope of the antidumping order on steel 
threaded rod from the People's Republic of China is any merchandise 
covered by the existing antidumping order on certain steel threaded 
rod from the People's Republic of China. See Certain Steel Threaded 
Rod from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Antidumping Duty 
Order, 74 FR 17154 (April 14, 2009).
    Specifically excluded from the scope of this order is threaded 
rod that is imported as part of a package of hardware in conjunction 
with a ready-to-assemble piece of furniture.
    Steel threaded rod is currently classifiable under subheadings 
7318.15.5051, 7318.15.5056, and 7318.15.5090 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Subject merchandise 
may also enter under subheading 7318.15.2095 and 7318.19.0000 of the 
HTSUS. The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S. 
Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope is 
dispositive.

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