[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82982-82985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23774]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-887]


Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod From India: Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Partial Rescission; 2022-
2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
carbon and alloy steel threaded rod (steel threaded rod) from India was 
sold in the United States at below normal value during the period of 
review (POR), April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023. Further, we are 
rescinding this review with respect to 83 companies.

DATES: Applicable October 15, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kabir Archuletta or Samuel Frost, AD/
CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2593 or (202) 
482-8180, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    This administrative review covers 29 companies.\1\ Commerce 
selected two

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respondents for individual examination, Mangal Steel Enterprises 
Limited (Mangal) and Shree Luxmi Fasteners/The Emerging Impex (SLF/
TEI).\2\
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    \1\ We initiated this administrative review with respect to 112 
companies. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 38021 (June 12, 2023). However, we are 
rescinding this review for 83 companies that did not have reviewable 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR. See ``Rescission of 
Administrative Review, in Part'' section below.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated June 28, 
2023. Commerce preliminarily determined to treat Shree Luxmi 
Fasteners (SLF) and its affiliate The Emerging Impex (TEI) as a 
single entity for purposes of this review. Because no parties 
commented on this preliminary decision, for these final results 
Commerce continues to treat these companies as a single entity. See 
Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from India: Preliminary Results 
and Preliminary Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, in Part, 2022-2023, 89 FR 37174 (May 6, 2024) (Preliminary 
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
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    On May 6, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of this 
administrative review and invited interested parties to comment on the 
Preliminary Results.\3\ On June 5, 2024, we received a timely-filed 
case brief from Sigma Piping Products (2019), LLC (Sigma), a U.S. 
importer of subject merchandise,\4\ and on June 10, 2024, we received a 
timely-filed rebuttal brief from Vulcan Threaded Products, Inc. (the 
petitioner).\5\
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    \3\ Id.
    \4\ See Sigma's Letter, ``Sigma Comments on Preliminary 
Results,'' dated June 5, 2024 (Sigma's Case Brief).
    \5\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Rebuttal Brief,'' dated June 10, 
2024 (Petitioner's Rebuttal Brief).
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    On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this 
administrative proceeding by seven days.\6\ Thereafter, Commerce 
partially extended the deadline for issuing the final results until 
October 8, 2024.\7\ For a complete description of the events that 
followed the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\8\
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
    \7\ See Memoranda, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-23,'' dated August 14, 
2024; and ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,'' dated October 1, 2024.
    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of 
Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from India; 2022-2023,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 
Decision Memorandum).
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    Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order \9\
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    \9\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from India: Amended 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping 
Duty Order, 85 FR 19925 (April 9, 2020) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by the scope of this Order is carbon and 
alloy steel threaded rod from India. A complete description of the 
scope of the Order is provided in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\10\
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    \10\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at ``Scope of the 
Order.''
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Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), when there are no reviewable 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR subject to the 
antidumping duty order for which liquidation is suspended, Commerce may 
rescind an administrative review, in whole or only with respect to a 
particular exporter or producer.\11\ At the end of the administrative 
review, any suspended entries are liquidated at the assessment rate 
computed for the review period.\12\ Therefore, for an administrative 
review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry to 
be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate. In the 
Preliminary Results, Commerce preliminarily rescinded this review with 
respect to 83 companies because those companies had no reviewable, 
suspended entries of subject merchandise and invited parties to 
comment.\13\ We received no comments on our preliminary rescission of 
the review with respect to these companies. Accordingly, in the absence 
of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR for these 83 
companies for which this review was initiated, we are hereby rescinding 
this administrative review, in part, with respect to these companies, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).\14\
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    \11\ See, e.g., Forged Steel Fittings from Taiwan: Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2019, 85 FR 71317, 
71318 (November 9, 2020); see also Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy 
Steel Pipe from Mexico: Rescission of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 54084 (October 26, 2018).
    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \13\ See Preliminary Results, 89 FR at 37175-76.
    \14\ Appendix III identifies all companies for which we have 
rescinded this review.
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues that parties 
raised and to which we responded in the Issues and Decision Memorandum 
is attached to this notice at Appendix I. The Issues and Decision 
Memorandum is a public document and is made available to the public via 
Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 
registered users at http://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 a review of the record, we made certain changes to the 
margin calculations for these final results. For a discussion of these 
changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Rate for Non-Examined Companies

    The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment 
of a 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 and de minimis 
margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts 
available{time} .''
    In this review, we have calculated weighted-average dumping margins 
of zero percent for Mangal and 10.94 percent for SLF/TEI. Therefore, in 
accordance with section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, we are applying SLF/
TEI's weighted average dumping margin of 10.94 percent to the non-
examined companies, because this is the only rate that is not zero, de 
minimis, or based entirely on facts available.

Final Results of the Review

    Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average 
dumping margins exist during the period April 1, 2022, through March 
31, 2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Mangal Steel Enterprises Limited............................        0.00
Shree Luxmi Fasteners/The Emerging Impex....................       10.94
Companies Not Selected for Individual Review \15\...........       10.94
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these final results to interested parties within five 
days of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, 
within five days of the date publication of the notice of final results 
in the Federal Register.\16\
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    \15\ See Appendix II for a full list of these companies.
    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries covered by this review. Because the weighted-average dumping 
margin for Mangal has been determined to be zero percent, we intend to 
instruct CBP to liquidate Mangal's entries without regard to 
antidumping duties, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
    SLF/TEI's weighted average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis 
(i.e., less than 0.5 percent). Therefore, we calculated importer-
specific assessment rates based on the ratio of the total dumping 
calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of the 
sales. Where an importer-specific assessment rate for SLF/TEI is either 
zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.
    In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice, 
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Mangal or 
SLF/TEI for which these companies did not know that the merchandise was 
destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those 
entries at the all-others rate established in the original less-than-
fair-value (LTFV) investigation of 0.00 percent,\17\ if there is no 
rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\18\ 
For the companies that were not selected for individual examination, we 
will instruct CBP to liquidate entries at the rate established in these 
final results of review.
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    \17\ See Order, 85 FR at 19926.
    \18\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    For the companies for which this review is rescinded with these 
final results (see Appendix III), we will instruct CBP to assess 
antidumping duties on any suspended at a rate equal to the cash deposit 
of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or 
withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, during the POR, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i).
    We intend to issue instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days 
after the publication date 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).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of these 
final results of review in the Federal Register, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies 
listed in these final results 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; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be 
0.00 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation, adjusted for the export-subsidy rate in the companion 
countervailing duty investigation.\19\ These cash deposit requirements, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \19\ See Order, 85 FR at 19926.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a final 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 the 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.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
an administrative protective order (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 proceeding. 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 
the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    Notification to Interested Parties
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h) and 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: October 8, 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 Issues and Decision 
Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should Redetermine the Cash Deposit 
Rate for Kanika Exports (Kanika)
    Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should Use a Different Methodology 
To Determine Kanika's Dumping Margin
VI. Recommendation

Appendix II--List of Companies Not Individually Examined

1. Aadi Shree Fastener Industries
2. Babu Exports
3. Bhansali Inc.
4. Chirag International
5. Everest Industrial Corporation
6. Fence Fixings
7. Fine Thread Form Industries
8. Ganpati Fastners Pvt., Ltd.
9. GDPA Fasteners
10. Goodgood Manufacturers
11. Idea Fasteners Pvt., Ltd.
12. Kanika Exp.
13. Kapson India
14. Kapurthala Industrial Corporation
15. Kova Fasteners Pvt., Ltd.
16. Maharaja International
17. Maya Enterprises
18. Nishant Steel Industries
19. Nuovo Fastenings Pvt., Ltd.
20. R A Exp
21. R K Fasteners (India)
22. Rods & Fixing Fasteners
23. S K Overseas

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24. Singhania International Ltd.
25. The Technocrats Co.
26. Viraj Profiles Ltd.
27. Yogendra International

Appendix III--List of Companies for Which We Are Rescinding the 
Administrative Review

1. A H Enterprises
2. Aanjaney Micro Engy Pvt., Ltd.
3. Accurate Steel Forgings (I) Ltd.
4. Alps Industries Ltd.
5. Apex Thermocon Pvt., Ltd.
6. Ash Hammer Union
7. Astrotech Steels Pvt., Ltd.
8. Atlantic Container Line Pvt., Ltd.
9. Ats Exp. 07
10. Atz Shipping Trade & Transport Pvt.
11. BA Metal Processing
12. Boston Exp. & Engineering Co.
13. C.H.Robinson International (India)
14. C.P.World Lines Pvt., Ltd.
15. Century Distribution Systems Inc.
16. Charu Enterprises
17. Daksh Fasteners
18. Dedicated Imp. & Exp. Co.
19. Dhiraj Alloy & Stainless Steel
20. Dsv Air and Sea Pvt., Ltd.
21. Eastman Industries Ltd.
22. Eos Precision
23. ESL Steel Ltd
24. Everest Exp.
25. Farmparts Company
26. Galorekart Marketplace Pvt., Ltd.
27. Ganga Acrowools Ltd.
28. Gateway Engineering Solution
29. Gee Pee Overseas
30. Geodis India Pvt., Ltd. (Indel)
31. Jindal Steel And Power Ltd.
32. JSW Steel Ltd.
33. Kanchan Trading Co.
34. Kanhaiya Lal Tandoor (P) Ltd.
35. Karna International
36. Kei Industries Ltd.
37. King Exports
38. Linit Exp. Pvt., Ltd.
39. Mahajan Brothers
40. Meenakshi India, Ltd.
41. Metalink
42. MKA Engineers And Exporters Pvt., Ltd.
43. National Cutting Tools
44. NJ Sourcing
45. Noahs Ark International Exp.
46. Oia Global India Pvt., Ltd.
47. Otsusa India Pvt., Ltd.
48. Paloma Turning Co. Pvt., Ltd.
49. Patton International Ltd.
50. Perfect Tools & Forgings
51. Permali Wallace Pvt., Ltd.
52. Polycab India Ltd.
53. Pommada Hindustan Pvt., Ltd.
54. Poona Forge Pvt., Ltd.
55. Raajratna Ventures Ltd.
56. Raashika Industries Pvt., Ltd.
57. Rajpan Group
58. Rambal Ltd.
59. Randack Fasteners India Pvt., Ltd.
60. Ratnveer Metals Ltd.
61. Rimjhim Ispat Ltd.
62. S.M Forgings & Engineering
63. Sandip Brass Industries
64. Sandiya Exp. Pvt., Ltd.
65. Sansera Engineering Pvt., Ltd.
66. Silverline Metal Engineering Pvt. Lt
67. Sri Satya Sai Enterprises
68. Steampulse Global Llp
69. Steel Authority Of India Ltd.
70. Suchi Fasteners Pvt., Ltd.
71. Supercon Metals Pvt., Ltd.
72. Tekstar Pvt., Ltd.
73. Tijiya Exp. Pvt., Ltd.
74. Tijiya Steel Pvt., Ltd.
75. Tong Heer Fasteners
76. Trans Tool Pvt., Ltd.
77. Universal Engineering and Fabricat
78. V.J Industries Pvt., Ltd.
79. Vidushi Wires Pvt., Ltd.
80. Vrl Automation
81. VV Marine Pvt., Ltd.
82. Zenith Precision Pvt., Ltd.
83. Zenith Steel Pipes And Industries L
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