[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 206 (Thursday, October 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84867-84868]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24751]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of New Shipper 
Review; 2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the 
sole producer and/or exporter subject to this new shipper review (NSR) 
of the antidumping duty (AD) order on stainless steel bar (SS Bar) from 
India, Welspun Specialty Solutions Limited (Welspun), made bona fide 
sale transactions that were not made below normal value (NV). The 
period of review (POR) is February 1, 2023, through July 31, 2023.

DATES: Applicable October 24, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Weiner, 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) 482-3902.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 21, 1995, Commerce published in the Federal Register 
the AD order on SS Bar from India.\1\ On August 13, 2024, Commerce 
published the Preliminary Results of this NSR, wherein we determined 
that Welspun's sales were bona fide transactions and were not made 
below NV.\2\ We invited interested parties to comment on the 
Preliminary Results.\3\ No interested parties submitted comments. 
Accordingly, Commerce made no changes to the Preliminary Results and no 
decision memorandum accompanies this notice. On July 22, 2024, Commerce 
tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven 
days.\4\ The deadline for the final results is now October 30, 2024. 
Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from 
Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995) (Order).
    \2\ See Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Results of 
New Shipper Review; 2023, 89 FR 65865 (August 13, 2024) (Preliminary 
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \3\ Id.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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Scope of the Order <SUP>5</SUP>
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    \5\ See Order.
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    The products covered by the Order are SS Bar. A full description of 
the scope of the Order is provided in the Preliminary Results.\6\
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    \6\ See Preliminary Results PDM.
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Final Results of Review

    We received no comments on the Preliminary Results and, therefore, 
have made no changes for the final results of this NSR. Accordingly, 
Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for the POR February 1, 2023, through July 31, 2023:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Welspun Specialty Solutions Limited........................        0.00
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Disclosure

    Because Commerce received no comments on the Preliminary Results, 
we have not modified our analysis, and no decision memorandum 
accompanies this Federal Register notice. We are adopting the 
Preliminary Results as the final results of this review.\7\ 
Consequently, there are no new calculations to disclose in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.224(b) for these final results.
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    \7\ See Preliminary Results.
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject 
merchandise in accordance with the final results of this NSR. We intend 
to instruct CBP to apply the importer-specific ad valorem assessment 
rates we calculated for the Preliminary Results on the basis of the 
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's 
examined sales and the total entered value of those same sales in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\8\ If the importer-specific 
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, then Commerce will instruct CBP 
to liquidate such entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \8\ See, e.g., Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the 
Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain 
Antidumping Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 
(February 14, 2012).
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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
Welspun, for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined 
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed 
entries at the all-others rate (i.e., 12.45 percent) \9\ if there is no 
rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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    \9\ See Order.
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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of these final results 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 upon 
publication in the Federal Register of this notice for all shipments of 
SS Bar from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption 
on or after the date of publication as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) 
of the Act: (1) for subject merchandise produced and exported by 
Welspun, no cash deposit will be required; \10\ (2) for subject 
merchandise exported, but not produced by Welspun, the cash deposit 
rate will be the producer's rate or the all-others rate (i.e., 12.45 
percent) \11\ if the producer does not have its own rate; (3) for 
subject merchandise produced, but not exported by Welspun, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the exporter, or the all-
others rate if the exporter does not have its own rate. These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \10\ Commerce established a combination cash deposit rate for 
this company, consistent with its practice in new shipper reviews. 
See, e.g., Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products 
from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative and New Shipper Reviews and Rescission of 
Administrative Review, In Part; 2014-2015, 81 FR 12870, 12871 (March 
11, 2016).
    \11\ See Order, 60 FR at 9661.

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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 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 doubled 
antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an APO 
of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of 
proprietary information disclosed under the 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/destruction of APO materials or conversion 
to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply 
with the regulations and terms of an APO is a violation which is 
subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    Commerce is issuing and publishing the final results of this review 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 
CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: October 16, 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.
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