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1See Countervailing Duty Investigation of ColdDrawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy 

Steel from the People’s Republic of China: Final 

Affirmative Determination, and Final Affirmative 

Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, 82 

FR 58175 (December 11, 2017) (Final 

Determination). 

2See letter from Huacheng I&E, ‘‘Certain ColdDrawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy 

Steel from People’s Republic of China: Ministerial 

Error Comments,’’ dated December 12, 2017. 

1See Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of 

Carbon and Alloy Steel from the People’s Republic 

of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 

Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value and Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, and Postponement of Final 

Determination, 82 FR 55574 (November 22, 2017) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

2See the Department’s memorandum, ‘‘Deadline 

for Ministerial Error Comments for the Preliminary 

Determination,’’ dated November 27, 2017. 

3See Huacheng’s letter, ‘‘Certain Cold-Drawn 

Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from 

People’s Republic of China: Ministerial Error 

Comments,’’ dated December 1, 2017 (Hongyi’s 

Ministerial Error Allegation). 

4See the Department’s memorandum, ‘‘Certain 

Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and 

Alloy Steel from the Federal Republic of Germany, 

India, Italy, the Republic of Korea, the People’s 

Republic of China, and Switzerland: Scope 

Comments Decision Memorandum for the Final 

Determinations,’’ dated December 4, 2017 (Scope 

Comments Decision Memo). 

5See Section 735(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the ‘‘Act). 

6See 19 CFR 351.224(g). 

7See the Department’s memorandum, ‘‘LessThan-Fair-Value Investigation of Certain ColdDrawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy 

Steel from the People’s Republic of China: 

Allegation of Ministerial Errors in the Preliminary 

Determination,’’ dated concurrently with this notice 

for the analysis performed (Ministerial Error 

Memorandum). The Department is also correcting 

an additional error made in the calculation of 

surrogate value ratios. 

8See the Department’s memorandum, ‘‘Analysis 

for the Amended Preliminary Determination of the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Certain ColdDrawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy 

Steel from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated 

concurrently with this notice. 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(PRC).1 The Final Determination 

inadvertently referred to a cross-owned 

affiliate of one of the mandatory 

respondents, Zhangjiagang Huacheng 

Import & Export Co., Ltd. (Huacheng 

I&E), as ‘‘Zhangjiagang Huacheng 

Industry Pipe Making Corporation.’’ The 

correct name for this cross-owned 

affiliate is ‘‘Jiangsu Huacheng Industry 

Pipe Making Corporation.’’ 2 We are 

correcting this error. 

This correction to the Final 

Determination is issued and published 

in accordance with section 705(d) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. 

Dated: December 27, 2017. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistance Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–058] 

Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing 

of Carbon and Alloy Steel From the 

People’s Republic of China: Amended 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is amending the 

preliminary determination of the lessthan-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of 

certain cold-drawn mechanical tubing of 

carbon and alloy steel (cold-drawn 

mechanical tubing) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) to correct 

certain significant ministerial errors. 

DATES: Applicable January 3, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Keith Haynes or Paul Stolz, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office III, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–5139 or, (202) 482–4474, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 22, 2017, Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determination.1 On November 24, 2017, 

Commerce disclosed to interested 

parties its calculations for the 

Preliminary Determination. On 

November 27, 2017, Commerce 

extended the period to submit 

ministerial error comments to December 

1, 2017.2 On December 1, 2017, 

Zhangjiagang Huacheng Import & Export 

Co., Ltd. (Huacheng) alleged certain 

ministerial errors in the Preliminary 

Determination.3 Commerce did not 

receive ministerial error allegations 

from any other interested party. 

Period of Investigation 

The period of investigation is October 

1, 2016, through March 31, 2017. 

Scope of the Investigation 

This investigation covers cold-drawn 

mechanical tubing from China. Since 

the publication of the Preliminary 

Determination and preliminary scope 

language contained therein, Commerce 

has evaluated relevant comments and 

issued its Final Scope Determination 

Memorandum.4 For a complete 

description of the final scope of this 

investigation, see the Appendix to this 

notice. 

Analysis of Significant Ministerial 

Error Allegation 

Commerce will analyze any 

comments received and, if appropriate, 

correct any significant ministerial error 

by amending the preliminary 

determination according to 19 CFR 

351.224(e). A ministerial error is 

defined in 19 CFR 351.224(f) as ‘‘an 

error in addition, subtraction, or other 

arithmetic function, clerical error 

resulting from inaccurate copying, 

duplication, or the like, and any other 

similar type of unintentional error 

which the Secretary considers 

ministerial.’’ 5 A significant ministerial 

error is defined as an error, the 

correction of which, singly or in 

combination with other errors, would 

result in: (1) A change of at least five 

absolute percentage points in, but not 

less than 25 percent of, the antidumping 

duty rate calculated in the original 

(erroneous) preliminary determination; 

or (2) a difference between an 

antidumping duty rate of zero (or de 

minimis) and an antidumping duty rate 

of greater than de minimis or vice 

versa.6

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e) and 

(g)(1), Commerce is amending the 

Preliminary Determination to reflect the 

correction of four ministerial errors 

made in the calculation of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

Huacheng.7 These errors are significant 

ministerial errors within the meaning of 

19 CFR 351.224(g) because Huacheng’s 

margin decreases from 61.59 percent to 

24.30 percent as a result of correcting 

these ministerial errors, exceeding the 

specified threshold, i.e., a change of at 

least five absolute percentage points in, 

but not less than 25 percent of, the 

antidumping duty rate calculated in the 

original (erroneous) preliminary 

determination.8

Huacheng is the only mandatory 

respondent for which Commerce 

calculated a weighted-average dumping 

margin. For this reason, we assigned 

Huacheng’s calculated rate to the nonexamined respondents that 

preliminarily received a separate rate. 

As part of this amended preliminary 

determination, Commerce will 

accordingly amend the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

each non-examined respondent that 

preliminarily received a separate rate to 

24.30 percent. 


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9 In addition to the correction of the ministerial 

errors discussed above, we are correcting in this 

notice the company names listed in the Preliminary 

Determination to reflect the collapsed 

determinations for the two mandatory respondents. 

Specifically, in the Preliminary Determination, we 

inadvertently listed only the company name for the 

Huacheng and Hongyi respondent in the relevant 

producer and exporter fields. Herein, we are 

correcting the company name listed in the 

Preliminary Determination to include all names of 

the companies comprising the collapsed Hongyi 

and Huacheng entity, as appropriate. 

10 Id. 

Amended Cash Deposits and 

Suspension of Liquidation 

The collection of cash deposits and 

suspension of liquidation will be 

revised according to the rates calculated 

in this amended preliminary 

determination. Because these amended 

rates result in reduced cash deposits, 

they will be effective retroactively to 

November 22, 2017, the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determination, and parties will be 

notified of this determination, in 

accordance with section 733(d) and (f) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). 

Amended Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage antidumping duty margins 

exist: 

Producer Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit 

adjusted for 

subsidy offset 

(percent) 

Jiangsu Hongyi Steel Pipe Co., Ltd., and Changzhou Hongren Precision 

Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd 9.

Jiangsu Hongyi Steel Pipe Co., Ltd 186.89 186.89 

Jiangsu Huacheng Industry Pipe Making Corporation, and Zhangjiagang 

Salem Fine Tubing Co., Ltd 10.

Zhangjiagang Huacheng Import & 

Export Co., Ltd.

24.30 24.27 

Anji Pengda Steel Pipe Co., Ltd ................................................................ Anji Pengda Steel Pipe Co., Ltd ..... 24.30 24.29 

Changshu Fushilai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd ..................................................... Changshu Fushilai Steel Pipe Co., 

Ltd.

24.30 24.29 

Changshu Special Shaped Steel Tube Co., Ltd ....................................... Changshu Special Shaped Steel 

Tube Co., Ltd.

24.30 24.29 

Jiangsu Liwan Precision Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd ............................. Suzhou Foster International Co., 

Ltd.

24.30 24.29 

Zhangjiagang Precision Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd (Zhangjiangang 

Tube).

Suzhou Foster International Co., 

Ltd.

24.30 24.29 

Wuxi Dajin High-Precision Cold-Drawn Steel Tube Co., Ltd .................... Wuxi Huijin International Trade Co., 

Ltd.

24.30 24.29 

Zhangjiagang Shengdingyuan Pipe-Making Co., Ltd ................................ Zhangjiagang Shengdingyuan PipeMaking Co., Ltd.24.30 24.29 

Zhejiang Minghe Steel Pipe Co., Ltd ........................................................ Zhejiang Minghe Steel Pipe Co., 

Ltd.

24.30 24.29 

Zhejiang Dingxin Steel Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd ............................... Zhejiang Dingxin Steel Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd.24.30 24.29 

China-Wide Entity ...................................................................................... .......................................................... 186.89 186.89 

Disclosure 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed to parties in this proceeding 

within five days after publication of the 

notice of amended preliminary 

determination in the Federal Register in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, we will notify the International 

Trade Commission of our 

determination. 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 733(f) 

and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.224(e). 

Dated: December 27, 2017. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Investigation 

The scope of this investigation covers colddrawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy 

steel (cold-drawn mechanical tubing) of 

circular cross-section, 304.8 mm or more in 

length, in actual outside diameters less than 

331mm, and regardless of wall thickness, 

surface finish, end finish or industry 

specification. The subject cold-drawn 

mechanical tubing is a tubular product with 

a circular cross-sectional shape that has been 

cold-drawn or otherwise cold-finished after 

the initial tube formation in a manner that 

involves a change in the diameter or wall 

thickness of the tubing, or both. The subject 

cold-drawn mechanical tubing may be 

produced from either welded (e.g., electric 

resistance welded, continuous welded, etc.) 

or seamless (e.g., pierced, pilgered or 

extruded, etc.) carbon or alloy steel tubular 

products. It may also be heat treated after 

cold working. Such heat treatments may 

include, but are not limited to, annealing, 

normalizing, quenching and tempering, stress 

relieving or finish annealing. Typical colddrawing methods for subject merchandise 

include, but are not limited to, drawing over 

mandrel, rod drawing, plug drawing, sink 

drawing and similar processes that involve 

reducing the outside diameter of the tubing 

with a die or similar device, whether or not 

controlling the inside diameter of the tubing 

with an internal support device such as a 

mandrel, rod, plug or similar device. Other 

cold-finishing operations that may be used to 

produce subject merchandise include coldrolling and cold-sizing the tubing. 

Subject cold-drawn mechanical tubing is 

typically certified to meet industry 

specifications for cold-drawn tubing 

including but not limited to: 

(1) American Society for Testing and 

Materials (ASTM) or American Society of 

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) specifications 

ASTM A–512, ASTM A–513 Type 3 (ASME 

SA513 Type 3), ASTM A–513 Type 4 (ASME 

SA513 Type 4), ASTM A–513 Type 5 (ASME 

SA513 Type 5), ASTM A–513 Type 6 (ASME 

SA513 Type 6), ASTM A–519 (cold-finished); 

(2) SAE International (Society of 

Automotive Engineers) specifications SAE 

J524, SAE J525, SAE J2833, SAE J2614, SAE 

J2467, SAE J2435, SAE J2613; 

(3) Aerospace Material Specification (AMS) 

AMS T–6736 (AMS 6736), AMS 6371, AMS 

5050, AMS 5075, AMS 5062, AMS 6360, 

AMS 6361, AMS 6362, AMS 6371, AMS 

6372, AMS 6374, AMS 6381, AMS 6415; 

(4) United States Military Standards (MIL) 

MIL–T–5066 and MIL–T–6736; 

(5) foreign standards equivalent to one of 

the previously listed ASTM, ASME, SAE, 

AMS or MIL specifications including but not 

limited to: 


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1See Supercalendered Paper From Canada: 

Countervailing Duty Order, 80 FR 76668 (December 

10, 2015) (CVD Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

10457 (February 13, 2017). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of Administrative Review of 

the Countervailing Duty Order on Supercalendered 

Paper from Canada; 2015,’’ dated concurrently with 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See 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. 

(a) German Institute for Standardization 

(DIN) specifications DIN 2391–2, DIN 2393– 

2, DIN 2394–2); 

(b) European Standards (EN) EN 10305–1, 

EN 10305–2, EN 10305–4, EN 10305–6 and 

European national variations on those 

standards (e.g., British Standard (BS EN), 

Irish Standard (IS EN) and German Standard 

(DIN EN) variations, etc.); 

(c) Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) JIS G 

3441 and JIS G 3445; and 

(6) proprietary standards that are based on 

one of the above-listed standards. 

The subject cold-drawn mechanical tubing 

may also be dual or multiple certified to 

more than one standard. Pipe that is multiple 

certified as cold-drawn mechanical tubing 

and to other specifications not covered by 

this scope, is also covered by the scope of 

this investigation when it meets the physical 

description set forth above. 

Steel products included in the scope of this 

investigation are products in which: (1) Iron 

predominates, by weight, over each of the 

other contained elements; and (2) the carbon 

content is 2 percent or less by weight. 

For purposes of this scope, the place of 

cold-drawing determines the country of 

origin of the subject merchandise. Subject 

merchandise that is subject to minor working 

in a third country that occurs after drawing 

in one of the subject countries including, but 

not limited to, heat treatment, cutting to 

length, straightening, nondestructive testing, 

deburring or chamfering, remains within the 

scope of this investigation. 

All products that meet the written physical 

description are within the scope of this 

investigation unless specifically excluded or 

covered by the scope of an existing order. 

Merchandise that meets the physical 

description of cold-drawn mechanical tubing 

above is within the scope of the investigation 

even if it is also dual or multiple certified to 

an otherwise excluded specification listed 

below. The following products are outside of, 

and/or specifically excluded from, the scope 

of this investigation: 

(1) Cold-drawn stainless steel tubing, 

containing 10.5 percent or more of chromium 

by weight and not more than 1.2 percent of 

carbon by weight; 

(2) products certified to one or more of the 

ASTM, ASME or American Petroleum 

Institute (API) specifications listed below: 

• ASTM A–53; 

• ASTM A–106; 

• ASTM A–179 (ASME SA 179); 

• ASTM A–192 (ASME SA 192); 

• ASTM A–209 (ASME SA 209); 

• ASTM A–210 (ASME SA 210); 

• ASTM A–213 (ASME SA 213); 

• ASTM A–334 (ASME SA 334); 

• ASTM A–423 (ASME SA 423); 

• ASTM A–498; 

• ASTM A–496 (ASME SA 496); 

• ASTM A–199; 

• ASTM A–500; 

• ASTM A–556; 

• ASTM A–565; 

• API 5L; and 

• API 5CT 

except that any cold-drawn tubing product 

certified to one of the above excluded 

specifications will not be excluded from the 

scope if it is also dual- or multiple-certified 

to any other specification that otherwise 

would fall within the scope of this 

investigation. 

The products subject to the investigation 

are currently classified in the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

under item numbers: 7304.31.3000, 

7304.31.6050, 7304.51.1000, 7304.51.5005, 

7304.51.5060, 7306.30.5015, 7306.30.5020, 

7306.50.5030. Subject merchandise may also 

enter under numbers 7306.30.1000 and 

7306.50.1000. The HTSUS subheadings 

above are provided for convenience and 

customs purposes only. The written 

description of the scope of the investigation 

is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–122–854] 

Supercalendered Paper From Canada: 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing 

Duty Administrative Review and 

Rescission, in Part; 2015 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on 

supercalendered paper (SC paper) from 

Canada. The period of review (POR) is 

August 3, 2015, through December 31, 

2015. We preliminarily determine that 

Port Hawkesbury Paper LP (Port 

Hawkesbury); Resolute FP Canada Inc. 

and Resolute FP US Inc. (collectively, 

Resolute); and Irving Paper Limited 

(Irving) received countervailable 

subsidies during the POR. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable January 3, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicholas Czajkowski, Emily Halle, or 

Aimee Phelan, Office I, AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1395, (202) 482–0176, and 

(202) 482–0697, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 10, 2015, Commerce 

issued a countervailing duty order on 

SC paper from Canada.1 Several 

interested parties requested that 

Commerce conduct an administrative 

review of the CVD Order, and, on 

February 13, 2017, Commerce published 

in the Federal Register a notice of 

initiation of an administrative review of 

the CVD Order for four producers/ 

exporters for the POR.2

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by this order is 

SC paper. A full description of the scope 

of the order is contained in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum, 

which is hereby adopted by this notice.3

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, we preliminarily 

determine that there is a subsidy, i.e., a 

financial contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ 

that confers a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.4 For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying our preliminary conclusions, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. The list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as an 

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 http://access.trade.gov, and is 

available to all parties in the Central 

Records Unit, room B8024 of the main 

Department of Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 

be accessed directly on the internet at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/ 

index.html. The signed Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum and the 

electronic versions of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum are identical in 

content. 

We calculated a CVD rate for each 

producer/exporter of the subject 

merchandise for which an 


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