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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 234 (Thursday, December 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 96638-96640]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28476]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-856]

Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From Mexico: Preliminary 
Results and Recission, In Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2022-2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds 
that certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Mexico were sold in 
the United States at prices below normal value. Additionally, Commerce 
is rescinding this administrative review with respect to one company. 
The period of review (POR) is May 11, 2022, through October 31, 2023. 
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable December 5, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyler Weinhold, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1121.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 21, 2022, Commerce published in the Federal Register an 
antidumping duty order on OCTG from Mexico.\1\ On November 2, 2023, 
Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to 
request an administrative review of the Order for the POR.\2\ On 
December 29, 2023, Commerce published the notice of initiation of this 
administrative review.\3\ On July 18, 2024, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, Commerce extended the preliminary results of 
review until November 21, 2024.\4\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled 
certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days.\5\ 
The deadline for the preliminary results of review is now November 29, 
2024.\6\
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    \1\ See Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, Mexico, and 
the Russian Federation: Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended Final 
Affirmative Determination for the Russian Federation, 87 FR 70785 
(November 21, 2022) (Order).
    \2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative 
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 75270 (November 
2, 2023).
    \3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 90168, 90170 (December 29, 2023).
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated July 18, 
2024.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
    \6\ Because the current deadline for these final results falls 
on a holiday (i.e., November 28, 2024), the deadline became the next 
business day (i.e., November 29, 2024). See Notice of Clarification: 
Application of ``Next Business Day'' Rule for Administrative 
Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, As 
Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005).
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Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the Order is OCTG from Mexico. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order,

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see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. \7\
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    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico; 2022-2023,'' dated 
concurrently with this notice.
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Partial Recission of Administrative Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that 
requested a review withdraw the request within 90 days of the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation. Commerce received a request 
for review of Siderca S.A.I.C. (Siderca) from United States Steel 
Tubular Products, Inc. (USTTP), a domestic interested party.\8\ On 
February 27, 2024, USSTP withdrew its request for a review of 
Siderca.\9\ Because the request for review was timely withdrawn for 
Siderca, and because no other party requested a review of Siderca, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding this 
review for Siderca.
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    \8\ See USSTP's Letter, ``Request for Administrative Review,'' 
dated November 30, 2023.
    \9\ See USSTP's Letter, ``Partial Withdrawal of Request for 
Administrative Review,'' dated February 27, 2024.
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Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying 
these preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A 
list of the 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 https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 
version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be found at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Preliminary Results of Review

    Commerce preliminarily finds that the following estimated weighted-
average dumping margin exists for the period May 11, 2022, through 
October 31, 2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/Producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A...............................       30.38
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations and analysis 
performed for these preliminary results to interested parties within 
five days of public announcement of the preliminary results or, if 
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    The deadline for case briefs or other written comments submitted to 
the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance will be 
established at a later date. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 
in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the 
date for filing case briefs.\10\ Interested parties who submit case 
briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table 
of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities.\11\
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    \10\ 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).
    \11\ 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 administrative review, we instead 
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their 
briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their 
briefs.\12\ 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 of this review. 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).\13\
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    \12\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \13\ 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, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain 
the party's name, address, and telephone number, the number of 
participants, whether any participant is a foreign national, and a list 
of the 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.

Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, which will include the results 
of its analysis of issues raised in any briefs, within 120 days of 
publication of these preliminary results of review, pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Assessment Rate

    Upon completion of this administrative review, pursuant to section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries covered by this review. If the weighted-average 
dumping margin for a mandatory respondent is not zero or de minimis in 
the final results of this review, we will calculate an importer-
specific assessment rate 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 such sales in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1).\14\ If the weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de 
minimis in the final results of review, or if an importer-specific 
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP to 
liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\15\ 
For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the 
respondent(s) for which it did not know its merchandise was destined 
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries 
at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in

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the transaction.\16\ The final results of this administrative review 
shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries 
of merchandise under review and for future cash deposits of estimated 
antidumping duties, where applicable.
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    \14\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14, 
2012).
    \15\ Id., 77 FR 8102-03; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
    \16\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    For Siderca, for which the administrative review is rescinded, 
antidumping duties shall be assessed at a rate equal to the cash 
deposit of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, 
or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i).
    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 41 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 356.8(a). 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 the final results of this 
administrative review for all shipments of the subject merchandise 
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) the cash deposit rate for companies subject to this review will be 
equal to the company-specific weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for 
merchandise exported by a company 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 in the 
completed segment for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is 
not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the less-than-
fair-value investigation but the producer is, then the cash deposit 
rate will be the rate established in the most recently completed 
segment of the proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) 
the cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will 
continue to be 44.93 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
less-than-fair-value investigation.\17\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \17\ See Order, 87 FR 70786.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary 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 double 
antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    These preliminary results are issued and published in accordance 
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), 
and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: November 29, 2024.
Steven Presing,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Rescission of Review, In Part
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation

[FR Doc. 2024-28476 Filed 12-4-24; 8:45 am]
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