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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 240 (Friday, December 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 100980-100982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29318]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-897]

Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Final 
Results 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) determines that 
large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from the Republic of Korea 
(Korea) was not sold in the United States at prices below normal value 
during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.

DATES: Applicable December 13, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katerina Katsiadas or Brian Smith, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4929 or (202) 
482-1766, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 3, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results in the 
Federal Register.\1\ This administrative review covers 23 producers 
and/or exporters of the subject merchandise, including Hyundai Steel 
Company (Hyundai Steel) and SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH), which were 
selected for individual examination as mandatory respondents. For the 
events that occurred since the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.\2\ Commerce conducted this review in accordance 
with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).
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    \1\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 
89 FR 47523 (June 3, 2024) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea; 
2022-2023,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 
notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: 
Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination and Antidumping 
Duty Order, 84 FR 18767 (May 2, 2019) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by the Order is welded pipe from Korea. For 
a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.

Analysis of Comments Received

    We addressed all issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs 
filed in this administrative review in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum. A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum is attached in Appendix I to this notice. The Issues and 
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 Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
at https://access.trade/gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our evaluation of the comments received from interested 
parties regarding our Preliminary Results and our review of the record 
to address those comments, we made certain changes to the weighted-
average dumping margin calculations for

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Hyundai Steel and SeAH, as detailed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\4\
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    \4\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at ``Section IV. Changes 
Since the Preliminary Results.''
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Final Results of Review

    We determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping 
margins exist for the period May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023:

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                                                       Weighted-average
                  Exporter/producer                     dumping margin
                                                           (percent)
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Hyundai Steel Company \5\...........................                0.00
SeAH Steel Corporation..............................                0.00
Review-Specific Rate for Non-Examined Companies \6\.                0.00
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Disclosure
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    \5\ On November 14, 2024, Commerce determined that Hyundai Steel 
Pipe Co., Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Hyundai Steel 
Company. See Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from the Republic 
of Korea; Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of 
Korea; Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea; and Large 
Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Notice of Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews, 89 FR 
89962 (November 14, 2024).
    \6\ See Appendix II.
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    We intend to disclose the calculations performed for these final 
results of review to interested parties within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    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 section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.212(b). Commerce intends to issue assessment 
instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date of 
publication 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).
    Because the final weighted-average dumping margins for all 
respondents in this review are zero, we intend to instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping 
duties.\7\ Consistent with Commerce's clarification of its assessment 
practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
Hyundai Steel or SeAH where it 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 7.08 percent ad valorem,\8\ if there 
is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the 
transaction.\9\
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
    \8\ See Order, 84 FR at 18769.
    \9\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following 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 the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rates for Hyundai Steel 
and SeAH will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margins 
established in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for 
merchandise exported by a producer or exporter 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 the 
producer or exporter participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this review, a prior review, or the original LTFV 
investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the 
rate established for the most recently completed segment of the 
proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other producers and exporters will continue to be 
7.08 percent ad valorem, the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation.\10\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \10\ See Order, 84 FR at 18769.
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Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties

    This notice also 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 and/or countervailing 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 and/or countervailing duties has 
occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, 
and/or increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of 
the countervailing duties.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (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 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: December 6, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy 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 to Apply a Major Input Adjustment to the Cost 
of SeAH's Hot Rolled Coil (HRC)
    Comment 2: Whether to Reclassify the Costs Assigned to SeAH's 
Headquarters
    Comment 3: Whether to Adjust SeAH's Reported Scrap Offset

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    Comment 4: State Pipe & Supply Inc.'s (State Pipe's) General and 
Administrative (G&A) Expense Ratio Calculation
    Comment 5: Whether to Calculate State Pipe's G&A Expenses on a 
Company-Wide Basis
    Comment 6: Whether to Apply State Pipe's Financial and G&A 
Ratios to Per-Unit Costs on the Same Basis as the Denominator Used 
to Calculate the Ratios
    Comment 7: Whether to Revise State Pipe's Reported Indirect 
Selling Expenses to Include the Full G&A Expense Amount Incurred
    Comment 8: Whether to Include Certain Omitted Costs in Hyundai 
Steel's G&A Expenses
    Comment 9: Whether to Exclude Investment Related Accounts From 
Hyundai Steel's Net Interest Expenses
VI. Recommendation

Appendix II--Companies Not Selected for Individual Review

1. AJU Besteel Co., Ltd.
2. Chang Won Bending Co., Ltd.
3. Daiduck Piping Co., Ltd.
4. Dong Yang Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.
5. Dongbu Incheon Steel Co., Ltd.
6. EEW KHPC Co., Ltd.
7. EEW Korea Co., Ltd.
8. Geumok Tech. Co. Ltd.
9. Hansol Metal Co. Ltd.
10. HiSteel Co., Ltd.
11. Husteel Co., Ltd.
12. Hyundai RB Co., Ltd.
13. Il Jin Nts Co. Ltd.
14. Kiduck Industries Co., Ltd.
15. Kum Kang Kind. Co., Ltd.
16. Kumsoo Connecting Co., Ltd.
17. Nexteel Co., Ltd.
18. Seonghwa Industrial Co., Ltd.
19. SIN-E B&P Co., Ltd.
20. Steel Flower Co., Ltd.
21. WELTECH Co., Ltd.

[FR Doc. 2024-29318 Filed 12-12-24; 8:45 am]
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