Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 240 / Friday, December 13, 2024 / Notices 100969 

1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

90168 (December 29, 2023) (Initiation Notice); see 

also Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic 

of Korea and the Russian Federation: 

Countervailing Duty Orders, 87 FR 70782 

(November 21, 2022) (Order). We initiated the 

current review with respect to four companies and 

a deferred review of one company. See Initiation 

Notice, 88 FR at 90172, 90173 and n.5. 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated July 17, 2024. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Administrative 

Review of the Countervailing Duty Order on Oil 

Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea; 

2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

rate will be the rate applicable to the 

Chinese exporter that supplied that nonChinese exporter. These deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

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 review period. 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 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 terms of an APO is a 

violation which is subject to sanction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a) and 

777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h) 

and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: December 6, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

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 Issues 

Comment 1: Whether the Republic of 

Tu ̈rkiye is the Appropriate Surrogate 

Country 

Comment 2: Differential Pricing Analysis 

Should Not Apply 

Comment 3: Ministerial Errors 

VI. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–580–913] 

Oil Country Tubular Goods From the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results 

and Rescission, In Part, of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies were not provided to SeAH 

Steel Corporation and its cross-owned 

affiliate, SeAH Steel Holdings 

Corporation (collectively, the SeAH 

Steel Companies), a producer and 

exporter of oil country tubular goods 

(OCTG) from the Republic of Korea 

(Korea). The period of review (POR) is 

September 29, 2022, through December 

31, 2022. Additionally, Commerce is 

rescinding this review, in part, with 

respect to four companies. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable December 13, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Janz, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2972. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 29, 2023, based on 

timely requests for review and in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce published a 

notice of initiation of an administrative 

review of the Order with respect to five 

companies.1 On July 17, 2024, 

Commerce extended the time period for 

issuing these preliminary results by 120 

days, in accordance with section 

751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act).2 On July 22, 2024, 

Commerce tolled certain deadlines in 

this administrative review by seven 

days.3 The deadline for these 

preliminary results is now December 6, 

2024. 

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4 A 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 https://access.

trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is OCTG from Korea. For a 

complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Rescission of Administrative Review, In 

Part 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind 

an administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if all parties that requested the 

review withdraw their requests within 

90 days of the date of publication of the 

notice of initiation of the requested 

review. Commerce received timely-filed 

withdrawal requests with respect to AJU 

Besteel Co., Ltd. (AJU Besteel); Husteel 

Co., Ltd. (Husteel); ILJIN Steel 

Corporation (ILJIN); and NEXTEEL Co., 

Ltd. (NEXTEEL), pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(1). Because the withdrawal 

requests were timely filed, and no other 

parties requested a review of these 

companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding 

this review of the Order with respect to 

these four companies. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a)(1)(A) of the Act. For 

each of the subsidy programs found 

countervailable, Commerce 

preliminarily determines that there is a 


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5See 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. 

6As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce has found SeAH Steel 

Holding Corporation to be cross-owned with SeAH 

Steel Corporation. 

7See 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 Procedures). 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

9We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

10See APO and Service Procedures. 

11See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

subsidy, i.e., a financial contribution by 

an ‘‘authority’’ that gives rise to a 

benefit to the recipient, and the subsidy 

is specific.5 For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine the following 

net countervailable subsidy rate exists 

for the POR, September 29, 2022, 

through December 31, 2022: 

Producer/exporter Subsidy rate 

(percent ad valorem) 

SeAH Steel Corporation; SeAH Steel Holding Corporation 6 .............................................................................................. 0.14 

* De minimis. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations performed to interested 

parties for these preliminary results 

within five days of the date of any 

public announcement 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). 

Public Comment 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), 

interested parties may submit case briefs 

to Commerce no later than 30 days after 

the date of publication of this notice. 

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.7 Interested parties who 

submit case or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding must submit: (1) a table of 

contents listing each issue; and (2) a 

table of authorities.8 All briefs must be 

filed electronically using ACCESS. An 

electronically filed document must be 

received successfully in its entirety in 

ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) 

on the established deadline. 

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 briefs that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In this 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.9 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 in this administrative 

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).10

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance, filed electronically via 

ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. ET within 30 days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice. Requests should contain: (1) the 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number; (2) the number of participants 

and whether any participant is a foreign 

national; (3) a list of the issues to be 

discussed. Oral presentations at the 

hearing will be limited to issues raised 

in the briefs. If a request for a hearing 

is made, Commerce will inform parties 

of the scheduled date for the hearing.11

Assessment Rates 

Consistent with section 751(a)(2)(C) of 

the Act, upon issuance of the final 

results, Commerce shall determine, and 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP) shall assess, countervailing duties 

on all appropriate entries covered by 

this review. 

For the companies listed above for 

which this review is rescinded, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to assess 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit 

of estimated countervailing duties 

required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, during the period 

September 29, 2022, through December 

31, 2022, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(c)(l)(i). Commerce intends to 

issue rescission instructions to CBP for 

these companies no earlier than 35 days 

after the date of publication of the 

notice of rescission in the Federal 

Register. 

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP 

regarding the SeAH Steel Companies 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). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP 

to collect cash deposits of estimated 

countervailing duties in the amount 

indicated above with regard to 

shipments of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review. If the rate 

calculated in the final results is zero or 

de minimis, no cash deposit will be 

required on shipments of the subject 

merchandise entered or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this review. 

These cash deposit instructions, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Final Results of Review 

Unless the deadline is extended 

pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of our analysis of 

the issues raised by the parties in their 

written briefs, no later than 120 days 

after publication of these preliminary 

results. 


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1See Certain Aluminum Foil from the Sultanate 

of Oman and the Republic of Turkey: 

Countervailing Duty Orders, 86 FR 62782 

(November 12, 2021) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

90168, 90172 (December 29, 2023). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review, 2022,’’ dated June 26, 2024. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Second Extension of 

Deadline for Preliminary Results of Countervailing 

Duty Administrative Review, 2022,’’ dated 

November 21, 2024. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review, 2022: Certain Aluminum 

Foil from the Sultanate of Oman,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

7See 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. 

8Commerce preliminarily determines that Oman 

Aluminium Rolling Company SPC is cross-owned 

with Sohar Paper Cores LLC, Takamul Investment 

Company LLC, and OQ SAOC. 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 

351.303 for general filing requirements. 

10See 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). 

11See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

preliminary results in accordance with 

sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 

Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: December 6, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Review 

IV. Scope of the Order 

V. Diversification of Korea’s Economy 

VI. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VII. Benchmarks and Interest Rates 

VIII. Analysis of Programs 

IX. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–523–816] 

Certain Aluminum Foil From the 

Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary 

Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to Oman 

Aluminium Rolling Company SPC, a 

producer and exporter of certain 

aluminum foil (aluminum foil) from the 

Sultanate of Oman (Oman). The period 

of review (POR) is January 1, 2022, 

through December 31, 2022. We invite 

interested parties to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable December 13, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristen Johnson, 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) 482–4793. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 12, 2021, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on 

aluminum foil from Oman.1 On 

December 29, 2023, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

initiation of the administrative review of 

the Order for the period January 1, 2022, 

to December 31, 2022, covering Oman 

Aluminium Rolling Company SPC.2

On June 26, 2024, Commerce 

extended the deadline for issuance of 

the preliminary results of this review 

until November 26, 2024.3 On July 22, 

2024, Commerce tolled certain 

deadlines in this administrative 

proceeding by seven days.4 On 

November 21, 2024, Commerce 

extended the deadline for issuance of 

the preliminary results until December 

6, 2024.5

A list of topics discussed in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 

included in the appendix to this notice. 

For a complete description of the events 

that followed the initiation of this 

review, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.6 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 accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by this Order is 

certain aluminum foil. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a)(l)(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.7 For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine the net 

countervailable subsidy rate for the 

period January 1, 2022, through 

December 31, 2022 to be: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Oman Aluminium Rolling 

Company SPC 8 ................ 1.36 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations performed for these 

preliminary results to interested parties 

within five days of any public 

announcement or, if there is no public 

announcement, within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.224(b). 

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs or other written comments to the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance.9 A timeline for the 

submission of case briefs and written 

comments will be established at a later 

date. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 

raised in case briefs, may be submitted 

no later than five days after the deadline 

date for filing case briefs.10 Interested 

parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this review must 

submit: (1) a table of contents listing 

each issue; and (2) a table of 

authorities.11

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 review, we 


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