34718 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 123 / Wednesday, June 30, 2021 / Notices 

1See Notice of Amended Final Determinations: 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate 

from India and the Republic of Korea; and Notice 

of Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-ToLength Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from France, 

India, Indonesia, Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 

65 FR 6587 (February 10, 2000) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

19730 (April 20, 2020) (Initiation Notice). The 

Initiation Notice lists the company name Hyundai 

Steel Co., Ltd. (as requested by the petitioners) and 

Hyundai Steel Company (as requested by the firm 

itself). For purposes of this notice, we are treating 

both firms as the same company and hereinafter 

refer to them as Hyundai Steel. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review of Certain Cut-to-Length 

Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from the Republic of 

Korea: Selection of Respondents for Individual 

Examination,’’ dated May 6, 2020. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Administrative Review of 

the Countervailing Duty (CVD) Order on Certain 

Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate (CTL 

Plate) from the Republic of Korea (Korea),’’ dated 

June 10, 2020. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Administrative Review of 

the Countervailing Duty Order on Certain Cut-ToLength Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from the 

Republic of Korea: New Subsidy Allegations,’’ 

dated April 26, 2021. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews in Response to Operational 

Adjustments Due to COVID–19,’’ dated April 24, 

2020. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews,’’ dated July 22, 2020. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Cut-to-Length Carbon 

Quality Steel Plate from the Republic of Korea: 

Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated 

January 29, 2021. 

9See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review, 2019: Cut-to-Length Carbon 

Quality Steel Plate from the Republic of Korea from 

the Republic of Korea,’’ dated concurrently with, 

and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

U.S.C. 7265). Individuals must be U.S. 

citizens, and in addition, cannot be 

federally registered lobbyists or 

registered as a foreign agent under the 

Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, 

as amended. 

Those selected for the Board must be 

able to meet the time and effort 

commitments of the Board. 

Board members serve at the discretion 

of the Secretary of Commerce (who may 

remove any member of the Board for 

good cause). The term of office of each 

member of the Board appointed by the 

Secretary shall be three (3) years. Board 

members can serve a maximum of two 

consecutive full three-year terms. Board 

members are not considered Federal 

government employees by virtue of their 

service as members of the Board and 

will receive no compensation from the 

Federal government for their 

participation in Board activities. 

Members participating in Board 

meetings and events may be paid actual 

travel expenses and per diem by the 

Corporation when away from their usual 

places of residence. 

Individuals who want to be 

considered for appointment to the Board 

should submit the following 

information by the Friday, September 

10, 2021 deadline to the email address 

listed in the ADDRESSES section above: 

1. Name, title, and personal resume of 

the individual requesting consideration, 

including address, email address, and 

phone number. 

2. A brief statement of why the person 

should be considered for appointment 

to the Board. This statement should also 

address the individual’s relevant 

international travel and tourism 

marketing experience and audit 

committee financial expertise, if any, 

and indicate clearly the sector or sectors 

enumerated above in which the 

individual has the requisite expertise 

and experience. Individuals who have 

the requisite expertise and experience in 

more than one sector can be appointed 

for only one of those sectors. 

Appointments of members to the Board 

will be made by the Secretary of 

Commerce. 

3. An affirmative statement that the 

applicant (1) is a U.S. citizen, (2) is not 

a federally-registered lobbyist and 

further, (3) is not required to register as 

a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents 

Registration Act of 1938, as amended. 

4. A statement of whether the 

applicant is or is not an audit committee 

financial expert as defined by the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 7265). 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

Julie Heizer, 

Deputy Director, National Travel and Tourism 

Office. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–580–837] 

Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate From the Republic of 

Korea: Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2019 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that certain exporters/producers of 

certain cut-to-length plate from the 

Republic of Korea (Korea) received 

countervailable subsidies during the 

period of review (POR), January 1, 2019, 

through December 31, 2019. 

DATES: Applicable June 30, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Conniff, 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) 482–1009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 10, 2000, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on CTL 

Plate from Korea.1 On April 20, 2020, 

Commerce published in the Federal 

Register its initiation of the CVD 

administrative review of the Order for 

the period of January 1, 2019, to 

December 31, 2019.2 On May 6, 2020, 

Commerce selected Hyundai Steel Co., 

Ltd. (Hyundai Steel) as the sole 

mandatory respondent in this 

administrative review.3 On June 10, 

2020, Commerce declined to select 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (DSM) as 

a voluntary respondent in this review.4

On April 26, 2021, Commerce initiated 

on new subsidy allegations on two 

programs.5

Commerce tolled all deadlines in 

administrative reviews by 50 days on 

April 24, 2020,6 and by an additional 60 

days on July 22, 2020.7 On January 29, 

2021, Commerce extended the deadline 

for issuance of the preliminary results of 

this review by 120 days, until June 18, 

2021, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(h)(2).8

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.9 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included in the 

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 http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

frn/. 

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by this order is 

certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel 


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10See 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. 

11See, e.g., Certain Pasta from Italy: Final Results 

of the 13th (2008) Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review, 75 FR 37386, 37387 (June 

29, 2010). 

12See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel 

Plate from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 

Calendar Year 2018, 85 FR 84296 (December 28, 

2020) (CTL Plate from Korea 2018 Final). 

13See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the 

Republic of Turkey: Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review and 

Intent To Rescind the Review In Part; 2017, 85 FR 

3030 (January 17, 2020) unchanged in Steel 

Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the Republic of 

Turkey: Final Results and Partial Rescission of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2017, 

85 FR 42353 (July 14, 2020). 

14See CTL Plate from Korea 2018 Final. 

15 Id. 

16See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

17See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD 

Service Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension 

of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020) 

(Temporary Rule). 

18See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

19See Temporary Rule. 

20See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

plate. For a complete description of the 

scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this CVD 

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.10 For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Rate for Non-Selected Companies 

Under Review 

To determine the rate for companies 

not selected for individual examination, 

Commerce’s practice is to follow the 

instructions to calculate the all-others 

rate under section 705(c)(5) of the Act 

and weight average the net subsidy rates 

for the selected mandatory companies, 

excluding rates that are zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

available.11 In this review, we 

preliminarily calculated a de minimis 

subsidy rate for the sole mandatory 

respondent (i.e., Hyundai Steel) during 

the POR. In CVD proceedings, where the 

number of respondents being 

individually examined has been limited, 

Commerce has determined that a 

‘‘reasonable method’’ to use to 

determine the rate applicable to 

companies that were not individually 

examined when all the rates of selected 

mandatory respondents are zero or de 

minimis is to assign to the non-selected 

respondents the average of the most 

recently determined rates that are not 

zero, de minimis, or based entirely on 

facts available.12 However, if a nonselected respondent has its own 

calculated rate that is contemporaneous 

with or more recent than such previous 

rates, Commerce has found it 

appropriate to apply that calculated rate 

to the non-selected respondent, even 

when that rate is zero or de minimis.13

In the most recently completed 

administrative review of this order, we 

calculated a net subsidy rate of 0.28 

percent ad valorem for DSM. Therefore, 

consistent with Commerce’s practice, 

described above, we are assigning the 

rate of 0.28 percent ad valorem to DSM, 

based on the company’s rate calculated 

in the prior review.14

With regard to the two other 

remaining non-selected companies, for 

which an individual rate was not 

calculated, we are assigning the rate of 

0.50 percent ad valorem, which is the 

only above de minimis rate calculated in 

the most recently completed 

administrative review.15

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine the following 

net countervailable subsidy rates for the 

period January 1, 2019, through 

December 31, 2019: 

Company 

Net 

countervailable 

subsidy 

rate 

(percent) 

Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd ......... * 0.45 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd * 0.28 

BDP International ................. 0.50 

Sung Jin Steel Co., Ltd ........ 0.50 

* de minimis. 

Assessment Rate 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4)(i), Commerce has 

preliminarily assigned subsidy rates as 

indicated above. 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. 

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). 

Cash Deposit Rate 

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 

review. For all non-reviewed firms, we 

will instruct CBP to continue to collect 

cash deposits of estimated 

countervailing duties at the most recent 

company-specific or all-others rate 

applicable to the company, as 

appropriate. These cash deposit 

instructions, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose to 

parties to this proceeding the 

calculations performed in reaching the 

preliminary results within five days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register.16

Commerce intends to issue a postpreliminary analysis memorandum 

subsequent to the publication of this 

notice. Commerce will notify the parties 

to this proceeding of the deadlines for 

the submission of case and rebuttal 

briefs after the issuance of the postpreliminary analysis memorandum. 

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in case briefs, may be filed within seven 

days 17 after the time limit for filing case 

briefs. Parties who submit case or 

rebuttal briefs are requested to submit 

with each argument: (1) A statement of 

the issue; (2) a brief summary of the 

argument; and (3) a table of 

authorities.18 Note that Commerce has 

temporarily modified certain of its 

requirements for serving documents 

containing business proprietary 

information, until further notice.19

Interested parties who wish to request 

a hearing must do so within 30 days of 

publication of these preliminary results 

by submitting a written request to the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance using ACCESS.20 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. Issues 

raised in the hearing will be limited to 


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21 Id. 

22See 19 CFR 351.310. 

1See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Korea and the Republic of Turkey: Antidumping 

Duty Orders, 80 FR 75056 (December 1, 2015) (AD 

Orders). 

2See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Turkey: Countervailing Duty Order, 80 FR 75054 

(December 1, 2015) (CVD Order). 

3See Welded Line Pipe From Korea and Turkey; 

Institution of Five-Year Reviews, 85 FR 69354 

(November 2, 2020). 

4See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 85 

FR 69585 (November 3, 2020). 

5See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Korea and the Republic of Turkey: Final Results of 

the Expedited First Sunset Reviews of the 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 86 FR 12172 (March 2, 

2021), and accompanying Issues and Decision 

Memorandum (IDM); see also Welded Line Pipe 

From the Republic of Turkey: Final Results of the 

Expedited First Sunset Review of the Countervailing 

Duty Order, 86 FR 13526 (March 9, 2021), and 

accompanying IDM. 

6See Certain Welded Line Pipe from Korea and 

Turkey USITC Inv. Nos. 701–TA–525 and 731–TA– 

1260–1261 (Review), 86 FR 33356 (June 24, 2021); 

see also Certain Welded Line Pipe from Korea and 

Turkey USITC Inv. Nos. 701–TA–525 and 731–TA– 

1260–1261 (Review), USITC Pub. 5202 (June 2021). 

those raised in the respective case and 

rebuttal briefs.21 If a request for a 

hearing is made, Commerce intends to 

hold the hearing at a time and date to 

be determined.22 Parties should confirm 

the date and time of the hearing two 

days before the scheduled date. Parties 

are reminded that all briefs and hearing 

requests must be filed electronically 

using ACCESS and received 

successfully in their entirety by 5:00 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. 

Unless the deadline is extended 

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

Act, Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

the issues raised by parties in their 

comments, within 120 days after the 

date of publication of these preliminary 

results. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This administrative review and notice 

are issued and published in accordance 

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

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19 

CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: June 17, 2021. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting 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. Non-Selected Rate 

V. Scope of the Order 

VI. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–580–876, A–489–822, C–489–823] 

Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Korea and the Republic of Turkey: 

Continuation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: As a result of the 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) and the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) 

that revocation of the antidumping duty 

(AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) 

orders on welded line pipe from the 

Republic of Korea (Korea) and the 

Republic of Turkey (Turkey) would 

likely lead to continuation or recurrence 

of dumping, net countervailable 

subsidies, and material injury to an 

industry in the United States, 

Commerce is publishing a notice of 

continuation of these AD and CVD 

orders. 

DATES: Applicable June 30, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amaris Wade, Office II, AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3874. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 1, 2015, Commerce 

published the AD orders on welded line 

pipe from Korea and Turkey,1 and the 

CVD order on welded line pipe from 

Turkey.2 On November 2, 2020, the ITC 

instituted,3 and on November 3, 2020, 

Commerce initiated,4 the first five-year 

(sunset) reviews of the AD Orders and 

the CVD Order, pursuant to section 

751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act). As a result of its 

reviews, Commerce determined that 

revocation of the AD Orders would be 

likely to lead to continuation or 

recurrence of dumping, and revocation 

of the CVD Order would be likely to 

lead to continuation or recurrence of 

countervailable subsidies. Therefore, 

Commerce notified the ITC of the 

magnitude of the margins of dumping 

and the net subsidy rates likely to 

prevail should the AD Orders and the 

CVD Order be revoked.5

On June 24, 2021, the ITC published 

its determinations, pursuant to sections 

751(c) and 752(a) of the Act, that 

revocation of the AD Orders and the 

CVD Order would likely lead to 

continuation or recurrence of material 

injury to an industry in the United 

States within a reasonably foreseeable 

time.6

Scope of the Orders 

The scope of these orders is circular 

welded carbon and alloy steel (other 

than stainless steel) pipe of a kind used 

for oil or gas pipelines (welded line 

pipe), not more than 24 inches in 

nominal outside diameter, regardless of 

wall thickness, length, surface finish, 

end finish, or stenciling. Welded line 

pipe is normally produced to the 

American Petroleum Institute (API) 

specification 5L, but can be produced to 

comparable foreign specifications, to 

proprietary grades, or can be non-graded 

material. All pipe meeting the physical 

description set forth above, including 

multiple-stenciled pipe with an API or 

comparable foreign specification line 

pipe stencil is covered by the scope of 

these orders. 

The welded line pipe that is subject 

to these orders is currently classifiable 

in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 

the United States (HTSUS) under 

subheadings 7305.11.1030, 

7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 

7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 

7305.19.5000, 7306.19.1010, 

7306.19.1050, 7306.19.5110, and 

7306.19.5150. The subject merchandise 

may also enter in HTSUS 7305.11.1060 

and 7305.12.1060. While the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope of these 

orders is dispositive. 

Continuation of the Orders 

As a result of the determinations by 

Commerce and the ITC that revocation 

of the AD Orders and the CVD Order 

would likely lead to a continuation or 

a recurrence of dumping, 

countervailable subsidies, and material 

injury to an industry in the United 

States, pursuant to section 751(d)(2) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(a), 

Commerce hereby orders the 

continuation of the AD Orders and the 

CVD Order. U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection will continue to collect AD 

and CVD cash deposits at the rates in 

effect at the time of entry for all imports 

of subject merchandise. 

The effective date of the continuation 

of the AD Orders and the CVD Order 


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