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1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

19730, 189735 (April 8, 2020) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews in Response to Operational 

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

2020. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews,’’ dated July 21, 2020. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Cut-to-Length 

Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from the 

Republic of Korea: Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2019–2020,’’ dated January 

26, 2021. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Cut-to-Length 

Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from the 

Republic of Korea: Decision Memorandum for 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2019–2020,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

6See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 

‘‘Scope of the Order.’’ 

7See Initiation Notice, 85 FR at 19735. 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

9See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension of 

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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–580–836] 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate Products From the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2019–2020 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily finds that 

Hyundai Steel Company (Hyundai 

Steel) and three non-examined 

companies made sales of subject 

merchandise at less than normal value 

during the period of review (POR) 

February 1, 2019, through January 31, 

2020. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results of 

review. 

DATES: Applicable June 25, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael A. Romani, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office I, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0198. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 8, 2020, Commerce initiated 

the administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain cutto-length carbon-quality steel plate 

products (CTL plate) from the Republic 

of Korea (Korea).1

On April 24, 2020, Commerce tolled 

all deadlines in administrative reviews 

by 50 days, thereby tolling the deadline 

for the preliminary results of review.2

On July 21, 2020, Commerce tolled all 

deadlines in administrative reviews by 

an additional 60 days, thereby tolling 

the deadline for the preliminary results 

of review until February 18, 2020.3 On 

January 26, 2021, Commerce extended 

the time limit for issuing the 

preliminary results of this review by 120 

days, to no later than June 18, 2021.4

For a complete description of the events 

between the initiation of this review and 

these preliminary results, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.5

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the 

antidumping duty order are certain CTL 

plate from Korea. A full description of 

the scope of the order is contained in 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.6

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751 of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 

Export price and constructed export 

price are calculated in accordance with 

section 772 of the Act. Normal value is 

calculated in accordance with section 

773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

topics included in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is included in 

the appendix to this notice. The 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is made available 

to the public 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. In addition, 

the signed Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

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

Rates for Non-Examined Companies 

The statute and Commerce’s 

regulations do not address the 

establishment of a rate to be applied to 

companies not selected for examination 

when Commerce limits its examination 

in an administrative review pursuant to 

section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, 

Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of 

the Act, which provides instructions for 

calculating the all-others rate in a 

market economy investigation, for 

guidance when calculating the rate for 

companies which were not selected for 

individual examination in an 

administrative review. Under section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others 

rate is normally ‘‘an amount equal to the 

weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero or de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely {on the 

basis of facts available}.’’ 

In this review, we have preliminarily 

calculated a weighted-average dumping 

margin for Hyundai Steel Company 

(Hyundai Steel) that is not zero, de 

minimis, or determined entirely on the 

basis of facts available. Accordingly, 

Commerce preliminarily has assigned to 

the companies not individually 

examined, BDP International, Dongkuk 

Steel Mill Co., Ltd., and Sung Jin Steel 

Co., Ltd.,7 a margin of 0.68 percent 

based on Hyundai Steel’s calculated 

weighted-average dumping margin. 

Preliminary Results of the 

Administrative Review 

We preliminarily determine that the 

following weighted-average dumping 

margins exist for the respondents for the 

period February 1, 2019, through 

January 31, 2020: 

Producer/exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd .. 0.68 

Hyundai Steel Company ....... 0.68 

BDP International ................. 0.68 

Sung Jin Steel Co., Ltd ........ 0.68 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed for these preliminary results 

to the parties within five days after 

public announcement of the preliminary 

results in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), 

interested parties may submit case briefs 

not 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 

seven days after the date for filing case 

briefs.8 Commerce has modified certain 

of its requirements for serving 

documents containing business 

proprietary information until further 

notice.9 Parties who submit case briefs 

or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are 

encouraged to submit with each 

argument: (1) A statement of the issue, 


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10See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

11See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

12See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

13 In these preliminary results, Commerce applied 

the assessment rate calculation method adopted in 

Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the 

Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Duty 

Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 

(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification for 

Reviews). 

14See Final Modification for Reviews, 77 FR 8103; 

see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

15See, e.g., Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 

Steel Plate Products from the Republic of Korea: 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2016–2017, 83 FR 32629, 32630 (July 13, 

2018). 

(2) a brief summary of the argument, 

and (3) a table of authorities.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. Requests should contain: (1) 

The party’s name, address, and 

telephone number; (2) the number of 

participants; and (3) a list of issues to be 

discussed. Issues raised in the hearing 

will be limited to those raised in the 

respective case briefs. 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 

the date, time, and location of the 

hearing two days before the scheduled 

date. An electronically filed hearing 

request must be received successfully in 

its entirety by Commerce’s electronic 

records system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time within 30 days after the 

date of publication of this notice.11

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

the issues raised in any written briefs, 

not later than 120 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuing the final results, 

Commerce will determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.12 If a respondent’s weightedaverage dumping margin is above de 

minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final 

results of this review, we intend to 

calculate an importer-specific 

assessment rate based on the ratio of the 

total amount of dumping calculated for 

each importer’s examined sales and the 

total entered value of the sales in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).13

If the respondent’s weighted-average 

dumping margin or an importer-specific 

assessment rate is zero or de minimis in 

the final results of this review, we will 

instruct CBP not to assess duties on any 

of its entries in accordance with the 

Final Modification for Reviews.14 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 deposits of estimated 

duties, where applicable. 

For entries of subject merchandise 

during the POR produced by Hyundai 

Steel for which it did not know its 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate these entries at the all-others 

rate if there is no rate for the 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction. 

For the companies identified above 

that were not selected for individual 

examination, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate entries at the rates listed 

above. 

We intend 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 Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements for estimated antidumping 

duties will be effective upon publication 

of the notice of final results of this 

review for all shipments of CTL plate 

from Korea entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication as provided by 

section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for companies subject to 

this review will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established in the final results of the 

review; (2) for merchandise exported by 

companies not covered in this review 

but covered in a prior segment of this 

proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 

continue to be the company-specific rate 

published for the most recent period; (3) 

if the exporter is not a firm covered in 

this review, a prior review, or the 

original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 

investigation but the producer is, then 

the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recently 

completed segment for the producer of 

the merchandise; and (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other producers or 

exporters will continue to be 0.98 

percent,15 the all-others rate established 

in the LTFV investigation, adjusted for 

the export-subsidy rate in the 

companion countervailing duty 

investigation. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

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. 

Administrative Protective Orders 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). 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 violation subject to sanctions. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

these results in accordance with 

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

and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: June 15, 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. Scope of the Order 

IV. Rates for Non-Examined Companies 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

VI. Currency Conversion 

VII. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2021–13621 Filed 6–24–21; 8:45 am] 

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