[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50325-50326]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19442]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-877]


Stainless Steel Flanges From India: Notice of Court Decision Not 
in Harmony With the Final Determination of Antidumping Investigation; 
Notice of Amended Final Determination

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

SUMMARY: On August 20, 2021, the U.S. Court of International Trade 
(CIT) issued its final judgment in Echjay Forgings Private Limited v. 
United States, Consol. Court no. 18-00230, sustaining the Department of 
Commerce (Commerce)'s remand redetermination pertaining to the 
antidumping duty (AD) investigation of stainless steel flanges 
(flanges) from India covering the period of investigation, July 1, 
2016, through June 30, 2017. Commerce is notifying the public that the 
CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final 
determination in that investigation, and that Commerce is amending the 
final determination and the resulting AD order with respect to the 
dumping margin assigned to Echjay Forgings Private Limited (Echjay) and 
the ``all other'' companies.

DATES: Applicable August 30, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Maciuba, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482- 0213.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 16, 2018, Commerce published its Final Determination in 
the AD investigation of flanges from India.\1\ Commerce found that 
Echjay, along with Echjay Industries Private Limited (EIPL), Echjay 
Forgings Industry Private Limited (EFIPL), and Spire Industries Private 
Limited (Spire), constituted a single entity. Having collapsed the 
companies, Commerce requested that Echjay provide information on behalf 
of the constituent companies of the collapsed entity. Echjay did not 
provide such information. Therefore, Commerce treated Echjay as 
noncooperative and assigned Echjay a margin based on facts available, 
with adverse inferences (AFA). Specifically, Commerce assigned Echjay a 
dumping margin of 145.25 percent and a cash deposit rate of 140.39 
percent, accounting for an export subsidy offset based on the parallel 
countervailing duty (CVD) investigation.\2\ Commerce subsequently 
published the AD order on flanges from India.\3\
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    \1\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Final Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative 
Critical Circumstance Determination, 83 FR 40745, 40746 (August 15, 
2018) (Final Determination).
    \2\ Id., 83 FR 40746.
    \3\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Antidumping Duty 
Order, 83 FR 50639 (October 9, 2018).
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    Echjay appealed Commerce's Final Determination. On October 8, 2020, 
the CIT remanded the Final Determination to Commerce, concluding that 
Commerce's finding of affiliation and subsequent decision to collapse 
Echjay with EIPL, EFIPL and Spire were unsupported by substantial 
evidence.\4\
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    \4\ See Echjay Forgings Private Limited v. United States, 475 F. 
Supp. 3d 1350 (CIT 2020).
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    In its remand redetermination, issued in February 2021, Commerce 
revisited its prior collapsing determination and concluded that it was 
not appropriate to treat Echjay, EIPL, EFIPL, and Spire as a single 
entity. As a result, Commerce also revisited its concomitant 
application of AFA in determining Echjay's weighted-average dumping 
margin and calculated a revised dumping margin for the company.\5\ 
Finally, in light of Echjay's revised margin, and the method used in 
the investigation for determining the all-others rate, we calculated a 
revised all-others rate of 7.00 percent. The CIT

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sustained Commerce's final redetermination.\6\
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    \5\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court 
Remand, Echjay Forgings Private Limited v. United States, Consol. 
Court No. 18-00230, Slip Op 20-140 (February 17, 2021).
    \6\ See Echjay Forgings Private Limited v. United States, 
Consol. Court No. 18-00230, Slip. Op. 21-105 (CIT August 20, 2021).
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Timken Notice

    In its decision in Timken,\7\ as clarified by Diamond Sawblades,\8\ 
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that, pursuant to 
sections 516A(c) and (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), Commerce must publish a notice of court decision that is not ``in 
harmony'' with a Commerce determination and must suspend liquidation of 
entries pending a ``conclusive'' court decision. The CIT's August 20, 
2021, judgment constitutes a final decision of the CIT that is not in 
harmony with Commerce's Final Determination. Thus, this notice is 
published in fulfillment of the publication requirements of Timken.
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    \7\ See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 
1990) (Timken).
    \8\ See Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers Coalition v. United 
States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond Sawblades).
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Amended Final Determination

    Because there is now a final court judgment, Commerce is amending 
its Final Determination as follows:
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    \9\ Commerce reduced Echjay's dumping margin by the ad valorem 
export subsidy rate (4.87 percent) found in the companion CVD 
investigation. See Final Determination, 83 FR 40746.
    \10\ We calculated this rate by offsetting the weighted-average 
margin determined for the ``all others'' companies of 11.87 percent 
by the export subsidies rate (4.87 percent) found in the companion 
CVD investigation.

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                                                       Dumping    Cash
                       Company                         margin    deposit
                                                         (%)    rate (%)
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Echjay Forgings Private Limited.....................      4.58  \9\ 0.00
All Others..........................................     11.87      \10\
                                                                    7.00
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    Because there is a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there have 
been final results published in a subsequent administrative review,\11\ 
we will not issue revised cash deposit instructions to U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) for Echjay. Commerce will issue revised all-
others cash deposit instructions to CBP.
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    \11\ See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2019, 86 FR 47619 
(August 26, 2021).
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Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
516A(c) and (e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: September 2, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2021-19442 Filed 9-7-21; 8:45 am]
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