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1See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review, 85 FR 47167 

(August 4, 2020). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

63081 (October 6, 2020). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Light-Walled Rectangular 

Pipe and Tube from the People’s Republic of China: 

Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated 

April 15, 2021. 

4For a complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube 

from the People’s Republic of China: Decision 

Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the 

2019–2020 Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review (Preliminary Decision Memorandum) dated 

concurrently with this notice. 

5See Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value: Sparklers from the People’s Republic of 

China, 56 FR 20588 (May 6, 1991) (Sparklers). 

6See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide from the 

People’s Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2, 

1994) (Silicon Carbide). 

7See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement 

of Change in Department Practice for Respondent 

Selection in Antidumping Duty Proceedings and 

Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy 

Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 

FR 65963 (November 4, 2013). 

8See Order, 84 FR at 19036. 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). 

10See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–914] 

Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and 

Tube From the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Results of the 

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 

Hangzhou Ailong Metal Products Co., 

Ltd. (Ailong) made sales of subject 

merchandise at prices below normal 

value (NV). The period of review (POR) 

is August 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable September 7, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Hanna, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0835. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This administrative review is being 

conducted in accordance with section 

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

amended (the Act). On August 4, 2020, 

Commerce notified interested parties of 

the opportunity to request an 

administrative review of orders, 

findings, or suspended investigations 

with anniversaries in August 2020, 

including the antidumping duty (AD) 

order on light-walled rectangular pipe 

and tube (LWRPT) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China).1 On October 

6, 2020, Commerce published a notice 

initiating an AD administrative review 

of LWRPT from China covering one 

company, Ailong, for the POR.2 On 

April 15, 2021, Commerce extended the 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this review by a total of 120 days, to 

August 31, 2021.3

During the course of this review, 

Ailong responded to Commerce’s initial 

and supplemental questionnaires. Nucor 

Tubular Products, Inc. (Nucor), the 

petitioner, commented on certain 

responses. For details regarding the 

events that occurred subsequent to the 

initiation of the review, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to this order 

is certain welded carbon quality lightwalled steel pipe and tube, of 

rectangular (including square) cross 

section, having a wall thickness of less 

than 4 mm.4 For a full description of the 

scope, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Separate Rate Status 

Based on the criteria established by 

Sparklers 5 and Silicon Carbide,6

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the information placed on the 

record by Ailong demonstrates an 

absence of de jure and de facto 

government control over its export 

activities. Therefore, we have 

preliminarily granted Ailong separate 

rate status. For details regarding our 

analysis, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

China-Wide Entity 

Commerce’s policy regarding 

conditional review of the China-wide 

entity applies to this administrative 

review.7 Under this policy, the Chinawide entity will not be under review 

unless a party specifically requests, or 

Commerce self-initiates, a review of the 

entity. Because no party requested a 

review of the China-wide entity in this 

review, the entity is not under review 

and the weighted-average dumping 

margin determined for the China-wide 

entity (i.e., 255.07 percent) is not subject 

to change as a result of this review.8 For 

additional information, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) 

of the Act. We calculated export prices 

and constructed export prices in 

accordance with section 772 of the Act. 

Because China is a non-market economy 

(NME) country within the meaning of 

section 771(18) of the Act, we calculated 

NV in accordance with section 773(c) of 

the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying the 

preliminary results of review, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum, 

which is hereby adopted by 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/. A list of sections in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is in the 

appendix to this notice. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

We are assigning the following 

weighted-average dumping margin to 

the firm listed below for the period 

August 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020: 

Producers/exporters 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Hangzhou Ailong Metal 

Products Co., Ltd. (Ailong) 157.40 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose to 

parties to the proceeding the 

calculations performed for these 

preliminary results of review 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 

to Commerce no later than 30 days after 

the date of publication of these 

preliminary results of review in the 

Federal Register.9 Rebuttal briefs may 

be filed with Commerce no later than 

seven days after case briefs are due and 

may respond only to arguments raised 

in the case briefs.10 Parties who submit 

case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding are encouraged to submit 

with each argument: (1) A statement of 


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

12 Id. 

13See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing 

requirements). 

14 Id.; Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; 

Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR 

39263 (July 6, 2011). 

15 Id. 

16See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD 

Service Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension 

of Effective Period, 85 FR 29615 (May 18, 2020); 

and Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension of 

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

17See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

18We applied the assessment rate calculation 

method adopted in Antidumping Proceedings: 

Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain 

Antidumping Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 

FR 8101 (February 14, 2012). 

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

20 Id. 

21See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 22See Non-Market Economy Antidumping 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 

FR 65694 (October 24, 2011), for a full discussion 

of this practice. 

the issue; (2) a brief summary of the 

argument; and (3) a table of 

authorities.11 A table of contents, list of 

authorities used, and an executive 

summary of issues should accompany 

any briefs submitted to Commerce. The 

summary should be limited to five pages 

total, including footnotes.12 Case and 

rebuttal briefs should be filed using 

ACCESS and must be served on 

interested parties.13

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. Requests for a hearing 

should contain: (1) The requesting 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number; (2) the number of individuals 

associated with the requesting party that 

will attend the hearing and whether any 

of those individuals is a foreign 

national; and (3) a list of the issues the 

party intends to discuss at the hearing. 

Oral arguments at the hearing will be 

limited to issues raised in the briefs. If 

a request for a hearing is made, 

Commerce will announce the date and 

time of the hearing. Parties should 

confirm by telephone the date and time 

of the hearing two days before the 

scheduled hearing date. 

All submissions, with limited 

exceptions, must be filed electronically 

using ACCESS.14 An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by Commerce’s electronic 

records system, ACCESS, by 5 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) on the due date.15

Note that Commerce has temporarily 

modified certain of its requirements for 

serving documents containing business 

proprietary information until further 

notice.16 Unless otherwise extended, 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

which will include the results of its 

analysis of issues raised in any briefs, 

within 120 days of publication of these 

preliminary results of review in the 

Federal Register, pursuant to section 

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

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the amended final 

results of review, Commerce will 

determine, and U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries covered by the amended final 

results of review.17 Commerce intends 

to issue assessment instructions to CBP 

no earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of the amended 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). 

We will calculate importer/customerspecific assessment rates equal to the 

ratio of the total amount of dumping 

calculated for examined sales to a 

particular importer/customer to the total 

entered value of those sales, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).18

Where the respondent reported reliable 

entered values, Commerce intends to 

calculate importer/customer-specific ad 

valorem assessment rates by dividing 

the total amount of dumping calculated 

for all reviewed U.S. sales to the 

importer/customer by the total entered 

value of the merchandise sold to the 

importer/customer.19 Where the 

respondent did not report entered 

values, Commerce will calculate 

importer/customer-specific assessment 

rates by dividing the total amount of 

dumping calculated for all reviewed 

U.S. sales to the importer/customer by 

the total quantity of those sales. 

Commerce will calculate an estimated 

ad valorem importer/customer-specific 

assessment rate to determine whether 

the per-unit assessment rate is de 

minimis; however, Commerce will use 

the per-unit assessment rate where 

entered values were not reported.20

Where an importer/customer-specific ad 

valorem assessment rate is not zero or 

de minimis, Commerce will instruct 

CBP to collect the appropriate duties at 

the time of liquidation. Where either the 

respondent’s ad valorem weightedaverage dumping margin is zero or de 

minimis, or an importer/customerspecific ad valorem assessment rate is 

zero or de minimis,21 Commerce will 

instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 

entries without regard to antidumping 

duties. 

Pursuant to Commerce’s refinement to 

its practice, for sales that were not 

reported in the U.S. sales database 

submitted by a respondent individually 

examined during this review, Commerce 

will instruct CBP to liquidate the entry 

of such merchandise at the dumping 

margin assigned to the China-wide 

entity.22 Additionally, where Commerce 

determines that an exporter under 

review had no shipments of subject 

merchandise to the United States during 

the POR, any suspended entries of 

subject merchandise that entered under 

that exporter’s CBP case number during 

the POR will be liquidated at the 

dumping margin assigned to the Chinawide entity. 

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final results 

of this review shall be the basis for the 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise covered by the 

final results of this review and for future 

deposits of estimated antidumping 

duties, where applicable. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of light-walled rectangular 

pipe and tube from China entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the notice of the final 

results of this administrative review in 

the Federal Register, as provided for by 

section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For 

companies granted a separate rate in the 

final results of this review, the cash 

deposit rate will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin 

established in the final results of this 

review for the company (except, if the 

rate de minimis, then a cash deposit rate 

of zero will be required); (2) for 

previously investigated or reviewed 

China and non-China exporters not 

listed above that received a separate rate 

in a prior segment of this proceeding, 

the cash deposit rate will continue to be 

the existing exporter-specific rate; (3) for 

all China exporters of subject 

merchandise that have not been found 

to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash 

deposit rate will be the rate for the 

China-wide entity, which is 255.07 

percent; and (4) for all non-China 

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have not received their own rate, the 

cash deposit rate will be the rate 

applicable to China exporter(s) that 

supplied that non-China exporter. These 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also 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 and/or countervailing 

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 and/or countervailing 

duties occurred and the subsequent 

assessment of double antidumping 

duties. 

Notification to Interest Parties 

These preliminary results of 

administrative review are issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

751(a)(l) and 777(i)(l) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213(h)(1). 

Dated: August 31, 2021. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Extension of the Preliminary Results 

IV. Scope of the Order 

V. Discussion of Methodology 

VI. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2021–19191 Filed 9–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; NOAA Financial Assistance 

Performance Progress Reports 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on May 21, 

2021 (86 FR 27561—0648–0718) and 

June 8, 2021 (86 FR 30444—0648–0472) 

during a 60-day comment period. This 

notice allows for an additional 30 days 

for public comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration, 

Commerce. 

Title: NOAA Financial Assistance 

Performance Progress Reports. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0718. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

[Revision of a currently approved 

information collection]. 

Number of Respondents: 445. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Performance Progress Reports: MDP, 

CRCP, RC Initial Report—10 hours each; 

RC Semi-Annual PPR—5.5 hours; RC 

Administrative Progress Reports: 

Initial—6 hours; Semi-Annual—2.75 

hours; and Final—5.5 hours. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 4,545. 

Needs and Uses: This is a request for 

revision and extension of a currently 

approved information collection. The 

revision requests approval to merge 

OMB Control Number 0648–0472 

(NOAA Community-based Restoration 

Program Progress Reports) into 0648– 

0718. Upon OMB approval, control 

number 0648–0472 will be 

discontinued. 0648–0718 is also being 

revised to add a Performance Progress 

Report for the Coral Reef Conservation 

Program (CRCP) and revise the Marine 

Data Program form to add an optional 

marine debris removal data collection 

page. The title of this information 

collection will be changed from NOAA 

Marine Debris Program Performance 

Progress Report to NOAA Financial 

Assistance Performance Progress 

Reports to encompass all collections of 

information under the control number. 

This information collection assists the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA) in the 

administration and evaluation of 

financial assistance awards made by the 

Coral Reef Conservation Program 

(CRCP), the NOAA Restoration Center 

(NOAA RC), and NOAA Marine Debris 

Program. Every year each of these 

programs support a variety of initiatives 

specific to their individual 

authorizations and programmatic 

mandates. This support is made 

substantially through grants and 

cooperative agreements, the terms and 

conditions of which require regular 

progress reporting and communication 

of project accomplishments to the 

agency. This information collection 

identifies what is to be provided in 

these reports, and aims to assist 

recipients in fulfilling their 

responsibilities in meeting interim and 

final progress report requirements. This 

information is also necessary for NOAA 

to effectively oversee the expenditure of 

public funds awarded through these 

programs, to ensure both costeffectiveness and programmatic goals 

are met. 

The NOAA RC provides technical and 

financial assistance to identify, develop, 

implement, and evaluate communitydriven habitat restoration projects. 

Awards are made as grants or 

cooperative agreements under the 

authority of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act of 2006, 16 U.S.C. 1891a and the 

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, 16 

U.S.C. 661, as amended by the 

Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970. 

The NOAA CRCP operates under 

authorization from the Coral Reef 

Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 

6401 et seq.). This Act was enacted on 

December 14, 2000, to preserve, sustain 

and restore the condition of coral reef 

ecosystems; to promote the wise 

management and sustainable use of 

coral reef ecosystems to benefit local 

communities and the Nation; to develop 

sound scientific information on the 

condition of coral reef ecosystems and 

the threats to such ecosystems; to assist 

in the preservation of coral reefs by 

supporting conservation programs, 

including projects that involve affected 

local communities and nongovernmental organizations; to provide 

financial resources for those programs 

and projects; and to establish a formal 

mechanism for the collecting and 

allocating of monetary donations from 

the private sector to be used for coral 

reef conservation projects. 

The NOAA Marine Debris Program 

(MDP) supports national and 

international efforts to research, 

prevent, and reduce the impacts of 

marine debris. The MDP uses 

partnerships with state and local 

agencies, tribes, non-governmental 

organizations, academia, and industry to 

investigate and solve the problems that 

stem from marine debris through 

research, prevention, and reduction 

activities, in order to protect and 

conserve our nation’s marine 

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and to ensure navigation safety. In large 

part, these partnerships are made 

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contracts, MOUs or are simply informal 

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