Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 91 / Wednesday, May 11, 2022 / Notices 28801 

1See Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, 

Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Initiation of 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 86 FR 60205 

(November 1, 2021) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, 

Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Postponement 

of Preliminary Determinations in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigations, 87 FR 9034 (February 17, 

2022). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determinations of Sales 

at less Than Fair Value and Critical Circumstances 

in Investigation of Oil Country Tubular Goods from 

Argentina,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

5See Initiation Notice, 86 FR at 60205–60206. 

U.S.C. App.), on July 14, 2010. The 

REEEAC was re-chartered most recently 

on June 5, 2020. The REEEAC provides 

the Secretary of Commerce with advice 

from the private sector on the 

development and administration of 

programs and policies to expand the 

export competitiveness of U.S. 

renewable energy and energy efficiency 

products and services. More information 

about the Committee, including the list 

of appointed members for this charter, 

is published online at http://trade.gov/ 

reeeac. 

On May 24, 2022, the REEEAC will 

hold the ninth meeting of its current 

charter term. The Committee, with 

officials from the Department of 

Commerce and other agencies, will 

discuss major issues affecting the 

competitiveness of the U.S. renewable 

energy and energy efficiency industries, 

covering four broad themes: Trade 

promotion and market access, global 

decarbonization, clean energy supply 

chains, and technology and innovation. 

The Committee will provide an 

overview of its recommendations to the 

relevant U.S. Government officials from 

the Trade Promotion Coordinating 

Committee agencies. To receive an 

agenda please make a request to 

REEEAC DFO Cora Dickson per above. 

The agenda will be made available no 

later than May 18, 2022. 

The Committee meeting will be open 

to the public and will be accessible to 

people with disabilities. All guests are 

required to register in advance by the 

deadline identified under the DATE

caption. Requests for auxiliary aids 

must be submitted by the registration 

deadline. Last minute requests will be 

accepted but may not be possible to fill. 

A limited amount of time before the 

close of the meeting will be available for 

oral comments from members of the 

public attending the meeting. To 

accommodate as many speakers as 

possible, the time for public comments 

will be limited to two to five minutes 

per person (depending on number of 

public participants). Individuals 

wishing to reserve speaking time during 

the meeting must contact REEEAC DFO 

Cora Dickson using the contact 

information above and submit a brief 

statement of the general nature of the 

comments, as well as the name and 

address of the proposed participant, by 

5:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday May 18, 

2022. If the number of registrants 

requesting to make statements is greater 

than can be reasonably accommodated 

during the meeting, the International 

Trade Administration may conduct a 

lottery to determine the speakers. 

Speakers are requested to submit a copy 

of their oral comments by email to Cora 

Dickson for distribution to the 

participants in advance of the meeting. 

Any member of the public may 

submit written comments concerning 

the REEEAC’s affairs at any time before 

or after the meeting. Comments may be 

submitted via email to the Renewable 

Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory 

Committee, c/o: Cora Dickson, DFO, 

Office of Energy and Environmental 

Industries, U.S. Department of 

Commerce; Cora.Dickson@trade.gov. To 

be considered during the meeting, 

public comments must be transmitted to 

the REEEAC prior to the meeting. As 

such, written comments must be 

received no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on 

Wednesday May 18, 2022. Comments 

received after that date will be 

distributed to the members but may not 

be considered at the meeting. 

Copies of REEEAC meeting minutes 

will be available within 30 days 

following the meeting. 

Dated: May 6, 2022. 

Man K. Cho, 

Deputy Director, Office of Energy and 

Environmental Industries. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–357–824] 

Oil Country Tubular Goods From 

Argentina: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determinations of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Critical Circumstances, 

Postponement of Final Determination, 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that oil country tubular goods (OCTG) 

from Argentina are being, or are likely 

to be, sold in the United States at less 

than fair value (LTFV). The period of 

investigation (POI) is October 1, 2020, 

through September 30, 2021. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on this 

preliminary determination. 

DATES: Applicable May 11, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dmitry Vladimirov, 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) 482–0665. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this LTFV 

investigation on November 1, 2021.1 On 

February 17, 2022, Commerce 

postponed the preliminary 

determination of this investigation until 

May 4, 2022.2

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of 

sections in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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 Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are OCTG from Argentina. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 in the 

Initiation Notice Commerce set aside a 

period of time for parties to raise issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).5

Certain interested parties commented on 

the scope of the investigation as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. For a 

summary of the product coverage 

comments and rebuttal responses 

submitted to the record for this 

investigation and accompanying 

discussion and analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Preliminary 


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6See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigations of Oil Country Tubular Goods from 

Argentina, Mexico, and the Russian Federation and 

Countervailing Duty Investigations of Oil Country 

Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea, and the 

Russian Federation: Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum,’’ dated March 7, 2022 (Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum). 

7Case briefs, other written comments, and 

rebuttal briefs submitted by parties in response to 

this preliminary LTFV determination should not 

include scope-related issues. See Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, and ‘‘Public Comment’’ 

section of this notice. 

8See Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum 

at 4. 

9See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Oil Country Tubular Goods from 

Argentina: Notification of Intent to Conduct Virtual 

Verification,’’ dated March 16, 2022. 

10Case briefs, other written comments, and 

rebuttal briefs submitted by parties in response to 

this preliminary LTFV determination should not 

include scope-related issues. The scope case briefs 

deadline expired on April 13, 2022. See Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum at 3–4; see also Oil 

Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea: 

Preliminary Negative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Alignment of Final 

Determination With Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 87 FR 14248 (March 14, 2022); and 

Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Russian 

Federation: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing 

Duty Determination, Preliminary Negative Critical 

Circumstances Determination, and Alignment of 

Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 87 FR 14249 (March 14, 2022). 

Scope Decision Memorandum.6 As 

discussed in the Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, Commerce 

preliminarily modified the scope 

language that appeared in the Initiation 

Notice. 

In the Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum Commerce established 

the deadline for parties to submit scope 

case briefs.7 Commerce did not receive 

any comments from interested parties 

regarding the scope as stated in the 

Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum prior to the deadline. As 

explained in the Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, there will be no 

further opportunity for comments on 

scope-related issues.8

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Commerce calculated 

constructed export prices in accordance 

with section 772(b) of the Act. Normal 

value (NV) is calculated in accordance 

with section 773 of the Act. For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying the preliminary 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) and 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provide that in 

the preliminary determination 

Commerce shall determine an estimated 

all-others rate for all exporters and 

producers not individually examined. 

The rate shall be equal to the weighted 

average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero and de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated an estimated weightedaverage dumping margin above de 

minimis for the sole mandatory 

respondent, Siderca S.A.I.C. (Siderca). 

Because Siderca is the sole mandatory 

respondent for which Commerce 

calculated a weighted-average dumping 

margin, Commerce assigned Siderca’s 

preliminary margin to all other 

producers and exporters of the 

merchandise under consideration. 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances 

In accordance with section 733(e) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.206, Commerce 

preliminarily finds that critical 

circumstances exist for all companies in 

Argentina. For a full description of the 

methodology and results of Commerce’s 

critical circumstances analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist in this 

investigation: 

Exporter or producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Siderca S.A.I.C ........................... 76.43 

All Others .................................... 76.43 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, we will direct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of all entries of OCTG from 

Argentina, as described in Appendix I, 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Further, pursuant to section 

733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP 

to require a cash deposit equal to the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin or the estimated all-others rate, 

as follows: (1) The cash deposit rate for 

the respondent listed in the table above 

is the company-specific estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin 

calculated in this preliminary 

determination; (2) if the exporter is not 

the respondent identified in the table 

above, but the producer is, then the cash 

deposit rate is the company-specific 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin established for that producer of 

the subject merchandise in the table 

above; and (3) the cash deposit rate for 

all other producers and exporters is the 

‘‘All-Others’’ estimated weightedaverage dumping margin listed in the 

table above. 

Further, section 733(e)(2) of the Act 

provides that, in the event of an 

affirmative determination of critical 

circumstances, any suspension of 

liquidation shall apply to unliquidated 

entries of merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the later of: (a) 

The date which is 90 days before the 

date on which the suspension of 

liquidation was first ordered; or (b) the 

date on which notice of initiation of the 

investigation was published. As noted 

above, Commerce preliminarily finds 

that critical circumstances exist for 

imports of OCTG from Argentina 

produced and exported by all 

companies. In accordance with 

733(e)(2)(A), suspension of liquidation 

shall apply to unliquidated entries of 

subject merchandise for shipments that 

are entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date which is 90 days before the 

publication of this notice, the date 

suspension of liquidation is first 

ordered. These suspension of 

liquidation instructions will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

preliminary calculations and related 

analysis to interested parties within five 

days of any public announcement of the 

preliminary determination 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). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination.9

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

on non-scope issues may be submitted 

to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance.10

Interested parties will be notified of the 

timeline for the submission of such case 

briefs and written comments at a later 

date. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 


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11See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 12See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD 

Service Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension 

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

13See Siderca’s Letter, ‘‘Oil Country Tubular 

Goods from Argentina: Request for Postponement of 

Final Determination and Extension of Provisional 

Measures Period,’’ dated April 27, 2022. 

14See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Oil Country Tubular Goods from 

Argentina: Respondent Selection,’’ dated November 

10, 2021. 

15See also 19 CFR 351.210(e). 

raised in case briefs, may be submitted 

no later than seven days after the 

deadline date for case briefs.11 Pursuant 

to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), 

parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this investigation are 

encouraged to submit with each 

argument: (1) A statement of the issue; 

(2) a brief summary of the argument; 

and (3) a table of authorities. Commerce 

has modified certain of its requirements 

for serving documents containing 

business proprietary information until 

further notice.12

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 

from the requesting party that will 

attend the hearing, including whether 

any individuals are foreign nationals; 

and (3) a list of the issues the party 

intends to discuss at the hearing. 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 by telephone the date, time, and 

location of the hearing two days before 

the scheduled date. 

Postponement of Final Determination 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides 

that a final determination may be 

postponed until not later than 135 days 

after the date of the publication of the 

preliminary determination in the 

Federal Register if, in the event of an 

affirmative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by exporters who account for a 

significant proportion of exports of the 

subject merchandise, or in the event of 

a negative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by the petitioner. Section 19 CFR 

351.210(e)(2) of Commerce’s regulations 

requires that a request by exporters for 

postponement of the final determination 

be accompanied by a request for 

extension of provisional measures from 

a four-month period to a period not 

more than six months in duration. 

On April 27, 2022, pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.210(b) and (e), Siderca 

requested that, contingent upon an 

affirmative preliminary determination of 

sales at LTFV, Commerce postpone the 

final determination in this investigation 

up to 135 days after publication of this 

notice and that the provisional measures 

be extended to a period not to exceed 

six months.13

In accordance with section 

735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(2)(ii), because (1) the 

preliminary determination is 

affirmative; (2) the requesting exporter 

accounts for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise; 14

and (3) no compelling reasons for denial 

exist, Commerce is postponing the final 

determination in this investigation and 

extending the provisional measures 

from a four-month period to a period 

not greater than six months. 

Accordingly, Commerce will make its 

final determination no later than 135 

days after the date of publication of this 

preliminary determination in the 

Federal Register, pursuant to section 

735(a)(2) of the Act.15

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If 

Commerce’s final determination is 

affirmative, then the ITC will determine 

before the later of 120 days after the date 

of this preliminary determination or 45 

days after the final determination 

whether imports of OCTG from 

Argentina into the United States are 

materially injuring, or threaten material 

injury to, the U.S. industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This preliminary determination is 

issued and published in accordance 

with sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: May 4, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is certain OCTG, which are 

hollow steel products of circular crosssection, including oil well casing and tubing, 

of iron (other than case iron) or steel (both 

carbon and alloy), whether seamless or 

welded, regardless of end finish (e.g., 

whether or not plain end, threaded, or 

threaded and coupled) whether or not 

conforming to American Petroleum Institute 

(API) or non-API specifications, whether 

finished (including limited service OCTG 

products) or unfinished (including green 

tubes and limited service OCTG products), 

whether or not thread protectors are attached. 

The scope of this investigation also covers 

OCTG coupling stock. 

Subject merchandise includes material 

matching the above description that has been 

finished, packaged, or otherwise processed in 

a third country, including by performing any 

heat treatment, cutting, upsetting, threading, 

coupling, or any other finishing, packaging, 

or processing that would not otherwise 

remove the merchandise from the scope of 

the investigation if performed in the country 

of manufacture of the OCTG. 

Excluded from the scope of the 

investigation are: casing, tubing, or coupling 

stock containing 10.5 percent or more by 

weight of chromium; drill pipe; unattached 

couplings; and unattached thread protectors. 

The merchandise subject to this 

investigation is currently classified in the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS) under item numbers: 

7304.29.1010, 7304.29.1020, 7304.29.1030, 

7304.29.1040, 7304.29.1050, 7304.29.1060, 

7304.29.1080, 7304.29.2010, 7304.29.2020, 

7304.29.2030, 7304.29.2040, 7304.29.2050, 

7304.29.2060, 7304.29.2080, 7304.29.3110, 

7304.29.3120, 7304.29.3130, 7304.29.3140, 

7304.29.3150, 7304.29.3160, 7304.29.3180, 

7304.29.4110, 7304.29.4120, 7304.29.4130, 

7304.29.4140, 7304.29.4150, 7304.29.4160, 

7304.29.4180, 7304.29.5015, 7304.29.5030, 

7304.29.5045, 7304.29.5060, 7304.29.5075, 

7304.29.6115, 7304.29.6130, 7304.29.6145, 

7304.29.6160, 7304.29.6175, 7305.20.2000, 

7305.20.4000, 7305.20.6000, 7305.20.8000, 

7306.29.1030, 7306.29.1090, 7306.29.2000, 

7306.29.3100, 7306.29.4100, 7306.29.6010, 

7306.29.6050, 7306.29.8110, and 

7306.29.8150. 

The merchandise subject to this 

investigation may also enter under the 

following HTSUS item numbers: 

7304.39.0024, 7304.39.0028, 7304.39.0032, 

7304.39.0036, 7304.39.0040, 7304.39.0044, 

7304.39.0048, 7304.39.0052, 7304.39.0056, 

7304.39.0062, 7304.39.0068, 7304.39.0072, 

7304.39.0076, 7304.39.0080, 7304.59.6000, 

7304.59.8015, 7304.59.8020, 7304.59.8025, 

7304.59.8030, 7304.59.8035, 7304.59.8040, 

7304.59.8045, 7304.59.8050, 7304.59.8055, 

7304.59.8060, 7304.59.8065, 7304.59.8070, 

7304.59.8080, 7305.31.4000, 7305.31.6090, 

7306.30.5055, 7306.30.5090, 7306.50.5050, 

and 7306.50.5070. 

The HTSUS subheadings and 

specifications above are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes only. The 

written description of the scope of this 

investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II—List of Sections in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope of Investigation 


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1See Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, 

Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Initiation of 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 86 FR 60205 

(November 1, 2021) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, 

Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Postponement 

of Preliminary Determinations in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigations: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determinations in the Less-Than-FairValue Investigations, 87 FR 9034 (February 17, 

2022). 3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Oil Country Tubular 

Goods from the Russian Federation,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 5See Initiation Notice, 86 FR at 60205–60206. 6See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigations of Oil Country Tubular Goods from 

Argentina, Mexico, and the Russian Federation and 

Countervailing Duty Investigations of Oil Country 

Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea, and the 

Russian Federation: Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum,’’ dated March 7, 2022 (Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum). 

7Case briefs, other written comments, and 

rebuttal briefs submitted by in response to this 

preliminary LTFV determination should not 

include scope-related issues. See Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, and ‘‘Public Comment’’ 

section of this notice. 

8See Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum 

at 4. 

9With two respondents under examination, 

Commerce normally calculates (A) a weightedaverage of the estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins calculated for the examined respondents; 

(B) a simple average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins calculated for the 

examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-average 

of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins 

calculated for the examined respondents using each 

company’s publicly ranged U.S. sale quantities for 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

VI. Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances 

VII. Currency Conversion 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–833] 

Oil Country Tubular Goods From the 

Russian Federation: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary 

Negative Critical Circumstances 

Determination, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of 

Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that oil country tubular goods (OCTG) 

from the Russian Federation (Russia) are 

being, or are likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). The period of investigation 

(POI) is October 1, 2020, through 

September 30, 2021. Interested parties 

are invited to comment on this 

preliminary determination. 

DATES: Applicable May 11, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George McMahon or Mike Heaney, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1167 or (202) 482–4475, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this LTFV 

investigation on November 1, 2021.1 On 

February 17, 2022, Commerce 

postponed the preliminary 

determination of this investigation until 

May 4, 2022.2

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of 

sections in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included in Appendix 

II 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 Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are OCTG from Russia. For 

a complete description of the scope of 

this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 in the 

Initiation Notice Commerce set aside a 

period of time for parties to raise issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).5

Certain interested parties commented on 

the scope of the investigation as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. For a 

summary of the product coverage 

comments and rebuttal responses 

submitted to the record for this 

investigation, and accompanying 

discussion and analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum.6 As 

discussed in the Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, Commerce 

preliminarily modified the scope 

language as it appeared in the Initiation 

Notice. 

In the Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce established 

the deadline for parties to submit scope 

case briefs.7 Commerce did not receive 

any comments from interested parties 

regarding the scope as stated in the 

Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum prior to the deadline. As 

explained in the Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, there will be no 

further opportunity for comments on 

scope-related issues.8

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Commerce calculated 

export prices in accordance with section 

772(a) of the Act and constructed export 

prices in accordance with section 772(b) 

of the Act. Normal value (NV) is 

calculated in accordance with section 

773 of the Act. For a full description of 

the methodology underlying the 

preliminary determination, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(ii) and 735(c)(5)(A) 

of the Act provide that in the 

preliminary determination, Commerce 

shall determine an estimated all-others 

rate for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins established for exporters and 

producers individually investigated, 

excluding any zero and de minimis 

dumping margins, and any dumping 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins that are above de 

minimis for the mandatory respondents, 

JSC Vyksa Steel Works (VSW) and 

Volzhsky Pipe Plant, Joint Stock 

Company (VTZ). Commerce calculated 

the all-others rate by weight-averaging 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins that it calculated for 

the individually examined respondents. 

Commerce weight-averaged these 

dumping margins using the publicly 

ranged total quantities of each 

respondent’s sales of subject 

merchandise to the United States during 

the POI.9


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