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1See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Japan: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review and Preliminary 

Determination of No Shipments; 2019–2020, 86 FR 

64901 (November 19, 2021) (Preliminary Results), 

and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

2Commerce found in a changed circumstances 

review that Nippon Steel Corporation is the 

successor-in-interest to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo 

Metal Corporation, Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd., 

is the successor-in-interest to Nisshin Steel Co., 

Ltd., and Nippon Steel Trading Corporation is the 

successor-in-interest to Nippon Steel & Sumikin 

Bussan Corporation. See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel 

Flat Products from Japan: Notice of Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 

84 FR 46713 (September 5, 2019). Commerce also 

determined that the three successor-in-interest 

companies are affiliated and should be collapsed 

into a single entity. Id. Because there is no 

information on the record of this administrative 

review that would lead us to revisit this 

determination, we are continuing to treat these 

companies as part of a single entity. 

3 In this administrative review, the petitioners are 

AK Steel Corporation; Nucor Corporation; SSAB 

Enterprises, LLC; Steel Dynamic, Inc.; and United 

States Steel Corporation. 

4See NSC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: NSC’s Case Brief,’’ dated 

December 21, 2021; JFE’s Letter, ‘‘Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Letter in Lieu 

of Case Brief,’’ dated December 20, 2021; Nucor 

Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Japan: Petitioner’s Rebuttal Brief,’’ dated December 

28, 2021; Tokyo Steel’s Letter, ‘‘Letter in lieu of 

Rebuttal Brief: Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan,’’ dated December 27, 2021. 

5See NSC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: NSC’s Hearing Request,’’ 

dated December 20, 2021. 

6See NSC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: Withdrawal of NSC’s Hearing 

Request,’’ January 31, 2022. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel 

Products from Japan: Extension of Deadline for 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2019–2020,’’ dated March 10, 2022. 

8See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

78990 (December 8, 2020). 

9See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the 

Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the 

United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative 

Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the 

Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey and 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 67962 (October 3, 

2016) (Order). 

10See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain 

Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan; 2019– 

2020,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

11See, e.g., Magnesium Metal from the Russian 

Federation: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Continued 

Subject merchandise includes material 

matching the above description that has been 

finished, packaged, or otherwise further 

processed in a third country, including by 

trimming, slitting, coating, cutting, punching 

holes, stretching, attaching to woven or nonwoven fabric or sheet material, or any other 

finishing, packaging, or other further 

processing that would not otherwise remove 

the merchandise from the scope of the Order 

if performed in the country of manufacture 

of the biaxial integral geogrid. 

The products subject to the scope are 

currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under 

the following subheading: 3926.90.9995. 

Subject merchandise may also enter under 

subheadings 3920.20.0050 and 3925.90.0000. 

The HTSUS subheadings set forth above are 

provided for convenience and U.S. Customs 

purposes only. The written description of the 

scope is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. History of the Order 

V. Legal Framework 

VI. Discussion of the Issues 

1. Likelihood of Continuation or 

Recurrence of a Countervailable Subsidy 

2. Net Countervailable Subsidy Rate Likely 

to Prevail 

3. Nature of the Subsidies 

VII. Final Results of Review 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–588–874] 

Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 

From Japan: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Final Determination of No 

Shipments; 2019–2020 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

Nippon Steel Corporation, producer and 

exporter of hot-rolled steel flat products 

(hot-rolled steel) from Japan, sold 

subject merchandise in the United 

States at prices below normal value 

during the period of review (POR) 

October 1, 2019, through September 30, 

2020. In addition, Commerce 

determines that Honda Trading Canada, 

Inc. (Honda) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. 

(Mitsui) had no shipments during the 

POR. 

DATES: Applicable May 24, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jun 

Jack Zhao or Myrna Lobo, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1396 or (202) 482–2371, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 19, 2021, Commerce 

published the Preliminary Results of 

this review in the Federal Register.1

This review covers one mandatory 

exporter/producer of subject 

merchandise, Nippon Steel Corporation, 

Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd., Nippon 

Steel Trading Corporation (collectively, 

NSC).2 We invited interested parties to 

comment on the Preliminary Results. 

Between December 20 and 27, 2021, 

Commerce received timely filed case 

briefs and rebuttal briefs from NSC, JFE 

Shoji America LLC and JFE Shoji 

Corporation (JFE), Nucor Corporation 

(Nucor),3 and Tokyo Steel 

Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Steel).4

On December 20, 2021, Commerce 

received a hearing request from NSC.5

On January 31, 2022, NSC withdrew its 

hearing request.6

On March 10, 2022, we extended the 

deadline for the final results.7 The 

deadline for the final results of this 

review is May 18, 2022. 

These final results cover twenty-nine 

producers and/or exporters of subject 

merchandise.8 Based on an analysis of 

the comments received, we made 

certain changes to the weighted-average 

dumping margin determined for NSC. 

The weighted-average dumping margins 

are listed in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Review’’ section, below. Commerce 

conducted this review in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Scope of the Order 9

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is certain hot-rolled steel flat 

products. For a complete description of 

the scope of the Order, see the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum.10

Final Determination of No Shipments 

In the Preliminary Results, Commerce 

preliminarily determined that Honda 

and Mitsui had no shipments of subject 

merchandise during the POR. As no 

party has identified any record evidence 

which would call into question the 

preliminary findings with respect to 

these two companies, we continue to 

find that they made no shipments of 

subject merchandise during the POR. 

Accordingly, consistent with our 

practice, we intend to instruct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

liquidate any existing entries of subject 

merchandise produced by Honda and 

Mitsui, but exported by other parties 

without their own rate, at the all-others 

rate.11


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Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR 26922, 26923 

(May 13, 2010), unchanged in Magnesium Metal 

from the Russian Federation: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR 

56989 (September 17, 2010). 

12We are treating these companies as part of a 

single entity. See supra, n.2. 

13We collapsed JFE Shoji Trade Corporation with 

JFE Steel Corporation in the underlying 

investigation. See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less than Fair Value and Postponement of 

Final Determination, 81 FR 15222 (March 22, 2016), 

and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum at 8–9, unchanged in Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Final Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, 81 FR 53409 (August 12, 2016). 

Analysis of Comments Received 

We addressed all issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum. The issues are 

identified in the appendix to this notice. 

The Issues and 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 Issues and 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at https://access.trade.gov/ 

public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

Based on our review and analysis of 

the comments received from parties, we 

made changes to NSC’s margin 

calculations. For a discussion of these 

changes, see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Rate 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 individual 

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 weightedaverage of the estimated weightedaverage 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 calculated a 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

NSC that is not zero, de minimis, or 

determined entirely on the basis of facts 

available. Accordingly, Commerce has 

assigned to companies not individually 

examined a margin of 24.07 percent, 

which is NSC’s calculated weightedaverage dumping margin. 

Final Results of Review 

We are assigning the following 

weighted-average dumping margins to 

the firms listed below for the period 

October 1, 2019, through September 30, 

2020: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Nippon Steel Corporation/Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd./Nippon Steel Trading Corporation 12 ............................................................. 24.07 

Hanwa Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Higuchi Manufacturing America, LLC ........................................................................................................................................................ 24.07 

Higuchi Seisakusho Co., Ltd ..................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Hitachi Metals, Ltd ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

JFE Steel Corporation/JFE Shoji Trade Corporation 13 ............................................................................................................................ 24.07 

JFE Shoji Trade America .......................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Kanematsu Corporation ............................................................................................................................................................................. 24.07 

Kobe Steel, Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Metal One Corporation .............................................................................................................................................................................. 24.07 

Miyama Industry Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Nakagawa Special Steel Inc ...................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Logistics Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Okaya & Co. Ltd ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 24.07 

Panasonic Corporation .............................................................................................................................................................................. 24.07 

Saint-Gobain K.K ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Shinsho Corporation .................................................................................................................................................................................. 24.07 

Sumitomo Corporation ............................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Suzukaku Co., Ltd ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Suzukaku Corporation ............................................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Toyota Tsusho Corporation Nagoya ......................................................................................................................................................... 24.07 

Assessment 

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). 


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14See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

15 Id. 

16 Id. 

17See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

18For a full discussion of this practice, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

19See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Japan: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, 81 FR 53409 (August 12, 

2016). 

Where the respondent reported 

reliable entered values, we calculated 

importer- (or customer-) specific ad 

valorem rates by aggregating the 

dumping margins calculated for all U.S. 

sales to each importer (or customer) and 

dividing this amount by the total 

entered value of the sales to each 

importer (or customer).14 Where 

Commerce calculated a weightedaverage dumping margin by dividing the 

total amount of dumping for reviewed 

sales to that party by the total sales 

quantity associated with those 

transactions, Commerce will direct CBP 

to assess importer- (or customer-) 

specific assessment rates based on the 

resulting per-unit rates.15 Where an 

importer- (or customer-) specific ad 

valorem or per-unit rate is greater than 

de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), 

Commerce will instruct CBP to collect 

the appropriate duties at the time of 

liquidation.16 Where an importer- (or 

customer-) specific ad valorem or perunit rate is zero or de minimis, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties.17

For the companies which were not 

selected for individual review, we will 

assign an assessment rate based on the 

methodology described in the ‘‘Rate for 

Non-Examined Companies’’ section, 

above. 

Consistent with Commerce’s 

assessment practice, for entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

produced by NSC, or the non-examined 

companies for which the producer did 

not know that its merchandise was 

destined for the United States, we will 

instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed 

entries at the all-others rate if there is no 

rate for the intermediate company/ 

companies involved in the 

transaction.18

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date of the final results of 

this administrative review, as provided 

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

The cash deposit rates for the 

companies listed in these final results 

will be equal to the weighted-average 

dumping margins established in the 

final results of this review; (2) for 

merchandise exported by producers or 

exporters 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 recently 

completed segment in which the 

company was reviewed; (3) if the 

exporter is not a firm covered in this 

review or the original less-than-fairvalue (LTFV) investigation, but the 

producer is, the cash deposit rate will be 

the rate established for the most recently 

completed segment of this proceeding 

for the producer of the subject 

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers or exporters 

will continue to be 5.58 percent,19 the 

all-others rate established in the LTFV 

investigation. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final 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 the 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the 

destruction 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 terms of an 

APO is a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(5) of 

Commerce’s regulations. 

Dated: May 18, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Final Determination of No Shipments 

V. Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

VI. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should 

Deduct Section 232 Duties from U.S. 

Price 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Include the U.S. Revenue for Certain 

Extra Services in Calculating the Net 

U.S. Price 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should 

Increase the Total Cost of Manufacturing 

to Account for NSC’s Purchases of Iron 

Ore from its Affiliated Suppliers 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC003] 

Nominations for U.S. Commissioners 

to Regional Fisheries Management 

Organizations 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; call for nominations. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is soliciting 

nominations, which may include selfnominations, for qualified individuals 

to serve as non-Federal U.S. 

Commissioners (Commissioners) to 

certain regional fisheries management 

organizations (RFMOs). This action is 

being undertaken to enhance 

transparency in the process of 

identifying potential candidates for 

Commissioner positions and to increase 

diversity in the candidate pool to help 

ensure the views and interests of the 

range of U.S. stakeholders are 

considered in the process of developing 

and advancing U.S. positions at RFMOs. 

Nominations are open to all qualified 

individuals and may include current or 

previous Commissioners and Alternate 

Commissioners for certain RFMOs 

where eligible. 

DATES: Nominations and any supporting 

documentation must be received by July 

8, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations for U.S. 

Commissioners may be submitted 


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