[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 106 (Friday, June 4, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29998-30000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-11760]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-560-837, A-475-843, A-557-819, A-791-826, A-469-821, A-723-001, A-
823-817]


Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Indonesia, Italy, 
Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine: Antidumping Duty 
Orders

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

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of 
Commerce (Commerce) and the International Trade Commission (ITC), 
Commerce is issuing antidumping duty orders on prestressed concrete 
steel wire strand (PC strand) from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South 
Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine.

DATES: Applicable June 4, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Drew Jackson at (202) 482-4406 
(Indonesia); Stephanie Berger at (202) 482-2483 (Italy); Justin Neuman 
at (202) 482-0486 (Malaysia); Jerry Huang at (202) 482-4047 (South 
Africa); Terre Keaton Stefanova at (202) 482-1280 (Spain); Eva Kim at 
(202) 482-8283 (Tunisia); Laura Griffith at (202) 482-6430 (Ukraine); 
AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 9, 2021, Commerce published its affirmative final 
determinations in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of PC 
strand from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, 
and Ukraine.\1\ On May 24, 2021, the ITC notified Commerce of its final 
determinations, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
as amended (the Act), that an industry in the United States is 
materially injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the 
Act by reason of LTFV imports of PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, 
Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine, and its negative 
critical circumstances finding with respect to dumped imports of PC 
strand from Indonesia.\2\
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    \1\ See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Indonesia: 
Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 
and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, In 
Part, 86 FR 18495 (April 9, 2021); Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Italy: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value, and Final Negative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, 86 FR 18505 (April 9, 2021); Prestressed Concrete 
Steel Wire Strand from Malaysia: Final Affirmative Determination of 
Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 86 FR 18502 (April 9, 2021); 
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from South Africa: Final 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 86 FR 
18497 (April 9, 2021); Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from 
Spain: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value and Final Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 86 
FR 18512 (April 9, 2021); Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand 
from Tunisia: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value, 86 FR 18508 (April 9, 2021); Prestressed Concrete Steel 
Wire Strand from Ukraine: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value, and Final Negative Determination of 
Critical Circumstances, 86 FR 18498 (April 9, 2021) (collectively, 
Final Determinations).
    \2\ See ITC Letter, Notification of ITC Final Determinations in 
Investigation Nos. 731-TA-1505-1507, 1510-1511, 1513, and 1515 
(Final), dated May 24, 2021.
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Scope of the Orders

    The products covered by these orders are PC strand from Indonesia, 
Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine. For a 
complete description of the scope of these orders, see the appendix to 
this notice.

Antidumping Duty Orders

    On May 24, 2021, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, the 
ITC notified Commerce of its final determinations in these 
investigations, in which it found that an industry in the United States 
is materially injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of 
the Act by reason of imports of PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, 
Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine.\3\ Therefore, in 
accordance with section 735(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce is issuing these 
antidumping duty orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of PC 
strand from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia,

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South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine are materially injuring a 
U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from Indonesia, 
Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine, entered or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment 
of antidumping duties.
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    \3\ Id.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, 
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal 
to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the 
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise, for all 
relevant entries of PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South 
Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine. With the exception of entries 
occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and 
before publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury 
determinations, as further described below, antidumping duties will be 
assessed on unliquidated entries of PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, 
Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or after November 19, 
2020, the date of publication of the Preliminary Determinations.\4\
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    \4\ See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Indonesia: 
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, in Part, Postponement of Final Determination, and 
Extension of Provisional Measures, 85 FR 73676 (November 19, 2020); 
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Italy: Preliminary 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 
Preliminary Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 
Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional 
Measures, 85 FR 73679 (November 19, 2020); Prestressed Concrete 
Steel Wire Strand from Malaysia: Preliminary Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of 
Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 85 FR 
73685 (November 19, 2020); Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand 
from South Africa: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and 
Extension of Provisional Measures, 85 FR 73674 (November 19, 2020); 
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Spain: Preliminary 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 
Preliminary Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 
Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional 
Measures, 85 FR 73683 (November 19, 2020); Prestressed Concrete 
Steel Wire Strand from Tunisia: Preliminary Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of 
Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 85 FR 
73681 (November 19, 2020); and Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 
Strand from Ukraine: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value and Preliminary Negative Determination of 
Critical Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination, and 
Extension of Provisional Measures, 85 FR 73688 (November 19, 2020) 
(collectively, Preliminary Determinations).
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce intends to 
instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries 
of PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, 
Tunisia, and Ukraine. These instructions suspending liquidation will 
remain in effect until further notice.
    Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits 
equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in 
the tables below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in 
the Federal Register of the notice of the ITC's final affirmative 
injury determinations, CBP will require, at the same time as importers 
would normally deposit estimated duties on subject merchandise, a cash 
deposit equal to the rates listed below. The relevant all-others rate 
applies to all producers or exporters not specifically listed.

Critical Circumstances

    With regard to the ITC's negative critical circumstances 
determination on imports of PC strand from Indonesia, we intend to 
instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to 
secure the payment of estimated antidumping duties with respect to 
entries of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after August 21, 2020 (i.e., 90 days 
prior to the date of the publication of the Preliminary 
Determinations), but before November 19, 2020 (i.e., the date of 
publication of the Preliminary Determinations).

Provisional Measures

    Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation 
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in 
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a 
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request 
that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months. 
At the request of exporters that account for a significant proportion 
of PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, 
Tunisia, and Ukraine, Commerce extended the four-month period to six 
months in each of these investigations. Commerce published the 
preliminary determinations in these investigations on November 19, 
2020.\5\
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    \5\ See Preliminary Determinations.
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    The extended provisional measures period, beginning on the date of 
publication of the Preliminary Determinations, ends on May 17, 2021. 
Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act and our 
practice,\6\ Commerce intends to instruct CBP to terminate the 
suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to 
antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of PC strand from Indonesia, 
Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and Ukraine entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after May 17, 2021, the final 
day on which the provisional measures were in effect, until and through 
the day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final 
affirmative injury determinations in the Federal Register. Suspension 
of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will resume on the 
date of publication of the ITC's final determinations in the Federal 
Register.
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    \6\ See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from 
India, India, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea 
and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for 
India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390, 48392 
(July 25, 2016).
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Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins

    The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                      Estimated weighted-
                  Exporter/producer                     average dumping
                                                       margin (percent)
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                                Indonesia
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P.T. Kingdom Indah..................................                5.76
PT. Bumi Steel Indonesia aka PT. Bumi Nindyyacipta..               72.28

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All Others..........................................                5.76
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                                  Italy
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WBO Italcables Societa Cooperativa..................                3.59
CB Trafilati Acciai S.p.A...........................               19.26
All Others..........................................                3.59
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                                Malaysia
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Kiswire Sdn. Bhd....................................                3.94
Southern PC Steel Sdn. Bhd..........................               26.95
Wei Dat Steel Wire Sdn. Bhd.........................                6.42
All Others..........................................                5.13
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                              South Africa
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Scaw Metals Group...................................              155.10
All Others..........................................              155.10
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                                  Spain
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Global Special Steel Products S.A.U. (d.b.a. Trenzas               14.75
 y Cables de Acero PSC, S.L. (TYCSA))...............
All Others..........................................               14.75
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                                 Tunisia
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Maklada Industries and Maklada SA...................               30.58
All Others..........................................               30.58
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                                 Ukraine
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PJSC PA Stalkanat-Silur.............................               19.30
All Others..........................................               19.30
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Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to 
PC strand from Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, 
Tunisia, and Ukraine pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. Interested 
parties can find a list of antidumping duty orders currently in effect 
at http://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
    These antidumping duty orders are published in accordance with 
section 736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).

    Dated: May 28, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--Scope of the Orders

    The products covered by these orders are prestressed concrete 
steel wire strand (PC strand), produced from wire of non-stainless, 
non-galvanized steel, which is suitable for use in prestressed 
concrete (both pretensioned and post-tensioned) applications. The 
product definition encompasses covered and uncovered strand and all 
types, grades, and diameters of PC strand. PC strand is normally 
sold in the United States in sizes ranging from 0.25 inches to 0.70 
inches in diameter. PC strand made from galvanized wire is only 
excluded from the scope if the zinc and/or zinc oxide coating meets 
or exceeds the 0.40 oz./ft\2\ standard set forth in ASTM-A-475.
    The PC strand subject to these orders are currently classifiable 
under subheadings 7312.10.3010 and 7312.10.3012 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written description of the scope of these orders is dispositive.

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