[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 216 (Friday, November 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66358-66360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26424]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-830]


Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2012-2013

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and 
certain alloy steel wire rod from Mexico. The period of review (POR) is 
October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013. The review was initiated at 
the request of Deacero S.A. de C.V. and Deacero USA, Inc. (collectively 
``Deacero'').\1\ We preliminarily find that during the POR, Deacero 
made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during 
the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \1\ See Deacero's October 31, 2013, letter to the Department.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of 
this administrative review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR. Interested parties are 
invited to comment on these preliminary results. See ``Preliminary 
Results of Review'' section of this notice.

DATES: Effective Date: November 7, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Conniff, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202-482-1009.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On October 2, 2013, the Department published in the Federal 
Register the notice of ``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' 
of the antidumping duty order on carbon and certain alloy steel wire 
rod from Mexico, for the period of October 1, 2012 through September 
30, 2013.\2\ On December 3, 2013, the Department published the notice 
of initiation of this antidumping duty administrative review with 
respect to Deacero.\3\
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative 
Review, 78 FR 60847) (October 1, 2013).
    \3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 78 FR 
72630 (December 3, 2013).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to this order is carbon and certain alloy 
steel wire rod. The product is currently classified under the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) item numbers 
7213.91.3000, 7213.91.3010, 7213.91.3011, 7213.91.3015, 7213.91.3020, 
7213.91.3090, 7213.91.3091, 7213.91.3092, 7213.91.3093, 7213.91.4500, 
7213.91.4510, 7213.91.4590, 7213.91.6000, 7213.91.6010, 7213.91.6090, 
7213.99.0030, 7213.99.0031, 7213.99.0038, 7213.99.0090, 7227.20.0000, 
7227.20.0010, 7227.20.0020, 7227.20.0030, 7227.20.0080, 7227.20.0090, 
7227.20.0095, 7227.90.6010, 7227.90.6020, 7227.90.6030, 7227.90.6035, 
7227.90.6050, 7227.90.6051, 7227.90.6053, 7227.90.6058, 7227.90.6059, 
7227.90.6080, and 7227.90.6085 of the HTSUS. Although the HTS numbers 
are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written product 
description, available in Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Carbon and 
Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, 
Trinidad and Tobago, and

[[Page 66359]]

Ukraine, 67 FR 65945 (October 29, 2002),\4\ remains dispositive.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \4\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Carbon and Certain 
Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, 
Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine, 67 FR 65945, (October 29, 2002).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    On October 1, 2012, the Department published Carbon and Certain 
Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico: Affirmative Final Determination of 
Circumvention of the Antidumping Duty Order.\5\ The Department found 
that shipments of wire rod with an actual diameter of 4.75 mm to 5.00 
mm produced in Mexico and exported to the United States by Deacero 
constitute merchandise altered in form or appearance in such minor 
respects that it should be included within the scope of the order on 
wire rod from Mexico.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \5\ See Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico: 
Affirmative Final Determination of Circumvention of the Antidumping 
Duty Order, 77 FR 59892 (October 1, 2012).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Constructed 
export prices are calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. 
Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, please see the memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, 
to Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, ``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 2012/13 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel 
Wire Rod from Mexico'' (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated 
concurrently with these preliminary results and hereby adopted by this 
notice. A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum is attached as an appendix 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 (IA ACCESS). IA ACCESS is 
available to registered users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov, and it is 
available to all parties in the Central Records Unit (CRU), Room 7046 
of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete 
version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
on the Internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The 
signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the electronic versions of 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.

Preliminary Results of the Review

    As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the 
weighted-average dumping margin for the POR is as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Weighted-
                                                         average dumping
                   Producer/Exporter                          margin
                                                            (percent)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deacero S.A. de C.V....................................            0.59
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Assessment Rate

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department shall determine, 
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. Deacero 
reported the name of the importer of record and the entered value for 
all of its sales to the United Stated during the POR. If Deacero's 
weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less 
than 0.5 percent), we will calculate importer-specific ad valorem duty 
assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping 
calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total entered value 
of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\6\ We will 
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries 
covered by this review when the importer-specific assessment rate 
calculated in the final results of this review is not zero or de 
minimis. Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin 
is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero 
or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties. 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 
where applicable.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \6\ In these preliminary results, the Department 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).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by each respondent for which they 
did not know that their merchandise was destined for the United States. 
In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries 
at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company 
(ies) involved in the transaction. For a full discussion of this 
clarification, see Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of 
the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for 
all shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication of the final 
results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2) 
of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Deacero will be equal to the 
weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of 
this administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by 
manufacturers or exporters not covered in this administrative review 
but covered in a prior completed segment of the proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published in 
the completed segment for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter 
is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original 
investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established in the completed segment for the most recent 
period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to 
be 20.11 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
investigation.\7\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \7\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico, 67 FR 
55800 (August 30, 2002).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department intends to disclose to interested parties the 
calculations performed in connection with these preliminary results 
within five days of the date of publication of this notice.\8\ Pursuant 
to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit cases briefs not 
later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. 
Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised

[[Page 66360]]

in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the 
date for filing case briefs.\9\ Parties who submit case briefs or 
rebuttal briefs in this proceeding 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.\10\ Case and rebuttal briefs 
must be filed electronically via IA ACCESS. An electronically filed 
document must be received successfully in its entirety by the 
Department's electronic records system, IA ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern 
Time in order for it to have been submitted timely on that day.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing, or to participate if one is requested, must submit a 
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, filed electronically via IA ACCESS within 30 days after the 
date of publication of this notice.\11\ Requests should contain: (1) 
The party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of 
participants; and (3) a list of the issues to be discussed. Issues 
raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in the respective 
case briefs. The Department intends to issue the final results of this 
administrative review, including the results of its analysis of the 
issues raised by the parties in any written briefs, not later 120 days 
after the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

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.

    Dated: October 31, 2014.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum

1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Discussion of Methodology
    a. Universe of Sales
    b. Fair Value Comparisons
    c. Product Comparisons
    d. Date of Sale
    e. U.S. Price
    f. Normal Value
    g. Affiliated Respondents
    h. Cost of Production Analysis
    i. Currency Conversion
5. Conclusion

[FR Doc. 2014-26424 Filed 11-6-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P