Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 232 / Wednesday, December 3, 2014 / Notices 71741 

1See Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from 

Germany, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, 

and Sweden: Final Affirmative Determinations of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative 

Determinations of Critical Circumstances, in Part, 

79 FR 61609 (October 14, 2014) (Germany, Japan, 

the PRC, and Sweden Final Determinations); NonOriented Electrical Steel from the Republic of 

Korea: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Negative Final Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, 79 FR 61612 (October 14, 

2014) (Korea Final Determination); and NonOriented Electrical Steel From Taiwan: Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 79 

FR 61614 (October 14, 2014) (Taiwan Final 

Determination), respectively. 

2See Letter from the ITC to the Department, dated 

November 25, 2014; see also Non-Oriented 

Electrical Steel from China, Germany, Japan, Korea, 

Sweden, and Taiwan (Investigation Nos. 701–TA– 

506 and 508 and 731–TA–1238–1243 (Final), 

USITC Publication 4502, November 2014). 

3 Id. 

The Committee Chairperson and Vice 

Chairperson are elected by the 

Committee from among its members. 

Terms will expire for the current 

members of the Committee in May 2015. 

We are soliciting nominations from 

interested organizations and 

individuals. An organization may 

nominate individuals from within or 

outside its membership. Nomination 

forms are available on the Internet at 

http://www.ocio.usda.gov/forms/doc/

AD-755.pdf or may be obtained from the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. The Secretary 

will select members to obtain the 

broadest possible representation on the 

Committee, in accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) and U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) Regulation 1041–1. 

Equal opportunity practices, in line 

with the USDA policies, will be 

followed in all appointments to the 

Committee. To ensure that the 

recommendations of the Committee 

have taken into account the needs of the 

diverse groups served by the 

Department, membership should 

include, to the extent practicable, 

individuals with demonstrated ability to 

represent minorities, women, and 

persons with disabilities. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 26th day of 

November 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–996, A–428–843, A–588–872, A–580– 

872, A–401–809, A–583–851] 

Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From the 

People’s Republic of China, Germany, 

Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, 

and Taiwan: Antidumping Duty Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (the Department) and the 

International Trade Commission (the 

ITC), the Department is issuing 

antidumping duty (AD) orders on nonoriented electrical steel (NOES) from the 

People’s Republic of China, Germany, 

Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, 

and Taiwan. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 3, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yang Jin Chun at (202) 482–5760 (the 

People’s Republic of China (PRC)); 

Patrick O’Connor at (202) 482–0989 

(Germany); Thomas Martin at (202) 482– 

3936 (Japan); Dmitry Vladimirov at 

(202) 482–0665 (the Republic of Korea 

(Korea)); Drew Jackson at (202) 482– 

4406 (Sweden); or Krisha Hill at (202) 

482–4037 (Taiwan), AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 735(d) 

and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 

351.210(c), on October 14, 2014, the 

Department published affirmative final 

determinations of sales at less than fair 

value (LTFV) in the investigations of 

NOES from the PRC, Germany, Japan, 

Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan.1 On 

November 25, 2014, the ITC notified the 

Department of its affirmative 

determinations 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 NOES from the PRC, 

Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and 

Taiwan.2 In addition, the ITC notified 

the Department of its final 

determination that critical 

circumstances do not exist with respect 

to imports of subject merchandise from 

the PRC, Germany, Japan, and Sweden 

that are subject to the Department’s final 

affirmative critical circumstances 

findings.3

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise subject to these 

orders consists of non-oriented 

electrical steel (NOES), which includes 

cold-rolled, flat-rolled, alloy steel 

products, whether or not in coils, 

regardless of width, having an actual 

thickness of 0.20 mm or more, in which 

the core loss is substantially equal in 

any direction of magnetization in the 

plane of the material. The term 

‘‘substantially equal’’ means that the 

cross grain direction of core loss is no 

more than 1.5 times the straight grain 

direction (i.e., the rolling direction) of 

core loss. NOES has a magnetic 

permeability that does not exceed 1.65 

Tesla when tested at a field of 800 

A/m (equivalent to 10 Oersteds) along 

(i.e., parallel to) the rolling direction of 

the sheet (i.e., B800 value). NOES 

contains by weight more than 1.00 

percent of silicon but less than 3.5 

percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 

percent of carbon, and not more than 1.5 

percent of aluminum. NOES has a 

surface oxide coating, to which an 

insulation coating may be applied. 

NOES is subject to these orders 

whether it is fully processed (i.e., fully 

annealed to develop final magnetic 

properties) or semi-processed (i.e., 

finished to final thickness and physical 

form but not fully annealed to develop 

final magnetic properties). Fully 

processed NOES is typically made to the 

requirements of ASTM specification A 

677, Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) 

specification C 2552, and/or 

International Electrotechnical 

Commission (IEC) specification 60404– 

8–4. Semi-processed NOES is typically 

made to the requirements of ASTM 

specification A 683. However, the scope 

of these orders is not limited to 

merchandise meeting the ASTM, JIS, 

and IEC specifications noted 

immediately above. 

NOES is sometimes referred to as 

cold-rolled non-oriented (CRNO), nongrain oriented (NGO), non-oriented 

(NO), or cold-rolled non-grain oriented 

(CRNGO) electrical steel. These terms 

are interchangeable. 

Excluded from the scope of these 

orders are flat-rolled products not in 

coils that, prior to importation into the 

United States, have been cut to a shape 

and undergone all punching, coating, or 

other operations necessary for 

classification in Chapter 85 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) as a part (i.e., 

lamination) for use in a device such as 

a motor, generator, or transformer. 

The subject merchandise is provided 

for in subheadings 7225.19.0000, 

7226.19.1000, and 7226.19.9000 of the 

HTSUS. Subject merchandise may also 

be entered under subheadings 

7225.50.8085, 7225.99.0090, 

7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, 

7226.92.8050, 7226.99.0180 of the 

HTSUS. Although HTSUS subheadings 


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5See Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value 

and Critical Circumstances, 79 FR 29421 (May 22, 

2014); Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From Germany, 

Japan, and Sweden: Preliminary Determinations of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Preliminary 

Affirmative Determinations of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, 79 FR 29423 (May 22, 

2014); Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Negative Preliminary Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, and Postponement of Final 

Determination, 79 FR 29426 (May 22, 2014) (Korea 

Prelim Determination); and Non-Oriented Electrical 

Steel From Taiwan: Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement 

of Final Determination, 79 FR 29428 (May 22, 2014) 

(Taiwan Prelim Determination). 6See section 736(a)(3) of the Act. 7See Germany, Japan, the PRC, and Sweden Final 

Determinations, 79 FR at 61612. See also NonOriented Electrical Steel From the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Affirmative Countervailing 

Duty Determination and Final Affirmative Critical 

Circumstances Determination, 79 FR 61607 

(October 14, 2014) (PRC CVD Final Determination). 

8See Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From the 

People’s Republic of China, Germany, Japan, and 

Sweden: Postponement of Final Determinations of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 79 FR 37718 (July 

2, 2014); Korea Prelim Determination, 79 FR at 

29428; and Taiwan Prelim Determination, 79 FR at 

29430. 

are provided for convenience and 

customs purposes, the written 

description of the scope is dispositive. 

Antidumping Duty Orders 

As stated above, on November 25, 

2014, in accordance with section 735(d) 

of the Act, the ITC notified the 

Department of its final determinations 

in its investigations, in which it found 

that an industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of imports 

of NOES from the PRC, Germany, Japan, 

Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan.4 Because 

the ITC determined that imports of 

NOES from the PRC, Germany, Japan, 

Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from the PRC, Germany, 

Japan, Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan, 

entered or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption are subject to the 

assessment of antidumping duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department will 

direct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by the Department, 

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 

NOES from the PRC, Germany, Japan, 

Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan. These 

antidumping duties will be assessed on 

unliquidated entries of NOES from the 

PRC, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, 

and Taiwan entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

May 22, 2014, the date of publication of 

the preliminary determinations,5 but 

will not include entries occurring after 

the expiration of the provisional 

measures period and before publication 

of the ITC’s final injury determination 

as further described below. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will instruct 

CBP to continue to suspend liquidation 

on all entries of NOES from the PRC, 

Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and 

Taiwan. These instructions suspending 

liquidation will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

We will also instruct CBP to require 

cash deposits at rates equal to the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins indicated below. Accordingly, 

effective on the date of publication of 

the ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determinations, CBP will require, at the 

same time as importers would normally 

deposit estimated duties on this subject 

merchandise, a cash deposit at rates 

equal to the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins listed below.6 The 

relevant all-others rate (for Germany, 

Japan, Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan) or 

the rate for the PRC-wide entity (for the 

PRC), as applicable, apply to all 

producers or exporters not specifically 

listed. For the purpose of determining 

cash deposit rates, the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins for 

imports of subject merchandise from the 

PRC will be adjusted, as appropriate, for 

export subsidies found in the final 

determination of the companion 

countervailing duty investigation of this 

merchandise imported from the PRC.7

Provisional Measures 

Section 733(d) of the Act states that 

instructions issued 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 the Department to extend that 

four-month period to no more than six 

months. At the request of exporters that 

account for a significant proportion of 

NOES from the PRC, Germany, Japan, 

Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan, we 

extended the four-month period to no 

more than six months in each case.8 As 

stated above, in the investigations 

covering NOES from the PRC, Germany, 

Japan, Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan, the 

Department published the preliminary 

determinations on May 22, 2014. 

Therefore, the six-month period 

beginning on the date of publication of 

the preliminary determinations ended 

on November 18, 2014. Furthermore, 

section 737(b) of the Act states that 

definitive duties are to begin on the date 

of publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

733(d) of the Act and our practice, we 

will instruct CBP to terminate the 

suspension of liquidation and to 

liquidate, without regard to 

antidumping duties, unliquidated 

entries of NOES from the PRC, 

Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and 

Taiwan, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

November 18, 2014, the date the 

provisional measures expired, until and 

through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determinations in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of liquidation resumes on 

the date of publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margins 

The estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 


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9As explained in the Germany, Japan, the PRC, 

and Sweden Final Determinations, the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for the PRCwide entity will be adjusted for export subsidies. 

See Germany, Japan, the PRC, and Sweden Final 

Determinations, 79 FR at 61612. Accordingly, we 

offset the estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin for the PRC-wide entity of 407.52 percent 

by the countervailing duty rate attributable to 

export subsidies (i.e., 10.77 percent) to calculate the 

cash deposit ad valorem rate for the PRC-wide 

entity of 396.75 percent. For information regarding 

these export subsidies, see PRC CVD Final 

Determination and accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum at 8 (countervailed export 

subsidy programs: Preferential Export Financing 

from the Export-Import Bank of China (1.06 

percent) and Tax Refunds for Reinvestment of FIE 

Profits in Export-Oriented Enterprises (9.71 

percent)). 

1See Certain Steel Threaded Rod from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results and 

Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2012–2013, 79 FR 30543 

(May 28, 2014) (‘‘Preliminary Results’’), and 

accompanying Decision Memorandum. 

PRC 9

Exporter or producer 

Estimated weightedaverage dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

PRC-Wide Entity .................................................................................................................................................................. 407.52 

Germany 

CD Walzholz ........................................................................................................................................................................ 98.84 

Thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel EBG GMBH ........................................................................................................................ 98.84 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 86.29 

Japan 

JFE Steel Corporation ......................................................................................................................................................... 204.79 

Sumitomo Corporation ......................................................................................................................................................... 204.79 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 135.59 

Korea 

POSCO/Daewoo International Corporation ......................................................................................................................... 6.88 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6.88 

Sweden 

Surahammars Bruks AB ...................................................................................................................................................... 126.72 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 98.46 

Taiwan 

China Steel Corporation ...................................................................................................................................................... 27.54 

Leicong Industrial Company, Ltd ......................................................................................................................................... 52.23 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 27.54 

Critical Circumstances 

With regard to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

imports of NOES from the PRC, 

Germany, Japan, and Sweden, we will 

instruct CBP to lift suspension and to 

refund any cash deposit made to secure 

the payment of estimated antidumping 

duties with respect to entries of the 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after February 21, 2014 (i.e., 90 days 

prior to the date of publication of the 

preliminary determinations), but before 

May 22, 2014, the publication date of 

the preliminary determinations. 

Notifications to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the AD orders 

with respect to NOES from the PRC, 

Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and 

Taiwan pursuant to section 736(a) of the 

Act. Interested parties can find a list of 

AD orders currently in effect at http:// 

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/

iastats1.html. 

These orders are published in 

accordance with sections 736(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211. 

Dated: November 26, 2014. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28405 Filed 12–2–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–932] 

Certain Steel Threaded Rod From the 

People’s Republic of China: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2012–2013 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the ‘‘Department’’) published the 

Preliminary Results of the fourth 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain steel 

threaded rod from the People’s Republic 

of China (‘‘PRC’’) on May 28, 2014.1 We 

gave interested parties an opportunity to 

comment on the Preliminary Results. 

Based upon our analysis of the 

comments and information received, we 

made changes to the margin calculations 

for these final results. The final 

dumping margins are listed below in the 

‘‘Final Results of Administrative 

Review’’ section of this notice. The 

period of review (‘‘POR’’) is April 1, 

2012, through March 31, 2013. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 3, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia 

Hancock or Jerry Huang, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office V, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone 202–482–1394 or 202–482– 

4047, respectively. 


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