[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75592-75593]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29574]


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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

[Investigation Nos. 701-TA-474 and 731-TA-1176 (Final) (Remand)]


Drill Pipe and Drill Collars From China

Determination

    The United States International Trade Commission (Commission) 
hereby publishes notice of its final determinations pursuant to the 
remand ordered by the U.S. Court of International Trade (Court) in the 
antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of drill pipe and 
drill collars from China. On the basis of the Court's remand 
instructions and the

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parties' comments, and the record \1\ developed in the subject 
investigations, the Commission determined, pursuant to sections 705(b) 
and 735(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b) and 1673d(b)), 
that an industry in the United States is neither materially injured nor 
threatened with material injury by reason of subject imports of drill 
pipe and drill collars from China, provided for in subheadings 7304.22, 
7304.23, and 8431.43 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States, that are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than 
fair value.<SUP>2 3</SUP>
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    \1\ The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the Commission's 
Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 207.2(f)).
    \2\ Commissioners Irving A. Williamson and Dean A. Pinkert 
dissented, finding that an industry in the United States is 
threatened with material injury by reason of the subject imports.
    \3\ Commissioner F. Scott Kieff did not participate in the 
remand proceedings.
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Background

    In February 2011, by a vote of 3 to 3, the Commission issued 
affirmative threat of injury determinations in the antidumping and 
countervailing duty determinations of drill pipe and drill collars from 
China.\4\ Chinese Respondent Downhole Pipe & Equipment, LP appealed the 
Commission's determinations to the Court. On August 19, 2013, the Court 
remanded the Commission's affirmative threat determinations. Downhole 
Pipe & Equipment, LP v. United States, Slip Op. 13-108 (Aug. 19, 2013). 
On December 11, 2013, by a vote of 3 to 2, the Commission issued 
negative remand determinations in the above-captioned proceedings. On 
November 10, 2014, the Court issued an opinion affirming the 
Commission's negative determinations on remand. Downhole Pipe & 
Equipment, LP v. United States, Slip Op. 14-130 (Nov. 10, 2014).
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    \4\ Commissioners Williamson, Pinkert and Charlotte R. Lane 
voted in the affirmative. Chairman Deanna Tanner Okun and 
Commissioners Pearson and Shara L. Aranoff dissented.

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     Issued: December 12, 2014.

    By order of the Commission.
Lisa R. Barton,
Secretary to the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2014-29574 Filed 12-17-14; 8:45 am]
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