Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 170 / Tuesday, September 5, 2017 / Notices 41929 

1See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Italy 

and Turkey: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 

Investigations, 82 FR 19213 (April 26, 2017) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Italy 

and the Republic of Turkey: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determinations of Countervailing Duty 

Investigations, 82 FR 25771 (June 5, 2017). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Carbon and 

Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of Turkey,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2019 ANNUAL MATERIALS PLAN—Continued 

Material Unit Quantity Footnote 

Electrolytic Manganese Metal ............................................................................................................ MT 3,000 ........................

Europium ............................................................................................................................................ MT 35 ........................

Ferro-niobium ..................................................................................................................................... MT 209 ........................

Lithium Ion Precursors ....................................................................................................................... kg 19,000 ........................

Rare Earths Elements ....................................................................................................................... MT 416 (3) 

Rare Earth Magnet Feedstock .......................................................................................................... MT 100 (3) 

Rayon ................................................................................................................................................. MT 600 ........................

Silicon Carbide Fibers ....................................................................................................................... Lbs 875 ........................

TATB (Triamino-Trinitrobenzene) ...................................................................................................... LB 48,000 ........................

Tantalum ............................................................................................................................................ Lb Ta 33,990 ........................

Tin ...................................................................................................................................................... MT 40 ........................

Tungsten Rhenium Metal .................................................................................................................. kg 5,000 ........................

Yttrium Oxide ..................................................................................................................................... MT 10 ........................

Potential Conversions (Upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.): 

Beryllium Metal .................................................................................................................................. ST 5 ........................

CZT (Cadmium Zinc Tellurium substrates) ....................................................................................... cm2 32,000 ........................

High Modulus High Strength Carbon Fibers ..................................................................................... MT 72 ........................

Dysprosium ........................................................................................................................................ MT 0.5 ........................

Europium ............................................................................................................................................ MT 35 ........................

Germanium Scrap .............................................................................................................................. kg 5,000 ........................

Iridium Catalyst .................................................................................................................................. Lbs 50 ........................

Rare Earths Elements ....................................................................................................................... MT 416 (3) 

Silicon Carbide Fibers ....................................................................................................................... Lbs 875 ........................

Tin ...................................................................................................................................................... MT 804 ........................

Potential Recovery from Government Sources: 

Bearing Steel ..................................................................................................................................... MT 50 ........................

E-Waste ............................................................................................................................................. MT 50 (2) 

Gadolinium Oxide .............................................................................................................................. MT 4 ........................

Germanium (Scrap) ........................................................................................................................... kg 5,000 ........................

Iridium Catalyst (Scrap) ..................................................................................................................... Lbs 50 ........................

Lithium Ion Precursors ....................................................................................................................... MT 25 ........................

Magnesium Metal .............................................................................................................................. MT 10 ........................

Nickel Based Alloys ........................................................................................................................... Lbs 150,000 ........................

Rare Earth Elements—Magnets ........................................................................................................ MT 100 ........................

Rhenium Metal ................................................................................................................................... kg 500 ........................

Permanent Magnet Alloys ................................................................................................................. kg 500 ........................

Tantalum ............................................................................................................................................ MT 10 ........................

Titanium Based Alloys (Scrap) .......................................................................................................... Lbs 75,000 ........................

Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Rods (Scrap) ............................................................................................ kg 250 ........................

Zirconia Oxide .................................................................................................................................... MT 4 ........................

Footnote Key: 

1Actual quantity will be limited to remaining inventory. 

2Strategic and Critical Materials collected from E-Waste. 

3Excludes acquisition of yttrium, dysprosium and europium as these rare earths were requested under separate legislation. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–489–832] 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod From 

the Republic of Turkey: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Preliminary 

Affirmative Critical Circumstances 

Determination, in Part 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of carbon and 

alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from the 

Republic of Turkey (Turkey). The period 

of investigation is January 1, 2016, 

through December 31, 2016. 

DATES: Applicable September 5, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Justin Neuman or Omar Qureshi, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3813 or (202) 482–7438, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). The Department published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on April 26, 2017.1 On June 5, 2017, the 

Department postponed the preliminary 

determination of this investigation and 

the revised deadline is now August 25, 

2017.2 For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

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41930 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 170 / Tuesday, September 5, 2017 / Notices 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

5See Initiation Notice, 82 FR at 19214. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Carbon and Alloy Steel 

Wire Rod from Belarus, Italy, the Republic of Korea, 

the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, the 

Republic of Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab 

Emirates, and the United Kingdom: Scope 

Comments Decision Memorandum for the 

Preliminary Determinations,’’ dated August 7, 2017 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum). 

7See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

8See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act. 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at http:// 

access.trade.gov, and is available to all 

parties in the Central Records Unit, 

room B8024 of the main Department of 

Commerce building. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

frn/. The signed and electronic versions 

of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is wire rod from Turkey. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

the Department’s regulations,4 the 

Initiation Notice set aside a period of 

time for parties to raise issues regarding 

product coverage, (i.e. , scope).5 Certain 

interested parties commented on the 

scope of the investigation as it appeared 

in the Initiation Notice as well as 

additional language proposed by the 

Department. For a summary of the 

product coverage comments and 

rebuttal responses submitted to the 

record for this preliminary 

determination, and accompanying 

discussion and analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum.6 The 

Department is not preliminarily 

modifying the scope language as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. See 

scope in Appendix I. 

Methodology 

The Department is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, the 

Department preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e. , a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.7

The Department notes that, in making 

these findings, it relied, in part, on facts 

available and, because it finds that one 

or more respondents did not act to the 

best of their ability to respond to the 

Department’s requests for information, it 

drew an adverse inference where 

appropriate in selecting from among the 

facts otherwise available.8 For further 

information, see ‘‘Use of Facts 

Otherwise Available and Adverse 

Inferences’’ in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances, in Part 

In accordance with section 703(e)(1) 

of the Act, the Department preliminarily 

determines that critical circumstances 

exist with respect to imports of wire rod 

for all other exporters or producers not 

individually examined. For a full 

description of the methodology and 

results of the Department’s analysis, see 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 703(d) and 705(c)(5)(A) of 

the Act provide that in the preliminary 

determination, the Department shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for companies not individually 

examined. This rate shall be an amount 

equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated subsidy rates established for 

those companies individually 

examined, excluding any zero and de 

minimis rates and any rates based 

entirely under section 776 of the Act. In 

this investigation, the only rate that is 

not zero, de minimis or based entirely 

on facts otherwise available is the rate 

calculated for Habas Sinai Ve Tibbi 

Gazlar Istih (Habas). Consequently, the 

rate calculated for Habas is also 

assigned as the rate for all-other 

producers and exporters. 

Preliminary Determination 

The Department preliminarily 

determines that the following estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates exist: 

Company Subsidy rate 

Habas Sinai Ve Tibbi Gazlar 

Istih.

2.27 percent. 

Icdas Celik Eberji Tersane 

Ve Ulasim San (Icdas).

de minimis. 

All-Others ............................. 2.27 percent. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act, the 

Department will direct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise as described in the scope 

of the investigation section entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.205(d), the Department will instruct 

CBP to require a cash deposit equal to 

the rates indicated above. Because the 

subsidy rate for Icdas is de minimis, the 

Department is directing CBP not to 

suspend liquidation of entries of the 

merchandise from this company. 

Section 703(e)(2) of the Act provides 

that, given an affirmative determination 

of critical circumstances, any 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the later of 

(a) the date which is 90 days before the 

date on which the suspension of 

liquidation was first ordered, or (b) the 

date on which notice of initiation of the 

investigation was published. The 

Department preliminarily finds that 

critical circumstances exist for ‘‘all 

other’’ exporters or producers of subject 

merchandise. In accordance with 

section 703(e)(2)(A) of the Act, the 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of merchandise 

from the exporters/producers identified 

in this paragraph that were entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date which 

is 90 days before the publication of this 

notice. 

Disclosure 

The Department intends to disclose 

its calculations and analysis performed 

to interested parties in this preliminary 

determination within five days of its 

public announcement, or if there is no 

public announcement, within five days 

of the date of this notice in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, the Department intends to verify 

the information relied upon in making 

its final determination. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the last 

verification report is issued in this 

investigation. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

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9See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

1See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Italy 

and Turkey: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 

Investigations, 82 FR 19213 (April 26, 2017) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Italy 

and the Republic of Turkey: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determinations of Countervailing Duty 

Investigations, 82 FR 25771 (June 5, 2017). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Carbon and 

Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Italy,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

issues raised in case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the deadline date for case briefs.9

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 

(d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this investigation 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. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, the 

Department intends to hold the hearing 

at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230, at a time and 

date to be determined. Parties should 

confirm by telephone the date, time, and 

location of the hearing two days before 

the scheduled date. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, the Department will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its determination. If the final 

determination is affirmative, the ITC 

will determine before the later of 120 

days after the date of this preliminary 

determination or 45 days after the final 

determination. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(c). 

Dated: August 25, 2017. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation are certain hot-rolled products 

of carbon steel and alloy steel, in coils, of 

approximately round cross section, less than 

19.00 mm in actual solid cross-sectional 

diameter. Specifically excluded are steel 

products possessing the above-noted physical 

characteristics and meeting the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

definitions for (a) stainless steel; (b) tool 

steel; (c) high-nickel steel; (d) ball bearing 

steel; or (e) concrete reinforcing bars and 

rods. Also excluded are free cutting steel 

(also known as free machining steel) 

products (i.e. , products that contain by 

weight oneor more of the following elements: 

0.1 percent or more of lead, 0.05 percent or 

more of bismuth, 0.08 percent or more of 

sulfur, more than 0.04 percent of 

phosphorous, more than 0.05 percent of 

selenium, or more than 0.01 percent of 

tellurium). All products meeting the physical 

description of subject merchandise that are 

not specifically excluded are included in this 

scope. 

The products under investigation are 

currently classifiable under subheadings 

7213.91.3011, 7213.91.3015, 7213.91.3020, 

7213.91.3093, 7213.91.4500, 7213.91.6000, 

7213.99.0030, 7227.20.0030, 7227.20.0080, 

7227.90.6010, 7227.90.6020, 7227.90.6030, 

and 7227.90.6035 of the HTSUS. Products 

entered under subheadings 7213.99.0090 and 

7227.90.6090 of the HTSUS also may be 

included in this scope if they meet the 

physical description of subject merchandise 

above. Although the HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this proceeding is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope Comments 

IV. Scope of the Investigation 

V. Respondent Selection 

VI. Injury Test 

VII. Preliminary Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

VIII. Subsidies Valuation 

IX. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

X. Analysis of Programs 

XI. ITC Notification 

XII. Disclosure and Public Comment 

XIII. Verification 

XIV. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–475–837] 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod From 

Italy: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of carbon and 

alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from 

Italy. The period of investigation is 

January 1, 2016, through December 31, 

2016. 

DATES: Applicable September 5, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yasmin Bordas or John Corrigan, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3813 or (202) 482–7438, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). The Department published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on April 26, 2017.1 On June 5, 2017, the 

Department postponed the preliminary 

determination of this investigation and 

the revised deadline is now August 25, 

2017.2 For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at http:// 

access.trade.gov, and is available to all 

parties in the Central Records Unit, 

Room B8024 of the main Department of 

Commerce building. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

frn/. The signed and electronic versions 

of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is wire rod from Italy. For 

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