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8The Department has determined that Norma 

(India) Limited and USK Exports Private Limited 

and Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co. and Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal are a single entity. See Memorandum, 

‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Finished 

Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Preliminary 

Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for Norma 

(India) Limited,’’ dated January 26, 2017, at 8–9, 

unchanged in India Final Determination. 

9See India Final Determination, 82 FR at 29484. 

10 Id. 

11 Id. 

12The Department has determined that Officine 

Ambrogio Melesi & C. S.r.l and ASFO S.p.A. are a 

single entity. See Memorandum, ‘‘Less-Than-FairValue Investigation of Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from Italy: Affiliation and Collapsing 

Memorandum for Officine Ambrogio Melesi & C. 

S.r.l.,’’ dated January 26, 2017, at 7, unchanged in 

Italy Final Determination. 

1See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, 82 FR 29479 (June 29, 2017) (Final 

Determination). 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit 

rate 

(adjusted 

for subsidy 

offsets) 

(percent) 

R. N. Gupta & Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................ 12.58 9.27.10

All-Others ................................................................................................................................................. 11.95 8.91.11

Italy 

Metalfar Prodotti Industriali S.p.A ........................................................................................................... 204.53 Not Applicable. 

Officine Ambrogio Melesi & C. S.r.l 12 ..................................................................................................... 204.53 Not Applicable. 

All-Others ................................................................................................................................................. 79.17 Not Applicable. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

antidumping duty orders with respect to 

finished carbon steel flanges from India 

and Italy 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 orders are published in 

accordance with section and 736(a) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: August 21, 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 

Scope of the Orders 

The scope of these orders covers finished 

carbon steel flanges. Finished carbon steel 

flanges differ from unfinished carbon steel 

flanges (also known as carbon steel flange 

forgings) in that they have undergone further 

processing after forging, including, but not 

limited to, beveling, bore threading, center or 

step boring, face machining, taper boring, 

machining ends or surfaces, drilling bolt 

holes, and/or de-burring or shot blasting. Any 

one of these post-forging processes suffices to 

render the forging into a finished carbon steel 

flange for purposes of these orders. However, 

mere heat treatment of a carbon steel flange 

forging (without any other further processing 

after forging) does not render the forging into 

a finished carbon steel flange for purposes of 

this order. 

While these finished carbon steel flanges 

are generally manufactured to specification 

ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 series A or 

series B, the scope is not limited to flanges 

produced under those specifications. All 

types of finished carbon steel flanges are 

included in the scope regardless of pipe size 

(which may or may not be expressed in 

inches of nominal pipe size), pressure class 

(usually, but not necessarily, expressed in 

pounds of pressure, e.g., 150, 300, 400, 600, 

900, 1,500, 2,500, etc.), type of face (e.g., flat 

face, full face, raised face, etc.), configuration 

(e.g., weld neck, slip on, socket weld, lap 

joint, threaded, etc.), wall thickness (usually, 

but not necessarily, expressed in inches), 

normalization, or whether or not heat treated. 

These carbon steel flanges either meet or 

exceed the requirements of the ASTM A105, 

ASTM A694, ASTM A181, ASTM A350 and 

ASTM A707 standards (or comparable 

foreign specifications). The scope includes 

any flanges produced to the above-referenced 

ASTM standards as currently stated or as 

may be amended. The term ‘‘carbon steel’’ 

under this scope is steel in which: 

(a) Iron predominates, by weight, over each 

of the other contained elements: 

(b) The carbon content is 2 percent or less, 

by weight; and 

(c) none of the elements listed below 

exceeds the quantity, by weight, as indicated: 

(i) 0.87 percent of aluminum; 

(ii) 0.0105 percent of boron; 

(iii) 10.10 percent of chromium; 

(iv) 1.55 percent of columbium; 

(v) 3.10 percent of copper; 

(vi) 0.38 percent of lead; 

(vii) 3.04 percent of manganese; 

(viii) 2.05 percent of molybdenum; 

(ix) 20.15 percent of nickel; 

(x) 1.55 percent of niobium; 

(xi) 0.20 percent of nitrogen; 

(xii) 0.21 percent of phosphorus; 

(xiii) 3.10 percent of silicon; 

(xiv) 0.21 percent of sulfur; 

(xv) 1.05 percent of titanium; 

(xvi) 4.06 percent of tungsten; 

(xvii) 0.53 percent of vanadium; or 

(xviii) 0.015 percent of zirconium. 

Finished carbon steel flanges are currently 

classified under subheadings 7307.91.5010 

and 7307.91.5050 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). They 

may also be entered under HTSUS 

subheadings 7307.91.5030 and 7307.91.5070. 

The HTSUS subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes; the 

written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–872] 

Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From 

India: Countervailing Duty Order 

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 a 

countervailing duty order on finished 

carbon steel flanges from India. 

DATES: Applicable August 24, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Davina Friedmann at (202) 482–0698 or 

Erin Kearney at (202) 482–0167, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with section 705(d) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on June 29, 

2017, the Department published its 

affirmative final determination in the 

countervailing duty investigation of 

finished carbon steel flanges from 

India.1 On August 14, 2017, the ITC 

notified the Department of its final 

affirmative determination, pursuant to 


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2See ITC Letter dated August 14, 2017 (ITC 

Letter); see also Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from 

India and Italy, Investigation No. 701–TA–563 and 

731–TA–1331–1332 (Final) USITC Publication 4714 

(August 2017) (ITC Report). 

3See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India 

and Italy; Determinations, 82 FR 39133 (August 17, 

2017). 

4See ITC Letter and ITC Report. 

5See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India: 

Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, 81 FR 85928 (November 29, 2016) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

6As discussed in the Final Determination, the 

Department found the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Norma (India) Limited: Uma 

Shanker Khandelwal & Co., USK Exports Private 

Limited, and Bansidhar Chiranjilal. 

section 705(d) of the Act, that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured within the meaning 

of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by 

reason of subsidized imports of finished 

carbon steel flanges from India.2 On 

August 17, 2017, the ITC published its 

final determination in the Federal 

Register.3

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this 

order is finished carbon steel flanges 

from India. For a complete description 

of the scope of this order, see Appendix 

of this notice. 

Countervailing Duty Order 

As stated above, on August 14, 2017, 

in accordance with section 705(d) of the 

Act, the ITC notified the Department of 

its final determination that an industry 

in the United States is materially 

injured by reason of subsidized imports 

of finished carbon steel flanges from 

India.4 Therefore, in accordance with 

section 705(c)(2) of the Act, we are 

issuing this countervailing duty order. 

Because the ITC determined that 

imports of finished carbon steel flanges 

from India are materially injuring a U.S. 

industry, unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from India, entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of countervailing duties. 

As a result of the ITC’s final 

determination, in accordance with 

section 706(a) of the Act, the 

Department will direct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, 

upon further instruction by the 

Department, countervailing duties on 

unliquidated entries of finished carbon 

steel flanges from India. Countervailing 

duties will be assessed on unliquidated 

entries of finished carbon steel flanges 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after November 

29, 2016, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination,5 but will 

not include entries occurring after the 

expiration of the provisional measures 

period and before publication in the 

Federal Register of the ITC’s final injury 

determination. 

Section 703(d) of the Act states that 

the suspension of liquidation pursuant 

to an affirmative preliminary 

determination may not remain in effect 

for more than four months. In the 

underlying investigation, the 

Department published the Preliminary 

Determination on November 29, 2016. 

Therefore, the four-month period 

beginning on the date of the publication 

of the Preliminary Determination ended 

on March 28, 2017. Furthermore, 

section 737(b) of the Act states that the 

collection of final cash deposits will 

begin on the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

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

instructed CBP to terminate the 

suspension of liquidation and to 

liquidate, without regard to duties, 

unliquidated entries of finished carbon 

steel flanges from India made on or after 

March 29, 2017. Suspension of 

liquidation will resume on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, the Department will instruct CBP to 

reinstitute the suspension of liquidation 

on all entries of subject merchandise 

from India, applicable the date of 

publication of the ITC’s notice of final 

affirmative injury determination in the 

Federal Register, and to assess, upon 

further instruction by the Department 

pursuant to 706(a)(1) of the Act, 

countervailing duties for each entry of 

the subject merchandise in an amount 

based on the net countervailable 

subsidy rates for the subject 

merchandise. We will also instruct CBP 

to require cash deposits for each entry 

of subject merchandise equal to the 

amounts as indicated below. These 

instructions suspending liquidation will 

remain in effect until further notice. The 

all-others rate applies to all producers or 

exporters not specifically listed, as 

appropriate. 

Exporter/manufacturer Subsidy rate 

(percent) 

Norma (India) Limited 6 ......... 5.66 

R.N. Gupta & Co., Ltd .......... 9.11 

All Others .............................. 7.39 

Notifications to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

countervaling duty order with respect to 

finished carbon steel flanges from India 

pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act. 

Interested parties can find a list of 

countervailing duty orders currently in 

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

stats/iastats1.html. 

This order is published in accordance 

with section and 706(a) of the Act and 

19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: August 21, 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 

Scope of the Order 

The scope of this order covers finished 

carbon steel flanges. Finished carbon steel 

flanges differ from unfinished carbon steel 

flanges (also known as carbon steel flange 

forgings) in that they have undergone further 

processing after forging, including, but not 

limited to, beveling, bore threading, center or 

step boring, face machining, taper boring, 

machining ends or surfaces, drilling bolt 

holes, and/or de-burring or shot blasting. Any 

one of these post-forging processes suffices to 

render the forging into a finished carbon steel 

flange for purposes of this order. However, 

mere heat treatment of a carbon steel flange 

forging (without any other further processing 

after forging) does not render the forging into 

a finished carbon steel flange for purposes of 

this order. 

While these finished carbon steel flanges 

are generally manufactured to specification 

ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 series A or 

series B, the scope is not limited to flanges 

produced under those specifications. All 

types of finished carbon steel flanges are 

included in the scope regardless of pipe size 

(which may or may not be expressed in 

inches of nominal pipe size), pressure class 

(usually, but not necessarily, expressed in 

pounds of pressure, e.g., 150, 300, 400, 600, 

900, 1500, 2500, etc.), type of face (e.g., flat 

face, full face, raised face, etc.), configuration 

(e.g., weld neck, slip on, socket weld, lap 

joint, threaded, etc.), wall thickness (usually, 

but not necessarily, expressed in inches), 

normalization, or whether or not heat treated. 

These carbon steel flanges either meet or 

exceed the requirements of the ASTM A105, 

ASTM A694, ASTM A181, ASTM A350 and 

ASTM A707 standards (or comparable 

foreign specifications). The scope includes 

any flanges produced to the above-referenced 

ASTM standards as currently stated or as 

may be amended. The term ‘‘carbon steel’’ 

under this scope is steel in which: 

(a) Iron predominates, by weight, over each 

of the other contained elements: 

(b) The carbon content is 2 percent or less, 

by weight; and 

(c) none of the elements listed below 

exceeds the quantity, by weight, as indicated: 

(i) 0.87 percent of aluminum; 

(ii) 0.0105 percent of boron; 

(iii) 10.10 percent of chromium; 

(iv) 1.55 percent of columbium; 

(v) 3.10 percent of copper; 

(vi) 0.38 percent of lead; 


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(vii) 3.04 percent of manganese; 

(viii) 2.05 percent of molybdenum; 

(ix) 20.15 percent of nickel; 

(x) 1.55 percent of niobium; 

(xi) 0.20 percent of nitrogen; 

(xii) 0.21 percent of phosphorus; 

(xiii) 3.10 percent of silicon; 

(xiv) 0.21 percent of sulfur; 

(xv) 1.05 percent of titanium; 

(xvi) 4.06 percent of tungsten; 

(xvii) 0.53 percent of vanadium; or 

(xviii) 0.015 percent of zirconium. 

Finished carbon steel flanges are currently 

classified under subheadings 7307.91.5010 

and 7307.91.5050 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). They 

may also be entered under HTSUS 

subheadings 7307.91.5030 and 7307.91.5070. 

The HTSUS subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes; the 

written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18057 Filed 8–23–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Participant 

Application, Participant Exit 

Questionnaire, Alumni Success Story 

Report 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before October 23, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at PRAcomments@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Department of Commerce, 

International Trade Administration, 

SABIT, Attn: Tracey Rollins, 1401 

Constitution Ave. NW., 20230, (202) 

482–0073, tracy.rollins@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Special American Business 

Internship Training (SABIT) Program of 

the Department of Commerce’s 

International Trade Administration 

(ITA), is a key element in the U.S. 

Government’s efforts to support the 

economic transition of Eurasia (the 

former Soviet Union) and to support 

economic growth in other regions of the 

world, including Pakistan, South Asia, 

and the Middle East, et al. SABIT 

develops and implements two- to threeweek training programs for groups of up 

to 20 business and government 

professionals from Eurasia and other 

regions. These professionals meet with 

U.S. government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and private 

sector companies in order to learn about 

various business practices and 

principles. This unique private sectorU.S. Government partnership was 

created in order to tap into the U.S. 

private sector’s expertise and to assist 

developing regions in their transition to 

market-based economies while 

simultaneously boosting trade between 

the United States and other countries. 

Participant applications are needed to 

enable SABIT to find the most qualified 

participants for the training programs. 

Participant exit questionnaires provide 

insight as to what the participants have 

learned, and they are used to improve 

the content and administration of future 

programs. Alumni success story reports 

track the success of the program as 

regards to business ties between the U.S. 

and the countries SABIT covers. 

The closing date for participant 

applications is based upon the starting 

date of the program and is published 

with the application, on the program’s 

English-language Web site at 

www.trade.gov/sabit, and also on the 

Russian-language Web site at 

www.sabitprogram.org, if applicable. 

Pursuant to section 632(a) of the Foreign 

Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 

funding for the programs will be 

provided by the Agency for 

International Development (AID). 

The SABIT Program has revised the 

collection instruments. The instruments 

are very similar to those used by SABIT 

in past years. However, some wording 

has been changed to reflect the changing 

needs of SABIT over time. The changes 

are relatively minor and most of them 

are rephrasing of wording. Instructions 

for filling out the form, methods of 

submission, and the order of questions 

have been revised on the Participant 

Application. These revisions are not 

expected to increase the response time 

to complete the instruments. 

II. Method of Collection 

Participant applications are available 

for download from the SABIT English 

and Russian language Web sites at 

www.trade.gov/sabit and 

www.sabitprogram.org. Applications 

may be sent to program candidates via 

email or fax upon request. Applications 

are collected via email. Participant exit 

questionnaires are given to program 

participants at the completion of 

programs in by email and are collected 

by email, although in rare situations, a 

paper questionnaire may be completed 

and submitted. Alumni success story 

reports are used internally by SABIT 

staff to record success information, but 

at times they may be sent to alumni to 

fill out and submit via email or fax. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0625–0225. 

Form Number(s): ITA–4143P–3. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

(revision of a currently approved 

information collection). 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,500. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

Participant application, 3 hours; 

participant exit questionnaire, 1 hour; 

alumni success story report, 1 hour. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 7,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 


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