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17See Issues and Decision Memorandum at the 

section, ‘‘Partial Rescission of Administrative 

Review.’’ 

1See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from 

Belarus, Italy, the Republic of Korea, the Russian 

Federation, South Africa, Spain, the Republic of 

Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and United 

Kingdom: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 82 FR 19207 (April 26, 2017) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less Than 

Fair Value Investigation of Carbon and Alloy Steel 

Wire Rod from the Russian Federation and the 

United Arab Emirates,’’ dated concurrently with 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 3See 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,’’ August 7, 2017 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum). 

4 Id. at 20. 

Appendix II—List of Companies for 

Which We Are Rescinding This 

Administrative Review 17

1. Baoding Jiasheng Photovoltaic Technology 

Co. Ltd. 

2. Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy 

Resources Co., Ltd. 

3. Beijing Tianneng Yingli New Energy 

Resources Co. Ltd. 

4. BYD (Shangluo) Industrial Co., Ltd. 

5. Canadian Solar, Inc. 

6. Canadian Solar International, Ltd. 

7. Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Changshu), 

Inc. 

8. Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Luoyang), 

Inc. 

9. Hainan Yingli New Energy Resources Co., 

Ltd. 

10. Hengshui Yingli New Energy Resources 

Co., Ltd. 

11. Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 

12. Jinko Solar Import and Export Co., Ltd. 

13. Lixian Yingli New Energy Resources Co., 

Ltd. 

14. Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd. 

15. Shenzhen Jiawei Photovoltaic Lighting 

Co., Ltd. 

16. Shenzhen Yingli New Energy Resources 

Co., Ltd. 

17. Tianjin Yingli New Energy Resources Co., 

Ltd. 

18. Wuxi Suntech Power Co., Ltd. 

19. Yingli Energy (China) Co., Ltd. 

20. Yingli Green Energy Holding Company 

Limited 

21. Yingli Green Energy International 

Trading Company Limited 

22. Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 

Appendix III—List of Non-Selected 

Companies Under Review 

1. Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. 

2. Hefei JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd. 

3. Perlight Solar Co., Ltd. 

4. Risen Energy Co., Ltd. 

5. Shanghai JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd. 

6. Shenzhen Sungold Solar Co., Ltd. 

7. Sunny Apex Development Limited 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–824, A–520–808] 

Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire 

Rod From the Russian Federation and 

the United Arab Emirates: Affirmative 

Preliminary Determinations of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, and Affirmative 

Preliminary Determination of Critical 

Circumstances for Imports of Certain 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod From 

the Russian Federation 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) preliminarily 

determines that imports of carbon and 

alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from the 

Russian Federation (Russia) and the 

United Arab Emirates (the UAE) are 

being, or are likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). The period of these 

investigations (POI) is January 1, 2016, 

through December 31, 2016. Abinsk 

Electric Steel Works Ltd. (Abinsk) and 

JSC NLMK-Ural (NLMK Ural) are the 

mandatory respondents in the Russia 

investigation. Emirates Steel Industries 

PJSC (Emirates Steel) is the mandatory 

respondent in the UAE investigation. 

The estimated weighted average 

dumping margins of sales at LTFV are 

shown in the ‘‘Preliminary 

Determinations’’ section of this notice. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary 

determinations. 

DATES: Applicable September 12, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kaitlin Wojnar, 202–482–3857 (Russia), 

or Carrie Bethea at 202–482–1491 

(UAE), AD/CVD Operations, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department published the notice 

of initiation of these investigations on 

April 26, 2017.1 For a complete 

description of the events that followed 

the initiation of these investigations, see 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

dated concurrently with these 

determinations and hereby adopted by 

this notice.2 A list of topics included in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

is included as Appendix II to this 

notice. The Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is 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 https://access.trade.gov, and 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 found at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The 

signed Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum and the electronic 

versions of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigations 

The products covered by these 

investigations 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 (wire 

rod). Interested parties filed comments 

regarding the scope of the 

investigations. On August 7, 2017, we 

issued a Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum, which addressed these 

comments and established a briefing 

schedule for scope-related issues.3 As a 

result of the analysis contained therein, 

the scope language is unchanged from 

that in the Initiation Notice.4 For a full 

description of the scope of these 

investigations, see the ‘‘Scope of the 

Investigations,’’ in Appendix I. 

Methodology 

The Department is conducting these 

investigations in accordance with 

section 731 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act). Pursuant to section 

776(a) of the Act, the Department 

preliminarily relied upon facts 

otherwise available to assign an 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin to the mandatory respondents 

from Russia, Abinsk and NLMK Ural, 


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5See Notice of Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sodium Nitrite from 

the Federal Republic of Germany, 73 FR 21909, 

21912 (April 23, 2008), unchanged in Notice of 

Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 

Value: Sodium Nitrite from the Federal Republic of 

Germany, 73 FR 38986, 38987 (July 8, 2008), and 

accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 

Comment 2 (Sodium Nitrite from Germany Final 

Determination). 

6See the Petitions for the Imposition of 

Antidumping Duties on Carbon and Alloy Steel 

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

the Russian Federation, the Republic of South 

Africa, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab 

Emirates, and the United Kingdom, dated March 28, 

2017 (the Petition). 

7 Id. 

8 Id. 

9 Id. 

10See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From 

Thailand: Preliminary Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, and Postponement of Final 

Determination, 79 FR 10487 (February 25, 2014), 

and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, unchanged in Certain Oil Country 

Tubular Goods From India, the Republic of Korea, 

Taiwan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders; 

and Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the 

Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Amended Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 79 

FR 53691 (September 10, 2014). 

11See Letter to the Secretary from Petitioners re: 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Russia, 

South Africa, Spain, Turkey, and the United 

Kingdom: Critical Circumstances Allegations, dated 

July 6, 2017. 

12See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 10. 

13See Modification of Regulations Regarding the 

Practice of Accepting Bonds During the Provisional 

Measures Period in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 76 FR 61042 

(October 3, 2011). 

14See Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum 

at 4. 

and the mandatory respondent from the 

UAE, Emirates Steel, because these 

respondents did not timely respond to 

the Department’s antidumping duty 

questionnaire. See Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum for a complete 

explanation of the methodology and 

analysis underlying our preliminary 

application of adverse facts available. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) and 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provide that in 

the preliminary determination the 

Department shall determine an 

estimated all-others rate for all exporters 

and producers not individually 

investigated, which shall be an amount 

equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins established for exporters and 

producers individually investigated, 

excluding any zero and de minimis 

margins, and any margins determined 

entirely under section 776 of the Act. 

We cannot apply the methodology 

described in section 735(c)(5)(A) of the 

Act to calculate the ‘‘all-others’’ rate, as 

the margins in these preliminary 

determinations were both calculated 

under section 776 of the Act. In cases 

where no weighted-average dumping 

margins other than zero, de minimis, or 

those determined entirely under section 

776 of the Act have been established for 

individually examined entities, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(5)(B) of 

the Act, the Department averages the 

margins calculated by the petitioners in 

the petition and applies the result to 

‘‘all-other’’ entities not individually 

examined.5

With respect to Russia, in the 

Petition,6 the petitioners calculated six 

margins.7 Consistent with our practice, 

we assigned as the ‘‘all-others’’ rate, the 

simple average of the six dumping 

margins provided in the Petition, which 

is 436.76 percent.8 With respect to the 

UAE, in the Petition,9 the petitioners 

calculated only one margin. Therefore, 

we assigned as the ‘‘all-others’’ rate the 

only margin in the Petition, which is 

84.10 percent.10

Affirmative Preliminary Determination 

of Critical Circumstances for Exporters 

and Producers of Wire Rod From 

Russia 

On July 6, 2017, the petitioners filed 

a timely critical circumstances 

allegation, pursuant to section 733(e)(1) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.206, alleging 

that critical circumstances exist with 

respect to imports of wire rod from 

Russia.11 The Department preliminarily 

determines that critical circumstances 

exist with respect to imports of wire rod 

from Russia for Abinsk, NLMK Ural, 

and all other exporters and producers. 

For a full description of the 

methodology and results of the 

Department’s analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.12

Preliminary Determination 

The Department preliminarily 

determines that the following weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

RUSSIA

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

margin 

(percent) 

Abinsk Electric Steel Works Ltd 756.93 

JSC NLMK-Ural .......................... 756.93 

All-Others .................................... 436.80 

UAE 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

margin 

(percent) 

Emirates Steel Industries PJSC 84.10 

All-Others .................................... 84.10 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, we will direct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of all entries of wire rod 

from Russia and the UAE, as described 

in the ‘‘scope of the investigations’’ 

section entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. At such time, we 

will also instruct CBP, pursuant to 

section 733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(d), to require a cash 

deposit equal to the margins indicated 

in the chart above.13

In addition, section 773(e)(2) of the 

Act provides that, given an affirmative 

determination of critical circumstances, 

any suspension of liquidation shall 

apply to unliquidated entries of subject 

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 imports of 

subject merchandise from Russia 

produced by Abinsk, NLMK Ural, and 

all other exporters and producers not 

individually examined. Therefore, in 

accordance with section 733(e)(2)(A) of 

the Act, the suspension of liquidation 

shall also apply to unliquidated entries 

of merchandise from the Russian 

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. 

The suspension of liquidation will 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Verification 

Because the mandatory respondents 

in these investigations did not provide 

the information requested and the 

Department preliminarily determines 

these respondents to have been 

uncooperative, the Department will not 

conduct verifications. 

Public Comment 

Pursuant to the schedule established 

in the Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum, case briefs pertaining to 

the Department’s preliminary scope 

determinations may be submitted no 

later than September 6, 2017.14 Rebuttal 

scope briefs, limited to issues raised in 

the scope case briefs, may be submitted 


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15 Id. 

16 Id. 

17See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 

351.303. 

18See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also 19 CFR 

351.303 (for general filing requirements). 

19See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

1See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from 

Belarus, Italy, the Republic of Korea, the Russian 

Federation, South Africa, Spain, the Republic of 

Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and United 

Kingdom: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 82 FR 19207 (April 26, 2017) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Carbon and Alloy Steel 

Wire Rod from Belarus,’’ dated concurrently with, 

and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

no later than September 13, 2017.15 For 

all scope issues, parties must file 

separate but identical submissions on 

the records of all of the ongoing 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

wire rod investigations.16

Case briefs or other written comments 

pertaining to these preliminary 

determinations for Russia and UAE may 

be submitted to the Assistant Secretary 

for Enforcement and Compliance no 

later than 30 days after the date of 

publication of these preliminary 

determinations.17 Rebuttal briefs, 

limited to issues raised in case briefs, 

may be submitted no later than five days 

after the deadline date for case briefs.18

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

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

rebuttal briefs in these proceedings 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. All documents must be filed 

electronically using ACCESS. An 

electronically-filed request must be 

received successfully in its entirety by 

ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 

within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.19 Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, 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. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, we are notifying the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

our affirmative preliminary 

determination of sales at LTFV. If our 

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 our final determination whether 

these imports are materially injuring, or 

threaten material injury to, the U.S. 

industry. 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: September 5, 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 

Investigations 

The merchandise covered by these 

investigations 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 one or 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, 213.91.3015, 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. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope Comments 

V. Scope of the Investigations 

VI. Application of Facts Available and Use of 

Adverse Inference 

VII. Affirmative Preliminary Determination of 

Critical Circumstances for Exporters and 

Producers of Wire Rod From Russia 

VIII. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–822–806] 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod From 

Belarus: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) preliminarily 

determines that carbon and alloy steel 

wire rod (wire rod) from Belarus is 

being, or likely to be, sold in the United 

States at less than fair value (LTFV). The 

period of investigation (POI) is July 1, 

2016, through December 31, 2016. 

DATES: Applicable September 12, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Janz or Blaine Wiltse, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office II, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–2972 or (202) 482–6345, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(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 For a complete 

description of the events that followed 

the initiation of this investigation, see 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.2 A list of topics included 

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 


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