Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 189 / Monday, October 2, 2017 / Notices 45809 

1See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Taiwan: 

Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 

Value, 82 FR 34925 (June 27, 2017) (Final 

Determination). 

2See Letter from the ITC to the Honorable Gary 

Taverman, September 11, 2017 (Notification of ITC 

Final Determination); see also Steel Concrete 

Reinforcing Bar from Taiwan, Investigation No. 

731–TA–1339 (Final) (September 2017). 

3See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Taiwan, 

82 FR 43403 (September 15, 2017). 

4See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Taiwan: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, 82 FR 12800 (March 7, 2017) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

5See section 736(a)(3) of the Act. 

6See Preliminary Determination 82 FR at 12801. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Investigation 

IV. Injury Test 

V. Subsidies Valuation 

VI. Analysis of Programs 

VII. Conclusion 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–583–859] 

Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From 

Taiwan: Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Based on an affirmative final 

determination by the Department of 

Commerce (the Department) and the 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

the Department is issuing the 

antidumping duty (AD) order on steel 

concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from 

Taiwan. 

DATES: Applicable: October 2, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jun 

Jack Zhao or Kathryn Wallace at (202) 

482–1396 and (202) 482–6251, 

respectively, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 1401 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 June 27, 2017 the 

Department published its affirmative 

final determination in the less-than-fairvalue (LTFV) investigation of rebar from 

Taiwan.1 On September 11, 2017, the 

ITC notified the Department of its final 

determination that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured by 

reason of LTFV imports of subject 

merchandise from Taiwan within the 

meaning of 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.2

On September 15, the ITC published its 

final determination in the Federal 

Register.3

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by this order is 

rebar from Taiwan. For a complete 

description of the scope of the order, see 

the Appendix to this notice. 

Antidumping Duty Order 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, the ITC notified the Department 

of its final determination in this 

investigation, in which it found that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of imports 

of rebar from Taiwan. Therefore, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(2) of the 

Act, we are issuing this antidumping 

duty order. Because the ITC determined 

that imports of rebar from Taiwan are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from 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 

rebar from Taiwan. Antidumping duties 

will be assessed on unliquidated entries 

of rebar from Taiwan entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after March 7, 2017, 

the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination,4 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 injury 

determination, as further described 

below. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department 

will instruct CBP to continue to suspend 

liquidation of all relevant entries of 

rebar from Taiwan, effective the date of 

publication of the ITC’s notice of final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

These instructions suspending 

liquidation will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

The Department will also instruct 

CBP to require cash deposits for 

estimated antidumping duties equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins indicated below. 

Accordingly, effective September 15, 

2017, the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final affirmative determination in 

the Federal Register, CBP will require, 

at the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated duties on 

this subject merchandise, a cash deposit 

equal to the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins listed below.5 The 

relevant all-others rates apply to all 

producers or exporters not specifically 

listed below. 

Provisional Measures 

Section 733(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, 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 rebar from 

Taiwan, the Department extended the 

four-month period to six months in this 

case.6 The Department published the 

preliminary determination on March 7, 

2017. Therefore, the extended period, 

beginning on the date of publication of 

the preliminary determination, ended 

on September 3, 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 

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 rebar from Taiwan entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption after September 3, 2017, 

until and through September 14, 2017, 

the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margins 

The weighted-average antidumping 

duty margin percentages are as follows: 


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45810 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 189 / Monday, October 2, 2017 / Notices 

1See Initiation of Five-year (Sunset) Reviews, 76 

FR 38613 (July 1, 2011). 

2See Uranium From the Russian Federation; 

Final Results of the Expedited Fourth Sunset 

Review of the Suspension Agreement, 82 FR 26776 

(June 9, 2017). 

3See Uranium from Russia; Determination, 

Investigation No. 731–TA–539–C (Fourth Review), 

82 FR 44842 (September 26, 2017); see also ITC 

Publication, Uranium from Russia (Investigation 

No. 731–TA–539–C (Fourth Review), USITC 

Publication 4727, September 2017). 

4The second amendment of two amendments to 

the Suspension Agreement effective on October 3, 

1996, in part included within the scope of the 

Suspension Agreement on Russian uranium which 

had been enriched in a third country prior to 

importation into the United States. According to the 

amendment, this modification remained in effect 

Exporter/manufacturer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margins 

(percent) 

Power Steel Co., Ltd ................ 3.50 

Lo-Toun Steel and Iron Works 

Co., Ltd ................................. 32.01 

All-Others .................................. 3.50 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

antidumping duty order with respect to 

rebar from Taiwan, 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. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 736(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: September 25, 2017. 

Carole Showers, 

Executive Director, Office of Policy 

performing the duties of Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to this order is 

steel concrete reinforcing bar imported in 

either straight length or coil form (rebar) 

regardless of metallurgy, length, diameter, or 

grade or lack thereof. Subject merchandise 

includes deformed steel wire with bar 

markings (e.g., mill mark, size, or grade) and 

which has been subjected to an elongation 

test. 

The subject merchandise includes rebar 

that has been further processed in the subject 

countries or a third country, including but 

not limited to cutting, grinding, galvanizing, 

painting, coating, or any other processing 

that would not otherwise remove the 

merchandise from the scope of this order if 

performed in the country of manufacture of 

the rebar. 

Specifically excluded are plain rounds 

(i.e., nondeformed or smooth rebar). Also 

excluded from the scope is deformed steel 

wire meeting ASTM A1064/A1064M with no 

bar markings (e.g., mill mark, size, or grade) 

and without being subject to an elongation 

test. 

The subject merchandise is classifiable in 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) primarily under item 

numbers 7213.10.0000, 7214.20.0000, and 

7228.30.8010. The subject merchandise may 

also enter under other HTSUS numbers 

including 7215.90.1000, 7215.90.5000, 

7221.00.0017, 7221.00.0018, 7221.00.0030, 

7221.00.0045, 7222.11.0001, 7222.11.0057, 

7222.11.0059, 7222.30.0001, 7227.20.0080, 

7227.90.6030, 7227.90.6035, 7227.90.6040, 

7228.20.1000, and 7228.60.6000. 

HTSUS numbers are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes; 

however, the written description of the scope 

remains dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–802] 

Uranium From the Russian Federation: 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Antidumping Investigation 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: As a result of determinations 

by the Department of Commerce 

(Department) that termination of the 

Agreement Suspending the 

Antidumping Investigation on Uranium 

from the Russian Federation, as 

amended (the Agreement), and the 

suspended investigation on uranium 

from the Russian Federation (Russia) 

would likely lead to a continuation or 

recurrence of dumping, and by the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) 

that termination of the suspended 

investigation would likely lead to 

material injury to an industry in the 

United States, the Department is 

publishing this notice of continuation of 

the Agreement on uranium from Russia. 

DATES: Applicable October 2, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sally C. Gannon or Jill Buckles, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone (202) 482–0162 or 

(202) 482–6230, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 3, 2017, the Department 

published the notice of initiation of the 

fourth sunset review of the Agreement, 

pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).1 On 

the basis of the notice of intent to 

participate and adequate substantive 

responses filed by domestic interested 

parties and the lack of response from 

any respondent interested party, the 

Department conducted an expedited 

sunset review of the Agreement 

pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C). As 

a result of its review, pursuant to 

sections 751(c) and 752 of the Act, the 

Department determined that termination 

of the Agreement and the suspended 

investigation on uranium from the 

Russian Federation would likely lead to 

a continuation or recurrence of dumping 

and, therefore, notified the ITC of the 

magnitude of the margin likely to 

prevail should the Agreement be 

terminated.2

On September 26, 2017, pursuant to 

section 751(c) of the Act, the ITC 

published its determination that 

termination of the suspended 

investigation on uranium from the 

Russian Federation would be likely to 

lead to continuation or recurrence of 

material injury to an industry in the 

United States within a reasonably 

foreseeable time.3

Scope of the Agreement 

The product covered by the 

Suspension Agreement is natural 

uranium in the form of uranium ores 

and concentrates; natural uranium metal 

and natural uranium compounds; 

alloys, dispersions (including cermets), 

ceramic products, and mixtures 

containing natural uranium or natural 

uranium compounds; uranium enriched 

in U235 and its compounds; alloys, 

dispersions (including cermets), ceramic 

products, and mixtures containing 

uranium enriched in U235 or 

compounds of uranium enriched in 

U235; and any other forms of uranium 

within the same class or kind. 

Uranium ore from Russia that is 

milled into U3O8 and/or converted into 

UF6 in another country prior to direct 

and/or indirect importation into the 

United States is considered uranium 

from Russia and is subject to the terms 

of this Suspension Agreement. 

For purposes of this Suspension 

Agreement, uranium enriched in U235 or 

compounds of uranium enriched in U235

in Russia are covered by this 

Suspension Agreement, regardless of 

their subsequent modification or 

blending. Uranium enriched in U235 in 

another country prior to direct and/or 

indirect importation into the United 

States is not considered uranium from 

Russia and is not subject to the terms of 

this Suspension Agreement.4


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