[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1599-1600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-395]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-825]
Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On November 3, 2010, the Department of Commerce (the
Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative
review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from
Brazil. The review covers one producer/exporter of the subject
merchandise, Villares Metals S.A. (VMSA). The period of review is
February 1, 2009, through January 31, 2010. We gave interested parties
an opportunity to comment on our preliminary results. We received no
comments on our preliminary results. The final weighted-average dumping
margin for VMSA is listed below in the ``Final Results of Review''
section of this notice.
DATES: Effective Date: January 11, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Stewart or Minoo Hatten, AD/CVD
Operations, Office 5, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
0768 or (202) 482-1690, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 3, 2010, the Department published the preliminary
results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on
stainless steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. See Stainless Steel Bar From
Brazil: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,
75 FR 67689 (November 3, 2010) (Preliminary Results). We invited
interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results. We did not
receive comments from any interested parties.
The Department has conducted this administrative review in
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act).
Scope of the Order
The scope of the order covers SSB. The term SSB with respect to the
order means articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have
been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or
otherwise cold-finished,
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or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their whole
length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles
(including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons or other convex
polygons. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs that are turned or ground in
straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or from
straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the
rolling process. Except as specified above, the term does not include
stainless steel semi-finished products, cut-length flat-rolled products
(i.e., cut-length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in
thickness have a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if
4.75 mm or more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and
measures at least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed
products in coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their whole
length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled
products), and angles, shapes and sections. The SSB subject to the
order is currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.10.0005,
7222.10.0050, 7222.20.0005, 7222.20.0045, 7222.20.0075, and
7222.30.0000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience
and customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the order
is dispositive.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
We identified a slight programming syntax error in our calculations
after publication of the Preliminary Results. We have corrected the
syntax error for the final results. Despite this correction, the
dumping margin for VMSA remains unchanged. For a more detailed
description of this change please see the final analysis memorandum for
VMSA, dated concurrently with this notice, which is on file in the
Department's Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the main Commerce
building.
Final Results of Review
As announced in the Preliminary Results, we disregarded sales at
prices below cost in the home market when determining normal value in
the course of this administrative review. As a result of our review, we
determine that the weighted-average dumping margin of 4.07 percent
exists for VMSA for the period February 1, 2009, through January 31,
2010.
Assessment Rates
The Department shall determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries. In accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), we have calculated importer/customer-specific assessment
rates for these final results of review. For sales where VMSA reported
entered value, we divided the total dumping margins (calculated as the
difference between normal value and EP) for the reviewed sales by the
total entered value of those reviewed sales for each reported importer
or customer. For sales where entered value was not reported, we divided
the total dumping margins for each exporter's importer or customer by
the total number of units the exporter sold to that importer or
customer. We will instruct CBP to assess the resulting importer/
customer-specific ad-valorem rate or per-unit dollar amount, as
appropriate, on all entries of subject merchandise made by the relevant
importer or customer during the period of review. See 19 CFR
351.212(b).
The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject
merchandise during the period of review produced by VMSA for which VMSA
did not know its merchandise was destined for the United States. In
such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries of
VMSA-produced merchandise at the all-others rate if there is no rate
for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction. For a
full discussion of this clarification, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
The Department intends to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after
the publication of these final results of review.
Cash-Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of this notice of final results of administrative review
for all shipments of SSB from Brazil entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication, as
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash-deposit rate
for VMSA will be 4.07 percent; (2) for previously reviewed or
investigated companies not listed above, the cash-deposit rate will
continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent
period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a
prior review, or the less-than-fair-value investigation but the
manufacturer is, the cash-deposit rate will be the rate established for
the most recent period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; (4) if
neither the exporter nor the manufacturer has its own rate, the cash-
deposit rate will be the all-others rate for this proceeding, 19.43
percent. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, 59 FR 66914 (December 28,
1994). These deposit requirements shall remain in effect until further
notice.
Notification to Parties
This notice serves as a reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding
the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the
relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely notification of the
destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order
is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the
terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
These final results of administrative review are issued and
published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the
Act.
Dated: January 4, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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