[Federal Register: April 14, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 72)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
A-570-865
Preliminary Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review:
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From The People's
Republic of China
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Quigley or Blaine Wiltse, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4047 and (202) 482-6345, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 1, 2007, the Department of Commerce (``Department'')
published a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review
of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat
products from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') for the period
of review (``POR'') November 1, 2006, through October 31, 2007. See
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 72 FR
61859 (November 1, 2007). On November 30, 2007, Nucor Corporation
(``Petitioner''), a domestic producer of
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certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products, requested that the
Department conduct an administrative review of Baosteel Group
Corporation, Shanghai Baosteel International Economic & Trading Co.,
Ltd., and Baoshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (collectively ``Baosteel'').
On December 27, 2007, the Department published a notice of initiation
of an antidumping duty administrative review on certain hot-rolled
carbon steel flat products from the PRC. See Initiation of Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, (``Notice of
Initiation''), 72 FR 73315 (December 27, 2007).
On January 7, 2008, Baosteel submitted a letter stating that it had
no sales of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. On
January 28, 2008, the Department sent an inquiry to U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (``CBP'') requesting notification as to whether it
had information indicating that there were shipments of subject
merchandise into the United States during the POR by Baosteel. The
Department has not to date received any notification from CBP
indicating that there were shipments of subject merchandise by Baosteel
during the POR. The Department has also reviewed CBP entry data for the
POR, and found no evidence that there were entries of subject
merchandise exported by Baosteel.
Scope of the Review
For purposes of this review, the products covered are certain hot-
rolled carbon steel flat products of a rectangular shape, of a width of
0.5 inch or greater, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal and
whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other
non-metallic substances, in coils (whether or not in successively
superimposed layers), regardless of thickness, and in straight lengths
of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm and of a width measuring at least
10 times the thickness. Universal mill plate (i.e., flat-rolled
products rolled on four faces or in a closed box pass, of a width
exceeding 150 mm, but not exceeding 1250 mm, and of a thickness of not
less than 4.0 mm, not in coils and without patterns in relief) of a
thickness not less than 4.0 mm is not included within the scope of this
review.Specifically included within the scope of this review are vacuum
degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-free
(``IF'')) steels, high strength low alloy (``HSLA'') steels, and the
substrate for motor lamination steels. IF steels are recognized as low
carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as titanium
or niobium (also commonly referred to as columbium), or both, added to
stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are recognized as
steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as chromium, copper,
niobium, vanadium, and molybdenum. The substrate for motor lamination
steels contains micro-alloying levels of elements such as silicon and
aluminum.
Steel products to be included in the scope of this review,
regardless of definitions in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (``HTSUS''), are products in which: i) iron predominates,
by weight, over each of the other contained elements; ii) the carbon
content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and, iii) none of the elements
listed below exceeds the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:
1.80 percent of manganese, or
2.25 percent of silicon, or
1.00 percent of copper, or
0.50 percent of aluminum, or
1.25 percent of chromium, or
0.30 percent of cobalt, or
0.40 percent of lead, or
1.25 percent of nickel, or
0.30 percent of tungsten, or0.10 percent of molybdenum, or
0.10 percent of niobium, or
0.15 percent of vanadium, or
0.15 percent of zirconium.
All products that meet the physical and chemical description
provided above are within the scope of this review unless otherwise
excluded. The following products, by way of example, are outside or
specifically excluded from the scope of this review:
Alloy hot-rolled steel products in which at least one of the
chemical elements exceeds those listed above (including, e.g., American
Society for Testing and Materials (``ASTM'') specifications A543, A387,
A514, A517, A506).
Society of Automotive Engineers (``SAE'')/American Iron &
Steel Institute (``AISI'') grades of series 2300 and higher.
Ball bearing steels, as defined in the HTSUS.
Tool steels, as defined in the HTSUS.
Silico-manganese (as defined in the HTSUS) or silicon
electrical steel with a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent.
ASTM specifications A710 and A736.
USS abrasion-resistant steels (USS AR 400, USS AR 500).
All products (proprietary or otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM
specification (sample specifications: ASTM A506, A507).
Non-rectangular shapes, not in coils, which are the result of
having been processed by cutting or stamping and which have assumed the
character of articles or products classified outside chapter 72 of the
HTSUS.
The merchandise subject to this review is classified in the HTSUS
at subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00,
7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60,
7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60,
7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30,
7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90,
7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00,
7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00,
7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30,
7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90. Certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat
products covered by this review, including: vacuum degassed fully
stabilized; high strength low alloy; and the substrate for motor
lamination steel may also enter under the following tariff numbers:
7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00, 7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00,
7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90, 7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30,
7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00, 7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00,
7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and 7226.99.00.00. Subject merchandise
may also enter under 7210.70.30.00, 7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30,
7212.40.10.00, 7212.40.50.00, and 7212.50.00.00. Although the HTSUS
subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes, the
written description of the merchandise under review is dispositive.
Period of Review
The POR is November 1, 2006, through October 31, 2007.
Preliminary Rescission of Review
Because there is no information on the record which indicates that
Baosteel made sales to the United States of subject merchandise during
the POR, and because Baosteel is the only company subject to this
administrative review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3) and
consistent with our practice, we are preliminarily rescinding this
review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel
flat products from the PRC for the period of November 1, 2006, to
October 31, 2007. If the rescission is confirmed in our final results,
the cash deposit rate for Baosteel will continue to be the rate
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established in the most recently completed segment of this proceeding.
Interested parties may submit comments for consideration in the
Department's final results not later than 30 days after publication of
this notice. See 19 CFR 351.309(c). Responses to those comments may be
submitted not later than five days following submission of the
comments. See 19 CFR 351.309(d). All written comments must be submitted
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303, and must be served on interested
parties on the Department's service list in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303(f)(3). The Department will issue the final results of this
administrative review, which will include the results of its analysis
of issues raised in any such comments, within 120 days of publication
of the preliminary results, and will publish these results in the
Federal Register.
This notice is in accordance with sections 751 and 777(i)(1) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).
Dated: April 7, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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