Notice2021-18188
Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation: Countervailing Duty Orders
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Published
August 23, 2021
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing countervailing duty (CVD) orders on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe (seamless pipe) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) and the Russian Federation (Russia).
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 160 (Monday, August 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47060-47061]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18188]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-580-910, C-821-827]
Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe
From the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation: Countervailing
Duty Orders
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of
Commerce (Commerce) and the International Trade Commission (ITC),
Commerce is issuing countervailing duty (CVD) orders on seamless carbon
and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe (seamless pipe) from
the Republic of Korea (Korea) and the Russian Federation (Russia).
DATES: Applicable August 23, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caitlin Monks (Russia), or Moses Song
and Natasia Harrison (Korea), AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitutions Avenue NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482-2670, (202) 482-7885, or (202) 482-1240, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with section 705(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), on July 2, 2021, Commerce published in the Federal
Register its affirmative final determinations in the CVD investigations
of seamless pipe from Korea and Russia.\1\ On August 16, 2021, the ITC
notified Commerce of its affirmative final determinations, pursuant to
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 seamless pipe from Korea and
Russia.\2\
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\1\ See Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and
Pressure Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Final Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination, 86 FR 35267 (July 2, 2021); see
also Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure
Pipe from the Russian Federation: Final Affirmative Countervailing
Duty Determination, 86 FR 35263 (July 2, 2021).
\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determinations,'' dated August 16, 2021; see also Seamless Carbon
and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from Korea,
Russia, and Ukraine, ITC Investigation Nos. 701-TA-654-655 and 731-
TA-1530-1532 (August 16, 2021).
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Scope of the Orders
The merchandise covered by these orders is seamless pipe from Korea
and Russia. For a complete description of the scope of these orders,
see the appendix to this notice.
Countervailing Duty Orders
In accordance with sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the Act,
the ITC has notified Commerce of its final determinations that the
industry in the United States producing seamless pipe is materially
injured by reason of subsidized imports of seamless pipe from Korea and
Russia. Therefore, in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the Act, we
are issuing these CVD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports
of seamless pipe from Korea and Russia are materially injuring a U.S.
industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from Korea and
Russia, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are
subject to the assessment of countervailing duties.
Countervailing duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of
seamless pipe from Korea and Russia entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after December 11, 2020, the date of
publication of the preliminary determinations,\3\ but will not include
entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures
period and before the publication of the ITC's final injury
determination under section 705(b) of the Act, as further described
below.
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\3\ See Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and
Pressure Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final
Determination with Final Antidumping Duty Determination, 85 FR 80024
(December 11, 2020); see also Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel
Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Russian Federation:
Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 85 FR 80007 (December 11, 2020) (Russia Preliminary
Determination).
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
In accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce will direct
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further
instruction by Commerce, countervailing duties for all relevant entries
of seamless pipe from Korea and Russia in an amount equal to the net
countervailable subsidy rates for the subject merchandise. On or after
the publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal
Register, CBP must require, at the same time as importers would
normally deposit estimated import duties on this merchandise, cash
deposits for each
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entry of subject merchandise equal to the rates noted below. These
instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further
notice.
Korea:
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Subsidy rate
Exporter/producer (ad valorem)
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ILJIN Steel Corporation................................. 1.78
All Others.............................................. 1.78
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Russia:
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Subsidy rate
Exporter/producer (ad valorem)
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PAO TMK/Volzhsky Pipe Plant Joint Stock Company 4....... 48.38
All Others.............................................. 48.38
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Provisional Measures
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\4\ Commerce found the following companies to be cross-owned
with PAO TMK and Volzhsky Pipe Plant Joint Stock Company: Sinarsky
Pipe Plant; Taganrog Metallurgical Plant Joint Stock Company;
Sinarsky Pipe Plant Joint Stock Company; Seversky Pipe Plant Joint
Stock Company; TMK CHERMET LLC; TMK CHERMET LLC Volzhsky; TMK
CHERMET LLC Ekaterinburg; TMK CHERMET LLC Rostov; TMK CHERMET LLC
Saratov; and TMK CHERMET LLC Service. See Russia Preliminary
Determination PDM at 2-3 and 9-10.
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Section 703(d) of the Act states that instructions issued pursuant
to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in effect
for more than four months. In the underlying investigations, Commerce
published the preliminary determinations on December 11, 2020. As such,
the four-month period beginning on the date of the publication of the
preliminary determinations ended on April 9, 2021. Furthermore, section
707(b) of the Act states that definitive duties are to begin on the
date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination. Therefore,
in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, we have instructed CBP to
discontinue the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without
regard to countervailing duties, unliquidated entries of seamless pipe
from Korea and Russia, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption, on or after April 10, 2021, the day after provisional
measures expired, until and through the day preceding the date of
publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal
Register. Suspension of liquidation will resume on the date of
publication of the ITC's final determination in the Federal Register.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the CVD orders with respect to seamless
pipe from Korea and Russia, pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act.
Interested parties can find a list of CVD orders currently in effect at
<a href="http://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html">http://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html</a>.
These CVD orders are issued and published in accordance with
section 706(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: August 18, 2021.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations.
Appendix--Scope of the Orders
The merchandise covered by the scope of these orders is seamless
carbon and alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipes and redraw
hollows, less than or equal to 16 inches (406.4 mm) in nominal
outside diameter, regardless of wall-thickness, manufacturing
process (e.g., hot-finished or cold-drawn), end finish (e.g., plain
end, beveled end, upset end, threaded, or threaded and coupled), of
surface finish (e.g., bare, lacquered or coated). Redraw hollows are
any unfinished carbon or alloy steel (other than stainless steel)
pipe or ``hollow profiles'' suitable for cold finishing operations,
such as cold drawing, to meet the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) or American Petroleum Institute (API)
specifications referenced below, or comparable specifications.
Specifically included within the scope are seamless carbon alloy
steel (other than stainless steel) standard, line, and pressure
pipes produced to the ASTM A-53, ASTM A-106, ASTM A-333, ASTM A-334,
ASTM A-589, ASTM A-795, ASTM A-1024, and API 51 specification, or
comparable specifications, and meeting the physical parameters
described above, regardless of application, with the exception of
the exclusions discussed below.
Specifically excluded from the scope of the orders are: (1) All
pipes meeting aerospace, hydraulic, and bearing tubing
specifications, including pipe produced to the ASTM A-822 standard;
(2) all pipes meeting the chemical requirements of ASTM A-335,
whether finished or unfinished; and (3) unattached couplings. Also
excluded from the scope of the orders are all mechanical, boiler,
condenser and heat exchange tubing, except when such products
conform to the dimensional requirements, i.e., outside diameter and
wall thickness, or ASTM A-53, ASTM A-106 or API 51 specification.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are: (1) Oil country
tubular goods consisting of drill pipe, casing, tubing and coupling
stock; (2) all pipes meeting the chemical requirements of ASTM A-53,
ASTM A-106 or API 5L; and (3) the exclusion for ASTM A-335 applies
to pipes meeting the comparable specifications GOST 550-75.
Subject seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe are normally
entered under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) subheadings 7304.19.1020, 7304.19.1030, 7304.19.1045,
7304.19.1060, 7304.19.5020, 7304.19.5050, 7304.31.6050,
7304.39.0016, 7304.39.0020, 7304.39.0024, 7304.39.0028,
7304.39.0032, 7304.39.0036, 7304.39.0040, 7304.39.0044,
7304.39.0048, 7304.39.0052, 7304.39.0056, 7304.39.0062,
7304.39.0068, 7304.39.0072, 7304.51.5005, 7304.51.5060,
7304.59.6000, 7304.59.8010, 7304.59.8015, 7304.59.8020,
7304.59.8025, 7304.59.8030, 7304.59.8035, 7304.59.8040,
7304.59.8045, 7304.59.8050, 7304.59.8055, 7304.59.8060,
7304.59.8065, and 7304.59.8070. The HTSUS subheadings and
specifications are provided for convenience and customs purposes;
the written description of the scope is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2021-18188 Filed 8-20-21; 8:45 am]
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