Notice2023-05194
Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Pipe From the United Arab Emirates: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Results of Antidumping Administrative Review; Notice of Amended Final Results
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Published
March 14, 2023
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
On March 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 21-00587, sustaining the Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand results pertaining to the administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) covering the period December 1, 2018, through November 30, 2019. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to the dumping margin assigned to Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC (Ajmal).
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05194]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-520-807]
Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Pipe From the United Arab
Emirates: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Results of
Antidumping Administrative Review; Notice of Amended Final Results
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT)
issued its final judgment in Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC.
v. United States, Consol. Court No. 21-00587, sustaining the Department
of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand results pertaining to the
administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on circular
welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
covering the period December 1, 2018, through November 30, 2019.
Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not
in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative review,
and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to the
dumping margin assigned to Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC
(Ajmal).
DATES: Applicable March 13, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alice Maldonado, 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) 482-4682.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 27, 2021, Commerce published its Final Results in the
2018-2019 AD administrative review of circular welded carbon-quality
steel pipe from UAE.\1\ Commerce found that the use of facts available
was warranted, pursuant to section 776(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and that Ajmal failed to cooperate to the best of
its ability to comply with a request for information, within the
meaning of section 776(b)(1) of the Act. Consequently, Commerce
assigned Ajmal the highest dumping margin alleged in the petition
(i.e., 54.27 percent), in accordance with section 776(b) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.308(a).\2\
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\1\ See Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the
United Arab Emirates: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2018-2019, 86 FR 59364 (October 27, 2021)
(Final Results).
\2\ See Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the
Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, the United Arab
Emirates, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Less-
Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 80 FR 73708, 73712 (November 17,
2015).
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Ajmal appealed Commerce's Final Results. On October 28, 2022, the
CIT remanded the Final Results to Commerce to accept and consider
Ajmal's section A response and to determine a new estimated dumping
margin for Ajmal that does not resort to section 776 of the Act with
respect to the filing of the company's response to section A of the
questionnaire.\3\
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\3\ See Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC. v. United
States, Slip Op. 22-121, Consol. Court No. 21-00587 (CIT 2022) at
11.
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In its final remand redetermination, issued in January 2023,
Commerce calculated Ajmal's weighted-average dumping margin based on
Ajmal's reported data.\4\ The CIT sustained Commerce's final
redetermination.\5\
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\4\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court
Remand, Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC. v. United States,
Consol. Court No. 21-00587, Slip Op. 22-121, dated January 26, 2023,
available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/Resources/remands/22-121.pdf">https://access.trade.gov/Resources/remands/22-121.pdf</a>.
\5\ See Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC. v. United
States, Slip Op. 23-27, Court No. 21-00587 (CIT 2023).
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Timken Notice
In its decision in Timken,\6\ as clarified by Diamond Sawblades,\7\
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that, pursuant to
section 516A(c) and (e) of the Act, Commerce must publish a notice of
court decision that is not ``in harmony'' with a Commerce determination
and must suspend liquidation of entries pending a ``conclusive'' court
decision. The CIT's March 3, 2023, judgment constitutes a final
decision of the CIT that is not in harmony with Commerce's Final
Results. Thus, this notice is published in fulfillment of the
publication requirements of Timken.
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\6\ See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir.
1990) (Timken).
\7\ See Diamond Sawblades Mfrs.' Coal. v. United States, 626
F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond Sawblades).
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Amended Final Results
Because there is now a final court judgment, Commerce is amending
its Final Results with respect to Ajmal as follows:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Ind. LLC......................... 0.57
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Cash Deposit Requirements
Because Ajmal has a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there have
been final results published in a subsequent administrative review, we
will not issue revised cash deposit instructions to U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP). This notice will not affect the current cash
deposit rate.
Liquidation of Suspended Entries
At this time, Commerce remains enjoined by CIT order from
liquidating entries that: were produced and exported by Ajmal and
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period
December 1, 2018, through November 30, 2019. These entries will remain
enjoined pursuant to the terms of the injunction during the pendency of
any appeals process.
In the event the CIT's ruling is not appealed, or, if appealed,
upheld by a final and conclusive court decision, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on unliquidated entries of
subject merchandise produced and exported by Ajmal in accordance with
19 CFR 351.212(b). We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on
all appropriate entries covered by this review when the importer-
specific ad valorem assessment rate is not zero or de minimis. Where an
import-specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis,\8\ we
will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard
to antidumping duties.
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\8\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections
516A(c) and (e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: March 8, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2023-05194 Filed 3-13-23; 8:45 am]
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