Notice2024-00904
Large Diameter Welded Pipe From Canada: Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022
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Published
January 18, 2024
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from Canada to correct a ministerial error. Based on the amended final results, we find that welded pipe from Canada was not sold in the United States at less than normal value (NV), during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3380-3382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00904]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-122-863]
Large Diameter Welded Pipe From Canada: Amended Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the
final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty
order on large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from Canada to
correct a ministerial error. Based on the amended final results, we
find that welded pipe from Canada was not sold in the United States at
less than normal value (NV), during the period of review (POR), May 1,
2021, through April 30, 2022.
DATES: Applicable January 18, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Faris Montgomery, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1537.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 5, 2023, Commerce disclosed its calculations to
interested parties and provided interested parties with the opportunity
to submit ministerial error comments.\1\ On December 11, 2023, Evraz
\2\ submitted an allegation of a ministerial error in the Final
Results.\3\ No other party made a ministerial error allegation or
provided rebuttal comments in response to Evraz's ministerial error
allegation. On December 13, 2023, Commerce published its final results
of administrative review.\4\
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\1\ See Memorandum, ``Deadline for Ministerial Error Comments
for the Final Results,'' dated December 6, 2023.
\2\ In the underlying investigation, Commerce treated Evraz Inc.
NA, Evraz Inc. NA Canada, and the Canadian National Steel
Corporation (collectively, Evraz) as a single entity. See Large
Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada: Final Affirmative Determination of
Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 84 FR 6378 (February 27, 2019). There
is no information on this record of this review that warrants
reconsideration of this single entity determination.
\3\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No
Shipments; 2021-2022, 88 FR 86316 (December 13, 2023) (Final
Results), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM). See
also Evraz's Letter, ``Ministerial Error Comments for the Final
Results,'' dated December 11, 2023 (Ministerial Error Allegation).
\4\ See Final Results IDM.
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Legal Framework
Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
defines a ``ministerial error'' as including ``errors in addition,
subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical errors resulting
from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other
unintentional error which the administering authority considers
ministerial.'' With respect to final results of administrative reviews,
19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that Commerce ``will analyze any comments
received and, if appropriate, correct any ministerial error by amending
. . . the final results of review . . .''
Ministerial Error
Commerce has determined that it made a ministerial error in the
Final Results within the meaning of section 751(h) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.224(f). In the Final Results, we made certain revisions to the
preliminary results based on minor corrections found at verification to
the cost of coating revenue for certain home market sales.\5\ In its
ministerial error allegation, Evraz stated that in revising the coating
revenue for certain home market sales based on minor corrections,
Commerce did not apply the corrected values properly to certain
applicable fields in Evraz's home market sales data, and the correction
was consequently not accounted for in Evraz's final margin
calculations.\6\
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\5\ Id. at 3.
\6\ See Ministerial Error Allegation at 2-3.
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Commerce determines that it made a ministerial error in the Final
Results pursuant to section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f) and
has amended its calculations with regard to the coating revenue revised
as a result of verification.
For a complete discussion of the ministerial error allegation, as
well as Commerce's analysis, see the accompanying Ministerial Error
Memorandum.\7\ The Ministerial Error Memorandum is a public document
and is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service
System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>.
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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Ministerial Error Allegation in the Final
Results,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Ministerial Error
Memorandum).
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e), Commerce is amending the Final
Results to reflect the correction of this ministerial error in the
calculation of the weighted-average dumping margin assigned to Evraz in
the Final Results, which changes from 9.17 percent to 0.00 percent.
Rate for Non-Examined Companies
The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the
establishment of a weighted-average dumping margin to be determined for
companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits
its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section
777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5)
of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others
rate in an investigation, for guidance when determining the weighted-
average dumping margin for companies which were not selected for
individual examination in an administrative review. Under section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally an amount
equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins established for exporters and producers individually
investigated, excluding rates that are zero, de minimis or determined
entirely on the basis of facts available.
As discussed in these amended final results of review, we
calculated a weighted-average dumping margin that is zero for Evraz,
the sole mandatory respondent in this administrative review. Because
this is the only weighted-average dumping margin determined in this
review for an individually examined respondent, we are applying this
rate to the non-examined companies under review consistent with section
735(c)(5)(B) of the Act. Accordingly, we are amending the rate applied
to the 36 non-examined companies under review \8\ in the Final Results,
from 9.17 percent to 0.00 percent.
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\8\ See Appendix.
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Amended Final Results
As a result of correcting the ministerial error, Commerce
determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping
margins exists for the period May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022:
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Weighted-average
Exporter or producer dumping margin
(percent)
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Evraz Inc. NA, Evraz Inc. NA Canada, and the 0.00
Canadian National Steel Corporation................
Companies Not Selected for Individual Examination... 0.00
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose to parties in this proceeding, under
administrative protective order, the margin calculations performed for
these amended final results within five days after publication of these
amended final results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with these amended final
results of review. Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to
CBP no earlier than 41 days after the date of publication of the
amended final results of this review in the Federal Register, in
accordance with 19 CFR 356.8(a).
Because the weighted-average dumping margin for Evraz is zero
percent, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.\9\
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\9\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14,
2012).
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Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice will apply to entries
of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Evraz for which the
company did not know that the merchandise it sold to the intermediary
(e.g., a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was destined for the
United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate
unreviewed entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\10\
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\10\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Because the weighted-average dumping margin assigned to the
companies which were not selected for individual examination is zero
percent, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies
listed above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin that
is established in the amended final results of this review, except if
the rate is less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de minimis within
the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit
rate will be zero; (2) for previously investigated or reviewed
companies not subject to this review, the cash deposit rate will
continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most
recently completed segment of this proceeding in which the company
participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review,
a prior review, or the original less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the
rate established for the most recently completed segment of the
proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other producers and exporters will continue to be
12.32 percent ad valorem, the all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation.\11\
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\11\ See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Canada: Antidumping
Duty Order, 84 FR 18775 (May 2, 2019).
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These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in
effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during the POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double
antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of
the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return or
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.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(h) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.224(e).
Dated: January 9, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Review-Specific Rate Applicable to Companies Not Selected for
Individual Examination
1. Acier Profile SBB Inc
2. Aciers Lague Steels Inc
3. Amdor Inc
4. BPC Services Group
5. Bri-Steel Manufacturing
6. Canada Culvert
7. Cappco Tubular Products Canada Inc.
8. CFI Metal Inc
9. Dominion Pipe & Piling
10. Enduro Canada Pipeline Services
11. Fi Oilfield Services Canada
12. Gchem Ltd.
13. Graham Construction
14. Groupe Fordia Inc
15. Grupo Fordia Inc
16. Hodgson Custom Rolling
17. Interpipe Inc
18. K K Recycling Services
19. Kobelt Manufacturing Co
20. Labrie Environment
21. Les Aciers Sofatec
22. Lorenz Conveying P
23. Lorenz Conveying Products
24. Matrix Manufacturing
25. MBI Produits De Forge
26. Nor Arc
27. Peak Drilling Ltd
28. Pipe & Piling Sply Ltd
29. Pipe & Piling Supplies
30. Prudental
31. Prudential
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32. Shaw Pipe Protecction
33. Shaw Pipe Protection
34. Tenaris Algoma Tubes Facility
35. Tenaris Prudential
36. Welded Tube of Can Ltd
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