Notice2024-26459
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing Duty Investigations
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Published
November 14, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 220 (Thursday, November 14, 2024)]
[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: 2024-26459]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-351-863, C-122-872, C-201-864, C-552-844]
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Brazil, Canada,
Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Postponement of
Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing Duty Investigations
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable November 14, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Senoyuit (202) 482-6106, or Sofia
Pedrelli (202) 482-4310, Office II (Brazil), Colin Thrasher (202) 482-
3004, Office V (Canada), Maria Aymerich (202) 482-0499, Office IV
(Mexico), or Mary Kolberg (202) 482-1785, Office I (Vietnam), AD/CVD
Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of U.S. imports of
certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Brazil, Canada,
Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).\1\ Currently,
the preliminary determinations in these investigations are due no later
than November 29, 2024.
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\1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil,
Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of
Countervailing Duty Investigations, 89 FR 80204 (October 2, 2024).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations
Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in a CVD
investigation within 65 days after the date on which Commerce initiated
the investigation. However, section 703(c)(1) of the Act permits
Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination in a CVD
investigation until no later than 130 days after the date on which
Commerce initiated the investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a
timely request for an extension of the period within which the
determination must be made; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties
concerned are cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily
complicated, and that additional time is necessary to make the
preliminary determination. Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must
submit a request for postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled
date of the preliminary determination and must state the reasons for
the request. Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling
reasons to deny the request.
On November 4, 2024, Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI), Nucor Corporation
(Nucor), United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel), Wheeling-Nippon
Steel, Inc. (Wheeling-Nippon), and the United Steel, Paper and
Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service
Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (the USW), the petitioners in
the respective investigations, timely requested that Commerce postpone
the preliminary determinations in the investigations.\2\ The
petitioners requested postponement of the preliminary determinations in
the investigations so that Commerce can fully analyze the forthcoming
questionnaire responses of the mandatory respondents and issue
supplemental questionnaires, as necessary.\3\
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\2\ We note that Nucor is not a petitioner with respect to the
CVD investigation on CORE from Mexico, and U.S. Steel, Wheeling-
Nippon, and the USW are not petitioners with respect to the CVD
investigation on CORE from Canada. See Brazil Petitioners' Letter,
``Request to Extend the Deadline for the Preliminary
Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024; see also Canada
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request to Extend the Deadline for the
Preliminary Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024; Mexico
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request to Extend the Deadline for the
Preliminary Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024; and Vietnam
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request to Extend the Deadline for the
Preliminary Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024.
\3\ Id.
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In accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioners submitted
their requests for postponement of the preliminary determinations in
the investigations 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determinations and stated the reasons for their requests.
Commerce finds no compelling reason to deny the requests. Therefore, in
accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, Commerce is postponing
the deadline for the preliminary determinations in the investigations
to no later than 130 days after the date on which it initiated the
investigations, i.e., February 3, 2025.\4\
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\4\ Postponing the preliminary determinations to 130 days after
initiation of the investigations would make the deadline Sunday,
February 2, 2025. Commerce's practice dictates that, where a
deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the appropriate
deadline is the next business day, in this case Monday, February 3,
2025. See Notice of Clarification: Application of ``Next Business
Day'' Rule for Administrative Determination Deadlines Pursuant to
the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005).
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Pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1),
the deadline for the final determinations in the investigations will
continue to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary
determinations.
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: November 7, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-26459 Filed 11-13-24; 8:45 am]
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