Notice2024-29603
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Belgium: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
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Published
December 17, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Industeel Belgium S.A. (Industeel) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 102106-102107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29603]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-423-812]
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Belgium:
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
Industeel Belgium S.A. (Industeel) made sales of subject merchandise at
less than normal value during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2022,
through April 30, 2023.
DATES: Applicable December 17, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Xiao, 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) 482-2273.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 6, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
preliminary results of the 2022-2023 administrative review \1\ of the
antidumping duty order on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length
plate (CTL plate) from Belgium.\2\ The review covers one mandatory
respondent, Industeel. We invited parties to comment on the Preliminary
Results.\3\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this
administrative proceeding by seven days.\4\ On July 29, 2024, we
received a case brief from Nucor Corporation (the petitioner).\5\ On
August 12, 2024, we received a rebuttal brief from Industeel.\6\ On
September 13, 2024, we extended the deadline for the final results
until December 10, 2024.\7\ Additionally, on December 9, 2024, Commerce
tolled the deadline to issue the final results in this administrative
review by 90 days.\8\ Accordingly, the deadline for these final results
is now March 10, 2025.
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\1\ See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from
Belgium: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 89 FR 48392 (June 6, 2024)
(Preliminary Results) and accompanying Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
\2\ See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from
Austria, Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy,
Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative
Antidumping Determinations for France, the Federal Republic of
Germany, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty
Orders, 82 FR 24096 (May 25, 2017) (Order).
\3\ See Preliminary Results.
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
\5\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Nucor's Case Brief,'' dated July
29, 2024.
\6\ See Industeel's Letter, ``Industeel's Rebuttal Brief,''
dated August 12, 2024.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated September 13, 2024.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
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For a complete description of the events that occurred since the
Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\9\
Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with
section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\9\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty
Order on Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from
Belgium; 2022-2023,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted
by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the Order are CTL plate from Belgium. A
full description of the scope of the Order is contained in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in
the Issues and Decision Memorandum and are listed in the appendix to
this notice. The Issues and Decision 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>. In addition, a complete version of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
Based on a review of the record and comments received from
interested parties regarding our Preliminary Results, and for the
reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, Commerce made
certain changes to the preliminary weighted-average dumping margin
calculations for Industeel.\10\
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\10\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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Final Results of Review
As a result of this review, we determine that the following
estimated weighted-average dumping margin exist for the period May 1,
2022, through April 30, 2023:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Industeel Belgium S.A...................................... 2.52
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with these final results of review to parties in this review
within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of
publication of this notice 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 the final results of
this review.
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we calculated importer-specific
ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount
of dumping calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value
of the sales. Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping
margin is zero or de minimis, within the meaning of 19 CFR
351.106(c)(1), or an importer-specific rate is zero or de minimis, we
will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard
to antidumping duties.
Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' will apply to entries of
subject merchandise during the POR produced by Industeel in these final
results of review for which Industeel 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.
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within
90 days of publication).
Cash Deposit Requirements
Upon publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the
following cash 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 Industeel will be equal to the
weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of
this review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers or exporters not
covered in this review but covered in a prior completed segment of the
proceeding, the cash deposit will continue to be the company-specific
rate published in the completed segment for the most recently completed
period; (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 has been covered in a prior completed
segment of this proceeding, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established in the completed segment for the most recent period for the
producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all
other producers or exporters will continue to be 5.40 percent, the all-
others rate established in the LTFV investigation for this
proceeding.\11\ These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain
in effect until further notice.
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\11\ See Order, 82 FR at 24098.
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Notification to Importers
This notice 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 this review period. 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.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order
This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition 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 return/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 violation
subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: December 10, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of Issues
Comment 1: Industeel's Reported Section 232 Duties
Comment 2: Adjustments under the Transaction Disregarded Rule
Comment 3: Industeel's Reported Merchandise Processing Fee and
Harbor Maintenance Fee
Comment 4: Correction of Certain Ministerial Errors and
Adjustment to Certain Costs
VI. Recommendation
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