Notice2025-04256

Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products From the Republic of Türkiye: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

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Published
March 17, 2025

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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that sales of circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye (T[uuml]rkiye) were made at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 50 (Monday, March 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12296-12298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04256]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-501]


Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products From 
the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye: 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 
sales of circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products 
from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye (T[uuml]rkiye) were made at less than 
normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2022, 
through April 30, 2023.

DATES: Applicable March 17, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Kebker, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-2254.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 6, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results and 
invited interested parties to comment.\1\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce 
tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven 
days.\2\ On

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September 18, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for the final 
results by 60 days.\3\ On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain 
deadlines in this administrative review by 90 days.\4\ As a result, the 
deadline for these final results of review is March 10, 2025.
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    \1\ See Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube 
Products from T[uuml]rkiye: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 89 FR 48374 (June 6, 2024) 
(Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
    \3\ See Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube 
Products from Turkey: Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, dated September 18, 2024.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadline for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
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    This administrative review covers one exporter of subject 
merchandise. The sole mandatory respondent in this administrative 
review is Borusan Birlesik Boru Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. 
(Borusan Boru) \5\ and Borusan Istikbal Ticaret T.A.S. (Istikbal) 
(collectively, Borusan).\6\ On November 8, 2024, Borusan submitted a 
case brief.\7\ On November 14, 2024, Wheatland Tube (Wheatland), a 
domestic producer and interested party, submitted a rebuttal brief.\8\ 
Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1)(B) of Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \5\ Commerce conducted a changed circumstances review and 
determined that Borusan Birlesik Boru Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Ticaret 
A.S. is the successor-in-interest to Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi 
ve Ticaret A.S. in the context of the AD order on CWP from 
T[uuml]rkiye. See Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and 
Tube Products from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye; Welded Line Pipe 
from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye; Certain Oil Tubular Goods from 
the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye; and Large Diameter Welded Pipe from 
the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Changed Circumstances Reviews, 89 FR 96211 (December 4, 2024).
    \6\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 44262 (July 12, 2023)
    \7\ See Borusan's Letter, ``BMB's Case Brief,'' dated November 
7, 2024.
    \8\ See Wheatland's Letter, ``Rebuttal Brief,'' dated November 
14, 2024.
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Scope of the Order <SUP>9</SUP>
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    \9\ See Antidumping Duty Order; Welded Carbon Steel Standard 
Pipe and Tube Products from Turkey, 51 FR 17784 (May 15, 1986) 
(Order).
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    The scope of the Order covers circular welded carbon steel standard 
pipe and tube products from T[uuml]rkiye. A full description of the 
scope of the Order is contained in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\10\
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    \10\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review 
ofCircular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products from 
the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye; 2022-2023,'' dated concurrently with, 
and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs filed by parties 
are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the 
issues addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum provided in 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 our analysis of the comments received, and for the reasons 
explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we made certain 
changes from the Preliminary Results.

Final Results of Administrative Review

    For these final results, we determine that the following estimated 
weighted-average dumping margins 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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Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S./Borusan             2.75
 Istikbal Ticaret T.A.S \11\...............................
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Disclosure
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    \11\ In prior segments of this proceeding, we treated Borusan 
Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. and Borusan Istikbal Ticaret 
T.A.S. as a single entity. See, e.g., Welded Carbon Steel Standard 
Pipe and Tube Products from Turkey: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 
2013-2014, 80 FR 76674 (December 10, 2015). There is no information 
on this record to merit reconsideration of our treatment of Borusan 
Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. and Borusan Istikbal Ticaret 
T.A.S. as a single entity.
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    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 in these final results of this 
review, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in 
during the POR. 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 examined sales to each 
importer to the total entered value of those sales. Where an importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis within the meaning of 19 
CFR 351.106(c)(1), we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties. Pursuant to a refinement 
to Commerce's assessment practice, for subject merchandise that was 
entered into the United States, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption during the POR, that was produced or exported by Borusan 
for which Borusan did not report the sale in its U.S. sales database, 
we will instruct CBP to liquidate the entry of such merchandise at the 
all-others rate (i.e., 14.74 percent) \12\ if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\13\
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    \12\ See Order, 51 FR at 17784.
    \13\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    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

    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 this 
notice in the Federal Register, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of 
the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for companies subject to this review 
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin listed in the 
``Final Results of Review'' section above; (2) for merchandise that was 
exported by a company that is not under review and the company has a 
company-specific cash deposit rate from a completed segment of this 
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific cash deposit rate from a completed segment of the

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proceeding that is currently applicable to the company; (3) if the 
exporter of the subject merchandise was not covered by this review or a 
previously completed segment of this proceeding, but the producer of 
the subject merchandise was covered, then the cash deposit rate will be 
equal to the company-specific cash deposit rate from a completed 
segment of this proceeding that is currently applicable to the producer 
of the subject merchandise; and (4) if neither the exporter nor the 
producer of the subject merchandise was covered by this review or a 
previously completed segment of this proceeding, then the cash deposit 
rate will be 14.74 percent ad valorem, the all-others rate established 
in the less than fair value investigation.\14\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
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    \14\ See Order, 51 FR at 17784.
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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 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 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the destruction or return 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 destruction or 
return of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is 
hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of 
an APO is a sanctionable violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these final results of review and 
this notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 
Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: March 10, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the 
non-exclusive functions and duties of the 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 the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should Correct Its Duty Drawback 
Calculation
    Comment 2: Whether Commerce's Adjustment to Borusan's Cost for 
Unpaid Duties Must Be Consistent With Its Duty Drawback Methodology
    Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should Revise Its Application of the 
Quarterly Cost Methodology
    Comment 4: Whether Commerce's Application of its Differential 
Pricing Methodology is Contrary to Law
    Comment 5: Whether Commerce Should Correct an Incorrect Month 
Reference in Its Program
    Comment 6: Whether Commerce Should Use Borusan's Revised 
Databases
VI. Recommendation

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