Notice2025-04876
Forged Steel Fittings From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
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Published
March 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd. (Samyoung) made sales of forged steel fittings (FSF) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) December 1, 2022, through November 30, 2023. Commerce invites interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 54 (Friday, March 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13339-13341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04876]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-580-904]
Forged Steel Fittings From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd. (Samyoung) made sales of
forged steel fittings (FSF) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) at
prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR)
December 1, 2022, through November 30, 2023. Commerce invites
interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable March 21, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trinity Johnson, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
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Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0114.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 11, 2020, Commerce published in the Federal Register
the antidumping duty (AD) order on FSF from Korea.\1\ On December 1,
2023, Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of
opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order.\2\ On
February 8, 2024, based on a timely request for review, in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an administrative review of
the Order.\3\ This review covers one producer/exporter of FSF, Samyoung
Fitting Co., Ltd. (Samyoung). On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain
deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days.\4\ On August
8, 2024, Commerce extended the preliminary results of this
administrative review until December 19, 2024.\5\ Additionally, on
December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline to issue the preliminary
results in this administrative review by 90 days.\6\ Accordingly, the
deadline for these preliminary results is now March 18, 2025.
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\1\ See Forged Steel Fittings from India and the Republic of
Korea: Antidumping Duty Orders, 85 FR 80014 (December 11, 2020), as
corrected in Forged Steel Fittings from India and the Republic of
Korea: Notice of Correction to the Antidumping Duty and
Countervailing Duty Orders, 85 FR 81876 (December 17 2020)
(collectively, Order).
\2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative
Review, 88 FR 83917 (December 1, 2023).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 8641 (February 8, 2024).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated August 8,
2024.
\6\ 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 followed the
initiation of this investigation, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\7\ The Preliminary 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>. A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included in the appendix to this notice. In addition, a
complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed
directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Forged
Steel Fittings from the Republic of Korea; 2022-2023,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the scope of the Order is FSF from
Korea. For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance
with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
Commerce calculated export price and constructed export price in
accordance with section 772 of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance
with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology
underlying our preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted
average dumping margin exists for the period December 1, 2022, through
November 30, 2023:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd................................. 18.72
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Disclosure and Public Comment
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations and analysis
performed for these preliminary results to interested parties within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days after the date of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested parties
to submit case briefs to Commerce to no later than 21 days after the
date of the publication of this notice.\8\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days
after the date for filing case briefs.\9\ Interested parties who submit
case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a
table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\10\
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\8\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\9\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1); see also Administrative Protective
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29,
2023) (APO and Service Final Rule).
\10\ See CFR 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior
proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an
executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages
total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that
interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public,
executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\11\ Further,
we request that interested parties limit their executive summary of
each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We
intend to use the executive summaries as the basis of the comment
summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that will
accompany the final results in this administrative review. We request
that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the
executive summary of each issue. Note that Commerce has amended certain
of its requirements pertaining to the service of documents in 19 CFR
351.303(f).\12\
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\11\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\12\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via
ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) the party's name, address, and
telephone number; (2) the number of participants and whether any
participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of issues to be
discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised
in the respective case briefs. An electronically filed hearing request
must be received successfully in its entirety by Commerce's electronic
records system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after
the date of publication of this notice.
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, upon issuance of the final
results of this administrative review, Commerce shall determine, and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate
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entries covered by this review.\13\ If a respondent's weighted-average
dumping margin is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent)
in the final results of this review, we intend to calculate an
importer-specific ad valorem AD assessment rate based on the ratio of
the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's examined
sales to the total entered value of those same sales in accordance with
19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\14\ If the weighted-average dumping margin or an
importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis in the final
results of review, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.\15\
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\13\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
\14\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14,
2012).
\15\ Id., 77 FR 8102; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Samyoung
for which it did not know that the merchandise it sold was destined for
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries
at the all-others rate (17.08 percent) if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\16\
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\16\ 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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The final results of this administrative review shall be the basis
for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise
covered by the final results of this review and for future deposits of
estimated duties, where applicable.\17\
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\17\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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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 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 company
listed above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin
established in the 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 merchandise exported by a company not covered in this review
but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate
will continue to be the company-specific rate published in the
completed segment for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is
not a firm covered in this review, or a previous segment, but the
producer is, 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 17.08 percent, the all-others rate
established in the LTFV investigation.\18\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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\18\ See Order.
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Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, we intend to issue the final results of
this administrative review, which will include the results of our
analysis of all issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, within
120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h)(1).\19\
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\19\ See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act; and 19 CFR 351.213(h).
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Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a preliminary 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, and/or an increase in the
amount of antidumping duties by the amount of the countervailing
duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of review
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR
351.213(h)(2), and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: March 17, 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 Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2025-04876 Filed 3-20-25; 8:45 am]
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